Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — Questions Fox Free-Traders. [ARTICLE]

Questions Fox Free-Traders.

If protection does not raise wages, why are the wages of silk workers in England 30 per cent, lower than they were in 1860, while wages of American silk workers have all the time advanced ? If it is “monopolistic,” why are the greatest monopolists in the country arrayed against Harrison and in favor of Cleveland? If reciprocity is a “step toward free trade,” how writ a "sham?” If it is not taking trade from fOieigners, why do foreigners fiercely assail it? If free trade is “humanitarian,” why was Cardinal Manning a protectionist? „ If free wool would give cheaper wool to the manufacturer, how would it give dearer wool to the farmer? Why have free trade and nullification, free trade and secession, free trade and savory, free trade and treason, always gone hand in hand? If your campaign is one in behalf of truth and righteousness, why did yon prevaricate so shamelessly aboot McKinley prices in the elections of 1890? If we are a poverty-ridden peo-

pie, why is ours the one country on earth to which the flood of immigration turns? \ If free trade is blessed with greater prosperity than curs why do not immigrants flock thither? 7 If the tariff on[ imports is added to the price of goods made in this country, how do wire nails sell for 1£ cents a pound, although the tariff on imported wire nails is 2 cents a pound?

If it is true that the abolition of duties .on imports would reduce the prices of domestic products by exactly the same amounts, would would wire nail manufacturers under free trade give their nails away and present each customer with half a cent a pound on all h# bought? Do you find it congenial to work in concert with foreign epemies of your own country’s industries?— American Economist