The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1893-09-16
TO business, Gentlemen.

American Economist.
The Committee Of Ways and Means
has announced that it VIII receive
hearings from manufacturers and al
others who are interested in maintain
ing our existing Tariff during period
of two weeks. One week has almost
passed.
We are Informed on the very best OF
authority that there are but few Pro
tectionists who intend to submit any
statement of their cases to the com
mittee, believing that 1t VIII be simply
q waste of time to do 50.
This is just what the committee
wants, ard then it will have the ex-
cuse to offer that manufacturers made
no presentation, hence it was lmpoS-
sible to know what was required or
what was best for them, for the labor
ers or for the country at large.
There must be no more delay, broth
er ProtectioniSts. The situation IS
black enough, God knows, but we
must not give way to despair. We
have Southern domination III the com
mittee, but let US not submit TO hay
ing a Force bill tariff thrust upon US.
Bestir yourselves. There is no time
to be lost. Go one, so all before the
committee. Compel them by your
presence to grant a longer time for
the hearings. Do not give them the
opportunity to say that you We're not
sufficiently interested in your own
business to attend and that if you do
not care, why should they.
Remember that there are other in
terestS at stake besides those of your
self and the Individual members Of the
firm to which You belong. Your wage
carriers are dependent upon You. They
regard You as their leader. They ex-
pect you to take every possible step to
prevent Free Trade. 1t is your duty
TO do so. You are in measure moral
~ responsible to them, TO their wives
and to their families as well as to your
own.
Make haste, gentlemen Pack your
grips at once. Let there be no delay.
Start Immediately for Washington
and state to the Ways and Means com
mittcc your own case and that OF your
worlmen whom You represent.
The Britishers were there. Promptly
on hand at the first days hearing of
the Ways and Means Committee were
the representative of the farms Of Der
muda. They came with the sanction
of their Government, with the approval
of the British Government and OF Her
Majesty Queen Victoria. It would
seem almost as il cousin Ben" Fol
som had recently been lecturing in
Bermuda. These Britishers explained
how their farms had suffered under
American Protection, and how they,
the foreign producers, had to pay our
import duty. This seemed to staggcr
the Free-Trade members Of the com
mittee who belong TO the ignoramuseS
that pretend that the American CON
sumers pay the duty But the British
erS would have none of this. They
came out in their blunt fashion and
said the producers paid it, that it was
no tax on the consumers. They SAID
they shipped everything they possibly
could to the United States and wanted
to ship more, and Southern members
Of the committee learned that Bermu-
da potatoes came into direct c0mpe-
tition with the early grown Southern
potatoes. What a hollow mockcry
this sitting was on Monday! What
dead give away! The BritishcTs scent
sd from afar a possible new or better
market when "the party of Free
Trade" should be in power, and the
Britisher was the first to sWoOp down
upon the poor American corpse, seek
ing TO tear off its pound Of flesh While
any flesh was left, ana before any
other foreigners were able to gobLIe
up our trade.
Besides the manufacturers, our wage
earner5 are equally and as directly in
terrested in this subject Of FrecTrade
TO every wage Garner employed III an
industry III which the tariff may be re
duced the change simply means cor
responding reduction in the rate Of
wages. That is why the wage earners
need Protection. No matter what
they may have done in the past, or
how they may have voted at the last
election, The American Protective
Tariff League stands ready to help
them today. We urge the wage earn
ers of the United States or their rep
resentatIves, or both, 10 go at once
before the Ways and Means committee
at Washington and demand Protection
for Amer can labor, demand it for
their homes, for their wives ana for
their little ones. The offices Of this
League are at their disposal for pur-
poses Of meetings 10 arrange their
plans and outline their course of ne
ton. If necessary we VIII 80 with
them TO Washington. But we urge
upon the wage earneTs 10 take action
ut once This is the time and the op-
portunity, and the occasion is an
urgent one-Protection of American
l9bor, Protection for Wages, Protcc-
ton for Homes.
Judge Goggin Of Chicago suddenly
made himself famous, or infamous,