The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-09-06
CatechIsm Tor Monopolists.
Lot the Advocates Of q ProhibitorY
Tariff Answer.

!, the people starving and the aristoc
3 raoy alone amassing wealth.
r Why wages in free trade England
are almost double what they are il
protectionist Germany, France, 1t
: ally, Spain and Russia2
Why free trade England is the
market for the surplus products Of
the American farmers, which
amounted last year to Five Hun.
dred and Twenty-three Millions Of
Dollars7
Why there is more money in free
trade England than IN any other
country in the werld7
Why English capital builds rail
roads, iron mills and steel works in
prntectionist American
1 Why the rate of interest is lower
in free trade England by one half
than in protectionist America?
Why England is the leading COM
mercial nation of the world, while
the commerce of the United States,
which, before high tariffs were
adopted, almost equaled that of
Englandi Is now of comparatively
small account?
Why the cost of labor in a yard
of cloth or ton of iron or s.eel is
greater in England than in the
United States2
Why the wool product In the
United States is decreasing year by
year under a high protective tariff?
. Why our cotton manufacturers
with free raw materials last year
exported fifty millions of dollars
of their goods; while our WOODEN
manufacturers with high tariff raw
material export only half a million
dollars worth of their prodnctsY
Why with free hides American
leather and its manufactures wefe
sold in foreign markets last year to
the extent of ten millions Of dollars
WORTH
Why with free hides the impor-
tatioh Of leather sud its tnanutac-
lures is now five millions of dollars
less than the last year of h tariff on
hides9
Why with d tariff oh hides no
American leather or manufactures
thereof could be sold in foreign mar
kets?
Why with free hides the American
leather and shoe Industry has woh- |
derfully increased, while the Amer
loan people are enabled to Save mil |
lions of dollars annually in the
price of leather and shoes?
Why since there is free trade in
quiEine the manufactures Of that
article in this country have increas-
ed in nun Der, while the price to the !
consumer has greatly decreased9 |
Why under the high tariff the
American. flag has disappeared from
the ocean,
Why under the high tariff the
products of the American farmer
shipped to foreign countries cannot
be carried in American vessels?
Why after twenty-five years of
protective tariff there is no home
for the farm product of the
United States, and last year five
and twenty.three. millions
OF dollars worth ,af American farm
products had to be sold to- foreigni
markets or left to rot on the farm2l
Why the longer the tariff contin-
ues the thicker becomes the plaster
of the mortgage upon the farmers
land? ~, =. Il.
Why the millers and the meat
packers buy the farmers products
and ship them to. foreign countries
instead of the highly protected in
dustries here consuming them?
Why there is no home market fora
all our domestic manufactures, and
last year nearly two hundred mil
lion dolls-s worth of them had toll
De sold in other countries2
Why everybody must be bled ind
taxes not needed by the. Goyern-d
ment, to pay subsidies to Americana
manufacturers, when last year thesea
manufacturers competed successful
ly in foreign markets to the EXTENT
of nearly TWO hundred millions off
dollars2 ~ /
Why the English Tory, Robert ri
Porter,l whose rich father lost hisJ
wealth through the repeal of tbe1
"Corn Laws" and the subsequent
free importation ofAmerican bread-A
stuffs into England, didn't stay ina
his native England and preach his
high tariff gospel there, If as he pre-
tends, it is a panacea for all indus
trial ills2 /
Why the English Tory, Robert F.
Porter insists that we must continued
our unnecessary tariff on raw ma
terials Of manufacture and the nee
essaries Of life, and abolish the taxes
on Injuries like whisky and tobac-
COZ
When the advocates OF the higkj
tariff humbug give satisfactory anil
swers this to catechism they can,.I
with some degree Of assurance, ask
intelligent voters TO cast their ball.
lots in favor ei-their Chinese policy.]