Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — Protection The Idea. [ARTICLE]

Protection The Idea.

There is no denying that when we import nothing from abroad we are thrown upon our own resources. When Americans are thrown upon their own resources is the time of their greatest activity. We have always been equal to occasions. The less we bring in, the more we produce at home. When we produce at home we give employment within our gates to thousands more of good Americans. The wages paid to these toilers and producers circulates here at home, and the financial condition of the country is healthy. Money sent abroad does not benefit this country in the slightest degree, and true patriotism suggests that home workingmen are the ones who should receive American wages. Republicans believe this. Republicans advocate and consistently act on the practical idea of protection, the grand policy that will prevail in spite of all parties or combination of parties.