Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1892 — PROTECTION PARADOXES. [ARTICLE]

PROTECTION PARADOXES.

That taxing an article makes it cheaper. That untaxing foreigners only is “reciprocity.” That removing the tax off sugar reduced the price to the consumer. That the older the infant indue trie* grow the more protection they need. That the price $t tinware has been lowered by increasing the tax on tin plate. That making an article cheaper enables its manufacturer to pay higher wages. That taxing raw material cheapen! cost to manufacturers and lowers prices to consumers. That the price of farm produce has gone up nnder McKinleyism while the cost of living has gone down. That a party having more that 8,000,000 voters, nine-tenthß of whom are workingmen, is an “enemy of labor.” That a tariff paying $175,000,000 a year into the public treasury does not increase the prices of the things taxed to produce this sum. The high tariffs make the high wages in the United States, bat leave wages in every protectionist country in Europe lower than free trade England. That our manufacturers produce staple articles more cheaply than they can be made abroad, but that we need a high tariff to enable them to do it. That foreigners pay the duties, and so largely support our government, but that ont of mercy to them the ReedMcKinley congress spent only $1,000,000,000. That the protected manufacturers pay large sums into the Republican campaign fund, and maintain lobby agents and subsidized newspapers to defend high duties, solely to raise wages in the United States.