The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-01
A MASTERLY ARGUMENT,

CHAS. +. SCOTT,
A MASTERLY ARGUMENT
Extracts From Mr.. Funston's Grea
Tariff Speech in the House of
Representatives.
(concluded.)
The great State Of Illinois is one vast work
coal and zinc, IL only held back by the mirag,
Of free trade. Kansas il rapidly follOwinl
with her smelling furnaces, glass factories
s1S she The
his interests. In them he secs . market which
is far preferable to that or London, 400 miles
away. Engaged In these industries he sect
| thousands of consumers employed who are his
customers, and who, If not 80 employed, would
| be his competitors in agricultural pursuits,
thus doubling the productions of the farm,
ply Of the home market Of ali such commoditie.
| as the farmer produces. Thus his home mark
ct Is destroyed. his production doubled, and
| with vast surplus he must come into compe-
titiOn with the cheapest labor of the world.
Gentlemen tells US that the London market
governs the price Of our farm products. Lon
don can fix the prices Of our products only 90
long as she pays more than 10 paid in Ameffca
The American market has to gain but per
cent on farm productions Of the country to
make the home demand equal to the home SNIP
ply, and then not London but our own home
demand will control the price Of all hoIIe
products. The farmers Of this country want
to hasten that time. Every interest impeIs
them to it. Every patriotic impulse urges it
upon them: They want neither English markets
nor English goods. and will hail with delight
markets and American goods, tApplause.I /
for one am ready to put up the fences around
the outside and nail up the gates. Gentlemen
tse tbs Moor about giving the
tive tariff had shut them out from the markets
of the world. Such talk is absolutely silly.
We have no export duty. The products OF this
obstruction. The markets OF the world are
before them, such as they can get into.
But we find an economic system much like
our own surrounding every country in Europe
except England, and even she is not absoIuteiy
free, for she collects 500, 900 900 annuaiiy
Were we to adopt absolutely free trade not a
than It Is to-day. The gentlemen from indiana
(Mr. Bynum], In his remarks on this moor on
the 26th Of April. declared that our tariff
that we cannot sell them at competitive prices
in foreign markets. lis the gentleman aware
that many of our most valuable products, such
as steel, etc, are taken In the raw state from
ployed to convert them into manufactured
products, and the fact that the articles when
manufactured have p!otection does not prevent
just the same as II unprotected?
To he more explicit, II home manufacturer
has crate Of pottery worth $50. and there
to the $50 would make the selling price SIOO.
that would not prevent the home manufacturer
selling his crate in foreign market at its
actual value, which is $780, if he chose to do 40.
The gentleman's argument is in q great
measuer fallaci0us, for 1t can not appiy to
those products into which nothing but labor
enters, nor can It apply to goods manufactured
exporters. as the duty on such materials does |
not affect the price. Mr.. Chairman. England |
is the only nation in Europe that makes any |
she adopted that policy through any feeling Of |
brotherhood for the balance Of the worid9 Does
any one believe that she did 80 through any /
SO would be to stnltify the history Of that peo-
pie in their relations to this country.
For eight hundred years England maintained |
not protection only, but in many articles their
exclusive policy amounted to prohibition,
preventing entirely the importation Of such
things as came in competition with her own
were dependencies of Great Britain she prOhib-
tied the expectation OF American sugar except
in English vessels, which We're compelled to
discharge their cargoes in English ports; and
so jealous was she other own colonies that she
made 1t q capital 0fFense to transport Sheen
from England to America, in order that she
industry.
Skilled mechanics were prohibited under
penalty OF death from emigrating to America.
machinery Tor manufacturing the variOus
textiles was prohibited under heavy penalties.
Lord Chatham declared at one time that the =,
Iacture even 80 much as boot nail; and the J
English Parliament, that great body to which
snRlishmen delight TO point, came within three
,otes Of passing biz BY which every Ameri-
oldiery, and all this while the American
olonies were still British possessions. Does :
my man believe that nation guilty of these Z
lagrant outrages against her own colonies y
would have her conscience aroused with senti- II
nents OF benev0lence and philanthropy after
hose colonies had become an independent pow :,
nd prohibitions Of the mother country? Are p
entiemen 80 stupid IS to suppose that England 9,
as changed her policy as measure Of brother q
? love for US?
1ings for ::money or other substantial gain. .
hen she had finally converted her whole
land into workshop; when she had become
industrial giant, capable Of competing with
rat she must import food products valued at s,
sJ0, 600 GOO. and raw material for manu- facture
the amount Of ss5o; ooo, 900; when she became -
I, O0O, go annually for her manufactured prod Of
Its; when she knew that to ship manufactur-
products to England wouldbe like carrying
lily Mr.. Chairman, that she found it her in
rest to abolish her protective system and ask
e balance Of the world to do likewise. of
TO
And now. Mr.. Chairman, about the so-oalled y
bber tax on the poor mans blankets, II there y1
one thing In this discussion which has re- ~ =.
lived more attention than another BY the -
Of this House 1t 10 the tariff ON blank ~.
;. They have abused 1t more than the tariff an
any twenty other articles on the schedule ~
ls opprobrious 0pithets OF the English ",
ngusge have been exhausted in denunciation sa'
that tariff. One would suppose to hear this ~ ~,
AIDE that . democrat regards such tariff 90 w w
rpassed in enOrnity only by outright muir ~
r. But when we turn to the bill under con- s cn
leration, which comes from the democratic 70 70
ljOrity OF the Ways and Means Committee, 10y
d which they ask Us to vote for, we nnd at AZ,
y have placed tariff Of 70 per cent on d hi
lnkets. II the tariffon blankets IL robbery e
y this r0bber tax OF 40 per cent? Why does
Q democratic committee put but 50 cents on s
alton OF wine and d on % SO blanket? led
his shows the insincerity OF their preten- def
rs. 1t shows either that they do not believe ecu
at they say, or believing they themselves.
the willing jrobbers. Why did they not 81
. 81 the duty OF blsnkets snd pat It OF By