Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — The Blessings of Protection. [ARTICLE]

The Blessings of Protection.

Tho most marvelous thing' in political -economy, the most wonderful proof of the value of tlio system of protection that was inaugurated by the Republican party, is the fact that in spito of an immigration surpassing anything recorded in history, in spite of nearly a million of the laboring classes of Europe having been brought every year into competition with the working classes of America since America* adopted the present protective system, the? pay of the laborer has hardly decreased during twenty years. What would be tlio condition of America today With such an enormous immigration hail we tho low tariff of thirty years ago? Let: some free trader answer.—John F. Finerty in Chicago Citizen.