Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-22

wage-workers, that cannot be purchased
now for less money than at any time prior
TO the adoption of the Morrill, tariff. From
the hat upon your head to the shoes or
boots upon your feet, every article of
necessary clothing can De purchased for
less money and you can include the watch
and the penknife and the lead pencil and
the pocketbook, and, my Democratic
friend. you can include that corkscrew in
your pocket Why, if it was not for the
tariff, you would not be able to own a
corkscrew. and would be compelled to
break the neck of the bottle As you used to
do in good old Democratic, free trade
times
How is it with muslin and calico, furni-
ture. stoves and tinwares Ii you are not
old enough TO have been q purchaser prior
TO 1861, go ask your father or your mother
or your grandfather or grandmother, /
VIII risS my reputation on their candid
answer Then ask another question. How
does the quality of the articles OF today
compare with the quality of the same class
OF articles prior to the war,
Everyone knows that the quality of to-
day Is superior. But the consumer of
these articles may say all this amounts TO
nothing If we are compelled to pay more
for these articles under a tariff than we
could buy them for from some other
country under free trade My reply is that
If you can purchase them as cheaply in this
then
YOU ARE LOSING NOTHING
and you should give the preference to the
country in which you live.
To illustrate this let me name some ar
ticles with which you are more or less ia
miiar.
On the floor of the house of representa-
tives, Mr.. Mes inley. OF Ohio, exhibited an
all wool suit of clothes that had been pur-
chased for SO at tae retail clothing house
OF Mr.. Morse, Democratic member from
Boston, Massachusetts. 1t was better
suit IN every respect than the one pur-
chased in England for the same money and
referred to in his speech Dy Mr.. Mills, of
Texas. Does any one believe that DEM
ocratic free trade clothing man. even
though he was member of congress,
would sell such a suit As Mr.. Mckinley
presented without taking profit of at least
10 per cent?
You can buy kitchen utensils cheaper in
this country than you can in England.
Every article of furniture to be found in
the house OF a farmer or wage-worker, can
be purchased in this country for the same,
or less. money than in England All knit
goods and common stockings and socks
are cheaper here than in England. Boots
and shoes are about the same but the
quality of our make for the same price is
much the best All kinds of farming
utensils are as cheap, or cheaper.
Now let Us see what articles will cost
you more here than in England If YOU
want to buy broadcloth suit, or a Brus-
sells carpet, or silk dress, or a cashmere
shawl costing from 500 to $500, or Irish
point or thread lace, or a flashing diamond,
or a number of other articles that are lux
uries and not necessities, you Can buy all
- Il. a
in this country.
The policy of protection is in the main,
to raise as much of the revenues of the
government as is possible on luxuries, be-
cause these are purchased by the people
who are better able to contribute To show
the wisdom of this, as well AS the false
ness of the claim that the tariff is oppress-
ing and robbing the masses. l need but
state that if the tariff on every
and well being of Kansas
family, except sugar and rice, was actually
paid in cash. it would only amount to 80
cents for each person. You can never get
free trade orator down to plain figures.
If you can the next time You hear one talk
about the protection robbers just ask him
how much was the tariff collected on
everything brought into this country last
year? OF course he won't know and you
will have to tell him that it was exactly
Sl1, Sll ,632. AZ. Then ask him how much
of this WAS paid on fancy wines aud cigars
and diamonds and lacef and things of that
kind. OF course he won't know and you
will have to tell him that it was one hun
ored million dollars. Then ask him how
much was paid on sugar, and of course he
would no5 know and you tell him il was
b6, o01 ,i95. 81 on sugar and 97l. Al. 50 on
rice. Then ask him to add up these
amounts, and he may he able to do tins,
and tell you that the sums for Injuries and
sugar and rice amount to 1885, AS $50. 50
Then ask him to subtract this from the
entire amount paid and tell you how much
is left TO be divided among the people.
Well, of course. this he could not do. He
may know something about addition, di-
vision and silence, but subtraction-neveT.
He has not been educated that way
You would have to tell him, therefore.
that there is left, TO be divided among
to. 900, 900 of people, the sum of s34 &c.,
6S2. o. and this amounts to just 90 cents
each.
can tell you how you can pay more
than ninety cents of this, if you want TO-
Go and buy some fancy French champagne
or Bourbon. Drink it and get the big
head, and you Will pay more than your
ninety cents, but you will feel so rich that
you won't mind it.
Some friend may say the Mills bill pro-
sugar, and you voted against the bill. j
viii take a moment to show them just how
generous these manipulatorS of the Mills
bill were That bill proposed 70 reduce
duties on sugar from SD, 507, 1881 TO 80
039, 9l2 IS, and the duties on rice from 1911
454 50 to $S3s. 004 10 That amounts to just
Is cents to each one OF us. A dime "A
nickle and a three-cent piece as bait on
their free trade hook for US to nibble at,
while they destroyed our wool ami fax
and hemp and other Industries and de
prived the farmer OF hundreds Of thou
sands OF his customers ana hundreds OF
thousands of wage workers of employ ment.
" ould you have taken the baitz am glad
to say that the Kansas delegation were
not caught with such chaf, and as one of
the results OF their consistent action,
secured SlO0, 900 TO develop the sorghum
sugar industry, which, II successful, as |
believe it will be will lift rhe mortgages
from the Kansas farms, crush out the IN
famous sugar trust and let Mr. Hayemeyer
know that, although he IS a Democratic
sugar king aud can dictate TO the free
trade ways aud means committee Of
Democratic house of representatives. he
cannot dictate to the intelligent masses Of
the people.
The free trade orator. however, SAYS ne
can see how Kansas farmers are inter
esteCtln =
THE SUGAR INDUSTRY
when they can sell cane at from 81 20 10
g. % per ton, but how is he Interested Ia
the manufacturing industries Of New En-
gland You have heard him calling them
robbers and monopolists and telling how
we OF the west paw tribute to these eastern
money kings. Now, think for a moment
How can We pay tribate 70 these eastern
if. a. | think have shown,
we get manufactured articles cheaper now
than ever before, and II We get them a.
cheap or cheaper than they can b pur-