Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-15
SOME TARIFF QUESTIONS,
FACTS THAT ALL PEOPLE
SHOULD UNDERSTAND.
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100 Questions and Answers.
Question No. s. Docs the tariff foster t-msts and
hl0n0pOics:
1t does not. The tendency of the age
Is for men to combine where they see
their profit. The Standard Oil Trust is
a gigantic aggregation OF capital. Yet
what has that to do with the tariff? The
Western Union Telegraph monopoly.
the insurance combination, the trust
lately formed by the express COM
panies-how are they influenced by
protection? The tariff, far from Great.
ing the conditions favorable to the Or
ganization of trusts, has been the means
by which many of them have been de-
stroyed, and this will be clearer when
we consider the circumstances under
which it is most likely that a trust will
he formed.
Under. free trade the trust would be
supreme. For then we. would be COM
pletely ut the mercy of Great Britain
Tor our supply OF many articles, and
This condition would be realized: Be
tore a large, supply of a commodity
rould reach us, it would have to be. col
lected in a few seaports, there to pass
through the hands of q few exporters,
who find a trust the most convenient
means of raising the export price to
foreign consumers. And this is Just
what has actually taken place again and
again. 80 that there is no country IN the
world that contains more trusts, more
obnoxious monopolies, than Great
Britain, the home of the economic
heresy of free trade. The country is
really plastered over with trusts.
Protection offers no lnducement to
trusts, but if they are formed We can
control them. Free trade offers every
'nducement to trusts, and when they
are formed. puts them beyond our
reach. Which system will the people
prefer?
Question No 6. Hon does protection benefit The
Ndrmers Would he be better Of andcrI free trade!
Protection was adopted by the found
ers of the government for the special
purpose of benetiting farmers. The
members of the first Congress were
nearly all either farmers themselves or
represented farming constituencies.
Agriculture was practically the only in
1ustry of the people, and they saw their
produce rot on their hands year after
year for want of a market for it. To
create a market for this produce was the
prime object of the early legislators.
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~ o Ioi.oy ""1 laInteIs pol-
~, puto "nu s.naPie. aIate! s.t.esnlel
loHn ~ Dlalne anu NiciNlhiey Daseo
;;n nf th auittaSy ~ PTolec.eon On .he pee
a nj tna' ~ oehen'eo 'he farmer most o
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ues. iari4 laLu ~ , Ime Worlu ID lying
m"eie ~ a.ns.Inu, -yo,ouo persons IN
a aud''y yh ,eas oo, tit "sri cf Its.racts,
:" we ein anaIuo ~ agraiuiiu ae ~
s, u. uoP.1 IRA !Tee .raue mas III
pus lulneu ane Engl,sh farmer: so ~
hss oeAl1 WIN ~agrlcuiture IN lnaia. LIZ
Nv TuI oMn sHpeL.ehce anu .haI o1
.n neoM Mn3 Jo,t Mo w rs Is .na. eVeLue taIli
means oeaIh 10 inc farmers prosperity.
r9r some years American agrlcuit9Fe
nas pIen oepLesseu. .noueh IN less oe-
slee 'hal. ~aslicu'ture III tofeigh CONT
lies' ueGaase VI u
LeJ .laue aen'agosue took auNahtage
>. .,e s..ua..oh 10 urge us PEI .neof!e
apon iariheIs, VINO more steao1astly
,,an any os aaef e'ass u Sl.l1eh n nave
Su .am y Gea. SaL ~ tne .Lee siaue
,,so7nm. auu n III, .ne m'ain uiwal "
niileT.Cau projection from inc time OF
,,res them that the remedy Tor thar
Ills is to be- sought in foreign markets
Tor their produce. It is exactly the
argument used to persuade them to
consent to a revenue tariff in lS46.
But when that tariff had been voted
they discovered how they had bsen
fooled.
We are approaching very close to the
line where, under normal conditions.
our own people will consume all II
farmers produce. There are no more
such vast trncts of u%noccnnied wheat
lands as were brought under cultivation
iuring the last twenty wears. and the
iiyersiication of industry resnlt;c,v
from consistent protection for a .,few
years more will place our farmers N 4
position where prices of their produce
will be regulated independently Of
liverpool. Russia and India. When
that time comes. and II ia close at hand
farmers will be more than ever inter.
ssted in protection. These are the
teachings of common sense and ex-
perience. The only evidence that ran
he produced against them ia the insin-
:ere, partisan vaporincs of the free