Marble Hill press., 1892-06-16
RESORT TO FORGERY.
SAD PLIGHT OF A REPUBLl
CAN ORGAN.
In Order to Prove That the Mckinley
Bul b Right . Gross Misrepresenta-
tion Of Facts b Presented-Reply of
an Editor.

The American Economist for April
contains on page 21O a table in very
large figures. which asserts that the
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 1Oh cents
higher for grease wool and 22 cents
for washed. Is this true? Is there
any truth in it, asks reader In the
New York World.
The editor of that paper replies:
The 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
lished 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
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
Home 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 impassioned declarations
of David Hall Rice, the New England
apostle of protection. Either the com
piler has forged this table 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 woolen 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 ofsits 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 Republican
farmer must be working on 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 OF
the Tribune Almanac and can be
proven by spending cents to write to
the Bureau of Statistics, Washington,
D. G., or by sending 25 cents to the
New York Tribune for its almanac.
The protectionist puts forward moth
ing but masses Of tables and masses oi
statistics, compiled from his own imag.
ination, 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
in this matter that the orthodox per.
son does 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 as
divine inspiration unless some one car
prove that they are not divinely in
spired. Now, in logic, the negative o.
. an issue can never be proven. and the
protection bunco steerer, taking ad'
vantage Of this fact that the affirma'
tive issue. that which is asserted, II
the only thing susceptible Of proof and
that the proof lies upon the man who
asserts, trsps his victim by saying
"You cannot prove It to be not true
No ono has proven It mot to be true
Therefore you must believe"
In this case the Economist offers yov
Agurss and sta atistics which no man borr
of woman can prove either true Or false
II oRers no proof Of their truth. They
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