The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-12

+, foreign products does nothing but produce reve
nue. 1t encourages no domestic enterprise
| because there is none in this country making
the product upon which they put the tariff a
low tariff upon foreign product which COM
I petes with home product would 10 q small de-
I gree favor the, domestic industry, but when il
| does that il ceases TO be a tariff for revenue
only, because it gives some slight protection TO
| the domestic producer and is at once condemned
by the tariff reformer.
1t is suitable should say in passing, that a
tariff levied upon a non-competing foreign
product is always paid by the importing coun-
I try. And whyy Because there is no production
at home to compete with the foreign article i'm
ported which might influence its price 70 the
consumer. The foreign producer controls the
market and the price TO the consumer on such
non-Competng article is the foreign price with
the tariff added. But the other principle. and
the one TO which the republican party adheTes,
Is exactly the opposite Of the one l have just
described. II permits all foreign products, eX-
cept luxuries 10 come into our markets 1ree
but imposes its tariffs upon those foreign
products which We produce at home or propose
10 produce AZ home, which tar.u, while raising
revenue. IS q discrimination In favor Of thc To-
nestle producer and against the foreign pro-
Queer. That j.. Wc say bring what you have cot
10 Us that We caunCt crow or make, without
tariff or condition. but II you want TO bring here
what we do produce and can produce 10 compete
with our producers and share this mariet with
them. then such product must bear the burden
Of a tariff. Is not that right:
II We we're just beginning anew as 4 govern
neut and had never had q tariff law, would not
that be tie correct principle: The things we
cannot make for ourselves or produce for our
selves we must buy elsewhere, and. therefore,
we want no tax upon them but the things we
can produce among ourselves and for ourselves
IA,
other, and il the foreign producer wants to en-
JOY any part OF this market he must De subject
to the terms we shall fix in the interest OF our
own oountrymen. That is the principle of pro-
lection. That is the doctrine CT patriotism.
That is the principle Of our country first and
our countrymen first. That is the principle OF
home ana family. That is the doctrine oi
true Americansm. The republican party has
never hesitated TO impose duties upon noncom-
Peting foreign products whenever the revenue
necessities Of the government required it, but
believe in it only as public necessity.
We have free trade among ourselves through
out our forty-four states and the territories.
That Is because we are one family: one country.
We have one standard OF citizenship, one flag,
one constitution, one nation, one destiny. That
is why we have free trade among ourselves.
Oar relations with the nations outside are nee
e-SarIy different from our relations among our
selves. They are a separate organisn-a dis
tinCt and independent political society organ
lied TO work out their own destiny. They are
our commercial rivals. We deny to these for
eign nations trade with US upon the same terms
we enjoy among ourselves. Tie foreign pro-
Queer IS rot entitled To equality with Us IN this
market. He pays no taxes: he is not amenable |
to our laws: he performs no civil or military
duties; he is exempt from state, county and !
taxes; he contributes nothing pri- !
marily 10 the support Of the government or its |
-t,.,.
ciple pray you, should he enjoy equal priv |
ileges ana profits in our markets. with our pro- /
ducers, our laborcrs. our taxpayers: We have |
no way OF reaching him except through the Gus |
tom house. He is unknown 10 our tax collector |
who visits US anHually-but this official cannot |
visit him. The arm Of the state is too short and /
the power OF the federal government too limited /
TO touch anything he has or possesses. And so
we say, to him, when you want to bring your
products here TO compete with ours, this being /
our home, our natural market "those products
must have attached 10 them condition,
md that condition shall be the payment of
iutics which shall so into the public treasury
to relieve in part the taxpayers of the Unit
I'd States from the burdens which rest upon
hem"
Free trade gives to the foreign producer equal
privileges with us. Upon what principle of fair
play should he have them: 1t invites the prod
lct Of his cheaper labor to this market to Ge-
strOy the domestic product representing the !
higher and better paid labor of ours. II destroys
,ur factories CT reduces our labor TO the level of
heirs 1t increases foreign production but
,iniIishes home production. 1t Will kndle
Tres in the furnaces Of England AMI extiaguiSh |
he fires in our oUn II VIII close the iron mines |
# the great northwest and leave Urtenantcd the
cal and coke regions o. Tho east. Ii will do all
his with UueTriUv certainty unless the standard
# American labor shall be pulled down u the
'lare and cCEcitjoE O. foreign labor-one or the
Dther Is inevitable. In any event it dcs. .roys the
Lightly and independence Of American labor,
imiUishes their pay ana employment. decreases
heir capacity to buy the products Of ;hc farm
nd the commodities OF the merchant. We can
lot have free trade IN this country without hav-
ne free trade conditions. The democratic plat
orm demands il upon these conditions and is
OUnd 10 have il at any cost
The world KNOWS what these conditions are.
he farmers OF England know what they are
nc voTklngmeu OF England understand these
onGitOns. Thousands Of men who have worked
Il both sides Of the ocean and under both sys-
ems know these conditions To introduce
hem here viii he 4 costly experiment 1t will
ring widespread discomfort. 1t will revolu-
ioniZe values II viii take away more than
ne-half Of the earning capacity of brain and
rawn. Worse than all that il will take away
rom the people Of this country who work for a |
.vinC-and the majority Of them live by the
weat Of their f8ces-it will take from them
cart and hope and home. 1t will be self-le- |
tructiOn. Free trade results in giving our | :
money. our manufactures and our markets to
ther IA lions. Protection keeps money, mar |
cts and manufactures at home