Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-14
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THE Tariff and TEE wORkTNGMlN
A clearer, more intelligent, or more sat
isfactory treatise on the relation of protec-
tectiye duties to workinginen, and farmers,
and the general industries of the country,
was never printed, than that from the pen
of Mr.. John Foos, which was presented to
large audience of citizens at the Buckeye
club rooms, on the night of Monday, July
9th, and which appears, in full, in todsy's
REPUBLIC. The facts and figures were
collected. not from partisan newspapers,
but from the official records of the govern
ment, by Mr.. Foos himself. who visited
Washington, last winter, for the purpose,
and not one of them can be disputed. Mr..
Mr.. Foos is at one and the same time, an
actual workingman, manufacturer and .
student of political economy. land was
formerly merchant) and he has been giving
his personal attention to the practical effects
and fruits Of protective tariff. It is not
strange, therefore, that he has produced an
utterance that is worthy of being put into
book form for permanent use as an author
itative treatise.
The address is in reply to one made by
another Springfield gentleman-a manufac-
ture, democrat, and tariff reformer"
MIR. John II. Thomas-who is one Of the
best informed and one of the ablest of the
members of his party in this state: stu
dent also of some reputation-and the
supposition that he has put his cause in the
best light, and has fortified 1t with all the
facts and arguments at his command. is
reasonable.
Every citizen should read the address, Is
printed today. very carefully, and no one
can do 80 without being more or less In
structed. We speak of it in this manner,
not because it has q political or personal
bearing, but because 1t states facts related
to and illustrating the science of political
economy, and is, in its very nature, enlight-
ening and educational. Undoubtedly many
thousands copies of the address will be
distributed as q campaign document, but
its array of facts, statistics and Arguments,
with the illusions to Mr.. Thomas and the
democratic party left out, would make an
excellent text book for schools and col
leges.
Mr.. Foos's message" on the protection
of the sugar industry. which was printed in
the REPUBLIC soon after Cleveland's free
trade message and Blaine's cabled reply
made their appearance, attracted
the attention of statesmen and politi-
cal economists at Washington, Chi
cago, New Orleans and other political and
trade centers throughout the country, and
We have no doubt this address will receive
still greater and more general attention. 1t
will furnish ammunition for thousands of
orators, no doubt, and exert an
influence on the campaign and the country
that can never be fully estimated or appre-
ciated.
What Mr.. Foos says about the future and
the possibilities of sugar production In this
country is of immediate and great practi-
cal interest to the famers of this country,
who are crying out, plaintively-and very
diversified agricultural pro-
iuction. Mr.. Fooe asserts that the sugar
beet may be very proftASly produced in
Ohio, as soon as the farmers and capitalists |
an arrang with each other for Diffusion"
sugar mills and q constant supply of the |
,aw material. Mr.. Foos gives. also, some
7ery important information concerning |
wheat production in this country and the
'oreign market
We submit Mr.. Foos's address, entire,
With great satisfaction, confident that we
ire comforting, by publishing it, a benefit
lpon the entire community.