Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-11-15
IS TARIFF T.
Keynotes Of the Coming
National Contest.
RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE
TWO GREAT PARTIES.
A Good Many Things for People
to Think About.
WHAT the TARIFF COSTS
THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA.
How Much Would be Saved
by a Democratic Victory.
SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS
EVERYBODY.
A Startling Array Of Facts
and Figures.
TIRE REPUBLICAN, PARTY
MUST 60.
A Startling Array Of Facts
and Figures.
IRE REPUBLICAN, PARTY
MUST GO.

1t was during the Hancock campaign Of
1880 that some wag p~ropounded the above
conundrum. The tariff, as sopolitical ques-
ton, was new then to the present genera
ton. It had been an engrossing issue be-
tween the Democrats and Wings away back
in the days Of Clay and Webster and CAL
houn and Benton. The Wings were high
protectionists. The Republican party,
~springing into existence on the ruins OF
the old Wing party, naturally came into
power with the high protective theories Of
its predecessor. This was in 1901, when
there was war in the land and the necessl-
ties of the Government great. A high
pressure tariff was Of course . natural Sc
quence. 1t was, in some sense, a necessity;
at least the people were led to think SO.
And thus the country staggered under
the load almost without q murmur for
more than twenty years. The rich were
made richer and the poor poorer. Instead
of our boosted free republic continuing as
q government 'of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people," it was practically
transformed into q government of the
capitalists, by the capitalists for the capt.
~talists.
Millionaires were not made under Demo-
cratic law and policy. The Democracy
governed the country almost uninterrupt-
eddy for more han sixty years, and yet
not a millionaire was developed in the
United States prior to the birth of the
Republican party in 1860, with the single
exception Of John Jacob Aston in New
York, who became rich chiefly through the
advance in real estate in the great me-
tropolis. Now they are to be counted by
the hundreds, il not by the thousands.
Where did they some from2 We answer,
Enthusiastically, from Republican class leg
i~slation, wherein the many have been
plundered to enrich the few, by the be-
stowal of vast bounties and subsidies on
manufacturing concerns under the false
pretense of beneftting the working people.
It would be all right if the working men
and women received the benefits, but they
do not. Everybody knows that they are
kept down to the striking point. Who ever
heard Of q manufacturer increasing wages
on account of an icresse of the tariff
Doesn't everybody know that the manu-
~fscturer goes right on employing his labor
at the lowest possible figure ut which it is
to be had-the price in every instance
being governed by the supply and demand.
Last Winter the manufacturers Of glass
and glassware got an increase Of duty
equal to about twenty per cent. The glass
workers demanded q fair division Of the
increase, asking that ten per cent be added
to their wages. Did they get it? Not
much. A strike finally grew out OF the
demand, and in the end the manufactur-
ers sent to Europe and imported new crews
to take the places of the old shands. 1t is
thus shown pretty conclusively, md in q
does not protect the laborer. 1t is q good
thing for the bloated manufacturer, but
extremely bad for everybody else. There
can be no such thing as protection for
labor in this country while the manu-
facturer is left free to recruit his work.
shops from every foreign ''pauper" field
under the sun. Under so-called protec-
ton everything is protected except labor.
Labor Is the freest kind Of free trade.
The Chinese r sstriction Act, passed by
Democratic votes, ia the only direct pro-
lection the lsboring classes have ever re-
ceived at the hands Of Congress. The
labor unions may control wages in some OF
the manufacturing sections, but the manu-
facturers combine and shut down for
months whenever there is an over-produc-
ton, which amounts practically to q reduc-
ton Of wages.
One Of the very worst features Of high
protection is that we cannot sell abroad
anything that is manufactured in this
country. With our system of high duties
on the raw materials we cannot compete
with England or Germany or France for
the trade Of any other foreign country.
Our nearest ~neighbor. Mexico, does not
buy from US; neither do the South Ameri-
can States. We are restricted to our own
home market for the sale OF nearly all Of
our manufactured goods system of
swapping jack-knives among ourselves
which is prevailing to the total destruction
OF American commerce. This must always
remain so under the present system. Our
manufacturing industries, in the interest
of which the doctrine is invoked, are them
selves hampered and restricted by it. Our
manufactures may expand in q ratio
proportionate with the development OF the
country, but they can go no faster. They
cannot reach out for the trade Of the
world; and there stands the warn
ing that there must come q time
when the limit Of expansion in this coun-
try will have been reached.
But the home market theory, which Re-
publican protectionists talk so much
about, won't work. 1t has ruined every
nation that ever tried it. China is . very
conspicuous instance. She built q wall OF
protection along her sea coast and pro-
bibited every sort Of intercourse with all
foreign countries for 5000 years. That
was the doctrine Of protection carried to
its logical conclusion. The Chinese pro-
duced all thev consumed and consumad