Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-05-27
A FalsehOOd ExpO ,ed.

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market price of raw wool in Phila-
delphia in March, 1882, through all the
grades was as much higher than the
price of the same wool in London as the
amount of protection. That is to say,
the domestic price here was 10X cents
higher for grease wool and % cents
for washed. Is tits true? Is there
any truth in it. ,sks O reader IN the
New York World.
The editor of that paper replies:
Inc table is forgery, made for the
sole object of deceiving the farmers of
the United States. The forgery is plain
and palpable. The World has pub
hshed the proof of this time and again;
proof that cannot be questioned,
doubted or gainsaid. To any man of
sense, who knows that Congress
cannot collect such duty and
| give it to the farmer, and
that no farmer has ever lifted a
| finger to collect one cent of his pro-
lection, no other proof of the forgery
Is necessary; but to this we have the
testimony of Mr.. Ammidown, former
president of the Protective Tariff
league; the solemn assertions of the
Homo Market club of Boston, which
is the New England branch of the Pro-
tective Tariff league; the written
statement of Thomas Nolan, president
of the Manufacturers club of Philadel-
phia, and the imprisoned declarations
OF David Hall Rice, the New England
apostle of protection. Either the COM
piler has forged this able or these men
are liars and perjurers. Each one
OF these persons has testified in
the most explicit and emphatic
language, and furnished the
proof to the protected wooden man
ufacturer, that no farmer In the United
States ever received one cent per ton
more for his wool than it was worth
In New York for shipment to foreign
ports. They have gone further. They
have denounced as Free Trade Lie"
the statement that tariff on wool
could raise the price the farmer re-
ceived for it, and called upon heaven
and the facts to testify that the duty
on raw wool was levied for the sole
purpose of reducing the domestic mar
ket price below the foreign price.
Any reader of The World who doubts
this can get the actual testimony by
sending to The World for my "Seven
Threads of the Wool Bunco," or by
sending to the Home Market club of
Boston for copy of its pamphlet on
wool written for circulation among
manufacturers only.
The American Economist has begun
its campaign of lying to the farmers
quite early in the season, and it starts
with monumental one-that is posit-
lively harebrained in its Stiffness. If It
were talking to manufacturer it
would denounce the table as "a free
trade forgery" The Democrat with
this number of the Economist and the
Home Market clubs wool pamphlet
who cannot convert a Republican
farmer must be working on a poor
quality of brains.
The opponent of protection does not
ask the farmer to believe what is said
unless he knows it to be true. He tells
him nothing that cannot be proven true
or false at very little trouble and slight
expense. His figures are all official,
taken from the Bureau of Statistics or
the Tribune Almanac, and can DO
proven by spending 2 cents to write to
the Bureau of Statistics, Washington,
D. c., or by sending 25 cents to the
New York Tribune for It's almanac.
The protectionist puts forward moth
Ing but masses of tables and masses Of
statistics, compiled from his own imag-
nation, which no human being can
prove to be either true or false, and he
says that unless somebody can prove
his figures to be untrue that the figures
must be accepted as correct and the
farmer must believe him. The protec-
Zionist takes exactly the same grounds
Sn this matter that the orthodox per-
son oo' in regard to his religious
faith. He assumes for it divine
revelation and for himself infallibility
In Interpreting it. He demands that
even his words shall be recognized al
divine inspira ton unless some one can
prove that they are not divinely in
spired. Now, in logic, the negative Of
IN issue can never be proven, and tho
protection bunco steerer, taking adj
vantage of this fact that the afirma-
tive issue, that which is asserted, Is
the only thing susceptible of proof and
that the proof lies upon the man who
asserts, traps his victim by saying
You cannot prove it to be not true.
No one has proven 1t not to be true.
Therefore you must believe"
In this case the Economist offers you
figures and statistics which no man born
of woman can prove either true or false.
1t offers no proof of their truth. They
are probably false. It asks you to be-
isve its mere assertion, Would any
one but a forger or bunco-steerer ask
you to do it?
Whether the farmer believes the man
who appeals to his common sense or
the man who appeals to his credulity
and bigotry is matter for the farmer
TO determine No man opposed to pro-
lection should desire to save the farmer
from the swindler unless he wants to
be saved and unless he has common
sense enough to see swindle when 1t
is pointed out to him. 1t is necessary
that some people should be trapped
and plundered that the wise may know
the value of common sense.