While Yearning For The Good Of All

mankind, the Frec-Trader wilt ti-y to reduce the wages of hisoivn help to the Kuropean standard. The re is a striking resemblanee betvveen the attaeks of old on the aholitionists and those of to-day on the upholders of Froteotion. "Leave well cnouírh alone: don 't disturb the .country by ajritation: the people need repose." &c., &c., wol-e the cn'e thnn as now. The rumor is current amonj the woolen and worsted tradp that 50 per cerii of these milis will be closed within HO days. So keen is the competition of the foreiyn manufacturers that our own people can neither .secure orders in advaDce nor compete with the prices ruling for forcig-n groods. If such a contfition unfortunately proves to be true. it will be a remarkable result of the '■benefit'" of free ráw material. In the coming State campáis voters shonlrt sec that the eandidates are srmnd for Proteetion to Home Industry. The candidato for office nho is not ".val. outspoken and earnest in support of this principie when he is a nomination will be lukewarm or openly hostile when he is eleeted. Hoist the banner of Protection, Ii is the sign and promJM of appi'oachins vietory. The rijrhteous causo of Protectlon to Home industries has always won when it was presentad elearly and intellifently to the American people. Oüb readers wili reoall easily the ooniention of the Democractic press a few vea.sanathatthe Tariff harl no effect opon wayes. Thcy ridiculed tho idea that the Imposltion of pustonj? dutieson hnported good8 could étTect the wapes Biericftn workino-mcn, a.espootftly m r1(l, aágaged in ejnploymente ■ot l'.-otected by the.Tai-itf. It is somethine amuiaog now to note the anxiety oí the Democratie TarifT. rhia is a vair ir, which eonsi.stency would greatly add to a faithfu] memot-y. It is really embarrassing tor the sealpug Demon-atir editor to discover from day to day just wheieheisat. The üurli,,-:,,,,' líawkey. RePUBUCANS are quite willing tO liavc comparisions made of the operation of ihe Gormaa and M.-Kinley TaiUta- 8uch comparisons, fairly and properly condueted, vindícate Protection. Hut the friends of P.-oteetion should ohllengre the eomparison with the ffi'cat protectivo oni of 18(l-!).'! and the l-Vee-Trade period which preoeed'■'1 't. We invite American who nre in questof tho whole truttl and nothing but the truth to makc that comparison f,„themselvos! Let them not wade throu-h statiti,.,, whioh are useful in iheir way, hut visit the manufacturinüeitios. towns and hamlets. Let them apeak ith old inhabitant.s and learn irjm them and frona personal observation what chances have taken place As living water rushed forth when M„ses smote the ro,-kS, so unclei. tho [„.,„- fioent iniluence of Proteotlon the lield the forest and the mine yielded bounti' fully and spread prosperity throughout the land.