Show the people pay the people of the united states are paying war prices for a great many a articles of everyday use because those articles are not produced at home in other words they are having a practical demonstration at so much per of the democratic free trade idea the idea Is that we ought to buy where we can buy cheapest it may have worked in the old days but it work now because all the cheap sources of supply are closed if the old republican idea of protecting industry in our own country had been followed consistently for the last ten or fifteen years we should have lind had factories busy in the production of all these things and our people would be ablo able to purchase them at reasonable prices right now the mistake of abandoning the theory of protection Is costing the people of cf this country more than it costs any european nation to do its part in the war yakima republic |