Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-08-25
Questions For Free Traders,

Ii protection makes millionaires,
why have nine in ten OF the large for
tunes in America been amassed in the
so-called non-protected industries?
If protection does not maintain
American wages, why are they about
twice as high as in any other country
under the sun?
If protection is an a~bsurdity how
does il happen that it has converted
to its doctrines the greatest statesmen
and countries III Europe and the
world?
II free-trade would benefit American
agriculture, why has it impoverished
the farmers of England, Ireland, India,
and wherever it has been tried
If free trade would help this country
generally, why did it plunge rs into
bankruptcy and misery every single
time it has been tried here?
II Protection Expresses the common
people, why was George Washington a
protectionist?
If free trade ~elevates labor, why were
the slave holders free traders?
If reciprocity is a humbug, why are
free traders so anxious to make the
| point that it is "only another name
for free trade anyhow"
If the adoption of Cleveland's tariff
policy in this country would not enc
fit England. why are the English press
and public so earnest in advocacy OF
his election?
If Cleveland is brave andhonest why
| did he try to straddle the tariff issue,
| which he himself raised, in 1888 and
again in 1892?
If the Mckinley act raises prices OF
manufactures why are they lower now
than before it became a law?
If it lowers wages, why are wages
higher now than before it passed?
If protection was unjust, why was
Abraham Lincoln a protectionist?
IL it Expresses farmers, why were
they the ones to vote its inauguration
and why have they more steadfastly
| than any other class of citizens voted
to maintain it?
II a nation must buy in order to sell
why was the balance of trade in our
favor more than 5000, 900, 900 in the
past year?
If strikes are due to the tariff, why
are there two strikes in free trade Eng
land TO every one in the United States +?
Ii protection is unconstitutional,
why were the trainers of the consitu-
ton protectionists?
If free traders are really the friends
of the farmers, why did they abolish
the duty on the farmers wool?
If free raw material would give us
the markets of the world" why are
our imports of cotton goods far in ex.
cess OF our exports?
If the protected United States isnot
prosperous, why are we the only ma.
ton in the world that has no emf
grants?
If the tariff is a ''tax," why can you
buy numerous articles for less than
the very duty which is imposed on
them?
If protection is opposed on the
ground that our industries are nc
longer "intants," why don't the Cob
denite support the tin plate duty?
If our higher wages are due to the
greater efficiency of the American
workingmen, why do foreigners who
come here receive two. or three times
as much as is paid for the same work
in their own country?
If the house OF representatives was
not laboring in the interest of the
British cordage trust, why did it pass
the free binding-twine bill?
If a revenue tariff does not cause
pauperism, why were there more pau
pers in New York during the revenue
tariff of '46 than ever before or ever
after?
If free trade is patriotic, why do free
traders always sneer at everythin:
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