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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 16, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 11.

Prophetic

By Editor

Prophetic.—The late Parke Godwin, editor, lawyer, orator, for many years editor of the New York Evening Post, in the beginning of his career held these views:—

I regarded all forms of protection a departure from the true American idea of government, a pernicious violation of the liberty of the individual, and an incipient socialism which would end by introducing into our legislation schemes of interference and patronage that would be fatal to the stability of our institutions.