The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-02-01

Break down the tariff, admit British cbeap
goods free. compel American manufactures and
ship-building to suspend, send the Iaborers on
the highways rs tramps, on farms, to increase
the products for which there is already no price.
and make MS wholly dependent upon England
Then let England, in our helpless condition, get
on one of the tanirums she is in the habit of do
ing in such cases, and provoke war. What a
nice fix we would be in, from fooling with n
Democratic tariff for revenue only! Why. we
had an example Of that very thing in this conn
try; and, although we hare no reason to regret
the result in that one case, yet il was a natural
and inevitable consequence of the dependence
upon others that follows free trade. The South
was always intensely free trade, and constantly
Kicking against being taxed by tariff to pro-
tect New England manufacturers. She had
scarcely manufactory of any kind in her do
maip but, wrapped up in the selfshness that
Is inseparable from free trade theories, she
Thought she could make more money by raising
cotton and selling il TO England, and buying
from that country her manufactured goods
cheaper than they could be made at home. She
rebelied, intercourse with the North was stopped,
and her ports were blockaded against communi-
cation FROM abroad. There she was, a nation,
helpless. As soon as her supplies on hand be-
c. me exhausted, she began to fail, and in the
short period of four years she was prostrate and
conquered. Would it have been possible 10 con-
quer n country of such vast extent and popula
tion, had she not neglected to foster her own in
dustries, but depended upon others for the very
necessaries Of life. She was a victim Of Free
Trade; the conqnering North had grown power
ful through Protection.
why, look at the operations Of this Free Trade
League that is backing the Democratic party in
Its war ON Protection, and that is flooding the
country with its literature. Its very get-up
shonid convince Observing persons that it is not
seeking the welfare of the United States. The
great bulk of the money used in keeping it going,
Is furnished by English capitalists The argu-
nents printed and circulated against the tariff
are from the pens of English, French and Scotch
Free Trade writer's. Does nybody suppose that
those foreigners are furnishing their money and
their brains out Of pure love for the United
States, or desire for her prosperity. The great
danger OF this pestilence spreading in America
lies in one direction-the Professors of Political
Economy in nearly all our large Universities and
Colleges are Free Traders disciples of those for
eign theorists, and are bending all their efforts
to poison the minds Of the students. They are
feeding the youth of America upon the Free
Trade hotch-poteh of Europe, spinning out oh.
scure and dreary homilies, intended to puzzle and
confuse the student so that while he is founder
ing to get through the complicated cant, he
may swallow the nasty substance unaware
Why, even here in Republican Kansas. the Pro-
fessor of Political Economy in our State Univer-
sity is one Of those Free Trade proselyters, paid
a good salary by the people for teaching their
sons nn-American heresies. Every one of them,
in every College in the Union, should be hustled
oTt more nnceremoniously than Christ drove the
inoney-changers from the sacred temple-yea,
for he only rebuked and scourged them, but these
shonld be taken by the nape of the neck and the
seat Of the Lreechrs, and tumbled out until they
fairly whizZed, and make their heads swim so
that they wsnld not know which end was up-
permost until the middle of the next college
wear