Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — VERY MUCH ALIVE. [ARTICLE]

VERY MUCH ALIVE.

Protection Not Dead, as the Democrat* Believe. There is a great deal of anxiety among the democrats as to whether the republicans, when they get into power, intend to revise the tariff on protection lines. It certainly should not r>e a difficult problem for the free traders to solve. If they will taken hint from the result of the congressional elections of last fall and. the rapidly-developing , roteetiou all over the country they will surely be revised on a sound protection basis. Ttjßf people demand it, and tlie republican party 'always obeys the mandates of the people. D »s n_fnli I less atteiu jit on the part of the democratic free traders to make out that protection is dead. The American -system is more thoroughly aTTve than ever! The tariff law, ak Saul demon atie Senator Butler, of’ South Carolina, the.! other day, would lie doing far gre iter injury to the country if its schedules vvepe t tie same as when it passed the limiM' of representatives. The protective features of the law are the only redeeming points of the measure, and lucky it is for the nation, now so cadTy ..hurt by its operation, that Free Tiader Wilson was not able to whip the t ill through the senate as he did through -♦he house. — in speaking the other dnynf the-prop-osition to restore the duty on wool, Mr, Wilson, now Mr, Cleveland's postmaster general, says: "The American people are to-day wearing better woolen clothes, more ol them and at cheaper prices, than ever before, and they will not sanction any effort on the part ol a political party to increase the price of woolen goods.” It would be some consolation if this outburst of the American free truder were true and not the outpouring of a man who has done more to injure the industries of the country than any other person or dozen of persons. The truth is, thousands of people this winter will be fortunate if they have as much woolen clothing this yewr ns before, not to speak of "more.” Woolen clothing is practically no cheap-, erTutvv t hail one year or two years ago, and shoddies are taking the place of the good woolens given us cheap enough under protection. ‘ ■ And yet, surveying all of the disaster that has been wrought by their mongrel T tariff law, the free traders stand lip und cry that the tariff must not be _tou’ched: and even Mr. Wilson’s friends havethe audacity to anno mice now that their idol, repudiated by the people of his distrjcb is to stand again for election to congress next year. Tariff tinkering is all right if the tinkering is done in the right direction. vVith protection us the idea, it will bring hope and prosperity ; but meddled with on the lines of free trade, the outlook can be nothing but, dark and gloomy. The people now, more than at any ot her time in the history of tariffs, believe in protection and hate the democratic free trade theories. Yes, indeed will the republican party restore protection in 1897, W iry the republican press and campaign speakers are savi iig >' everyday. Free trade is a. failure and a curse’." Keep you r eye on the vote iin i-'..(i. — Albany Juurmil.