Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — Unholy "Protection." [ARTICLE]

Unholy "Protection."

It would be hard to frame a severer indictment of the protective system than Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts has just drawn in a tribute to his long-time colleague, Henry L. Dawes, who retires from Congress after eighteen years of service in the House arid another eighteen in the Senate. Says Mr. Hoar: “Probably no Massachusetts interest has failed of obtaining such legislation as those concerned have desired. He (Mr. Dawes) has contented himself with securing for the interests that he represented all that they desired. In every Massachusetts factory there has been at least one man who has been accustomed to depend upon Mr. Dawes to see that his interests were cared for in nar tional legislation, and on whose steadfast support Mr. Dawes, in his turn, could always depend when it was needed. ” Mr. Hoar depicts Mr. Dawes as representing, during bis long service in the Capitol, net the masses of the people in Massachusetts, but the owners of the factories; and as virtually making bargains with them tor which he got them such rates of profit as they wanted through tariff legislation, while they saw that men were sent to the nominating conventions and to the Legislature who would continue him in- office when his term expired. We have never seen so open an exposure of the system. —New York Evening Post. Freedom to trade is as mach a natural right as freedom to produce, for as the value of tbe thing made depends upon what the producer can get for it, any hindrance to its free exchange reduces its value, tbuß depriving the producer of part of the result of bis labor.—St Louis Courier.