Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-01-23
CATECHIsM FOR MoNoPoLISTS.
Let the Advocates of Prohibitory Tar
iff Answer.

the ticket OF the pleutocrats and mo
nopolists, ask the person who solicit
you the following questions:
Why a million men have been ou
of work under the high tariff?
Why Pennsylvania miners lost 12>
days work in 1884 and Ill days worl
in 1SS5?+
Why they got only $40 month
and pay out of that $3.50 for tools
sharpening, powder and oil ?t
Why some Pennsylvania laborer.
work for fifty cents day?
Why slate-pickers, seven to ten
years old, are working under the roc
in Pennsylvania?
| Why Pennsylvania operatives pay
50 a month for company houses, when
English operatives get a cottage fol
$50 year?
How protection protects working
men when Italians and Hungarians
come in duty free?
Why cotton operatives in Massachu.
sets work sixty hours, and in other
New England States sixty y-six and sixty
nine hours week, while English opera.
tives work only fifty?t
Why the poorer American spinners
get $7W and the poorer English 81 90
a week. though the American makes
Il yards of cloth to the English 24!
Why "the condition of the miner
has Tor some years been growing worse
in Pennsylvania, and better in Great
Britain ?"3
Why "in the very occupations
which we so tax ourselves to protect
the English workingman has, as a
rule the advantage."9
Why workingmen earn higher day
wages in unprotected than in protected
industries
Why "the importation of wooden
and worsted cloths is increasing at a
fearful rate, while our own weavers are
thrown out of cmployment~T
What good is tariff to workingmen
when American factories pay only 81 so
wages for a piece of ingram carpet on
which the duty would be SPLIT
Why wool averaged % cents in high
tariff times and 81 cents in low tariff
years, though blankets were much
higher under the tariff?
Why we sold only $4,000 of woolen
goods to countries where England sold
over Sis, 600, 900 in 1885?
Why blankets are taxed II per cent
and thread lace only 80? Why neces-
sites bear heavy duties and luxuries
light?
Why savings bank deposits increased
IA per cent. year, 1S45-GO, under
low tariff, and only 8 per cent. year,
1S6O-S5 under high tariff?
Why, when the Republican Tariff
Commission recommended at least 20
per cent. reduction, the Conference
bill" raised the average duties, so that
they were 46 instead of 43 per cent. in
1885?
Why, as Ralph Beaumont said in
Knights of Labor meeting, During
the twenty-five years we've had this
protection we have made more mil
lionaires and more paupers under that
system than were ever made in a civil
lied country on the earth in the same
time before?
Why, while England had a high
tariff its wage-workers were no better
than SO many slaves?
Why the working people in Lon
don thirty years ago marched en- masse
to the doors of the Parliament house
and with the cry of " Bread or Blood
compelled the repeal of the English
tariff?
Why Daniel O'Connell, the Irish
Liberator," united with Richard Cob
den in denouncing protection" as a
fraud?
Why formerly under high tariff
in England there were bread riots, the
people starving and the aristocracy
alone amassing wealth?
Why wages in free trade England
are almost double what they are in
protectionist Germany, France, Italy,
Spain and Russiaf
Why free trade England is the
market for the surplus products of
American farmers, which amounted
last year to five hundred and twenty
three millions Of dollars?
Why there is more money in free
trade England than in any other
country in the world?
Why English capital builds rail
roads, iron mills and steel mills in
protectionist America?
Why the rate of interest is lower in
free trade England by one-half than
in protectionist America?
Why England is the leading COM
mercial nation of the world, while the
commerce of the United States, which,
before high tariffs were adopted, al
most equaled that of England, is now
comparatively of small account
Why the cost of labor in yard Of
cloth or ton of iron or steel is great
er in England than in the United
States?
Why the cost OF raw material in a
yard of woolen cloth or q ton of iron
or steel is less in England than In the
United States?
Why the wool product in the United
States is decreasing year by year un-
der high protective tariff?
Why our cotton manufacturers with
free raw material last year exported
fifty million dollars worth OF their
goods, while our woolen manufacturers
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