Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-06-22

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from the smaller industries which
they would naturally pursue, and
concentrate their labors upon g
single pursuit, would be to degrade
the character of such a population
by making il less ingenious, less
enterprising and less independent.
20. Protection encourages trusts
and trusts usually throw laborers
out of enjoyment, cut wages and
raise the prices of goods.
81. Protection imposes taxes up.
on our people which never reach
the United States Treasury.
%. Most great writers admit
that a tariff operates most oppres.
sively upon the poor.
30. A duty on an article takes
something out Of the pocket of ev.
cry man, woman and child, and by
that much lessons their peace and
prosperity, and it does this to make
the fortunes of a comparatively
small number of capitalists to en-
able them to work with wasteful
means and processes.
30. Protection is putting your
hand into another's pocket to pay
somebody else--robbing Peter to
pay Paul.
81. If protection shuts out for
eign pauper competition, it at the
same time is liable to throw them
out Of employment and cause their
immigration to this country.
SO. Laborers in unprotected in
dustries command better wages than
laborers in protected industries.
3s. Capitalists and monopolists
are benefited by a protective tariff
not the workman nor the con-
sumer; they suffer from it.
"a. 1t is fair to state that four
fifths of all the present consump-
ton of manufactures would be sup
piled by our national industry, ir-
respective of protection.
35. If the object of protective
tariff is to give employment, would
it be wise to destroy machinery
and have the work done by hand,
or endeavor to stop the sun from
shining in order to give more
work to the candle-stick-makersP
This would increase labor just as
protection pretends to.
36, The present tariff system is
a vicious one, created by the nee
essities of war and continued by
favoritism.
81. The tariff of 1850 and the
decade following was the lowest our
country has ever had, yet it yielded
more revenue, and the country was
enjoying unusual peace and pros
perity.
3S. When England abolished
protection latter passing over three
hundred Mckinley bills }, and
adoped practical free trade, her scale
of wages did not fall to the level of
the scale of wages in the protected
countries right alongside of her, as
was predicted, and she is to-day
paying comparatively higher wages
than any protected country in Eu-
rope or Asia.
80. The opponents of protec-
ton do not wish to discourage or
destroy industry, but they desire to
restore to them the lost art of self
support.
40. All industries that can stand
on their feet are very welcome to
this country, but we do not propose
to ride them on our backs.
Al. Wool growing is one of the
oldest industries in the world, and
so is iron manufacturing, yet they
clamor constantly for more protec-
ton.
AZ. Protection forbids us accept
ing foreign articles, even though
they be far superior to ours and we
can get them for nothing.
43. Estimated that the head of
one in every ten families in Ohio is
a wool-grower, nine families are
injured while one is benefited by a
tariff on wool.
A. Free raw material benefits
both the manufacturer and the con-
sumer, because the manufacturer
can then manufacture cheaper, and
because any tariff on wool must fin
ally be taken from the pocket of
the consumer.
as. The tariff on sugar was re-
duced 2 per cent. and the price of
sugar was lowered 2 per cents.
46. The average price of tin
in 1883 and for five years previous
was $4.45 per box. The average
price in 1901 was 1888.
Al. There were more failures in