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Show , , TTTSafcb. cr.iviY.Ai. PROTECTION. j Commerce is a crime. Tiie protec tionist's idea is that it is criminal for the people of the. world to change and interchange. It is criminal to let another an-other people have vhat we want in exchange ex-change for poiBething they have that we desire. It is criminal unless a tax is j .laced upon the commodity, not for the benefit of the purchaser, but that the maker of the exchange will be able not only to receive his legitimate profit, but also the protective rate, whatever it may be ill addition. An extreme protectionist protec-tionist will tell us that the United .States injustice to the laboring man should discontinue all trade relations with all other nations; and people. We should frown upon any attempt for commercial commer-cial intercourse and live the life of a " bachelor. Human nature is about tiie t-aviC everywhere, and 1 am not going .to believe that we Americans are more .holiest than other people, or that we are willing to make sacrifices bevond the possibilities of the people of other nationalities. An extreme protectionist pro-tectionist will say we want a home market, whether the market is glutted or not, and if the country is possessed with a surplus then ,top ; business and if necessary h'strmj the perishable properly. An exclusive homo market would make property valueless, and if it was known that not ...... i.ne more laboring man was coming to the United Mates, what in the name of reason would labor he worJi? Our manufacturers would say, "I can get nil the men I w ant for oil cents a day., and as we protectionists are ad-! vocal ing a strictly home mar-1 ki t we are disposed to regulate j affairs i: unison with the great prin-; ciplcs of protection to infant ind'.'o-J tiies." Hut how inconsistent it would; all be! England is the hint of ridicule, j The protectionists refer us to England j as proof that free trade in the degree! maintained by that country is always 3u:no;i-.' The fact of it is the laboring classes of England are steadily improving their condition. The nation is the wealthiest wealth-iest on the globe, and yet the little isle, f it was dropped down into one of our states or territories, would be so small that it 'would be unable to see the bolder lines. England believes in ex portation. Our protective doctrine aJ-Vo. aJ-Vo. ;;ies imports and damn the exports. Farm lands in our country are depreci- a'uiig in values. Tiie tariff is duly increased, but wages are stationary. When a failure is announced we read that owing to the hard times the firm of I'.noWN & i-Mirn has suspended business, bus-iness, and very ;t ruly. Centralization is the watchword, and unless Smith a. Ei:owx are able to .stand in with the millionaires, a collapse of business need not surprise imyone. The strangest of all is to bear a poor man advocate protection", nnd especially a farmer who is poor and yet a good farmer. And the tiizbi little Isle with all her mistakes lias grown to be the control-ing control-ing power of the world in the linonce ;md commerce. America's commerce once eontroled the seas, but since protection pro-tection took the place Of business, trade relations in American bottoms is realized in tiie imaginative mind of the J protectionist. Any doctrine for gov erning the people that will permit of such jugglery is a dangerous doctrine, and needs the restraining hand vi the people to counteract its baleful influences. in-fluences. It is claimed by the protectionists that their theory fosters industries. Perhaps it does, and as Democrats know nothing about the claim, we respectfully re-spectfully suggest to the gentlemen that nearly all the industries now in operation received their impetus before the idea originated, that without protection pro-tection as it is now applied, industries would fail; more than that, they would never have an existence. Yet. |