Show protection OUR SAFEGUARD one ot our coast exchanges says that unfortunately our history shows our people cannot endure prosperity very long at a time this comment is bi ought out by the present agitation in some quarters to change the protective tariff laws which whenever in force have brought us prosperity it cannot be denied that we are prosperous the weekly statements ol 01 the commercial agencies which appear very saturday render such denial impossible says the san francisco chronicle great crops do not result from protective tariffs except as euch tariffs enable more prosperous farmers to sow more and cultivate better but their proceeds do supply money to be expended within the protected area and thus support consumers for a home market all our industries thrive iron and steel industries shoe and leather industries are constantly breaking records even the world alde depression in the textile industry Is passing off in this country business Is healthy failures are few workingmen are employed or striking tor higher wages savings deposits increase mortgages arc paid off money is abundant for any legitimate some eay that by reason ot our high tariff europe will not buy of us it Is not true europe was never buying so freely as it Is now the talk of a commercial league against us Is nonsense it Is a bream of the theorists the merchants who buy goods do not give it a thought and it Is they only who count we do not wasfi to see the stone of prosperity which has been laboriously rolled up let loose to roll back into the abysm of adversity we remember who was doomed forever to roll up the stone only to see it break loose and roll tack again we demand that all stand fast by the banner ot protection and prosperity |