Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1891 — WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST. [ARTICLE]

WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST.

By Hon, William P. Frye,

United

States Senator from Maine. Wrltten;for American Economist. Because facts confront us, not theories. I have seen the wageearners of Great Britain and Continental Europe; know how they live; that they are homeless and landless, as far as ownership is concerned; that they are helpless and hopeless as to any brighter future for themselves or their children ; that, in their scant wages, there is no margin for misfortune *nd sickness, pauperism being the only refuge. I know that in this Republic the prudent, temperate ami industrious worker is sure of an abundant reward: that his ambition to succeed seldom meets with failure; that he owns lands and home; that luxuries to the European are necessities to the American. How then can we compete with the former and maintain our superiority in these regards? Steam and electricity have made of the world one neighborhood, eliminatng largely the protection once afforded by time, distance and transportation. There is one wav only of solving this problem: Legislation for our own. a Tariff for Protection.