Show protection SOAKS SCAR S THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT MADE PLAIN BY ITS SLIME 9 poverty avid anil social an inanc lal Dis distress treas IV micro 11 agh a ao ale blott tho of tile rew few manua the robbery of man it takes a largo and well developed country to stand the test of protection without leaving big scars unless a count rys industries aro are well diversified diversi fled and developed and unless it lins has back bials of it a big population and boundless ic sources in fertile lands find and raw mate rials it cannot without great hardship attempt to build up its homo home industries by tariffs that cut off trado trade with the rest of the but two or three countries of tho the world can indulge in high protection without great injury find f even these will suffer greatly if tile experiment peri ment bo be too long iong continued the united states with all of its wealth of materials and resources ia staggering 0 under its load of mortgaged farms and bankrupt farmers hundreds of thousands of idle workmen trusts in control of production prices and wages millionaires and paupers haupers these are tho the heritage of W 0 years of protection tec tion russia is perhaps the rest next great country in population aud ami resources protection lection has made it ono one of tho the most inis crable spots on tho the earth A citizen not a lanil land owner or protected protect eLl miner or man is fortunate if ho he can get together enough money so to pay his way out of russia and off of the continent protection is in fit vogue all over continental europe and as most of the countries are small and for foods an aud I 1 supplies upon other countries the effect is is marked end and t lie aro are cin cini gratin by tens of thousands the pinch of protection is too tco strong for these countries canada is a great and undeveloped den country it legan began to experiment with protection but 14 years ago before its manu manufactories factories ivere lirely established and its population was great it is rl el ready sick rick of the system and will soon repudiate it nearly canadians have immigrated to the united states to obtain greater freedom to bryand buy and sell canada according to the new york vork mail and express arid and other republican authorities now low employs Ys agents iu in tile united Sta testo give premiums to men who will immigrate to to manitoba arid and ontario when canada sheds its protection coat and has free trade with tho the rest rea of t the he world its fertile lands and rich mines and forests will talk fo for r it in languages that will ivill bo be understood der stood bythe by the oppressed of all of tile tho protected nations of europe dut but it is in australia Austrilia that wo we get the most fruit of protection the newest itil antl mat developed continent of tho the cartor it ha ada population of to each square mile of territory and the are the ho most intelligent and industrious dust rious people tho the globe S sn ply to 1 cy 7 were until in R 5 admiration for tho the united states n all ot of its institutions tiley they began to adapt cd pt protection in their dif different terent colonies colonica a few years ago since now new south wales adopted protection abut iwo ago australia has haa hall had the most perfect system of protect protection irn imaginable each cach colony is doubly bar ric ricadel abed with tariff walls from every other colony Etl ievins that what is worth doin doing at all is worth doin doing well they have taken takei 1 great erot pains to prevent the passage of pauper goods across their borders their mckinley McKin loy laws are ara so stringent that when a farmer was ivas returning to vie vic toria from a visit to his marr married ed daughter who lived a few miles across tile tha border in now south wales with his mare and a foal born bora during tho the visit ho he was unable to proceed home until lie ho had paid a heavy duty on oil the foal alias infant industries were too young to stand ai artificial foods their tender lender eternal lis hs i abel at the stimulants hence flence we vi 0 o learn from american industries that there ther oare are millions of square ini miles lesof of rich land in australia awaiting the advent of the plow yet the armies of unemployed in melbourne sydney adelaide and brisbane are to be it numbered by their tens of thousands in these cities there are as foul sweating b lens dens as in any part of the world in the country districts there aro thousands of gaiu raiu cadging their tucker e r in other words perambulating the alio country and begging a daily meal ineal front from farmhouses or sheep stations that such things should be Australia in isE is imply in consistency with tho law that those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind the april deport of tho the emigrants information office london says new south wales victoria queensland and tasmania continue to suffer from coin commercial mercial depression and great camago lias has teen leen dono done in Queens queensland lanil by tho the recent hoods in none of tl tin leso so colonies is there any flen demand rand for labor except for female domestic servants and in some country districts of now new wales for farm hinds in south australia there is pit an abundant supply of labor already on tho the spot As aa in all ail new countries protection fosters a few ma manufacturing industries at lt tile expense of agriculture ro and other important industries young men and women driven off tho the farms farina flock to tho the cities tov to work ork in factories and lived live in ten tenements ments the protected manufacturers form trusts to restrict production and they close part of their factories and rual make 9 tramps of the working inen who compete with those who have not lust lost their jobs and thus ro duco wages to the minimum this is the febena fe Bent docial condition of tariff ridden australia it is not borange that it is now in the tolls toils of a financial panic young and naturally healthy and vigorous it lias has taken to stimulants before it reached a maturo mature age it has already I 1 lot lost much of its vigor and independence if it does docs not reform it will boa bo a complete and financial wreck cirou W holt |