Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-06-25

is competition, does not protect.
Protection which drives the price
here in the home market below the
price abroad is not the protection
that the mill owners Doodle is free
ly contributed to obtain. 1t is not
the protection the Home Market
club is looking for. It is not the
protection the Republican newspa-
pers are advocating. If is not the
protection which fills the Golfers of
the National Republican party with
Doodle. No American, except a
Republican farmer, is such an idiot
as to put his hand down in his pock-
ct and literally contribute to have
laws passed that will reduce the
price of his product below the price
abroad.
The protection in which there is
competition is counterfeit protection
used solely to humbug the innocent,
unsuspecting and simple-minded Re-
publican farmer. Genuine protect
ion has no competition in it-not be-
cause its products are to be lower
than abroad, but because they are
to be higher. Genuine protection
is to be found only in trusts-in as
sociations. Genuine protection fixes
the selling price; it issues it's month
ly circulars; it tells people what it
will sell for and it defes them to
get the same product cheaper if they
can.
1t is this distinction between gen.
uine and counterfeit protection that
the Republican farmers do not un-
derstand. 1t is this distinction
which they refuse to understand.
They cannot see the difference be-
tween levying a duty of rs cents a
pound on emery ore when consti-
tuent Of Mr.. Dawes discovers one
(the only one in the country on his
farm in Massachusetts, and the i'm
position of tariff duty of 25 cents
a pound on wool or cotton. eff it
enables Mr.. Dawes constituent to
charge "a cents more for his emery,
underselling the foreigner and hold
ing the market, why does it not per-
nit me to charge "a cents per pound
more for my wool and the planter to
to charge "a cents per pound more
for his cotton?" the Republican far
mer asks. He cannot understand
that protection only protects when
the producer can fix the selling price
the market price, and make it any,
thing he wants up to the protection
mark. When the buyer makes the
market price there can be no protec-
ton, and the buyer makes the mark
ct price on wool and cotton and
whenever sellers compete. The buy
er cannot make the market price on
emery ore because the sellers are
not competing. MIR. Thompson is
the only man who has the only right
to sell, and he may charge the full
amount of his protection if he likes.
The cotton-mill owners Of New
England are to-day practically un-
protected by the tariff on cottons.
Their associations have dropped to
pieces. The market price of cotton
has been fixed, through their COM
petition, by the buyer. Until the
New England cotton manufacturers
can have close trust or selling asso
cation his protection will be coun-
terfeit. There are to many of him
In the business to make his protect
ion of any special value. There is
no protection for him when he COM
petes with another manufacturer in
the same town or with another man
ufacturer in another State.
Competition kills protection. The
woollen manufacturers of this coun-
try are united in as close an associa-
tion as it is possible for any band
of men of their number to be. They
try to fix the selling price of their
products, but they are SO many in
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