Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1890-10-23
Common Sense and the Tariff CUES
ton.


Now. If the most superficial exanaina-
t;on had been given to the kind OF work
which is to be done in dipping sheets OF
iron or steel into melted tin by hand, no
machine having been invented Tor DIS
placing this process, it would have been
found that it is an art for which the peo-
nile Of Wales not only possess an inner
tied aptitude, but also that At is one
which could not be established in tins
country without importing the "elsh-
man tn do Il. because we have SO many
opportunities for work, under more
yholesome and profitable conditions,
that we can not afford to do such work,
no matter what the inducement may be-.
In other words, the policy advocated
by the republican party is one OF prlva-
ton and not of protection, and it Is
avowedly sustained by many prominent
republicans against their avowed convic-
ton of what would be beneficial, and
merely because All assumed party neces-
s;tv compels them to surrender their own
convictions of right.
On the other side, the policy advoca-
ted by the democratic party for protect
ing American industry is to exempt from
taxation all articles of foreign origin
which, either in Grade OF in Il partly
manufactured state, are necessary or
nseful in the processes of domestic indus
try. They hold that our capacity to pro-
duce food which the world must have or
suffer from hunger; cotton, without
which the commerce of nations would be
crippled; oil which We can not burn our
selves; goods. wares, tools, and implt-
ments of many varieties. the best OF
their kind; all our great crops made ana
all our goods being produced or manufac-
tured at the highest rates OF wages and
vet at the lowest cost as compared with
any other country in the world, enables
us to exchange these products for the
crude or partly manufactured materials,
the raw wool, the tin plates, and for
whatever we need which foreign laborers
or workmen desire to sell in exchange.
They hold that if we can get for one
days work at high wages in our own
country the product Of ten days work
even of foreign raupers, We can notafford
to do that kind of work for ourselves;
they hold that by such exchange we may
gain yet higher wages and larger profits,
the wider we can extend our commerce
on such terms.
They hold that what We receive from
other countries in exchange Tor the ex-
cess OF our products which we can not
consume, becomes as much part OF or
OVID product as ii these necessary commo-
dities had been produced Oh our own soil
or from our own mines and forests.
They hold that the home market is
most fully established when ali possible
distractions to the mutual service OF ma
tions are removed and the almost facility
given to the people Of every land to serd
to our home market what we need and to
DuN Ill our llOIIlc iilLTkcJ hlidl VIC az uOt
want for our own use.
That is free trade, qualified by the ne
cessity OF obtaining a revenue from du-
ties OH selected imports. When we have
attained it we may wonder why any one
ever dreaded it; and If may once more
repeat my favorite quotation from Mr.
Gladstone, "Then will the ships that pass
between this land and that be like the
shuttle of the loom, weaving the web Of
concord among the nations"
Between these two lines Of policy every
voter will soon be compelled to choose,
and by making this choice great change
in the relative influence and Importance
Of one party or the other will be brought
about unless we can separate this ques-
ton FROM party politics.-Atkinson in
Popular Science.