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Why I Am A Protectionist

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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I ana a "Protectionisf becauee tiu welfare amd happdneea oí t he peopl in, America depend n t'u-ir ability to enjoy the rteoeeeartee, convenienccs and comforts whlch our manufactur ers supply. Hiere is no otber sourco of 'ndoquat ■ Bupply for maiiy Bucb com inodiiii's icxoept the American manu facturera, no that the American taanu facturer is more indispensable to the American people than thc América) pcople te to the manufacturar. Whll( American labor is more efficiënt am more productive than labor elsewhere it yet remains incontostibly true tliat there are thousan.de of oommoditiea whlcfl canniit be made by our compe tttlon with priced labor elsewhere If the laborera here are to consume lilis claga Oí manufacturad gOOds, the industries wliich produce them niust 1h' shicldod from dretructive competiition or the producer raust live in sume other country. If he lives hen he must ei (lier niake them or go witliout them; he cannot buy them, foi' the reaeon that there is n 'somcthdng else" he can do by whlch he can carn the ])urchase money for the forelgn artlcle. Xobody but an ocononiic idiot would now contend that tli e pi-opcet.ive duty adds a "sou marque" to the cost of the commodity. It.s only effect is to ffive the markettt) t lic American producer. The Free-tratter may beat nbout the bush ■vvitli his spt-culatioTi, dogmatism, soplristries and insolonce, but the root of the matter lies wltnin the compasa of the foregoiixg proposition of facto. - Hou. Henry XI. Hoyt, ex-Governor af Pennsylvania. Speaker Criep did not take the Ivouisville ('Durier-Journal's advice in forming his comittees, and now Mr. Wattereon, it-s editor, is teeling very blue over the eituation. How could you expect a third rate eouthern judge to all at once blossom out iuto a statesman ? Crisp is but a creature oí Hill, of New York, and Tammany hall, of th same town. Do noble thiü:. not dream them.all day long: And so make life. death and that vust íorever One graud, s eot stmií. -Charles KlngBley.

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Ann Arbor Courier