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Show I f M DETERMINEDLY FOR PROTECTION. BR" fllBl H W President Roosevelt's assumption B, 1H that "this country Is definitely com- V j&lV mltted to the Protective system and EB, any effort to uproot It could nut but HK&V ' cause widespread Industrial disaster" C,H U (fully warranted by costly expert- HjKH. ence and sustained by economic and KB political history. In every national KH campaign since Its organization tho Hsft Republican party has stood or Pro- H tectton, and on nearly every occasion V Its attitude has been approved by tho Sl8f people. Even when the Democrats Wfl' occasionally obtained power it was HKH with no commission from tho people to mB overthrow Protection, and tho dls- Ff, I astrous results of Democratic efforts F'.' I in that direction are still remembered BV&M with a shudder. Tho American people BfvAf are aligned as determinedly for Pro- Ecf tcctlon as a principal as the English ' people are for the opposite policy, and Hl' It would be truly patriotic as well as HPj&aj sound political sen so for Democratic BB oSk leaders to recognlo this fact and to H $9 take the Tariff out of the Held of par HHj 3,H tlsan contention. Then It would bo Vr' y'.JT possible for all hands to unlto In sup fVf , J. -t - - i .- - port of such changes as might bo de slrablo from tlmo to time without affecting tho baslo principle. Thcro is no more reason why parties should mako an Issue over a policy which the deliberate opinion of tho nation, repeatedly re-peatedly and emphatically expressed, has-adoptcd as sound and Irrevocable, than tltat they should bo divide as to the merits of the Dculorntlon of In-dcpcndancc In-dcpcndancc or Washington's farewell address. It; will bo a good day for the country when all accept Protection as a definite and irreversible policy; but as long as tho Democratic party attacks at-tacks that policy so long will the Republican Re-publican party remain the vigorous champion and defender of Protection. Troy Timts. |