The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-01-26

THE St Louis Republic in comment
ing on the advice the Protective Tar
iff League is giving to voters to send
postal card to congressman urging them
to vote against the Wilson bill, thus
trims up the League Pennsylvania
manufacturers have leaned so long on
bounties that they are behind hand in
shrewdneSs. Their hoggishncss has
waved, but their invention has deterior-
ated. The protective League is a litera-
ry bureau which supplies by the thous
and editorials for the Republican press,
tracts, leaflets and appeals. The bureau
began to be active in literary work Just
after the defeat of the Mills bill 10y the
Republican senate. The tariff reform
cause has grown faster in the five years
since 1SSS than in the p years preced-
ing. The Protective Tariff League has
wasted enough paper and postage to
have sent a Bible to every family in
America. And as far as the record
shows it has not made vote for Me
kinleyiSm.
Its latest scheme is an inundation of
paper slips which convey this appeal:
Send a postal card to your Congress
man to day urging him to vote against
the Wilson free trade bill f."
If the Protective Tariff League had
not a fatty degeneration of the brain it
would not spend thousands of dollars
for such a purpose. An immense ma
iority in one House of congress and a
safe working majority in the other are
pledged to vote for reform bill, aud
the only complaint the constituents of
these majorities are making Is that the
Wilson bill is not free trade enough.
That is the complaint about the bill, and
the complaint about voting is that Il vote
has not already been taken. If every
Republican voter should send on his
postal card not congressman would pay
any attention to the nonsense. The Re
publican congressman would join his
Democratic colleague in joking at it,
These milIionaires who can throw
away money so freely have made more
trouble for labor, have made more cuts
in wages and nave had around them
more distress than all the other employ
ers of the country put together. Penn
sylvania labor troubles are chronic
a 1
low tariffs do not aggravate them. They
go on month in and month out cut.
squeeze, quarrei, lockout walkout and
sometimes bloodshed.
Such are the Pennsylvania hackers
of the Protective Tariff League. They
are the men who hastened a panic by
strangling trade and taking the incomes
of families; who 10y grinding labor made
enough to pay for the carloads OF leaf
lets which go impotentIy flying through
the country
They are not half as wise rs the home |
market they seek to gull The home |
market is stocked up with undistributed |
wealth which it is trying to sell to other |
markets. 1t is not sending postal cards |
urging congressman to vote against trade
and distribution. The home market
would rather take the word of Carnegie
to the effect that the Wilson hill is not
going to hurt iron production, though it
may cut down the profits of few played
out mills 1t would rather listen to
Macbeth of Pittsburg, who says that
American manufacturers can compete
with European trade centers.
The Wilson bill is here to be voted
on, and the country wants vote on the
lines laid down at the election, and
wants a vote before spring opens.
Philadelphia Protective Tariff
League would better follow Carnegie's
in his acquicscence to
he Wilson bill and his contribution of
money to relieve the distress Republican
egislation has caused