The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-08-23
ROBBERY By LAW.

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ROBBERY BY Law.
Some Facts for the Consideration of Work.
ipgmen.
From the Nc,v York Herald.
lfa young man buys suit of clothes
for s23 the amount of protection he paya
for is 50. The clothes without protection
would costS14.
Ifhe buys 81 hat he gets 40 cents,
worth of hat and 60 cents worth of pro-
lection.
If young couple just beginning
housekeeping buy yard of Brussels car.
pet for 81 they receive As cents in carpet
and IS cents in protection-or say for a
whole room, s12 worth of carpet and sl8
worth of protection. With free wool $1S
would be saved.
If the young woman pays 50 for a
shawl she gets Sc worth of shawl only |;
the other So she presents to the manufac.
turer to "protect" him.
Ifshe buys dress for SIS she gets Sl2
worth of dress and Sc worth of protec.
ton.
If, however, she wants pair of shoes,
which formerly cost 81 so to $3.50, she
has only to pay $3.50 or $3.50, according
to quality, because some of the "protec.
ton" has been taken off hides from
which the leather in the shoe is made.
Ifshe pays so cents for an Iron pot or
pan she gets 80 cents in goods and 20
cents worth of protection.
Ifshe buys clock for So she receives
So worth of clock and 81 worth Of protec
ton.
If she wants a sewing machine and
pays, say, $40 for it, she gets s11 worth
Of sewing machine and 50 worth of pro.
lection
II she pays SIG for watch, sl2 repre-.
sents the timepiece; The other 81 goes to
"protect" somebody.
Ifshe buys lamp for 81 there is So
cents in lamp and As cents to keep the
pot boiling" for some protected" indi.
vidual.
Ifshe has to buy range OF stove fer
s27 she gets SIT in goods and IS worth OF
protection.
Ifshe buys dozen steel knives and
forks for $3.50 she gets about 50 in
knives and $1.5O in protection.
1fshe buys dozen glass tumblers for
81, she receives in glass IS cents and %
cents in tariff.
Ifa young farmer buys $500 worth of
Implements to start out in farming, he
gets $45 in machines and s45 in tariff
wind pudding. With the Mills bill
passed he could get horse and harness,
as we'll as his implements, for his sl0O.
Ifa farmer purchases barrel of salt
for 81, be gets Ga cents in salt and pays
36 cents in protection to companies in
Syracuse, Warsaw and Saginaw.
Look where you will, follow the whole
tariff list now in force down, article by
article, and you vii! 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, so each must be rob.
bed.
The essence of high protection, as a
recent writer said, is the placing of OBJ.
stacles in the way Of trade. People are
expected to build ships, to promote I'M
portations, invent machinery to increase
and cheaper productions; then the tariff
steps in to prevent the one and defeat the
other. The inventive genius of the ma.
ton is called upon for scientific appli.
apces to annihilate time, distance and
other natural obstacles to commerce, and
forthwith every protection obstacle that
can be devised is brought to bear to pre-.
vent the country receiving any benefit
whatever from its skill and labor. No.
body can deny that since 1883 especially
this has been the policy of Mr.. Blaine
and Mr.. Blaine's ignorant followers, who
must be educated. And just now bis G.
O. P. declares that the maintenance oi
such policy will be the salvation of the
country.
General Grant urged the purchase Of
San Domingo, because he saw the advan.
tage of uninterrupted trade with that
island. President Garfield wanted Cuba
for similar reason.
Yet three of its greatest men-greatest
in courage, intelligence and honesty
Grant, Garfield and Arthur-time and
time again called attention to the danger
aud folly of encouraging progress and
prosperity in the mechanical world, and
then deliberately, by statute, passing all
the benefits over to another nation. They
believed, too, in educating the generations
up to that line of protection" which was
the greatest good for the greatest num-
Der.
President Arthur implored Republi-
cans in Congress to reduce the barbarous
tariff taxation and pass measure to
relieve working people engaged in wool
in, iron aud other protected" industries.
But the Anglo American "rings" con-
trolling iron and steel, and the Anglo
Franco American rings controlling the
manufacture and ilnportations of fine
worsted goods and cassimeres said: "Oh
no. Ifyou reduce tariff the poor laborel
will fall to the lowest depths of pauper'
ISM"
By fraudulent representations and