The anti-monopolist., 1875-01-14
FREE TRADE AND PRoTECr1os


A very intelligent Granger, a. W.
Riddell, Of Northfesa, Mimi, has
friends in Canada, and he has been
comparing notes with them as to the
prices Of goods, and he writes IS fol-
lows to the Farmers Union
We can 70 to Canada and purchase pair
of best French kip boots for four dollars.
which we cannot buy in st. Paul tor less
than ten, if we can get such an article there
at all. A suit Of clothes Of best Scotch
tweed can be had in Canada for from twenty
to twenty five dollars. Certainly here for
not less than forty-fve. The best of all
woolen tulled goods. very heavy, for ninety
cents there such goods retailing here for
one dollar and fifty cents. Also best alpaca
for forty cents here, one dollar. Best me
rinos for fifty and sixty cents, worth one dol
lar and fifty cents with us here. Calico one
yard wide, ten cents; waterproof cloaking
ninety cents, better than we can get here for
81 80. Ladies' hose for kix cents; fifteen
here. Our friends there tell us that they
buy thu very best green tea for sixty cents !;
every one knows what they have to pay for
such an article here.
''The proof Of the pudding is the eat
ing of it, Here we see why Mime
sofa is poor; why immigration has
ceased; why debt and taxes weigh the
people to the earth; why universal dis
content prevails. There is the leak
hole. Nearly one-haJ our uhole in
come is stolen from, US to enrich eastern
manufacturers. The mere statement
of the fact is enough to breed lnsurrec-
ton; 'sto rouse to fever in the bleod OF
age, and make an infants sinew strong
as steel.'' No period Of history car
parallel such rank and outrageous rob
berry no despotism has ever permitted
its people to be the victims of such
shameless system of legalized plunder
ing. And yet our people hold thei'
noses cheerfully to the grindstone ano
are amused to see their own blood sput
ter and their own flesh fly of in fakes
Oh, it is jelly joke! And every hunl
thus taken off their swn nese spite
John Bull. and brings the consumer AM
producer closer together!
+ And now the Legislature will proba
bly, send Alexander Ramsey. An anosoa
Protectionist Of tn: most ertren'
school, q man who has not entcrtaine
: q new view or an original conception i
the past half century, back to the Ser
ate to support this policy. But tn
day Of deliverance draws nigh.
Mr.. Riddell thus disposes of anothe
sophistry:
i. The writer lin the Farmers Union,] ful
thermore says that ''Free trade has RUNE
a Canada's manufacturers. We think not
4 there is no country on the globe which hs
made q more steady and permanent growt
: than Canada has dine Her manufacture
e have not made mushroom growth, for tn
4 reason: that they have been compelled wit
the competition that they here had, to mar
t ufacture . first st-class article (no shodd,
: thereby having less profit to the manutactu
6 er and giving their customers more value Il
u their money, thereby effecting . saving
e the masses OF her citizens. II our manuia
turers were compelled to compete with IL
OF the other nations with whom we come
t contact, they would not become 80 sudden
!. possessed Of great wealth, but the CONNIE
people would be brought nearer on lev
with them for this cause alone. that Wit
i they bought an article they would get vail
:. received for their money. have lired
i both corntr.es and knoo ;sbereaf speak.
i Could more conclusive testimony
J, presented.