Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1886-12-16
NUMBER 81.
TARIFF TOUGH ONES.
A Few Nuts for High Tariff Advo-
Gates to Crack.

Gates co Crack.
The following pertinent questions
have been asked by those who believe
IN revision of the tariff. We give it
space In the DEMOCRAT the more
readily as the questions were original
ly propounded in Pennsylvania, the
home of protection. We ask the farm
ers of Barton county to consider the
matter in spirit of fairness, and not
of Prejudice.
Why a million men have been oat
of work under it?
Why Pennsylvania miners lost 128
days work in 1884 and Ill days work
in 1882. Report of Pennsylvania
Bureau of Industrial Statistics.
Why they get only 500 a month,
and pay out of that $3.50 for tools,
sharpening, powder and oilf [Peti-
ton of Clearield county miners to
Governor Patti-on, April, 1886
Why some Pennsylvania laborers
work for so cents day? n
Why he talks about child labor in
England when slate pickers 100 10
years old are working under the rod
in Pennsylvania Henry George in
North American Revie,c, October, 1886.
| Why Pennsylvania operatives pay
So aomonth for company houses when
English operatives get cottage for
$50 year?
How protection protects working.
omen wnen Italians and Hungarians
come in duty freer
Whv cotton operatives Gin Massa-
chusetts work so hours, and in New
England states Sc and SO hours a
week, ,owhile English operatives work
only 56? [6ecretary Blaine's Report
on Foreign Labor. 1881 O
Why the poorer American spinners
get 81. .07 and the epoorer English spin
ners S7.20 a week, though the Ameri-
can makes 2f yards of cloth to Eng
pish % yards? [Secretary Blaine's
Reports on Foreign Labor, 1881
Why wages under the high protect
i've tariffs of Italy and Germany are
about half what they are in ''free
trade" Englandf
Why the condition of Che miner
has for some years been growing worse
in Pennsylvania and better in Great
Britain?' Henry George in NORTH
american Review, October, 1886
Why the wOrkingmen earn higher
day wages in unprotected than pro-
tected industries?
Why the Importation ofOvoolen and
wLrsted cloths is increasing at fear
ful rate while our own weavers are
thrown out of employment" Mem
orial to Congress of 10000 Pennsyl-
vaania woolen operatives, 1886
What good is tariff to working
men when American factories pay only
$3.50 wages for a piece of ingram
carpet on which the duty would be
$21? Memorial to congress of 40, 900
Pennsylvania wooden operatives, La
1862
w Lat is the use of tariff when Lgna
shoe factories, paying nearly double
day wages, can produce for 53 cents
labor pair of shoes costing so cents
to make in England?
Why wool averagad % cents in high
tariff times and 80 cents in low tariff
years, though blankets were much
higher under the tariff?
Why we sold $776, 900 of woolen
goods to countries where England sold
$115, ,000, 900 iu 1885?
Why with navigation laws and pro-
tective tariffs, only II instead of 80
per cent, Gas old) of our commerce is
carried by American ships?
Why blankets are taxed II per cent.
and thread lace only 80? Why neces.
cities bear heavy duties and luxuries
light?
Why saving bank deposits increased
IA per cent. a year, 1915 so, under
low tar Fl. and only per cent a year,
188O-85, under high tariff
Why, when the republican tariff
commission recommended at least 20
per cent. reduction, the Conference
bill" raised the average of duties, 30
that they were 46 instead of 43 per
cent. in 1885?
Tell the truth" Mr.. Blaine, "It is
better to be right than to be presi>
dent"
Said RalPh Beaumont in a Knights
of Labor meeting: "For twenty-five
years we've had this protection Mr..
Blaine offers us, and we have made
more millionaires and more paupers
under that system than were ever
made in a civilized country Cn the
earth in the same time before"
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