Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST. [ARTICLE]

WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST.

By Hon. J. P. Dolliver,

United States Congressman from lowa.

Written for American Economist. I believe in the doctrine of Protection because the facts of our national experience thoroughly exemplify its truth. No great Americanstatesman, except the halff orgotten leaders of the Slave Power, have disowned the Protective system. The Importers’Trust and Slave Trust have been alone in their hostility to that system, each for obvious reasons peculiar to itself If the doctrine of Protection is not true, our people have blindly f ollowed a blind leadership. If the policy of Protection is not wise, it indicates that the human race, outside of England, has not sense enough to take care of itself. I will Hot thus disparage the average common sense of our own country, nor thus discredit the aver age common sense of mankind.

J. P. DOLLIVER.

THE EVOLUTION OF A LIE. In .its eagerness to give tiie co untry some of the facts it had collected regarding mortgages, the Census Bureau has furnished thePolks, Peffers, Weavers and Simp sons some figures which, because these men are utterly unscrupulous, they can make some use of. In its preliminary bulletin the Census Bureau stated that during the ten years, 1880-90, there were placed on record about 9,000,000 of real-estate mortgages. The bureau does state that there were 9, 000,000 of real-estate mortgages on record in 1890, but it docs state in another part of the bulletin that many of these mortgages have Jbeen dischargt'd. But this hitter part of the statement is passed by; it is (hiough for the Peffers that the figures 9,000,000 are placed in connection with mortgages in an official document to enable them to set up the cry. In the hall in which the convention of the calamityites was held, in Cincinnati, the figures were inscribed on a banner. In his speech Senator Peffer shouted that 9,000,000 homes were under mortgage, and now President Polk, of the Alliance, in an article in the North American Review, repeats the falsehood in the follow-

ing words: The national records of this country show the existence of 9,> 000,000 of mortgages on the farms and homesteads of 63,000,000 of people—a mortgage to every seven individuals, or a mortgage for every four families out of five. Every one who has seen the bulletin, or extracts from it, Knows that the above is a falsehood, and none know it better than President Polk. He knows it because in no place does the national record show the existence of 9,000,000 mortgages on farms and homesteads. There is no statement of an official character about' farms and homesteads. Indeed, it is not stated that farms and homestead were mortgaged to the number 0f9,000,000 during the decade 1880-90. but teal-estate mortages, including farms, homesteads, factories, mills, blocks in cities, hotels and theat-. ers, were put on record that decade. And yet every organ

of the new party, every disciple of President Polk and Senator Peffer, will repeat th is false hood 0f9,000,XX) of mortgaged homes. Nor is that aIL Soon the statement will be given out as a quotation from ;he North American Renev, , in which it has appeared without protest or explanation, and quoted on such an authority, many who would not believe it if put forth by the calamity-creators themselves will conclude that it must be true if it appeared in the North American Review in July. All the statistics regarding farm and home mortgages which have been given disprove all the claims of the apostles of calamity, and when the Census Bureau finishes its work there will be no consolation there for them.— -Indianapolis Journal. ; -