Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST. [ARTICLE]

WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST.

Mr. Polk, the National Alliance president, in an address to the recejit Alliance and People’sparty convention, at Indianapolis, declared, among other things* that the “traiiceridentlj paramount” - demand of the Alliance was that the national bank system be abolbe issued direct to the people. Here is a painful lack of unanimity on the part of the People’s party’s most eminent leaders, „_fep,--as is well known. Senator Peffer, in his speech in Rensselaer last summer, so far from demanding the wiping out of the national bank currency, actually favored its increase bynearly 3(H) mil hoi is of dollars.

A most remarkable project i|| that of Prof. Garner, a distinguished scientist at Washington, D. C., who is making elaborate preparations for a protracted visit to the gorillas of central Africa, - with a view to studying the language of those gigantic and most ferocious apes, and also, if possible, to induce some of them to accompany him back to this country. And, although he does net say so, he may even cherish a hope of inducing several of theyounggorillas to enter upon a college eourse in some of our American universities. As a well developed gorilla has a chest measure of 70 inches and muscular developement in proportion, their strength being equal to tbat of four of five men, it will be seen what an irresistible “rush line” half a dozen of them would make in a game of foot ball.

The gorilla is about the most ferocious of wild beasts as well as the most formidable, and the professor is proceeding with a good deal cf circv.msi'ection in Ins preparations to settle in their conn try. A niong other featu res of his preparations is an immensely strong aluminum cage, in which he will vpsci nse Limself wh’ n in the depths oi the gorilla forests,- and thus be out of their reach in case their demonstrations become 1 lireateninj., and all the bars of which he can heavily charge with elec'iiciy. as occasion may require. The expedition is a reality, end is t ecating great interest among scionlists, everywhere;

BY HUGH N. CAMP.

Because, having studied the effect of Protection, I find that it has been mainly instrumental in making my own land the best-hind' under the sun to live in. ♦ Because it has and does enable us to pay our laborers r.nd artisans, the very bone and sinew of our . land, the largest wages and ehabies them to ft to, to clothe, to educate the.met-ivcs and their families latter than those of any other laud. Because all the rest of the world wants our trudy, and is mad that

we will not “cat off oar tails” tq enable! hem to work for ns, instead of oar own citizens. Because it has enabled us to build up in oar inidst industries of all kinds, so that in case of war we could “laugh our enemies to scorn” and find within our own lines everything essential to our comfort and our lives.