Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Columbian Parade a Failure. [ARTICLE]

Columbian Parade a Failure.

A great oversight was made by the managers of the Columbian parade in New York. The banners and the floats were symbolical of music, art, printing, physical science, etc., but the greatest institution of modern times, the one thing that has made this the greatest of modem nations, was entirely forgotten in the make-up of the parade. No banner bore that most significant of all American words—“protection," the newly discovered method of increasing protection and enriching a nation by taxation. The biggest float of all should have been an American tin-plate mill in operation and showing the recently lauded Welshmen in the act of dipping impprted steel sheets into the imported tin and imported palm oil, with a special agent of the Treasury stamping “American” on each shining sheet. These should then have been made into suitable emblems of “protection" and distributed broadcast to the millions of

spectators, Including the thousands o! school children of New York, who had not previously been supplied. The spectacle would have been inspiring, and would have made ah indelible impression upon all present. It is to be hoped that this great idea will reoeive proper attention at Chicago next year.