Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-22
HE WILL WEAR NO SOCKS.

A Protection Organs Comments Upon Hon.
Jerry simpsons --Free Trade PREM
dices-"
One OF the faForite lines of 'sargu-
ment- adopted by the defenders of the
Mckinley law in the campaign last fall
was to point out that the free list was
larger in it than, IN any tariff since the
war. When the opponents of protection
ridiculed this boosted free list by quot
ing its provisions for free '.aeorns,"
''assafetida - 'sashes,- 'sbeeswax," etc,
the Mckinleyites were wroth and
claimed that this YVES but another at
tempt by the British free traders to
mislead the people by Disgusting from
them the strong points" of the Mckin-
ley law
No one expected that after the cleo
ton was over leading protection pa
per would undertake to show what a
narrow and unsasisfying thing Mckin-
ley's free list is, but the Manufacturer,
the organ of the Pennsylvania Manu-
facturers' Club, has Just done precisely
that service to the country
Hon Jerry Simpson, the Farmers
Alliance CongreSsman-elect from Kan
sas. wears no stockings, and Jersey
City manufacturer sent him several
pairs. which Were sent back with the
following letter.
SIR Our forefathers refused to drink tea
because it was taxed per cent, and held a
tea party in Boston to get rid of the stuff /
have just finished figuring up the tax upon
those stockings and find that it amounts to
40 per cent I will wear socks till the tax
is taken OF
The manufacturer proceeds to COM
ment upon this letter to show the diff
culties which the Congressman-eleet
Il
sistent and viii use no tariff-taxed arti-
cles; and IL must be confessed that the
high protection organ does this in a
way which would make the uniformed
reader suppose that the following ex-
tract was taken from a free trade"
journal:
doubt the Kansas statesman finds a pretext
| for positively declining TO use that article
In such matters, however, il is likely that he
finds his natural inclinations fitting in nicely
with his free trade prejudces- But, if he is
| indeed going to try to live up to his princi-
Piles it is difficult to perceive how he is going
\ to live at all. Nearly every article of cloth
ing and the great mass of articles of food are
subject to duties; and, therefore, his theory
Ought to confine him rig;dly to use of materi-
| ais that are upon the free list The attempt
| of the Honorable Jerry to live within the
boundaries of the free list would excite uni
Il
| course, clothe himself with --hides, raw or
/ incurred" with asbestos trimmings, per
haps. and his diet would range from --acorns, IS
| "aconite" and @assafetida'' to -.oil-cake, "
| "caoutchouc," "verdigris' and '.yams-" The
| Kansas Congressman is going to be par
| ticularly entertaining object of consideration
| if he shall try to be consistent.
The Manufacturer should be con-
graduated for showing up the limited
character of the Mckinley free list II
| the Hon. Jerry viii follow its sug-
gestion that it should be consistent and
will dress himself up in '.hides, raw OF
uncured,'' with asbestos trimmings
he will become, in this John the Bap
| fist garb. preacher of free trade
such as this country has never seen
The Kansas Congressman-eleet, thu:
rugged out in the precarious habiliment:
of McKinley's free list, would not neec
| to utter one word against our higf
tariff laws: his very appearance would
have all the eloquence of a '-voice o
one CRYING in the wilderness"