The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-09-02

Foolish Free Trade Talk.
This Is feature-and a perfectly |
natural and reasonable one, too-of the
tariff discussion that the protection !
organs will hardly care to discuss. But
the people, those VINO save tax on
things, arc not likely to lose sight of |
It, Not forgetting, as they go along, |
to remember that the tariff on sugar |
went into the public treasury, While !
the taxes on most OF the other neceS- |
saries and couYeniences of daily life |
20 into the pockets Of the protected |
maDufactureFs-no their workmen |
for they do not earn higher wages than |
bricklayers and earpenters-the pro-
tected manufacturers who fry out the
Fat to keep the 6. o. p. in running or
der. -Every Evening.
The foregoing is an imaginary col
loquy carried on by our e.ghbor in
order TO produce something which
might offset real colloquy between
a dyed-in-the-wool farmer Democrat
and his grocery man. The Democrat
is said to have gone to the store to get
his customary dollars worth of sugar,
and when twenty-four pounds were
hNie hiSl Odb w MN NuS 6h1 Rlib1A
and said; well run her back to four
teen pounds. II took home twenty
four pounds for q dollar, the old
woman would make me vote the Re-
publican ticket, and I'll be hanged if
I'll do that"
Our neighbor attempts to turn the
force of the argument between the
clerk of the store and the farmer
Democrat by extending the colloquy.
The clerk Is made to say that the Me-
Kinley bill raised the price Of nearly
everything else but sugar, and it was
put upon the free list, when the farmer
Democrat is made to say That's
good. Nov, If they would only take
the tax off OF wool, tin, farming i'm
PIGMENTS, and the many other things
80 necessary to us farmers, they'd be
cheaper too, wouldn't they r
Then follows the comments in full,
which are published at the head of
this article. #.-...
We are compelled to say that the ar
gument OF our neighbor Is not sound,
and Is only made for the purpose of
catching the ear OF some farmer whom
1t expects to influence.
Sugar Is brought into the country
on reciprocal arrangement Enough
sugar is not raised here to supply our
people, and to get enough, it is let in
free in exchange for flour and other
produce wanted in the countries where
the sugar is raised, There is no tariff
in such an arrangement, there is no
need of tariff, tits reciprocity Wool,
tin, and farming implements are, and
can be raised and manufactured here
Mt home, and since the Mckinley bill
passed they have fallen in price, except
possibly tin, which will fall as soon as
our tin manufactures get under full
4 operation.
Here are few nuts, however, which
our neighbor, the Every Evening, may
crack with profit to itself and its free
trade readers. What were the prices
of iron and steel rails twenty years
ago? From s75 to Sl00 per ton, were
they not2
What are the prices to.day2 From
$50 to $50 are they not Iron and
steel are amongst the best protected
manufactures How about wire
nailsf Before they were manufact
ured in this country they brought 81
OF 57a keg. What do they sell FOL
now A heavy tariff was put on ant
they now sell for sl,9o and 500 pc
keg. Here is another nut to crack
WHAT was the price oil binding twin
before the Mckinley Bill passed. Fiji
teen and sixteen cents u pound, vas i
noti Does our neiEhbor recolleet hoy
that it and all other anti.tariif paper
iii Tie country published columns o
stun to catch the car oil farmers, tell
ing them that they would have To pay
more for their Irvine if the bill passed
1t will hardly deny this
Well the Mckinley bill has been Ii
operation over year and what eal
tAe farmers purchase Irvine for2 Eigh
cents pound, out in the Dakotas ii i
said to be five and a hall cents
pound. This we suppose is one of tn
tariffs the Every Evening wants re
moved for the benefit OF the farme
who had been paying fifteen cents
pound for Irvine.
Sugar, indeed2 Why it is the pre-
duet Of the cheapest kind oil slave an
eoolie labor in the West Indies. Wit