Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST. [ARTICLE]

WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST.

W ritten for the American Economist. By Hon. J. X. Dolph, United States from Oregon. I am a Protectionist because in our history I trace all our prosperity as a nation to the Protective system and all our periods of financial and business distress to the abandonment or threatened abandoment of that system: Because as I read history, all experience shows that a nation can only he prosperous or become wealthy or long remain-so under a system which protects the labor of its citizens, creates diversified industries, and enables it to produce at home largely the articles it consumes; Because I believe it to be the duty of the government and wise statesmanship to provide, so far as legislation will accomplish it, that The people who labor with their hands and who in this country are in a majority and are to control the destiny of this Government, and upon whom the prosperity and perpetuity of the nation depend, shall be permitted to do our work, instead of foreigners across the sea, and to receive for the same such compensation as will enable them to live comfortably, educate their children, and prepare them to perform their duties as American citizens intelligently and independently.