The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-16

association, the wrought iron and pipe
trust, the lead trust, the copper trust
the cotton duck trust, the paper asso
citation, the standard envelope trust
the paper bag trust, and the blank
book combine. Binding tWine was
high last year, but promises to be high
er this coming season. Another trust:
the various mills have united to DESTROY
competition and extort exorbitant
prices.
The methods of all these various
trusts as yet, are not fully known, but
new examples are coming to light
every day, and if public sentiment does
not make itself felt, they win have a
'vise-like grip on every industry not so
organized, and on every necessity OF
life. .l
have it from good authority that a
single plow manufacturing company
viii have to pay $4,000 more for steel
used in the manufacture of their plows
this year than last, for the reason OF
the
HIGHER PRICES DEMANDED
by the Ylllalnous steel trust. This
means higher prices for plows, cultiva.
tors, and an immense amount OF other
articles used by the farmer. And to
sustain all these monstrous evils, or So
called trusts, the protectiunist, in order
w make sure of our patronage, asks
Congress for q monstrous and burden
SOME protective tariff, and to balance
accounts agrees to give us free whisky,
and ii we are good boys, perhaps free
tobacco, while on the other hand we
are to furnish free raw material and
have taxed whisky and tobacco.
Are we toolsf If not, we a.e cOnsid-
cred such, for were it otherwise such
things would not be attempted. 1t is
said that poison by itself might be re-
jected because of its bitter taste, but il
presented in large quantity of pleas
ant ana healthtul toodit may be taken
But the prOtectiOnist and
POLITICAL SCHEMERS
seem to become bolder as they grow
Olaer in their dirty tricks, as the dose
in the above was not even sugar
coated.
But we are told by the protectionist
that we need high tariff to protect
our laborers against the pauper labor
of Europe. This is the worst of all ar
guments, as it is intended to deceive
and mislead, securing most exorbitant
Dounties to capital now organized all
over the country, and known as trusts.
Were ninety-nlne per cent. of these
bounties 60 and remain. Hence the
millionaiIes and increased number OF
poor YOU hear Of all over the country.
Labor is deserving Of encouragement
and protection; but protective tariff
at best could only favor few classes
Of labOrers and not the whole, and
therefore would be partial and unjust,
possibly atfOrdlng protection to com
paratiyely small number, while it
would be a tax upon the industry Ot
Others, whose products, to great eX.
tent must lind foreign market.
E Ii there is country on this globe
designed by the Creator that
/. LABOR SHOULD BE WELL PAID,
that country is what constitutes the
United States. Natural resources OF
every description are spread before us
with lavish hand, which is conclusive
proof that honest labor shall be well
rewarded, and would be, were it not for
the law securing bOuntles to one class
at the expense OF another.
Let us see how this is. In protected
industries the labOrer receives, on an
average, about the price paid to labor
ers in other industries not protected,
proving clearly that the labOrer. is not
benefited by his employers bounty.
and as he along with the rest of man
kind, pays from 40 to so per cent, i'm
aginary value on clothing, sugar, iron,
nails, and many other articles consumed
in his family. 1t is plain to see that he
Is injured in about the same ratio as
the farmer, the blacksmith, the car
penter, the bricklayer, and the mer-
chant along with his book keeper and
all his clerks; and to
CAP THE CLIMAX,
1 refer you to the opinion expressed
by leading business man, not a poll
tic an, proving clearly that the laboring
man is oppressed from his birth to his
grave. At birth he is wrapped in taxed
clothing; his father is taxed out of all
proportion on the common clothes he
wears during childhood and youth;
when he marries, his wife's common
dress is taxed at a higher rate than the
velvets of the protectionist's wife; and
when he dies they put him in a coffin
made of taxed material, in which his
remains are hurried to the city of the
dead, in hearse made of taxed wood,
iron, glass, &C.; the ground is thrown
over him with taxed shovel, and the
proIectionist would follow him to
heaven with taxes, if men who take
their neighbOr's goods could find en-
trance there. EA,;
The manner in which a protective
tariff operates to the prejudice of the
farmer, planter and laborer may not
always be understood. The prices OBJ
tanned for our surplus, constitutes
THE STANDARD OF VALUE
for our whole production and controls
and regulates prices. The value Of
breadstuiis is not determined in the
city of New York, but in the foreign
market where our surplus is disposed
of; and the prices OF cotton at Mobile.
Charleston and New Orleans are not
made at Providence or Lowell, but at
Liverpool and Manchester. Restric-
tions upon trade with foreign countries
in the shape of high duties are there
fore injurious to our agricultural inter-
eSts, and are in effect tax. And to
make this a little palmer, first comes
the cost of merchandise abroad where
the price of our produce is regulated;
second, duty; third, freight, insurance
and other charges of importation;
fourth, importers profits. With all this
additional cost imported articles come
in competition with the corresponding
articles Of home manufacture in ;H
! THE IAMERICAN MARKET. ,if.
And the aggregate of the items above
mentioned constitutes the protection
OF bounty which our tariff system
secures to the manufacturer showing
clearly that the object of a tariff for
protection is to increase the price of the
article. If this were not so who would
care for protective bOunties3 z Surely not
tho naliifacturer[ fWEN 8ts -iiT