The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-10-06
A CATEcHIsM FOR MoNoPo-
LISTS.
Let the Advocates of Prohibitory
Tariff Answer.


Let the Advocates of a Prohibitory
Tariff Answer.
When you are solicited to support the ticket ofthe
plutocrats and monopolists, ask the person who
solicits you the following questions:
why Million Men have been out of work I'M
der the high tariff?
| Why Pennsylvania miners lost l25 days work IN
1851 and Ill days work in lSsj?'
Why they get only SO month. and pay out of
that $3.50 for TOOLS sharpening, powder and oil
Why some Pennsylvania laborers work for 80 cents
day?
Why slate pekers, seven to ten years old. work
ing under the rod in Pennsylvania
Why Pennsylvania operatives pay s. month for
company houses, when English operatives get cot
tage for $50 year?
How protection protects workingmen when Ital-
ans and HuRgarians come in duty free?
Why cotton operatives in Massachusetts work GO
hours, and in other New England States &C and 60
hours week, while English operatives work only
sort
Why the poorer American spinners get ST!OI and
the poorer English spnners $40 week, though the
American makes ~ yards of cloth to the English
2A?t
Why "the condition of the miner has for some
years been growing worse in Pennsylvania, and
better in Great Britain?"s
Why sin the very occupations which we SO tax
ourselves to protect the English workman has, as
a rule, the advantage'2
Why workingmen earn higher day wages In I'M
protected than in protected industries?
Why "the importation of wooden and worstead
cloths is increasing at fearful rate while our own
! weayers are thrown out of employment?'t
What good is a tariff to workingmen when Ameri-
can factories pay only $50 wages for piece OF in
grain carpet on which the duty would be SIT
| why wool averaged IS cents in high tariff times
and - cents in low tariff years, though blankets
ware much higher under the tariff?
Why we sold only $4,000 of wooden goods to coun-
tries where England sold over S1150000O0 in 1885?
Why blankets taxed u per cent. and thread
| lace only 30? Why necessities bear heavy duties,
and luxurles light9
! Why savings bank deposits increased IA per cent.
year. 1880 under low tariff aud only per cent.
year, ls6O-s5. under high tariff?
Why, when the Republican Tariff Commission re-
commended at least 20 per cent reduction the
conference bilr' raised the average of duties so
that they were &c instead of 4s per cent in 1885
Why, us Ralph Beaumont said in Knights OF
Labor meeting. During the % years we've had this
protection we have made more millionaires and
more pauperS under that system, than were ever
made in civilized country on the earth in the same
time before?
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workers were no better than so many slaves?
! Why the working people of London thirty years
| ago marched en- masse to the doors Of the Parlia-
ment house and with the cry of Bread or Blood"
compelled the repeal of the English tariff?
Why Daniel o'Connell, the Irish Lberator,"
united with Richard Golden in denouncing PRO
lection" a fraud?
| Why formerly under high tariff in England
there bread riots the people starving and the
aristoeraey alone amassing wealth?
! Why wages in free trade England are almost
double what they are in protectionist Germany,
France. Italy, Spain and Russia?
Why free trade England is the market for the sur
plus products of the American farmers, which
amounted last year to Five Hundred and Twenty
three Millions of Dollars?
! Why there is more money in free trade England
than in any other country in the world?
Why English capital builds railroads, iron mills,
and steel works in protectionist America
Why the rate of interest is lower in free trade
England by onehalf than in protectionist America
Why England is the leading commercial nation of
the world, while the commerce of the United States
which, before high tariffs were adopted almost
| equaled that OF England. is now OF comparatively
small account?
Why the cost of labor in yard of cloth or ton
of iron or steel is greater in England than in the
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"ny 'ue 80 TO-, or stool &c 1ess IN Eng
"oc'si - ~. ~. re, c,.,a.o
! WHY the wool product in the United States is de-
creasing year Oy year uHuef H'e" P'0'e''''e
tariff?
Why our cotton manufacturers with free raw ma
~ 80 =. ,,.,,, ,.,,,,co,
ha,rs million dollars worth of their products?
Why with free hides American leather and its
were s M,,ons Of 6ollar worth
10 liae extent VI Ae. ,..",,o, - Ia..,o,
and its manufactures now rive Ml h;aa. 2, DOL