Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — WRY I AM A PROTECTIONIST. [ARTICLE]

WRY I AM A PROTECTIONIST.

By HON. JOSEPE NIMMO, JR.

(1) Because Protection is in conformity with the dictates of common sense and patriotism. (2) Because Protection is founded upon the hard teachings of experience, and not upon any fancied eternal fitness of things. (3) Because Protection defends home markets entirely our own and in .the aggregate at least five times as large aS the total foreign market, in which we are forced to compete sharply with all other nations. (4) Because the McKinley act is already justified by results — prices of manufactured goods no higher, prices of agricultural products advanced and fairly remunerative as the result of the stimulus given to manufactures, labor well employed, and wages never before higher. All the lies in regard to a rise in prices consequent upon “the McKinley bill” have fallen to the ground, and the Protective policy is to-day ready for a national campaign.