The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-08-09
Farmers and Taxation.
rRr SarnNnrd In ell

By Saeoyard In C.-J.l
The passage of the Mills bill has
agitated the Republican party as
much as {. pulletlaying its first egg.
It is the seyerest blow that has yet
been struck at thetrusts and other
monopolistic spawn of the tariff
system, and Is the beginning OF the
peoples emancipation from the bur
denis 1nder which they have been
laboring foa years. The Republi.
cans meet il With a cry Of "Bfitish
Free Trade that was worn out in
,he campaign of 1874 the Ameri-
can people'ar not afraid of the
British, and American genius, in-l
dustry and enterprise can meet
Great Britain on the high seas in
commercial rivalry, and beat her
too, as Paul Jones, Truxton, Pre-.
ole, Decatur, Stewart, Chauncey snd
other Americas naval heroes, met
her in the strife OF battle and beat
her in two wars,
Free trade indeed. Your En-
glishman has practical free trade
with us now, but The advantage is
all on his side Not long ago the
good ship, Shannon, of her Males
tvs Merchant Marine, cleared from
the port of Liverpool, laden with
steel rails. cutlery, clothing and
other merchandise and sailed for
Rio Jeneiro where the cargo was
exchanged at profit to the con-
signers for coffee, and then the
Shannon sailed for New York, land
ed her coffee, duty free, and eX-
changed it at another profit for cot
TOD and wheat. There is free trade
for you ION the side of the British.
The ship started out with view OF
shopping manufactured products
for American farm products with
out paying a duty to the American
| Government and did it,
! But for our tariff an American
ship might have cleared from New
York, freighted with railroad sup
plies, clothing, farm machinery and
other merchandise, aud sailed Tor
the Argentine Republic and there
exchanged the ca,.s.r ia profit for
!, wool, then sailed for liverpool and
exchanged the wool at an addition
al profit for pig iron and thus bull,
up a merchant marine and put
money in the pockets of our mer'
chant marine and put money in the
pockets of our merchants; but the
. tariff, which is 1ch mans law and
a poor mans tax, has destroyed
our commerce, and we are shut on
: from all markets, except the HON,
market, whichis preserved for th'
trusts. Thirty years ago ours wa
the second commercial nation OF
the globe now we are far behinc
Holland.
r There is another circumstance K
which VIC give little attention
! though it is huge in its conse
quences. II is stated that Ameri
. can merchants and farmers pay ey
I. cry year to British ship owner
: $150,000,0p0 asfreights for carrying
American products. We will con
q tinue to pay that or a greater sum
in way of freights Just as long as
2 protective tariff ties our hands. i
9 there not a good deal of projection
y in $l50,000,000? That is the pro
lection our tariff gives British shll
masters.
e All this stuff about British FIRE
trade is bosh. If an American
swaps goods and merchandise will
!; an Englishman, the Fnglishman j
y just as apt to get the hot end Of III
= poker as'the American, II an En-
Il glishman lands cargo at Ne,
. York, he is nor going home empty
1t would not pay him to do i. |
,Ecosts justas much to sail an empt
i ship as it does to sail freighte,
!. ship. Instead of going home wit
s no cargo except the money 70
. which he exchanged bis goods, h
{ will bpy something that America
:, labor has produced, thus giving u
II foreign market for our products
o aid thereby making work for tn
J. American laboring man. As tn
. New York World puts it: Free
= trade means other markets, otht
le markets more manufactures, MOI
manufactures mean more worl
more work means higher wages, an
y higher wages and cheaper gooo
e means contentment and prosper
p ty." Let the people say wheth'
% they want cheaper BLANKETS,
e chenner whisky. That is the issu