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

Questions For Free Traders.

Ton my protection caused the Homestead ■trike. What, then, caused the Buffalo strike? II trusts are springing up under the new tariff how la It that prioea are tailing all the time? Does It never shake your faith in Cobden's ■reed to contemplate how, under protection, this country has advanced from a condition exclusively agricultural to one In whloh we produce $8,000,000,000 In manufactured goods, while Great Britain, with a start of centuries, only manufactures about $4,600,000^00? Farmers have always been the mainstay es protection, not only voting for the polloy, but actually shaping It through their representatives in Congress. It cannot justly bs •ailed a manufacturers' polfoy, oan It? Wtien steel rails sell In New York for lees than tha London price, as they have done In the past, where does the “tax” come in? If you are patriotic, why do you ever mourn the establishment of the tin-plate industry in America? How would you raise the money to run the Government If the tin-plate Industry^were abolished? Ws nssd svsry eent now raised by the Holiday law tor legitimate expenaos. Would, you. In the absence of a Un-plate Tariff, reimpose the heavy duties of the miii. uu 0 n ■agar? Is not n tin-plate duty preferable to a sugar duty as a means cf raising revenue? Protection, you say, ereates trusts In the United States. Does Free Trade create the numerous English trusts? Why did New Booth Wales, but lately the ■ole companion of England In Cobdenlam, abandon that polloy attar n fair trial, and •Sept Protection? Did yon ever bear of an Iron and ateael worker who made SIB,OOO a year before the Homestead strlka revealed him hi the employ g( the Carnegie Steel Oompany f ,