Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — WE NEED THE TARIFF. [ARTICLE]

WE NEED THE TARIFF.

There has not been very much said abou| the tariff since the election was over. Our friends, the enemy, have seen at a glance that they cannot abolish the tariff and keep their house running. Hence they are pretty Still; but the fact that wise men will get up and declare that American manufacturers can successfully compete with European manufacturers when our country pays $2 in wages, where the other country pays $1; where one country, too, has its mines close by its factories, its factories close by its ships ready at any time to transport to the uttermost parts of the world any foreign manufactured goods; to say that our new country, with roads undeveloped, with mines undeveloped with wages two to one against those of England,—to say that such a country, without the support of the Government behind it, could succeed, is to discount every law of arithmetic and logic, and to advertise that the world must be on a crazy streak because it cannot see that two times two are six. We need the tariff—Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Indianapolis Journal, in speaking of the desperate effort government officials made to close the World’s Fair on Sundays, makes this very conclusive statement; “It may be remarked, by the way, that the government which has made so great a show of Sabbatarian virtue in its efforts to close the gates of the fair on Sundays, is itself a wholesale sinner in this regard, since it stipulates by contract for the carrying of the mails on Sunday and compels many thousands of postal clerks and postoffice employes to work on that day. The position of the government on the Sunday closing question has beenthoroughly Pharisaical. Next to the railroads it has done and is doing more to break down the observance of Sunday as a day of rest than any other organization or influence in the land. It would have appeared more consistent if it had stopped its hundreds of Sunday mail trains and released its thousands of postal employes from Sunday work before trying to close the World’s Fair on Sundays.”