Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — British Clamor for Protection. [ARTICLE]

British Clamor for Protection.

The clamor for protection in the United Kingdom is now becoming universal. It is spreading from one manufacturing industry to another, the last being the iron and steel trades. British agriculture has been ruined by free trade. British manufacturing is being ruined thereby. We can tend to check ‘Any further advance toward our own ruin by dropping every insular Bullish idea and adopting those best adapted for the American continent. American legislation will do this, especially protective tariff legislation, including some protection for American shipping, without which we are far too; dependent, for our own welfare, upon the British bulldozer. What Americans need is another day of Independence. That will be unmistakably decided on Nov. 3, 1890. And the new day of independence will be March 4, 1897. Then neither Mr. John Bull nor his Democratic servitors will be ‘in it.”