Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-06-04
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pro ectonists was that agricul turpes
would lind its reward for prot ctlng
manufacturers iii j home marlsetn
|sthat would give TO farmers pricas fcr
thsa ducts indie lent Of foreign
markets. ia all those years itE IVES Z "
|admitted that the ad antages; of pro-
atectxe tariff system 70 farmers Vert q
1rome only BY the home mari ''Eosi |, &.
High prot ctionists Of al ions rs
a:aieartily endorsed that Theory and
worked diligently aud harmolli ously
Flor its establ ishment and n ainten ance.
sBut one fine morning twas suddenly
Eannonnced BY a chief high priest OF the
:EhigA protective church that what we
needed was a objective tariff that
would increase the foreign demand fol
! our farm products, with the effect, Of
Icourse, of having their prices with
more certainty than ever fixed in a
4 foreign market. To this new article
Of faith nearly every high protectionist
enthusiastically and immed iately sub
! scribed, apparently oblivious of the
fact that it was an entire Republication
Of the old faith; blissfuldy ignorant Of
!. the implied surrender ofssone,of The
Oldest and most sacred articles of the
high protection creed. Thep when it
was proposed to give pract isal effect to
the new faith by charging our mar
akets for more pounds of5meat and
barrels Of four in a country that uses
but an infnitesimal amount of our
farm products the JOY Of the new con-
verts was unbounded, SO great, in fact,
that they failed to see that if it was
well to enlarge our markets at all it
should be with countries that use cwts.
of our products to ounces used by the
country chosen as the medium through
which to s'enlarge our markets.
During the presidential campaign Of
1888 prot ct1onist papers and speeches
were full OF contemptuous illusions to
la South American trade: The people
Iof that region were not wearers Of
clothing nor users Of any consid erable
amount Of the other products of ciyili-
zation; it was, they insisted, the sheer
lest nonsense to talk Of making trade
lssfreer" with a view to trading with
such a people. Now the same parties
are insisting that ciprocityn with
Brazil alone means unparalle Ied pros
perity to our whole people.
It has always been insisted by pro-
tectionists that a tariff on foreign
article does not increase the price OF
/ the domestic; vet the moment any ar
ticle is put on the free list protection
lists immed iately begin to glorify the
act, to congratulate tie consumers OF
the article, and to; beg for compliments
and support because 1--WE have put thus
and SO on the free list and made il
cheaper for you "A marked peculiar
ity OF high protectio nists was presented
blythe free binding Irvine incident Of
last fall. No sooner was it believed
that binding Irvine was to be put on
tie free list than prot ctionists became
jnbilant and cried ont with one voice
Now. see what We have done for the
4 farmers, We have made binding Irvine
cheaper for them! u Before the. ink
was dry with which sthe-tariff- cheap.
ems products articles were written
their writer's began to rejoice ovel
cheaper sugar, because the tariff on il
had been reduced.
In the fall Of 1890 prot ctionists tire.
fless1y insisted thatsa high tariff was OF
all things the most to be desired, and
the higher the better. In the spring
1 OF 1891 only few weeks ago, in fact
4 "a very high priesti IN the high protec.
4 ton church announced that the plat
form Of that church for 1892 must
declare for a ,,mod erate tariff and reel.
procity.
How very like are protec tionistssto
APolonius, in that colloqu with Ham
Jet, whom Polonius supposes to he
mad, and whose every within he pro-
poses to humor: IS
Hamlet DO you see yonder cloud that's almost
in shape Of q camel?
Polonious by the mass and It's likes camel,
indeed.
1 Hamlet Methinks it is like weasel.
Polonious 1t is backed like weasel.
! Hamlet Or like whale?
Polonious Very like q whale.
Protectionist Polonions is evidently
more than willing to see anything that
la high-priest Hamlet suggests.
In the Matter Of Taxes.