Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1904 — Protection Not Needed. [ARTICLE]

Protection Not Needed.

A Republican organ points with pride to the record showing that "in the three months of May, June and July of the present year this country exported $120,789,769 worth of manufactured articles and $106,503,133 worth of agricultural products." This is a fine showing. It would be still finer if the cost of many of our manufactured articles were not enhanced beyond the exporting point by tariff duties on their raw materials, a handicap to which no foreign competitor is subjected. But the question before the people is why, if our manufacturers are able to export- their goods at the rate of nearly $500,000,000 a year, do they need a 50 per cent tariff to “protect” them from competitors whom they are underselling in the markets of the world? Are these hoary-headed monopolies to be forever coddled and fed on tariff pap?