San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-04
QUESTIONS FOR FREE TRADERS

If protection makes milliOnatres,
why have nine in ten of the large for
tunes in America been amassed IN
the so-called non-protected indus
tries?
Ii protection does not maintain
American wages, why are they about
twice as high as in any other country
under the sun?
II projection is an ahsurdIty, 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 Ameri-
can agriculture, why has it impover-
ished the farmers of England, Ire
land. India, and wherever it has been
tried?
If Free Trade would help this coun-
try 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
ProtectiOnist?
If Free Trade elevates labor, why
were the shareholders Free Traders?
If Reciprocity is a humbug, why
are Free Traders so anxious 10 make
the point that Iii is only another
name for Free Trade, anyhow"
If the adoption OF Clevelsnd's Tar
lift policy in this country would not
benefit England, why are the En-
glish press and public so earnest in
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If-Cleveland is brave and honest.
why did he try to straddle the Tariff
issue, which he himself raised, in 1888
and again in 1892?
If the Mckinley act raises prices of
manufactures, why are they lower
now than before it became law?
If it lowers wages, why are wages
higher now than before it passed?
II protection is unjust, why was
Abraham Lincoln protectionist?
Ifit 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 II?
If a nation must buy in order to
sell, why was the balance of trade in
our favor more than 500, 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 is uncon stitutionsl,
why were the trainers of the cOnstitu-
ton protectionists?
If free traders are really the friends
of the farmers, why did they abolish
the duty on the farmers wool?
II 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 q tax" why can
you buy umberless articles tor 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 Cob
denite support the tin-plate duty?
II our higher wages are due to the
greater 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 representatives was
not laboriDg in the interests of the
British cordage trust, why did it pass
the free binding Irvine bill.
If revenue tariff does not cause
pauperism, why were there more
paupers in New York during the
revenue tariff of '46 than ever before
or ever after?
If free trade is patriotic, why do
free traders always sneer at every.
thing American?