The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-10-07
AIRsHIps AND Protection.
How They WIZ Meet Commerce. wages.
Prices aud irast~ -Erotscti snists ~h"ai"
Gin tho MilEa OF FIYing Mnchlne..


Prices aud trasts -Protsciipn'sts ~h"a'd
Clip the Aiags OF Flying Machines.
The Iron Are Of September J. says:
"pennington's air ship factory IN Chi-
cago ;, iast completed and the aluminium (
car, which weighs 80 pound tha in \
ventor says, will start for New York IN (
three or four weeks"
Think what this means. II his ship |
can successfully navigate the air we
may next year see hundreds OF these
man-made birds darting from city 70
city, and from continent TO continent
carrying passengers and valuable
freight. How fine they will look ana
how they will aid commerce by reduc-
ing the time between points now con-
nected only by circuitous railroads.
rivers or ocean routes. But, horrors.
What will become of Mckinley, Of pro-
lection. of the worlSingman and OF the
farmer, and last but not least, OF the
hundreds of dearly beloved tariff trusts?
According to the protectonist idea
we already have too much commerce.
| AS one OF them puts it, we would be
better off if the ocean were walls OK
fire. Hence every true believer in Me-
] hlnltNlNlll tuIN'H al PiONNt
communication and all inventions that
foster commerce and cheaper the prices
of commodities. But the Mckinleyite
sees even greater danger from this new
machine lie sees il puncturing more
| holes in the Mckinley tariff bill than "a
full democratic congress would make
OF what use will be custom houses
when airships can cross our borders by
day or night at ten thousand different
points and can anchor in million dif-
ferent places? What unrivaled oppor-
tunities would be provided for SNUG
Cling. The vigilance of ten thou
sand customs officers could not prevent
smuggling by wholesale: and the com
petition in smuggling in large quaint
ties of pauper made goods would soof
lower the price of hundreds of articles
Wooden goods. plate and window glass
tin plate. pearl buttons and dozens o
other articles that now sell here fol
double the prices IN Europe or Canada
!, would soon come down almost 10
, common level. And what terrible
effects it would have upon farmers am
laborers. Ii would probably reduce
: their expenses $50 per family and they
! would all-free traders and protection
: lists alike-he foolish enough to buy al
they could of these cheap goods Inc.
!, would even work the harder 10 produc
D all they could to exchange and get thei
fill of goods for once. Increased pre-
duction would make a demand for NOR
J. labor and this would raise wage'
Higher wages would mean Increase
a.. xx+h..la nf in1ni
c try would Just hum, not only on TIN
Il but on the other side of the ocean. !
is unchristian-liSc to think that on
: European neighbors would prospe
& with US, but then it couldn't well |
= helped while goods could be exchange
h through the air SO that each natio
II would get the benefits Of the natur;
y and artificial advantages in production
of all nations. This could not lows
q the prices of farm products, for Oh
Y farmers have the best opportunity
1t produce i'm the world and now compe
with all other nations. 1t could not lo'
cr wages for it would remove no ba
riers that obstruct the pas,age of lab
from one country to another-b ecau
there are none to remove. IL would
4 | fuct ralSt wages W AhNA'"-'f'e -
amount of goods that could be pu
Y chased with certain sum. But u
4 poor trusts. how they would suffer, al
perhaps die. under such compctitio
The pocket cutlery trust, which n
raised prices fully 80 per cent sin
1890. would have To reduce prices
! least ~ per cent. because cutlery COS
only about half as much in Europe
here. The cartridge trust; which h
: advanced prices here 90 per cent Al
= sells 80 per cent cheaper in Can
da, would have TO have leveilil
down OF prices. Hundreds of 9th
trusts now making millions out of y
tariff, only thousands OF which have
be spent to sustain protection. won
err have 10 be content with ordinary prof
or yield up the ghost entirely.
od Such are some of the Affections IN
will follow the introduction of tlyi
tn machines II protectionists understa
m the situation they will bride Mr.. IL
al nington to stop work on the air sh
n which will do them a thousand tin
'e- more harm than Peck's report on wae
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