The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-01
Another Tariff Talk.

IL the largest manufacturer of steam
heating apparatus and steam filters
engineers supplies in that city, ana
who has accumulated competency
with his own head and HANDS.
"Of course | shall vote for Harri-
son and Morton, not because | am
Republican, but for the reason that l
am for Protection to home industries,
and they stand on that platform, and
so they will get my vote. If they
stood on the platform made for Gro
yer Cleveland l would cut my right
hand off before it should deposit
ballot for them.
II employ a great many men, and
their wages average S2l week. In
Europe they could not earn half of it.
I would be better off if the Demo
cratic theory OF taking the duty of
raw material was put into practice,
but am not so selfish as to favor so
pernicious doctrine because II would
benefit me and few others. / take
higher view Of it, and do not squint
at 1t from that point alone. A great
deal of arrant humbug finds its way
into the columns of the Democratic
newspapers to the effect that the
ficiaries from protective tariff. OF
course they are benefited.
"If they were not they could not
maintain the high rate of wages
which our mechanics and working
people receive. 1t is the latter who
get the greater benefit from the tariff,
not the manufacturers. Why, we
pay on an average more than twice
as much to our working people as
they could get in. amy free trade
country on the face of the earth. If
protection doesn't enable US to do
this what does? There is no com.
parison between the workingman's
condition here and abroad,
SIN Italy, Belgium and Austria
forty or fifty cents day is big pay
for skilled mechanics, and thousands
OF them live, sleep and eat in the
streets because they have no homes.
only wish every workingman could
take trip to Europe before he votes,
to see for himself the degradation and
misery of the working people there.
He would come back for protection
and for Harrison and Morton, My
men are able to bring their families
up in good style, and to educate their
children. If they lived in Europe
they could do neither. 1 tell you,
the government of the United States
is the greatest one in the world.
Why? Because the working people,
who are handspring of any nation,
are better housed, better fed.and bet
ter clothed and better educated than
those of any other nation.
''Let Grover Cleveland and his
free trade lieutenants from the South
have their way and in ten Years all
this will be changed. Instead of
building manufactures, churches and
school houses, our ingenuity and
purses will be taxed to the utmost to
build almshouses fast enough to meet
the demand for shelter from our
workingmen and women whose oc.
equations will be gone when the
products of the pauper labor of
European countries food our market.
"'Oh, no. says the Democrat, Il
am not free trader. l am only for
the reduction of war taxes What
humbug. 1t is an insult to mans
Intelligence. Reducing import duty
will increase the revenue, because of
the increased demand for the cheapess
productions, and the only way the
revenue from imports can be reduced
is to take the duty off altogether.
ION many things we have pro-
hibitory duty now reduce it and our
workshops will be closed, but the
revenue will be increased, not re-
duced. Competition here makes the
price here as low as it can be for the
welfare of the nation and the people.
Take off the duties and swamp our
manufacturers with pauper labor pro.
duced goods and financial ruin will
stalk throughout the land. How
careful the Democrats are not to hurt
their fire eating brethren in Louisiana
and the low lands where sugar and
rice are grown, and yet these same
fire eaters were absolute free traders
when they had the power to be. One
Of the cardinal principles embodied
in the Constitution of the late Con-
federate States was In these words,
Nor shall any duties or taxes on i'm.
portations from fareign nations be
laid to promote or foster any branch
Of home industry And now these
hypocrites say they do not mean free
trade. wish they could be induced
to stop living just long enough to tell
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