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The Coming Campaign

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
July
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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The cam.paign of 1892 has been declared as opened by ilifferent authorities. What is of most importance to the country, the platform promisea to be simple, and to consist of few planks. Boiled down, the issue will be proteetion versus free trade, wbicb Is the game as to say the United States versus the world aTjroad- legislation in the interest of our own people and Iet other people take care of themselves. Tlie question in American politics is ever to be the great one of work and wages for our own people or work nnd wages for the people of foreign nations. The reason for this ibplain. The standard of living ín the United States, tot wage workere, is far in advance of any other country. All other countries will want to share uur markets for their owu benofit. We cannot afiord Pree Trade with people of a lower stand'ard of living, nnd Proteetion alone will secure our wage workers in thcir advaneed poBition. Work and wagea is the essence of American advancement. We cannot give away to these ioreigners and have enough lef t, any more than the boy could eat hls cake and have it too. So. therefore. proteetion is a vital principie in our politie, and ever must remalD as we find H now. Borne of our people will fiht on the Bilde of the enemy, but tiie majority must always be faund on thp American Bidé when the question is rightly preeented. What pleaaes us "most is to see that protectlon la asemnibg broader boundaries as the years go by. It lg aleo tnkiiiír new forma and features. Iieeiprocity, that was once acounted a ture of free trade, has become a foi-m of protection. The shipplng interest, that lias been ander the ban of freo r;ule so long. is to beprotected agaln. The fight foir the Farquhar Shipplng liill l.ist winter was not a defeat, but only a drawn lmttle. The recreante of the republisan party, who went over to the enemy on that occasion have left no voids in the rank and file of the proteettonlsi party. They willpnever be miS6ed. The shipbuilders of Great Britain will probably name a few tramp gteamera after them, but Buch i'i'aft will eoon become "missing Bhips", pald tor b,v Brltbsh underwritera. We note thai the American Kcouoniist declarea that lts platform Is "protection, reeiprocity and the revival of American shipplng." It says: "The step taken to build up American s!iping Timst be Bupplemented by lurther legielation." That ík the rlghi doctrine, with atrue ring in It. The American Economist representa inore nearly than any othcr publicatlon the convictions of the proteetionist party, thoiisili It is not a partiHan paer. Free traders, tieH it over In England, th ere shall yet lx' an American Khiip in the foredgn trade, and protectm1 there to stay. If you have tears to -lied. Ik' alKiut it, set your cambric

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Ann Arbor Courier