The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-05-23
HENRY GEORGES BOOK.

HENRY GEORGES BOOK.
It's Definition OF Tariff REFORM IS
Which Is Free Trade.
Faom the American Economist
Said Henry Waterson, of Kentucky:
1.-THE democratic party is free trade
party or it is nothing" The less honest
members of that party have made and
still make strenuous efforts to hide this
truth from the people. With their free
wool bill and their free cotton tie and
bagging bill and such other free trade
bills sent to the senate as they see fit to
pass before the adjournment Of congress,
they will find their task more difficult
in the approaching campaign than ever
before. Too many bold free trade
speeches by representative democrats
have been placed on record, too many
bitter and unqualified denunciation of
protection in the abstract for successful
deception. "
One little occurrence we particularly
wish to call to the attention Of our read
ers. On April IA Congressman Bur-
rows, of Michigan, called the attention
of the house to the fact that democratic
congressman had been inserting, as
their remarks on the free wool bill, long
extracts from Henry Georges ''Protec-
lection and Free Trade" 1t further ap-
peared that this was merely the carry
ing out of a scheme to give Mr.. Georges
work wide circulation at public expense.
a A Ior 81 &c bod divided tho
book between them, each taking COM
plete number of chapters IN consecu-
tive order, which were regularly insert
ed by them in the Congressional
Record.
Thus the whole work was printed on
the installment plan, and, having ap-
peared in the Record, could be sent
free, according to law, through the
mails. This accomplished, all that re-
NAMED to do was for each member to
order a large number OF his own
speech" and the party had between
them an equal number of Henry Georges
work complete.
We do not care at this time to com
ment on the fragrant abuse of congress
sional privilege in thus utilizing the
United States government as free
trade campaign bureau, nor do We care
to dwell upon any other of the disreputa-
BILE features of the free trade scheme,
but we do want TO call the attention of
American voters everywhere to the char
acter Of the literature which these dem
ocrats are sending out in defense Of
their misnamed tariff reform movement.
Do you know who Henry George is :?
what kind of book his ''Protection and
Free Trade" is?
Henry George believes that it is NOR
ally wrong to own land; that it is no
better than robbery. What teacher
and guide for farmers and the hundreds
of thousands of poor people whose saw
ings of a laborious lifetime are invested
in modest homes. His book on the tariff
does not advocate tariff reform" How
ever much we may disagree with him,
we must confess that he is honest in his
convictions honest not to see and
acknowledge the duplicity of that bogus
term. He believes in free trade, as he
delights to put it himself
t-r-a-d -e-free trade. That is, he would
annihilate every custom house tomorrow
if he could And such is the doctrine
the democrats of the Fifty-second con-
gress circulate as tariff reform" Yet
in very few months their army of
hired orators will be around abusing
everyone who accuses them of leaning
toward free trade, and again their uni
formed thousands of paraders will be
shouting in unison from one end of the
country to the other, as they did in
1888:
Don't don't don't be afraid,
Tariff Reform is not Free Trade
One brief extract from Mr.. Georges
book sums up his tariff creed. On page
So he says: Those protectionists (he
mentions Henry c. Cary and Professors
Z. p Smith and r. E. thompson are
right when they declare that protection
is the only justification for tariff, and
the advocates of tariff for revenue only
have no case" And it is that uneguiv-
ocal pronunciamento for absolute free
trade in the literal sense of the term. by
a man who calls land ownership sin,
which democratic congressman are scat
tering broadcast among farmers in be-
half of tariff reform" Gentlemen, you
are working out the perpetuation of the
principles of the Mckinley tariff. And
we rejoice in the success OF your
scheme.