The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-09-10

The woes of the poor farmer who
would have to pay more for his ploWs
and other implements on account of the
Mckinley bill were sung by every free
trader in 1890. Today there is not an
implement used on the farm that is not
as low as it was in 1890. Every farmer
ran, feet this statement at the nearest
dealer 8.
Questions for Free Traders Which Won't
BE Answered.
Does it never shake your faith in
Cobden's creed to contemplate how,
under protection, this country has adj
vanced from a condition exclusively ag-
ricultural to one in which We produce
IS, 600, 100000 in manufactured goods,
while Great Britain, with start ofcen-
turies, only manufactures about 81 ,500,-
100000?
Farmers have always been the main
stay of protection, not only voting for
the policy, but actually shaping 1t
through their representatives in Con-
gress. 1t cannot Justly be called man
uacturers' policy, can 1t ?
When steel rails sell in New York for
less than the London price, as they
have done in the past, where does the
''taX" come in?
Ifyou are patriotic, why do you ever
mourn the establishment of the tin
plate industry in America
How would YOU raise the money to
run the government If the tln-plate
duty were abolished?
We need every cent now raised by
the Mckinley law for legitimate ex
penses Would you, in the absence OF
tin plate tariff, reimpose the heavy
i - tlo N,illr hill on
Is not a tin-plate duty preferable to
sugar duty as means of raising
revenue?
Protection, you say, creates trusts IN
the United States. Does free trade Gre
ate the numerous English trusts?
Why did New South Wales, but lately
the sole companion of England iii Cob
denism, abandon that policy after fair
trial, and adopt protection?
Did YOU ever hear OF an iron and steel
worker who made $4,000 year before
the Homestead strike revealed him in
the ploy of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany?
Does not the fact that within the last
twelve years 1000 900 acres of land
have been thrown ont Of arabic culti-
vation in England indicate that free
trade Injuries farming?
fleece brought on All average 81 cents q
pound more than the competing grade
Australia average secured fleece in
the free trade London market?
Do you think that you can convince
American wool growers tnat their
product would not fall in price to the
London level if protection were with
drawn?
If the new tariff law has not given in
creased employment TO our own citi-
zens, why are foreign Industries de-
pressed ''all on account of the Mckln-
ley bill ?''
If free trade is for the benefit OF the
plain people," why is the leading
spirit of the Standard oil Trust a free
trader?
When George Washington signed the
great protective tariff bill OF l7S9, was
he giving his approval to fraud" and
robbery ,"
A Tin Can Dispute settled.
PROSPECT PLAINS. July, 1892.
Editor Gaz6tte. HightstolCfe. Y. j.
DEAR SIR: VIII YOU please TO answer
the following questions through your val
uable paper in order to settle question
now in dispute? a" states that the Me
klnley tariff has put up the price of tin
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canned goods and make the industry un-
profitable. b states that the canning
| factories III Hightstown have purchased
their cans as cheap since as before the
| passage of the Mckinley tariff bill. Can
| you inform u.s. Respectfully,
A DEMOCRAT.
| ia and B ale willing 10 take the eN-
| perience of the Hightstown factory as
/ a fair example, aud will let an answer
! to BIS statement decide the matter,
their dispute is easily settled. J. A.
| Gennett "a Democrat, the presen,
manager of the Hightstown canning
factory. informs us that the price paid
here for cans in 1890 was $50 per 900
| in 1891, $3.50, and in 1892. So, and
states that the decrease this vear
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