Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
QUESTIONS FOR FRFF TRAD
Frs.

If Protection makes million
aires, why have nine in ten of
the large fortunes in America
been amassed in the so-called non
Protected industries
If Protection does not main
tain American wages, why are
they about twice as high as in
any other country under the sun?
If Protection is an absurdity,
how does it happen that it has
converted to its doctrines 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 it has
been tried here
If Protection Expresses the
common people, why was George
Washington q Protectionist
If Free-Trade elevates labor,
why were the shareholders Free
Traders
If Reciprocity is a humbug,
why are Free-Traders so anxious
to make the point that sit is on
" another name for Free-Trade,
anyhow :
If the adoption of Cleveland's
Tariff policy in 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 hon
est why did he try to straddle the
Tariff issue, which he himself
raised, in 1888 and again in 1899?
If the Mckinley act raises
prices of manufactures, why are
they lower now than before it
became q law?
If it lowers wages, why are
wages higher now than before it
passed
If Protection is unjust, why
was Abraham Lincoln a protec-
ZIONIST?
If it Expresses farmers, why
were they the ones to vote its in
auguration, and why have they
more steadfastly than any other
class of citizens voted to main
tain it ?
If nation must buy in order
to sell, why was the balance of
trade in our favor more than
S2O2, 900, 900 in the past year
If strikes are due to the tariff,
why are there two strikes in
Free Trade England to every one
in the United States
If Protection isunconstitution-
al, why were the trainers Of the
Constitution PFotectionists
If e-Traders are really the
friends Of the farmers, why did
they abolish the duty on the
farmers wool?
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 not prosperous, why are we the
only nation in the wide world
that has no emigrants
If the tariff is a tax" why
can you buy numberless articles
for less than the very 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
duty
If our higher wages are due to
the efficiency of American work
ingmen, 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 Representa-
tives was not laboring in the in
terests of the British Cordage
Trust, why did it pass the Free
Binding-Twine bill ?
If a revenue Tariff does not
cause pauperism, why We're there
more paupers in New York dur
ing the revenue tariff of '4G than
ever before or ever after =?
If Free-Trade is patriotic, why
do Free-Traders always sheer at
everything American ?-Ameri-
can Economist.