Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST. [ARTICLE]

WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST.

Written for the American Economist. Bj Hob. B. W- Perkins, Ex-Congress-man from Kansas. lam a Protectionist because I am an American. We should have Free-Trade among ourselves because we honor one flag and are citizens of a common country* But the man who builds no houses here, who pays no taxes here, who does nothing to contribute to our prosperity; but who lives abroad beyond the oceans, whence he desires to bring his products, either farm or manufactured, into this great American market in competition with ours he should pay for the privilege; and when he has paid for the privilege we will cover the money into the Treasury of the United States, and with it we will cancel our obligations and carry on the concerns of government . And I would do this in the name of patriotism and my conntry because I believe it right.