Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — TARIFF JOT. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF JOT.

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The most amusing thing in current polities is the helpless drift of the protectionists toward free trade.—Ex. Why do our McKinleyites never try to explain the fact that wages are much higher in “free trade England" than in highly protected France (and Germany?— Franklin Democrat. The sight of a farmer with a torch on his shoulder and a gunnysack patch on the seat of his pants, marching and shouting for protection, is a sight to make angels weep and devils and Republicans laugh.—Lawrence (Kan.) Jeffersonian. The Welsh tin workers have sent a delegation to America to see whether they can find work on this side. The American laborers will pay the tax on tin and the Welshmen will get the high wages if there are any to be had.—Christian Patriot. " * • • Have oub REPUBLICAN FRIENDS NEVEB STOPPED TO REFLECT THAT INDIANA’S PBOPOETION OF THE APPROPRIATIONS OF LAST CONGRESS WILL COST THE TAX-PAYERS OF THE STATE NEARLY SEVENTY TIME AS MU CH AS THE INCREASE OF THE STATE LEVY BY THE LAST LEGISLATURE? They call it reciprocity. What is reciprocity? You let my goods in free, and I will let your goods in free. What is that but free trade? Those odious words “free trade!” Will the people ever get their eyes open? Reciprocity is free trade in spots. And yet there aie some people who go into spasms when you say "free trade.”—Lafayette Times. Indiana, says a McKinley organ of this State, “will collect from Europe not less than $20,000,000 of the $50,000,000 that will be paid foi Indiana wheat this year.” Probably this estimate is not far wrong. It only goes to show that it is the European market and not the home market which keeps our farmers alive. If it wore not for the foreign would not fetch 50 cents a bushel this year.—lndianspoils Sentinel.

The McKinley law produces some interesting results. The Boston Transcript reports that in the last eight months Boston copper mining companies have paid $3,000,000 in dividends, making a total of $36,850,000 dividends since 1868. These companies sell copper to foreign countries cheaper than to the home market, on account of the tariff giving them control of the latter. The billion-dollar congress could not endure ihe thought of reducing the wages of these Boston millionaires —lndianapolis Sentinel. Our nail making.industry is claimed by the protectionistsjas a good example of the effects of protection. It is claimed as a tariff industry, but this hild of protection is going the way of nearly all indusdustries—it has been moving in the direction of « trust. A trade paper says: “A number of the largest manufacturers of steel out nails in the Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky districts are about to organize for mutual protection. Several meetings of the representatives of somo ten or twelve factories have been held to formulate some remedy for the presen 1 demoralized condition of prices." —Clinton Argus. ■ These protectionists are mighty “rum” fellows any way you take them. They teach that every country should take care of itself and that the best way to “take care of itself" is to build a high tariff wall around its borders. With his mouth full of this argument Uncle Sam starts out with reciprocity treaties in his hands based on the doctrine that the best way to get trade is not to have any tariffs stall. If the first argument be correct why should any nation endeavor to get reciprocal trade by mutual abolition of duties? Why try to get any trade at all? Under the protection theory each nation is sufficient unto itself. If protection is good and right for one nation it is good and right for all. Each therefore should adopt it as a sacred d ty to itself, and the more of it of course the bettor. Carried out to its ultimate analysis protection would allow no international trade at all but each nation, enclosed in a suit of cast iron, would stare across the oceans and boundaries at the others and thank their stars that no pesky foreigners were allowed to enter their borers.—LaFayette Journal.