The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-10-08

The plain truth is, that the Mckinley
tariff is bald fraud in its pretence OF pro
lection to the farmer, and that fraud is
used to deceive the farmer into submission
to enormous taxes Oh everything he buys
for himself, his family and his farm.
No TARIFF OK THE NEWSPAPER BUsl-.
NESS.
represent one of the non-protected in
duStres of the country, aud certainly not
one of the least in importance either in its
public bcneGcence or in the number of
people it employs The newspaper press of
This country has advanced beyond that of
any country Of the world, and today it
numbers its employees by hundreds Of thou
sands 1t is not protected in anything 1t
is taxed on everything. There are high
tariff on paper, on types, on machinery, ON
fixtures Of every kind, and the men en-
pIoycd in every channel Of its varied in-
4 dusuies from the editorial chair 10 the
printers case, the press room, the counting
/ room. and all its hosts Of correspondents
and contributors are each AMI all living
monuments of high tariff taxes on every
thing they consume. If protection is ne,
/ cessary to prosperity and to the cheapcning
Of products, here is the industry where it
should furnish It's most illustrlous lessons,
/ but there is not protected industry in this
country, from the Eastern to the Western
seas, that has advanced as rapidly and
\ ebeapened its products as greatly as the
newspaper publishing of the United States.
! Applause Ten years ago Philadelphia
published about 100000 copies of daily
papers each day, and the people paid from
two to three cents for nearly or quite all
OF them
Instead of issuing 1907 900 copies of daily
newspapers each day in Philadelphia we
now issue fully 500, 900, and there is not
one of these newspapers that is not more
prosperous today than it was ten years ago,
whep they were published at double the
present price apd generally little more than
half the present size. In newspaper pro-
gress there has been no step toward cheap
ness except in the price to consumers.
Every one of these newspapers expends on
an average certainly 30 per cent and most
of them 100 per cent. more to produce
them than they did when they were pub
lished at the increased price. More editors
are employed more news gathered, more cor
respondents, larger reportorial forces, and
fully half million dollars have been ex-
pended in this city alone in printing ma
chinery within the last fivey years. Unlike
the Mckinley protective industries, there
has been no reduction of wages in any de
partment of any of these newspapers. Ap.
plause This industry presents the clear
est solution Of the problem of cheapening
products by American intelligence, skill and
energy BY cheapeniBg oHr newspapers
we have quadrupled the demand for them;
We have doubled the employment Of labor,
and if we could have the markets abroad
that are open to like intelligence, skill and
energy in our protected industries, the
American newspaper would be the news
paper of every country Of the world, be
cause it is the cheapest and best. APP
plause.
SUGAR WITHOUT y TAX.
But Mckinley does not believe in Nc
Kinley on the question of tariff taxes
cheapening commodities Laughter. He
tells us ip one fight of his protection elo-
quence that high protection tariff taxes
have eheapeued everything. and in another
equally fcrycnt flight Of eloqueace he tells
us tina. the tariff relieved the people of
scores Of millions Of taxes and cheapencd
one Of the common necessities Of life by
repeating tariff taxes op sugar Laugh
teri If tariff taxes cheaper clothing, iron,
machinery and other necessaries of bust
ness and life, why would not increased
tariff taxes on sugar cheaper it also ?