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Show The unqualified denunciation of a protective tariff by the Democratic platform "as a robbery of the many to enrich the few" makes Is very evident evi-dent that the usual quadrennial compaign against the protection of our industries will be carried on with great vigor. Whatever may be the real or supposed Injuries inflicted on the consumers of American goods by our manufacturers, the remedy rem-edy proposed would be a terrible) one. Virtually it is a proposition to have our skilled work done in foreign countries and to set adrift our skilled workers to seek employment in the unskilled un-skilled vocations. It Is a proposition to encourage capital invested in manufactures abroad and discourage dis-courage it at home. To Increase the number of mills in Europe and close them in America. To increase the demand for labor on the other side of the Atlantic and diminish It on this side. It is strange that a party, eminent in its professions for the welfare of the working class, should be foremost In advocating measures to take from that class their employment to give to people of other countries or to compel them to accept the wages of the downtrodden of the Old World. |