The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-14
1ARIEE TRUTHS.
what the Policy Of Protection Has Done
for This Nation.

Battery ID, in Chicago on the night of
September 20. +. X. Schoonmaker, the
distinguished authority on the tariff
question, spoke on that subject as fol.
lows:
The democratic party ia committed in this
campaign TO FREQ trade against the express
wish and the express attempts Of the northern
democrats to get q plank in the Chicago plat
form for protection. Now. what does the party
say about tho tarir' Cleveland says, and has
sald for eight years: The tariff is u tax to tho
American consumer upon u competing product
The tariff raises the price OF competing prod
ucts by the amount Of the tariff
"What Is n competing product and what Ia
the tariff? The tariff IL a duty levied upon those
things brought from abroad TO be sold here
which our people have to use. Now, those
things which come In here, those things when
the Americans need, for instance, but which
they cannot either raise or produce, are per-
mittcd by the republican party to come in free.
They are n~on-competing products. You rcmem-
Der when the democrats were In power there
was a tariff on tea and on coffee. The Americans
could not raise these, they were n~on.competing
products, and they were put upon the free list.
The republican party tried 10 make sugar "a
competing product. 1t failed. We could not
raise 10 per cent. OF what We needed, so sugar
remained u non competing product and Il was
put upon the free Hst.
Pt'Ns " Nbt t'Dbbattfh III III W
invariably make any foreigner pay a tax who
attempts to sell In this country anything that
m Amt rican lfns 10 sell Of the same kind, and
that is the tariff tax. Now. Cleveland says
that that tax falls upon the American consum.
or: that IL raises the price OF competing prod
ucts by Its amount. What | do SAL, my
friends, speaking authoritativcly for the re.
publican party, and l wish to be absolutely
frank and TO drive this question home, 1 say
That the tariff never Is a tax TO the American
consumer upon a competing product / say that
the tariff does not raise the price of competing
products by the amount OF the tarff or any other
amount, and i can go further than that, and I
say the higher the tarim the lower the price.
When there was no tariff prices were highest Of
all, and IL YOU raise the tariff so that 1t will be
absolutely prohibitory, so that no foreigner
could bring anything TO sell here that we our.
selves can raise or make, that prices would be
lower then.
whenever IN American starts in to manu-
facture' ans thipg there il always n Yankee
across the way watching him, and when that
Yankee secs this one making money he says:
There II money In that and i guess / will go in
and get my spoonful Of the pudding 1: he goes
In how does he get nlongI Why, by undersell.
Ing the first, and d third watches them both and
he goes in and undersells them both. Now, the
higher the tax the less margin OF profit the
foreigner has to break you up by undcrsclling
you.
Honest men differ on this question and I will
tell you the reason why My friends, we are u
young people In this republic, we are an English
speaking people, and being young and English
speaking we have not produced much literature
OF our own. Therefore We take our literature
from G treat Britain. The free traders say we
are oil the children OF the same father; let us do
business upon q Christian basis. How lovely
that seems, how beautiful. Now let mt see.
John Bull, stand up. l would like to ask you
one or two questions. You preach to the world
sl. .. -, N sha tlLl.a "a cd ...l-
business on q Christian basis. Now, John, how
did you do business Ii2 years ago. You were
doing II at the old stand.
"What kind OF u Christian basis was Is that
you fixed up for the colonists on this side OF the
water TO stand upon, John? Did they like IT.
No. they fought, John; they struggled with you
eight long years to get on Of the Christian basis
that you fixed up for them. In 1872 you fixed
up another Christian basis. You Impressed
into your service every seaman that you could
find who had been born on British soil, claim
ing that once o British subject always o British
subject. We had another row with you, John,
four long years. We had u row with our breth-
rem OF The south n few years ago, and II was
simply terrible, John. 1t cost W. 500. 40 lives
and four billions Of money. Now, John, you
were still at the same old stand, doing business
In the old way. How did you behave yourself
during all that trouble OF ours? All, John. you
stood with your long, sharp, strong knife firmly
grasped in your hand ready 10 put IL into Us
clear TO the hilt and turn IL II you could get the
chance.
did we raise any wool In the old democratic
days Of n tariff for revenue onlyy Lots Of it
100000 600 pounds. How much OF that did we
manufacturer? Six per cent, and the balance
we sold to John Bull, and he turned 1t into fab
rics and then sold IL back to US at such prices
that q man who owned u broadcloth suit VI
clothes was known to be o rich man.
'Then we put q tariff OF % pcr cent. upon i'm
--.s.I - .rAa1a W. tnnE ithaca vnAN "a
the farm, the railway md the truck and put
them into the mills at their own trades. Now.
then, what happenedS Did John Bull quit sell
ing wooden goods here9 No. Did he raise the
pricey No. He paid q tariY Of 90 cents and
continued to sell and did not raise the price.
why didn't. hey Because he did not dare TO-
Why didn't he dare to- Because the Yankee
was making fabrics ut the market rate
and II John Bull had raised the price tn
Yankee would have had q monopoly OF tn
market TO himself. Now, then, what happened
We broke the foreign monopoly on WOODEN
goods. We started the Yankees into compel
ing with each other.
Competition took or the profit, Improve
mcnis were devised In the method OF manufac-
ture. Cleveland says that the tariff upon broad.
cloth and upon woolens raised the price. IL
never does. 1t broke the foreign monopoly.
"When an Englishman leaves England and
comes here he must pay for this market Tho
same price that we pay-patriotism and re-
cruits. II Is unfair to allow an f,ngltshrnan "a
remain In England and to have this market nj
a less price than an EnRlishman patronized
here. Since free trade has ruled In Ireland I
has become poor The first principle which Par
nell wished enforced was protection OF Irish i'm
dustries, and that Is what the grand old mai
Gladstone IL now trying 10 procure. WHY
shouldn't the Irshmcn vote for protection here
We cannot realize what u free country we have
until we 20 abroad. When we return. aftel
viewing the foreign lands and seeing how TIT
wOrkingman fares there, ve then know how u
worship the sta rs and stripes
1T Is now Gcd's own country, but II was no
always so. In slavery times We called ourselves
Christians. We went 10 church ind the preach
or told us that God made the black man as wei
as the white. In the meantime human beings
because they were black, were put upon IN
block and sold as chattels The democrats, o.
o rule, upheld this policy. When the war CAM
the English eulogized the soutberners In prin
and In fact did everything except 10 go dow
there and let the loyal Yankees pour lead int
their treacherous hearts There are 2oO,0oo oil
soldiers who fought 10 save this country VIII
are now government pensioners and 10000
more patriots are asking congress to give then
money TO buy bread.
Nov, let rae ask you 70 show your patriot
jsm in helping TO save this country again fror