Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-12
Questions For Free-Traders.


From the American Economist.
Ii Protection makes millionaires, why
have nine in ten of the large fortunes in
America been amassed in the so-called
nom Protected industries
If Protection does not maintain Ameri-
can wages, why are they about twice as
high as in any other country under the
sun
If Protection is an absurity, how does it
happen that it has converted to its
doctrine the greatest statesmen and
countries in Europe and the world
If 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 us into
bankruptcy and misery every single time
1t has been tried here
If Protection Expresses the common
people, why was George Washington a
Protectionistl
If Free Trade elevates labor, why
were the Shareholders Free-Traders :
If Reciprocity is a humbug, why are
Free-Tradels so anxious to make the
point that "it is only another name fol
Free Trade, anyhow 2"
If the adoption of Clev,lind's Tarlii
policy ia this country would not benefit
England, Why are the English press and
public so earnest IN their advocacy of his
election
If Cleveland is brave and honest, why
did he try to straddle the Tariff issue,
which he himself raised, IN 1883 and
again in 1892
If the Mckinley act raises prlces oil
manufactures, why are they lower now
than before it became law
If 1t lowers wages, why are wages
higher now than before it passed
If Protection is unjust, why was Abla-
ham Lincon a Protectionist 7
If 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?
If n nation must buy in order TO sell
why was the balance of trade IN our
favor more than $2O2,OoO,OoO in the past
year
If strikes are due 10 the Tariff, why are
there two strikes in Free Trade England
to every one in the United States
IfProtection is unconstitutional, why
were the trainers of the Constitution
PrOtectionists
fFree-Traders are really the friends OF
the farmers, why did they abolish the
duty on the farmers wOOll
If free raw materials would give us
the "markets of the world" why are
our imports of cotton goods far in excess
of the exports ?
If the protected United States Is mol
prosperous, why are we the only wide
world that has no emigrants
If the Tariff is "tax," why can you
bay mum berless articles for less than the
yery duty which is imposed on them
If Protection is opposed on the ground
that our industries are no longer "infants, ,
why don't the Cobdenite support the tin
plate dutyi
If our higher wages are due to the
greater efficiency of American work
iugmen, why do foreigners who come
here receive two and 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 interests of the
British Cordage Trust, why did it pass
the Free BindlDg-Twine billl
If a revenue Tariff does not cause
pauperism, why were there more paupers
in New York during the revenue Tariff of
'46 than ever before or even after
II Free-Trade is patriotic, why do Free
Traders always sneer at everything
American