The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-06

beyond a certain point he can not go IN
less the duty be removed. But" say
the free trader, 'the 81 duty Is added L
| the selling price, making 1t Sl3 Instead o
sll. The only way To shut such people of
| i TO offer premium OF 500 for siagl,
| Instance IN the history Of tariff legisia ioI
| where such a result followed in the case o.
any article that we could make in thi:
country in sufficient quantities TO supply
the demand. Slight Increases have FIRE
| quently resulted for "A short time where
uuty was levied on the importation o.
| some article OF which we were at the tim,
making but "A small quantity, but never Il
| the tull amount OF the duty.
| here Is proposition tnat never has beer
retuted and never can be. Every article
/ or which We can make enough to supply
the demand upon which tariff has been
| Levied 80 high that il eventually amountef
/ 20 prOhib ton has ben reduced in price &
/ the consumer, aud IN many instances even
| below the duty imposed. Taen to say We
have too much protection" and assign as
a reason that Il enhances the price CT the
article to the consumer is the raukeSt kind
| OF rot and nonsense.
On the contrary it has shut of certain
| Sources of revenue By reducing the cost e
such point that importstious have en-
tirely stopped. Wire nails, steel nails,
agricultural implements, many kinds OF
aud some grades Of Calico yield 10 reven u
for the reason that none are imported, but
no one will be fool-hardy enough to Claim
that they are higher TO the consumer than
when we did import nearly all or them.
We have many inequalities in our tariff
laws that must be regulated, but the Read
lustment viii be made with a view to get
the greatest amount of revenue Consistent
with the preservation of our labor for our
own Iaborers, and not with view 10
cheaper the article by removing some of
this So-called tax" that demagogues are
always telling OF. but know 80 little about.
In the light of events that have trans
pired since 1892. the Republican who at
tributes our defeat in that year to too
much protection" Is about as badly out OF
his reckoning as the Democrat who says
the Mckinley law stopped our mills and
factories.
If it were not for the fact that we must
raise revenue, consistent protectionists
would insist on building tariff wall
around this country so high that nothing
which we can make for ourselves, having
the raw material cut Of which TO make II,
should be imported.
Not TOO much protection, but too little
of Letting well enough alone" aud the
failure of the labor element in this coun-
try to think for themselves and Use little
good lard horse sense was what defeated
Us. Let any man get an accurate estl-
mate of the number of labOrers out of en-
pIoyment III this country as a result of the
uncertainty of tariff tinkering and let him
count only dollar day for each la borer
and he will soon see what is the matter.
Take out of active circulation a dollar II
day for every idler and you will have a
sum for each day vastly greater than the
daily expenditures for the prosecution of
the war when they were at flood tide.
l.. 4. ,l,-n.
Der the financial question is mot in it' AS
compared with this question.
Guarantee that the Mckinley law, with
ali of its too much protection" shall stand,
and all the idlers who want work will find
it in "a week from the time this assurance
is given, and what is more to the purpose.
the financial problem will so nearly solve
itself that many people will wonder how
they ever invested it with so much import
ance. ;.