Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — Why He is a Protectionist. [ARTICLE]

Why He is a Protectionist.

“I am a protectionist because I believe the protective system is best adapted to our conditions and citizenship. It does every thing that a revenue tariff can do, and vastly more, It supplies needed revenue, a revenue tariff can do no more. It accomplishes this with equal if not greater certainty than a revenue tariff, and while doing that, it wisely discriminates in favor of American interests, and is ever mindful of the welfare of the American people. It protects our own products against those of the alien and the stranger, while the domestic consumer is secured reasonable prices through domestic competition. It diversifies the employments and multiplies the opportunities of our peopled secures an , unrivalled home market for agriculture and nneqnalled wages for labor. It encourages skill and genius to their highest activity, and under its operation vr& have reached the fpremost rank in invention and mechanism and the widest individual and National prosperity. It favors the United States, and is a true friend of every American girl and boy struggling upward. It builds up, it never pulls down.” Me Kinley. * _