The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-28
WEDNESDAY, MAhCh y
THE TRUE INwARpSESs OF PRoTEC.
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The Baltimore Sun is msniully carry
ing on the fight against high protection
by publishing articles from the pens OF
well known writers thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with the subject of which they treat.
In its issue of yesterday it has one by SEN
stor Vance Of North Carolina, in which
the evils Of protection, for projections
sake, are very strongly portrayed. The
entire article abounds throughout with
facts and figures so plainly expressed
that he who runs may read, and is worthy
of being published as campaign docu'
ment. Perhaps the most forcible para
graph of it all Is the following
.In the imposition Of income taxes it
IS sometimes provided that the rate Is in
creased as the net income becomes larger,
and i'm all cases, believe, the tax ceases
when the income sinks below given
point. This Is a mani est discrimination
against the Tich not reconcilable with
strict Justice but men forgive it on
account Of lis obvious humanity. But
whoever heard Of any country save free
America, by any law save our Morrill,
tariff, inyeriing the process and taxing
the moor more than the rich-incredSiHq
the rate as the ability 10 pay is decreased
so that the poor mans poverty becomes
crime for which his country Furnishes
him with pains and penalties and shortens
the allowance Of his child-en's bread and
diminisbes the warmth OF their clothing
Let any honest man look AZ that tariff
and study its effects before he denies
these things. He will find all here stated
10 be true, and based upon the official
reports Of the Treasury Department"
Here is most empha,ically the dTga-
mentum al homiaem It has from time.
whereof the memory of the present gen.
Grafton runneth not TO The contrary, been
the habit Of the protected monopolist TO
appeal to The cupidity and ignorance OF
the workmen whom ne employs 20 sup
port a protective tariff by repeating the
hackaeyel, old worn out sophistry that
such tariff is needed 10 protect the
American laborer from competition
with the pauper labor of Europe" He
very carefully conceals from the aiore.
said iaborer, however, that the alleged
pauper laborer Of Europe is equally as well
satisfied With his condition as is his
alleged protected brother in America,
and that the latter has to pay much
more for the necessaries of life than the
former, while by no means receiving
wages in proportion. And he is
particularly careful TO conceal from his
dupes the fact that it is his intention
after the elections are over and prOtec
ton is assufed-to reduce wages TO a
par with those Of The pauper labor of
Europe" Just so soon as he finds the
supply exceeding the demand on account
of the contracted market, which is the
necessary consequent upon tariff pro-
hibitory to the outside world. He is
still further most particularly careful not
TO let it be known that he pursues this
plan with malice a'orethought so that he
may deliberately provoke strike. know
ing that, by so doing, production will
cease, and by the time his surplus supply
is worked off at good prices, his starved
workmeu will, in all likelihood, be only
too glad TO return TO work at old prices.
Senator Vance is right. Look at 1t
how we may. protection per IS is unjust
to everybody, but more unjust, because
more burdensOme, to The laboring classes
than any other. 1t literally makes, as he
says, the poor mans poverty a crime,
"for which his country Furnishes him with
pains and penalties, and shortens the
allowance of his children's bread and
diminishes the warmth OF their clothing"