The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-29

NAV five times rs much rs the govern
ment gets. On the average of tie past
few wears, tile tariff yields about $500.
600 900 a wear. Yes, and the people
pay ON the average, besides that, $500,
OOO. 900 more. under the tariff alOne, to
cunning, grasping monopollsts.
Tie second evil is, the absolute loss
of foreign markets to home producers
to the same extent that the home mark
ct is refused to foreign producers. fla
man will not buy. then he cannot sell,
because in buying. he has to pay for
what he buys, and that is selling; and,
| because. in selling. he has to take his
pav for what lie SELLS, and that is buy
ing. Buying and selling are one and
~inseuerahle. When, then, United
| States citizens are prohibited by their
tariff taxes from buying $500, OOO, 900
worth Of foreign goods they are by the
very same terms prohibited from selling
$500, 900. 900 worth of their own pro-
ducts longing for a foreign market.
The boasird ''home market is not so
broad rs a world market, The United
States is n great country, and offers a
| good market to home producers so far
as it goes. but with our natural facili-
ties for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to
any other country in the world-it does
not take long to glul the home market
in any particular product. The paper
| mills for example make in eight months
all the paper this country Il take;
| they might prntitably sell to half the
world besides. if our law did not for
| hid them to take their pay back. So
| the paper mills shut down OF work
slack four months in the year. So of
twenty other products. As it is, we
are smothered in our on grease. Our
| home market is Don clogged, produc-
ton ceases or goes slow, men and wom-
Ell and children are discharged from
employment by the thousands, p,v'rty
| threatens or stalk in like an armed
man, classes eye each other with
hate across a moral chaSm, demagnpues
appeal to wOrkingmen against their
employers, business is disintegrated,
aud society gets by the ears. How do
these evils effect the people of the ag-
ricultural states? Protective taxes COM
pei these ~people-and all others except
the monopolists-tO buy all that they
buy for more than is right, and TO sell
all that they sell for less than is. The
| farmers especially are between the up
per and neither mill stones. They
have to pay prices artficially raised by
''protection' for everything that comes
into their houses in the way OF supplies
OF upon their farms in the way of tools,
such az cloths, cutlery, carpets, books,
| paper, glassware, w~oodenware, screws,
hammers, nails, saws, ploughs, chains,
| barbed wire, mowers, reapers and dOz-
eus OF things besides, together with ex-
ira freight on them from the cost of
railroads increased by ''protectiOn;"
| and OIL the other hand, no produce of
the farm, not even wool, sells for any
thing like as much as it would sell for,
if the markets of the world we're open
to them-lhat is to say, if some part of
the products could be carried abroad
and exchanged at a profit for cheap and
good goods, which would come back in
our " bottoms under cheap freights
and be rolled into our towns over un-
taxed rails and cars built of free ma
terials and 50 at the cheapest rate.
Europe would take double the wheat
she now takes, or quadruple, if we
would take her goods in exchange, and
If wheat and goods could I've taken to
and from SeabUards over untaXed rail-
roads. Farm products of every name
would be deaIer and farm supplies of
every lame would be cheaper III "a
hours after the abolition of these ac-
cursed tariff taxes, desig ed to raise
solme prices and diminishing others.
Al the same time our mills and foun-
dries would run full handed all the
year around, and the men who work in
them would have what they do not
have now, steady and remunerative
employment. The great question in
this campaign is: What do the people
propose to do about tariff taxes?"