The anti-monopolist., 1874-12-24
Emery can sand.paper The wrinkles
from her benign countenance with that


from her benign countenance with that
recipe.
And then says Emery:
And the effect of it is, that every article !
needed by the producer is constantly cheap
ened nv conpetition, and as result he has
q market at his own door, independent OF
foreign demand.
Another marvellous discovery! Why
ebonld the farmers hereafter be COM
pelled to sell wheat at the Liverpool
price minus the transportation! Let
them demand the increased price at the
home market, which is, as Emery says,
.independent OF foreign demand
If wheat is worth 80 cents per bushel
in Pennington, to ship to New York
and Liverpool, give US, oh noble Emery,
ST. 90 per bushel for the home market.
Let us see where our share of Protcc-
ton comes in.
And then says Emery:
| Is not American cutlery, for example,
cheaper than European9 And what made
| it SO but the protection OF that article! Are
not cotton goods cheaper because OF the
manufactures that have been forced into
growth by the protective system
If SO, why do you need tariff! II
we can manufacture goods as cheaply
here as they can in England, why do
YOU want Protection And if our
goods are as cheap as English goods,
how can England ship goods to this
country and pay As per cent. tariff to
get them into our portse And if she
won't thus ship goods, how are we to
raise our revenues-for a tariff IS
duty imposed on goods imported-not
on goods kept out !
| For instance, if certain kind o.
cloth is worth here 81 per yard. and is
worth in England ST. per yard, and tht
tariff is so cents per yard, how can the
Englishman afford to send it to thi:
country, pay freight, insurance ane
tariff, making his cloth cost him S1.oo
and then sell it for sl.0O! 1t can
be. noble Emery. We would have nj
imports and no revenue; and you know
we have an immense amount OF both.
| And then Emery says:
5 The truth is, that farmers get less I'D 81
} Paul TODAY for most of their produce thai
\ it commands here at home, though our mar
ket is limited also that they can buy mos
kinds of domestic goods as cheap here.
If so, they won't trade in St. Pau
long; and then you will soon get then
back again: and that is what Ere
Trade means--the right to sell and bu
on equal terms, in all markets, and
, prefer that which i s most profitable
them. You would stop them, with to
= bridges, from going to st. Paul. Ths
is Protection.
Again Emery says:
The simple questions for Americans to d'
eide is, Shether they will build up cltle:
b and towns, and markets that shall rival t.
. world outside, or shall ali turn Granger
live in sod houses, and enrich Europe
G Now. who are to build up the!
l. towns and cities under the High TAR
) policy. The farmers of the Unite
n States. Who are to build up Farmingto
d under the toll-bridge- policy II
: farmers of Dakota county! That is
e say every cent of toll is to be added
n the profits of the Pennington me
& chants and taken from the pockets
L the farmers. This system may bui
up towns and cities and palaces al
lordly fortunes, but will it not redu
1r the farmers to sod-houses How c.
= you enrich a man by making him p'
II more for the things he purchases th'
r they are worth
or course in all this We do not d
I. sire to be understood IS saying tn
prices in Pennington are higher than
= St. Paul. We are merely using Il
y metaphor first adopted by Emery,
At illustrate the question Of Free Trade.