Sharp County record., 1890-12-04
IN WHOSE ~POCkET9

: rerv common argument brought for
z-:;5 bv the protectionists in support OF
I1..v system, S that when goods arc
~ from the home producer, or
wages are paid to the home
rer, YOU keep the money at home
therefore tie Nation suffers no loss
honey has not left the county,
[<-s sav, and we are just as we'll oil as
y - mere before. =
mkev do not see that their so-called
ssrsument" proves far too much. lhey
e IA see that there is any force in it,
<hsIf robbery is not an evil, for robber
5o.a not take his booty out of the coun-
-. he stays at home and enjoys his
-<a.1 ngs. This is the legitimate con-
s,..Ian TO which the argument leads.
1.daed one of the leading protection or
SsnSof the Un ted States has just had
The brutal frankness to carry the "argu-
mentP to prcc sely this extreme
This This newspaper is the New YORK
Press founded to spread the protection
horesy, and presided over by that arch
nrotectlonist, Robert 2. Porter, until he
WAS appointed to make muSs OF Vne
cenaus. In recent issue of this organ
there are two editorials VIII ch bear upon
the protective tariff One editorial
argues that although the labor cost OF
r.aklng an article in the United States
be double what it is in England, still 1t
paws Tire country at large better to
make the article here; for in that case
the money paid is not lost to the coun-
try, Nfor it is just as much part of the
xsa1th of the country ir one mans
Hands as in another's"
+ 4 [he second article is remarkable as
wing how the editor does not hes
Il to apply this argument even to
Snright robbery, He writes an ed
Itor]ai on "IIoarded Currency in the
C1u1try beginning with this sentence:
||0bbers who entered an Ohio farmers
61u16 in the dead of night made HIM
1|i5ap his gold watch and $500 in gold
= I'D point OF q p stol" The editor
oonIaents upon this fac at some length,
iaieos the question whether our farm
en- Who have been thinking them-
telyos so poor, may not have $780,
000.0o0 hidden away in old
1Eockings, tin cups, china teapots
ind other odd receptacles" and
th6n BONES to the conclus on that "a
foMrobber raids like that in Ohio will
send ther money back into bank vaults,
Whore t can be utilized as medium of
exc6ange, and the editor adds: "That
would be public gain, and new proof
16A6tss is an i'll wind that blows nobody
1Nt astounding! Robbery is pub
I|C3 &in!" 1t is easy now to see how
tectionist mind takes so natu-
10 the idea that the tariff is not to
(. 1demned on the mere ground that
IFes one mans money to another
"A wealthy merchant who is a
Zionist has recently mado this
nent: 81 can easily see how the
helps one man at another's eX-
can watch the tariff dollar as it
the consumers pocket, and can
\ all along down the line till it
q the pocket Of the manufactu turer.
sec no moral wrong in that"
Is to be said of such men as this
ant and the editor Of the Press?
think that robbery is not wrong,
iI1iI7fu convince them thatit is wrong?
IA y M say rose Is not sweet can you
10 them that it is sweet?
there is one thing that can be
Let the, tariff once rob them,
DO so in such way that they
lculate the robbery in hard cash,
ey will very quickly change their
bout tariff morals. A case Of
I1l. IND occurred recently in New
3QEAk An ocuIistof that city returned
Europe br nging Ith him 5000
Q9cope, which he very much needed
Work, and which is not made at
american manufacturers. The
pc which the United States Gov
~ took out Of his pocket as o
for bringing in this aseful in
5.+ ht was $l75 The oculist had
protectonist all his life, had
Pss thought that transferring
from ono mans pocket to the
B of another man was not wrong:
en it transferred money from his
TO the tune Of $l75 tho scales
m his eyes and he saw o great
lie no longer believes in pro-
ana has voted for Democratic
ssman for the first time in his
That Is tho only way such
r. !4s eyes can be opened.
going back to the Ohio farmer
las robbed, what is the matter
s.3'=''|Htne editors reasoning facilities,
pe calls that robbery public
His error lies in overlooking
pre- OF money as the representa-
tho labor performed by its hold
ppose that farmer was wool
Az nd had rece we'd tn s $500 as the
l'oOO pounds OF wool. All the
nat went into the production of
POI is absolutely lost when his
! taken by the robbers. II will
20 argue that tho country has
ol all the same, and therefore
nors labor was not lost, for the
longer represents the farmers
~ tho labor OF tho manufactures
onght IT. Before tho purchase
nu ulDcIuror hold IA A Qono - a.