The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-08-21
ROBBERY BY LAW.
1Ht herald Seconds Mr.. Blaines Efforts to
Educate the People on Tariff fopiE.
PROJECTIONS BENEFITS" EXPLAINED
now Prominent Republicans Talked in 1878
ana 1883, and How They Talk Now.


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"'us' De taught the benefits of high pro-
An excellent idea. The Herald seconds
the motion.
If young man buys suit of clothes
lor s23 the amount of protection he paws
tor Is 80. The clothes without protection
would cost $l4.
Ii he buys a 81 hat he gets 40 cents
worth OF hat and 60 cents worth of pro-
lection.
II young couple just beginning house
keeping buy yard of Brussels Garnet
1or $l they receive As cents in carpet and
% cents In protection-or saw for a
whole room, sl2 worth of carpet and $ls
worth of protection. With free wool sls
would be saved.
II the young woman paws 50 for a
shawl she gets Sc worth of shawl onlv ::
the other s3 she presents to the manufac,
turer to protect him.
If she buys dress for SIS she'gets $l2-
worth Of dress and S. worth of protec-
ton.
1T, however, she wants pair of shoes.
which formerly cost $3.50 to $3.50, she
has only to pay $3.50 or $3.50, accor-
ding TO quality, because some OF the
protection has been taken off hides,
from which the leather in the shoes is
made.
1T she pays 50 cents for an iron pot or
pan she gets 30 cents in goods and 20
cents worth of protection.
If she buys clock for So she receives
81 worth of clock and 81 worth of pro-
lection.
1t she wants a sewing machine and
pays say $50 for it, she gets 81 worth of
sewing machine and SO rth of protec-
ton.
If she pays $l6 for watch, $l2 repre-
sents the timepiece; the other 81 60 to
protect somebody.
If she buys lamp for 81 there is 55
cents in lamp and As cents to "keep
the pot boiling" for some "protected -
individual
If she has to buy a range Or stove for
$25 she gets $l7 in goods and Is worth
of protection.
If she buys dozen steel knives and
forks for $3.50 she gets about 81 in cut
lery and $3.50 in protection.
If she buys dozen glass tumblers for
81 she receives in glass 55 cents and As
cents in tariff.
If a young farmer buys 800 worth of
implements to start out in farming he
gets $50 in machines and $45 in tariff
wind pudding. With the Mills bill passed
he could get horse and harness, as we'll
as his implements, for his 800
If the farmer purchases a barrel OF
salt for 81 he gets GA cents in salt and
pays SO cents in protection to companies
in Syracuse, Warsaw and Saginaw
Mr. Blaine and Field Marshal Matt
Quay are at liberty to use these facts in
their new political catechism for the pres
ent and coming generations
| Look where you will, follow the whole
tariff list now in force, down article by
article, and you will find the hand of the
public robber reaching for your pocket, to
steal from every man, woman and child
in the country. Since each must consume
something 50 each must be robbed.
The essence of high protection, as re-
cent writer said, is the placing of obsta-
cles in the way of trade. People are ex-
pected to build ships, TO promote importa-
| tions, invent machinery to increase and
| cheaper production; then the tariff steps
| in to prevent the one and defeat the other.
| The inventive genius of the nation is
called upon for scientific appliances to an
nihilate time, distance and other natural
| obstacles to commerce, and forthwith
every protection obstacle that can be de-
vised is brought to bear to prevent the
| country receiving any benefit whatever
| from it's skill and labor. Nobody can
deny that since 1883 especially, this has
been the policy of Mr.. Blaine and MI.
Blaine's ignorant followers, who must be
educated. And just now his G. 0. p. de-
clares that the maintenance OF such
policy will be the salvation Of the coun.
try.
REAL REPUBLICAN TARIFF REFORAERS.
Yet three of it's greatest men-greatest
in courage, intelligence and honesty
Grant, Garfield and Arthur-time and
time again called attention to the danger
and folly of encouraging progress and
prosperity in the mechanical world, and
then deliberately, by statute, passing all
the benefits over to other nations. They
believed, too, in educating the generations
up to that line of "protection" which was
the greatest good for the greatest number.
General Grant urged the purchase of
San Dimingo, because he saw the advan-
tage of uninterrupted trade with that
island. President Garfield wanted Cuba
| for a similar reason.
President Arthur implored republicans
in Congress to reduce the barbarous tariff
taxation and pass a measure to relieve
working people engaged in wooden, iron
and other "protected" industries. But
the Anglo American "rings" controlling
iron and steel, and the Anglo-Franco-
American rings controlling the manufact-
ure and importations of fine worsted
goods and cassimeres said, "Oh no. If
You reduce the tariff the poor laborer will
fall to the lowest depths of pauperism."
By fraudulent representations and bare
faced lying the tariff iniquity of 1883 was
made to impoverish the masses so that a
few might be enriched. And the frauds
and falsifiers who went to Washington
and bulldozed Congress when that meas
ure was passed are the same "disinterest-
ed gentlemen" who now shout :-"For
Gods sake, don't give the workingman
cheap food, cheap rent, cheap clothing
and better wages; give him cheap whls'
key, something to degrade him and keep
him from thinking too much, and free
chaw' of tobacco"
By all means, Mr.. Blaine, educate the
generation up to the benefits of such pro-
lection