The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-27
TINE POOR MANS GOODS.


had before their eyes lurid glaring
Hight set up by monopolists to mlsleao
them into the vain idea that protection OF
labor was the very soul OF the working
mans existence when all the time II Is
protection Of few monopolists. here
IL an instance
How few people whose families buy
alpaca, one OF the articles most generally
used by the masses of the people, are
aware OF the fact that in England the
importer pays six cents yard Tor IL
and here he has TO sell 1t with
the merchants profit added and 100 per
cent. duty. Mark YOU, you grooming
sinners, the rich man can bay fine clothes
at about fifty per cent duty, but The poor
man and his wife and daughters in that
single commodity pay double The pre-
mimi and tribute. II does not do the
merchant any good because il he could
sell at a lower price he would sell twice
IA much. II does not do anybody any
good except the American manufacturer
who can put the home made article oil
the same STYLE at four times the price II
ought To command
Suppose that the manufacturers ana
their employees amount to i7,oOO'OoO win
their families and friends, which is the
highest figure ever claimed.
The Others who suffer and pay tribute
are g.. 0OO. 900 That is The problem that
protective tariff enforces on the Ameri-
can people at the rate of an average OF
sis year to each individual more taxes
than he ought to pay.
According then to the highest aspect
that monopoly can put on to maintain
those war taxes in time OF peace, there
are one-f0urth OF the people 10 be pam
pered at the expense of the other three
four,hs, who are now paying one-ihird
or one-half more for the necessary
articles of life than the people in other
countries do. Let anybody deny that ii
he can.
The wool growers, for instance claim
that there are one-fiteenlh Of the people
Of the country engaged in sheep raising
and that that par, Of the people must ex-
L.. f.ssrfa.u. fggpf u.
about 80 per cent. at least in the way OF
extra prices for wooden goods
1t is the same thing in the protection
of American fishermen"
\ few thousand New England mack
erel and cod caichers must bc pro
tected" by making 6O0OO,0OO of people
paw more tor salt h,h than the Canadians
in whose waters they are caught.
How long the common sense and just
Instinct of the American people will sub
nit to this Infamous system OF tyranny
is only a question of the courage o. the
Democratic party, which should leave
the bubbles of peanut protection ana
other little log-rolling triiles to some fu-
ture time and at present take hold Of a
clear and plain, direct policy-not a
policy that would suddenly dis
rupt or disturb the present business
relations Of the country, but A policy
that would show direct and practical
movement towards a great end that it
may take time 10 wisely accomplish but
that should he inauguralcd exactly on
the line Of the Presidents message 10 re-
duce The dangerous surplus in the Treas
ury at the particular points where the
people feel the need of relief from useless
taxes that were laid on for the emergency
Of war AID never intended 10 protect
monopoly, as now claimed 10y the Repub-
licans We make our text the instance
of an article Of universal use that is put
by the protective tariff one hundred per
cent. over its proper value Think Of it.