Show aboriginal republicans we yc notice by the standard correspondence that one of the spert speakers kers who took part in the organization of our chamber of commerce in this cit city declaimed in favor of high 0 freights asa as a protection bionto to our home industry that is typical republican argument if custom house duties should be n gh to it unprofitable for importing goods into this thi 5 nation then it follows that transportation b by rail should I 1 be high 11 in order to prevent competition from other states an and territories tem doriea tor iea in other oilier words to make a phlin application of tile the republican idea wo ire should nt mt progress but remain under tinder the old sa system stein of wayon wagon freighting across 3 alic plains under ii n der which wh ic 11 an article usually cost three or four times limes its value to bring it here if tho the republican doctrine were practical it would result in dri driving all commerce from tho the seas all traffic from between our state 8 jf if we ave should consume all that th ai we C produce as they t tell C I 1 I 1 its wo ave s should I 1 there would be no trading done except anion among ourselves and a man never gets rich by cheating g his own family it never w waa as intended by the creator of this universe to allow any nation or continent to live upon its own reso resources exclusively and not commune or have commercial relations with the others it was ivas not intended that this country should forever continue to exist upon its own products end without an exchange of commodities with ot other I 1 ler countries if it had bad been so intended columbus should not havo have reached its shores before ho he caine this continent was exactly in that condition no trade no com commerce mime had its people with any ot other herbut but they lived upon their own resources rees and according to the true republican idea they consumed all they produced |