Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — BISMARCK SAYS PROJECTION I SURES PROSPERITY. [ARTICLE]

BISMARCK SAYS PROJECTION I SURES PROSPERITY.

From a Speech in the Reichstag by Prince Bismarck, May 12, 1882. The success of the United States, in material development is the most illustrious of modern time. The American nation has not only successfully borne and suppressed the most gigantic and expensive war of all history, but immediately afterward disbanded its army, fotind work for all its soldiers and marines, paid off most of its debt, given labor and homes to all the unemployed of Europe as fast as they could arrive within the territory, and still by a system of taxation- so indirect as not to be perceived, much less felt. Because it is my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America is mainly due to its system of protective laws. I urge that Germany has now readied that point where it is necessary to imitate the tariff system of the United States.