The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04

the greenback currency-Or at least in
crease it to ten dollars per capita, con-
tinue the internal revenue tax on whis-
XIV and tobacco-Or rather increase 1t
if there is any change Then pass the
law giving the old soldiers q service
pension-0ne cent a month for every
day they were in the army, and in less
than sixty days farm products would
advance in price from twenty. five to
fifty per cent, times would be good
debts would be paid and every body
would be happy.
"The Way Out" is quickly and cas-
lily told. H. G. WINCHEsTER.
Carlyle, Kan, March 25, $50,
CONCERNING SOME FREE TRADE FALLA-
CIES.
HUMBOLDT KAN, March 20, 1884,
I gave you few hurried thoughts on
the storage subject a short time ago
aud wanted to pursue the thought far
Their but your devil played the deuce
SO with my copy that could scarcely
recognize my own kid Speaking of
storage in view of its sprightly,
ubiquitous character as seen in the
papers, wrote mercurial. The types
made me say "mercinal". That is a
new word. what does it mean? Again
in speaking of the Agricultural Con.
gress I said, "a few of the central
IDEAS" but the types said central
States"
But I want now to investigate
that old "Robber" Tariff. Whenever l
go t. town anywhere l run against
some twaddling free trader whose ar
guments are so silly that 1 have be-
come utterly disguised. A few days
ago, in Humboldt, l met an old ac-
quaintance whom I have known ever
since have been in Kansas. A first
rate, clever, upright, and, on general
subjects intelligent man. But he has
let the Golden free trade fallacy take
possession of him, soul, body and
pants.
This man being one of the most in
telligent of the class, have selected
him as specimen. When l first
knew him he was trying to run a
furniture shop in Humboldt, but /
don't believe be had $25 worth of fin
ished furniture in the shop. But to.
day, by honesty, industry and econo-
my, he is running a splendid little
factory by steam power and has fine
assortment of finished furniture ready
for market, and is selling as low as q
man could ask.
But it may be asked what has this
to do with free trade or tariff? will
tell you.
Every student of American history
knows that in our colonial days Eng
land established the most absolute and
tyranical monopoly over the colonies
that ever cursed any country. Our
colonial fathers could not make the
shoes aud shoe horse without per-
mission from the mother country, and
under their absolute free trade gravita-
tor turned the other way and ire had
to paw tax even on the tea We used.
When the colonies established their
independence they found the mechan-
ical genius of their people so complete.
ly absorbed by British monopoly that
they were absolutely destitute of every
species of mandatory except
what the war of the RevOlu.
ton terminated bv force of
necessity. History records impart the
prices we had to pay English factories
for all manufactured goods. 1t is a re.
markable fact that through all the
Democratic regime OF nearly three
fourths of a century all their attempts
at craftsmanship have beer f1tful and
spasmodic. Protection to American
industries was no exception. 1t took
all the power of the gigantic intellects
of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Tom
Corwin and few others to arouse the
dominant party to sense of national
interest and obligation. And not mn.
til the protective measures of from
1910 to 1852 If my memory Is correct In
dates that orr people found any relief
from the evils of free trade.
1t is within my personal
recollection. of the expensive in
fiuence of English monopoly,
secured by free trade. remember the
first muslin shirt I ever wore. We
called it "factory muslin" snd it cost
374 cents per yard. can buy as good
and better goods today in lola for 6
and cents per yard. We all remem-
Der 100, when our railroad men paid
$4,000 and upward, for railroad
iron. The same grade and bet.
ter can be bought now for
So. 90 to $500. In those good (?) old
days of free trade what was then call.
ed broadcloth cost from 81 to $50 per
yard. Now we can buy o SUIT of
clothes. ready to put on, for less than
the goods cost then.
l wish to remind our readers that We
hear q great deal said about the mon.
opoly of protection. That idea is an.
absolute misnOmer. There is TO
monopoly in protection, but converse
ly, the monopoly ia in free trade.
Thus our producers, under the benign
influence of protection. find market
at home for their products which en-
ables them to extend and improve
their factories almost to perfection,
which enables them to produce results
unsurpassed by any manufactures in
the world.
Now a word to my Humboldt friend
I spoke OF competition with the pauper
labor of the old countries. Said he.
"There is as much pauper labor right
here as there is anywhere in the
world" l regret very much his use
of the language. 1t demonstrated an
absolute recklessness of language or
his entire ignorance of the condition o.
his c0-labOrers. 1 want to say to my
friend that he Knows or ought to
know that there is not one manufac-
turing establishment north of Mason
and Dixson's line that is run anything
|approximating pauperism. 1t may be
true that under the galvanized slave
system of the South there may be
something of the kind, but there is
where free trade and secession grow
most luxurisntly.
There are two points of vital interest
involved in the protective principle,
one to the manufacturer and the other
To the producer and these are so near
ly related that separation would be