Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — THE PROTECTION PLANK OF THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. [ARTICLE]

THE PROTECTION PLANK OF THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

“We renew arid emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of American industrial independence and the foundation of American development and prosperity. This true American policy taxes foreign products and Encourages home industry; it puts the burden of revenue on foreign goods; it secures the American market for the American producer; it upholds the American standard of wages for the American workingmrn; it puts the factory by the side of the farm, and makes the American farmer less dependent on foreign demand and price; it diffuses general thrift, and founds the strength of all on the strength of each. In its reasonable application it is just, fair and impartial, equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimination and individual favoritism.

‘ ‘We denounce the present democratic tariff as sectional, injurious to the public credit, and destructive to business Enterprise. We demand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports wnich come into competition with American products as'will not only furnish edequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the government, but will protect American labor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. “We are not pledged to any particular schedules. The question of rates is a practical question, to be goverened by the conditions of the time and of the production; the ruling and uncompromising principle is the protection and development of American labor and industry. The country demands a right settlement and then it wants rest.

We .wonder if the free-traders will yet admit that any tin plate is now being made in the United States. For the 1891 fiscal year our imports of tin plate averaged 53,000,000 a month. Last March they were less than $430,000. Warren A Irwin make the most desirable farm loans of any firm in the county. Good residence to rent. Apply to Hollingsworth A Hopkins. [

The Chicago Times Herald publishes a frog story to illustrate the clamor of the siberites and what it amounts to in the end . It says a countryman wanted to sell a hotel keeper three car loads of frogs; the hotel-keeper had no use for three car loads, but said he would take three dozen. The countryman returned with a dozen only. U I thought you wanted to sell me three car loads,” said the hotelkeeper, ,f Well,” answered the seller, “I thought there were three car loads by the noise they made.”

In 1870 the National debt was $2,000,000,000. In ten years, with a protective revenue, it was cut to $1,196,150,950. Protective revenue producing laws ruled during the next until, in Gen. Harrison’s uuequaled administration, the debt shrunk to $585,029,330 and at the same time the needed healthy improvements went on and the nation thrived within. Revenue was raised rationally and constitutionally. Since Cleveland and the Democratic tinkers have been in the seat, the indebtedness has swelled to most $800,000,000, and is bloating indefinitely every week. It will only shrink when McKinleyism exerts a life-giving influence on things.