Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1892 — FOR THE HOME [ARTICLE]

FOR THE HOME

PROTECTION PROVIDES AXD PRO--■i-L TECTSTHEM. i Whereby the American Protected Workman is Away Ahead of His English Free Trade Competitor. • / My young friend from Nebraska the odier dgy took one of his farmer constituents down from the canpi•tSal tree long enough to use him for the purpose of pointing the moral and adorning the tale of the “plundered homestead" or “the adventures of a young married couple. ” You remember that he selects a young man in tire act of seleetjbg “a young woman, who is willingfto trust her future to his strong aght arm, ” and beginning to bund a home which is the unit of socimv. The picture represents tlm ho is robbed by the tariff on tumfGer, 0a: paint, on on tablecloths, “on knives, rorks andi dishes, on spoons, on everything that enters into the construction and operation of that home. ” And to make the picture all the more pathetic and absolutely hopeless, the artist gives the unhappy couple no sign of defense except the lung capacity of the Democratic party yelling at the top of its voice, “ Hands off I ” [Great laughter.] Now, without stopping to point out that the actual price of every article that enters into the “construction and operation of that home” has been reduced in price by the Republican policy of making them in the United States instead of buying them in Europe, I want to ask my friend, or any other man in this house, to namo to me a country in the Old World where a young man without money can slip his strong right arm around a girl without means and take her into a home of their own or give her even the prospect of a home, which is the unit of society? [Applause on the. Republican side.J I have talked to hundreds of peoEle from Ireland, from Scotland,from lenmark, from Germany, from the mountains of Norway and Sweden, and they all tell me that a day's work in the United States goes further than anywhero else in the world toward putting a roof over the head of a family, paint on a cottage, music in the parlor, newspapers on the stand, carpets on thc'ffoor,dishes dishes, and the divine light of love and joy in the sweet laces of wife and children. They have come into my office a&aih and again, husband and wifetogether, speaking in broken English the language of the thriftiest countries in Europe, to ask my help and advice in mailing a little American money to the Old World for fathet ttr mother or brother or sister or sweetheart, living in lands where the labor of a lifetime is not enough, after paying daily expenses, to pay their passage upon an ocean steamer. I have seen their tears falling upon the paper as they wrote out their message of hope and courage from the only country on earth where hu - man life is lifted above the level of hopeless drudgery for the poor.. I have orten stood in Castle Garden, at the gateway of the Republic, watching that restless throng Of every kindred tongue and tribe of people; I have - seed young men standing there holding in their hands a suit of “taxed” American clothe*’ for a brother arriving on these shores out of the very countries where clothes are the cheapest. I have seen young women timidly hiding under”a “taxed” American cloak, the bright colors of a new bftt.for a sister who had just come from aland.wbere everything is so cheap that nobody can buy anything. Nor could I keep out of my heart words of welcome to those who have loved our fl'g, even alar off, and have come hither to better their condition, and open the pathway of fortune to themselves and their children. And the day is coming, is nearer than the Democratic leaders of today may think, when these fugitives from the hard conditions of the old itorld, and their-children after them, will stand os a unit with the Republican partv to keep the shield of ■American iaw before the cottages of American labor. 1 have not as much Interest as some in the current agitation that seeks to shut the doors ot tbe great republic in the face of mankind. I dp not feel that we have been here long enough ourselves to begin to complain about the arrival of other people. 1 believe that moo and wo men who know by experience the burthose persons born among us who go Hfeis riot worth’ living: th aTTar uubKcis «ro pitncu, unu umi uur houses are entered by duly author-