Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-23
HIGH TARIFF TRICKSTBR.
PRoTEoT1oNIsT ELI PERXIN3 In
EVIDENCE AGAIN.
lie Gives Us Some Moro Wonderful
Chlcory Stutistics- Which, ms
Usual, ArsiIe A..nlnst Protection.

| osu"i, Argue Against Projections.
AN apology is almost. necessary for
referring to the impudent buncom' 30
OF that high tariff triclsicr. Eli Per-
KING. His stale attempts ut humor
are so thrcadbarc, and his allese.l
statistics go unreliable, that it is only
with feeling of degradation that it
IS possible to reply to him. Yet SO
long MS he is put forward aud accepted
by protcctionists rs an exponent of
their views it is necessary to expose
Tho quackery which ho trie, to pass
Off rs argument.
Lacking originality rs we'll MS sense
md wit, Eli, in recent article, re-
turns to his discovery of the great
chlcory growing industry built up
by tho Mckinley bill, which took tho
duty oil raw chicory and put it on the
FREQ list. 1t is three or four years
since Eli proved That abolishing pro-
lection on chicory greatly stimulated
The growth of TINT product. Now Inc
quotes Governor Mckinley MS saying:
Hero is case where wo took of n
tariff on raw material and tho result
was wonderful. In less than niuety
days after tho bill became Inv, forty
seven chicory factories came to this
country from Franco and Belgium,
and wo wero soon paving
millions of dollars for chicory wages
in this country"
OF course the facts nro willy cx-
nsgeratcd. But even if they were nj.
together true, docs not Mckinley. or
his mouthpieco Perkins. sec that they
are tho best possible proof of tho wis
dom OF tho Democratic policy Of FREQ
raw materials? Ii i'll tho few instance,
TINT tho Mckinley bill put raw ma
torlals ON tho free list American man.
ufacturcs worth millions of dollar,
were created, why wero not all raw
materials mnde free? Why was n
heavy protective tariff lad on wool,
coal, iron ore, lime, lin plato (raw
material for our great cunning indus
try, logs, etc. Hns not Eli sense
enough tn know that 1t was mainly on
the fight for FREQ raw materials til n
the great Democratic victory of 1S13
was won?
Having shown by Mckinley That
taking taxes off foreign products
grentlystimulates American industries,
Perkins proceeds to quote Mckinley
MS promising what he would do If he
could a3al I dictate our tnrilf policy.
He says: 81 believe That with pro.
lection in America wo can capture tho
enemies of raising aud manufacturer
all our linen. would agree to have
tho belfast linen manul, cturics in this
country i'll two years AMI Minnesota
covered with flax iustca of cheap
wheat" WHAT'S the matter with the
four years OF protection to linen an l
ilnx under tho Mckinley bill? Why
did not that high tnrlll law bring the
lax and linen industries to America?
Was it because raw materials were
taxed, and therefore the factories
could not compete with foreign fnc-
tories? Or did the growth OF fax Ian
gui,h because of the protective duty
on it? Speak up, Mr.. Perkins, anl
explain whether your idol, Mckinley,
wants to put taxes on flax or take them
of. If the partial application of tho
free trade policy t. chicory has built
up an American chicory growing in.
dustry, why would not the Same policy
help our flax industry?