The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-16
lection he viii give still higher protes.

lection ne Will give Still h1rn0r prOt00
tion.
Meanwhile what OF millions who wear
woolen clothing? Hayo they no ghts!
Are they never to be considered! As
Senator Plumb says: Tine people OF
the United States ought to have their
inning some time. and think that time
has come now"
EQUAL BURDENS FOR ALL.
The Demand That Protection should Bs
For tho Avera"e Interest Of All How
This II Impossible and How the Farmer
IL Left to FOOT Other Peoples 8. lis.
Among the pretectionists one some-
times hears fair-sounding words about
revising the tariff in such . way that its
burdens will rest on all alike. They
want what Mckinley calls "a just and
equitable revision OF the tariff" Some
demand tariff that will be as much in
the interest Of the consumer as of the
produce. Senator Plumb. in his speech
attacking the Mckinley bill, said that
whatever is done should be for the
average interest Of all.
This Is one OF the dreams OF the pro-
tectionists, from VII ch it seems that they
will never awake-a tariff that will do
everybody good in an equal measure.
But how will the protectionists set
about making such = tariff?
In order to protect tho manufactures
the tar II must OF necessity enable him
to sell at higher rprices-otherwise there
is no protection.
Very we'll then; you have put up
prices for one man; the only fair thing
to do Is to put them up for others-for
all others You are bound to put up
pr ces for all consumers on the goods
which they sell, in order to make good
the loss which they have suffered by
paying the higher price created by the
manufacturers protection. 1t is abso-
lutely clear that unless the consumer
pays higher prices for the articles he
buys the maker Of them gets no pro-
tect on. Is it not equally clear that the
consumer can not make up his loss ex-
cept by selling something to somebody
at price raised b gh enough to cover
that loss?
The protectionists feel the force OF al
this themselves-hence their doctrine
Of the home market that the protected
manufacturers make up to the farmer
for tho increased cost OF the things he
buys by giving HIM market for his
farm products. Then they labor to
show the farmer that this home market
Is the best for him. Is closer to him, is
steadier, has no pauper-grown Hindoo
wheat in 1t. as Europe has: and yet the
farmer knows all the me that he gets
precisely the same price for h 8 productA
sold in the home market, - in the for
eign market
The farmer knows this. and yet he
feels that the Government ought to do
something for him-ought to do just as
much for him as for Others In this
feeling he is entirely right He has
the same rights before the law and
merits precisely the same consideration
az the manufacturer. the farmer is
feeling this and saying it more earnestly
than ever Hence the great farmers
organ zations OF various kinds. end the
plan to build Government warehouses,
VIII ch has found favor in some quar-.
tera
In the face of the farmers demand
that something should be done for
him, Mckinley raises the duty on
| agricultural products. in order to deceive
him into thinking that now at last he is
going to get some benefit from the tar
it, hut what about these so-called
agricultural products and provisions?"
Senator Allison sized them up very
justly in speech in the Senate in 1879
as follows: 1t Is true that under GUS
toms laws there is small duty on
| wheat barley, oats and other agricult-
ural prod ucts but il does not afford any
protection to the great wheat and grain
producing regions of the country"
The only two ways, then, in which
protection can benefit the farmer-frst,
by giving him . home market which
will pay him higher price for b prod.
ucts than the foreign market will pay;
and second. by placing duties on his
products which will enable him to sell
at higher prices-are both seen to Offer
him absolutely nothing to make up for
the increased cost which the manufactr
urer's protection has laid upon him.
But even II some way could be found
for giving the farmer an advantage
equal to the burden that protection has
laid upon him, is it not clear that the
two advantages-his own and the manu-
facturer's-would precisely balance each
other Equal protection to both sides
means no protection to either, and pro.
lection to only one side means loss to
the other; for protection has money
value, and il 1t is to enrich some it can
only do 50 by making others poorer.
Protection is not thing that can sim.
ply be voted by Congress without any
one feeling it. The increased PRICE has
to be paid by the consumer; and in this
way the farmer not only fails to reap Q
benefit from protection, but he has to
make up for the protection gains Of
others, all the time and everywhere.
Is he willing to stand that? II he 10
willing how long can he afford it? Will
the time not come sooner or later when
he will see that he is playing losing
game? Has not that tine come when
the farmer secs his land values declining
enormously. when he finds the mortgage
on his farm about to be foreclosed? ID
IL not all the more clear when he sees
the protected classes thriving and mul.
/
trusts crowding upon trusts as never be-
fore in tho mad struggle for riches?
What is the farmer doing to shake o1
this false system in which he is strug.
Cling for existence merely? What will
he do?
MIR. Carnegie, our tariff millionaire.
has had his four-in-hand coaching tour
in Scotland again. He can afford it
the tar.R has made him rich. Ths
profits on steel rails 1T b mills for the
first six months Of the year were more
than 81. 900, ,00O
III the tariff is not y tax why Is the
smuggler always willing to run the risk
Of the pcnitentiary in order to avoid
paying the tax? And under the McKin.
ley duties the smugsler will run thai
risk oftener than ever
The tariff reform movement mean.
an advance toward tho time when evcry
man shall have equal rights before the
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