The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-10-24
TO OUR INDusTRlANs.
All About the Mills Riil-Protection-
Free Trade-Wagss-Ennployment-
Cost OF Living.

I From the Irish World
( Which Is clearer. a shirt at a dollar
with dollar in your pocket to pay for
il OF shirt at ffty cents without cent
in your pocket to buy one? Which Is
better, Protection that gives yoa plenty
chances to earn the dollar a home
manufactured shirt may cost or Free
oTrade that prevents you from earningthe
fifty cents an imported shirt may cost
Co nsiier this question for as you con
slider it 50 will you vote for Harrison Or
Cleveland
In the early part Of our Civil Var
bread sold al three cents 2 loaf; never
theless mobs Of idle. starving woFk-Peo-
pie pdraded the streets Of New YORK Cisy
CRYING Bread or Blood I" 4 few months
later bread was selling AZ ten cents a
loaf; nevertheless, peace, plenty. and
( couientment everywhere prevailed, be-
cause everybody was pro6tably employ
ed. Vow, What benefit would i be to
your wives and daughters + foreign cali
eoes we're two cents a yarI and you had
not the twe cents to sIend2 And what
.Gisaiyan;aze would il i,e % them though
home manufactured cahcoes were six
cents a yard If you had the six cents
T wherewiih 20 buy the goO,ls2 / once
I overheard merry Irishm4n in the Phil
a3elphia market say 20 one who bad just
paid Hty cents FOR chicken .--Och, Sir,
we can buy plenty Of that Kind IN the
/ ould country for sixpence" ''Then Why
didn't you stay there vas the natural
query. AN sure, SIT, it was the sixpenoe
I I couldn't get lie found il easier %
1 earn 6fty cents in a country shieidel b.
{ Protection than "sixPence" IN q place
riddlei With Free Trade. lie discovered
/ it was not the price Of an article which
concerned hiul, bot his ability to pay
the price. With no money in your pocs-
Il fve-dollar coat Is dear. bu. with
money "to the fore" ten-d0ilar coa. j.
cheap And this i just the difference
2 between Free Trade and Protection. Free
Trade viii offer you a foreign, pauper-
made cap at fifty cents; yet prevent you
from earning a cent; while Protection
may offer you home-maauflctursd cap
At d. dollar. yet give you every chance 10
earn dollars enough to buy several caps
Why are foreigners crowding 70 our
shores BY tens Of thousands from places
where IOx-priced goods are made if low
priced goods also make eontented people,
Are any goods low-priced the Peopleean-
not buy-and are any goods higher
priced the people can readily buy no
matter how small the cast Of the first OF
comparatively great the cost Of the sec
ond?
Free Traders tell you that while they
open the gates 10 foreign woolen goods
they make it up by giving cur manafact-
urers free raw wool from abroad, bat how
can this benefit YOU or them when ouf
WOODEN goods must be ruinously cheap
ened to meetthe low-priced foreign goods
that will then GUT our markets?
But will admitting fareign law wools
free make these wools any cheaper 70
our nlanufactu7ers2 Not at all. - long
as they mus; compete with our three
hundred million pounds Of home-raised
wool they will be somewhat eheapened.
but only until they have driven our wool
growers to the wall then the foreign
wool-raisers, have our markets al to
themselves, will demand theirown prices
for their fieeces, and thus fleece sc.oser
than their own sheep. Thus at single
stroke the Free Trade Mills bill viii de-
siroy our wooi-raising industry and al the
time close every Woo'sn mil in the com
nv. Are YOU ready and willing TO meet
and suffer such a calamity? You can
avert it only by voting for Harrison
Free Traders tell you that free raw
materials viii protect cur ministries as
well as . Tariff Pay no heed 70 the false
hood. We have free cotton and free iron
ore, vet. except for the Tariff, our cotton.
mills and iron furnaces would in SIX
months lie all at SherifF-s sale. and then
where would VOC be? Surrounded By
starving family or tramping through the
country without q home In highly
manufactured goods the cost Of the raE
material i within reasonable limits 0fsec-
ondarv importance. The iron ore that
costs ftv cents ton can by labor b.
worked up into material worth from rif-
teen hundred TO two thousands dollars an
ounce. In the making Of such goods i
would be Of little consequence whether
the ore cost fifty cents or two dollars q
ton. The farther the goods are from the
condition Of the raw material the iess i'm
portant are few cents one way or the
other in the cost Of the raw material
and it Is the making Of these superior
goods which bring Won the highest wages
Therefore, treat all this Free Trade tWad-
die about free foreign raw material being
such a great boon to you with the con
tempt it deserves
Free Traders Try TO deceive you with
the false assertion that Protection increase
the cost Of manufactured goods, and there
fore the cost Of living to yoa- But see
now how, on the contrary. Protection
tends constantly to cheaper goods and
raise wages. As late as Is25 Free-Trade
England charged a duty offrom So 20
500 ton on imported iron She made
il felony, punishable with imprisonment
and transportation, for any American
eelonist to erect a blast furnace IN this
country, and she levied duty on all raw
wool exported from her own borders BY
these and other high protective means
she 50 perfected her own industries that
she had to preach Free Trade 10 secure (
markets for her surplus products and We
and other nations were and are obliged .
to resort to Protection 10 gaani ourselves
against her rapacisy, while building up
and perfeeiing our own industries. And
with what happys resnlts you viii asS. /
Well, to give only a few instances out Of /
nany' woolen blankets are only half the .
price charged Us By England FOR similar .
blankets before We had Protective Tar
if: suit Of WOODEN clothing costing n0F +
SO not could be bought ten years ago for Z
less than SIS or ssa. In ls67 We paid
England one hundred and sixty-six dol .