The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-04-25
The American Liar.

soon becomes known and looses all
power to ,inflct harm either upon
society or the individual. But we
have recently drawn attention to a
species of liar so heightened, so self
poised, SO princely il his large mind
edness, his big hearted disinterest-
edness, his plausible insistence that
thing is which is not, that we in
stinctively recognize his capacity for
evil and our right and duty at all
times to lay his falsehoods bare.
Such a liar is our distinguished con-
temporary, the New York Her.
aid.
There is scarcely an issue Of that
paper but contains misrepresenta-
ton of some kind on the subject of
Protection, and frequently a cum
ming twist of ideas and manipula-
ton of words, apparently intended
to mislead the very people whose
vital interest in this question emit
ties them to have the facts set clearly
before them. II a recent issue we
fin ! this, for instance:
Though we in the United States
have recently lowered our Protective
Tariff somewhat, it is still inordina-
tely high and presses with most I'M
equal and disastrous effect upon
agriculturists, who can sell their cot
ton for only 5 cents and their wheat
for only so cents, while they must
pay prices enormously and dlspro-
portionately higher for their cloth
ing and other articles ofconsumptiop
all FOR the protection and enrich
ment of a few manufacturers,
monopolists and trusts.
Here is an attempt to make farm
ers believe that further reduction
of the Tariff will advance the price
of things that they produce and make
lower the prices of things that they
have to buy. The bearing of lower
import duties on the prices of two
commodities cited by the Herald,
cotton and wheat, has really acted
most disastrously upon farmers.
Disastrously upon cotton farmers,
because they have shared with labor
the reduced basis of prices necessary
to enable the manufacturer to meet
the prices of European goods in our
home market. Disastrously upon
wheat farmers, because of the ire
mendous shrinkage in the domestic
consumption which has been cut
down through the prostration of
industry generally, an incident of
Tariff reform on Free Trade lines.
How will the Herald advance the
price of cotton to the farmer by re-
ducing the price of cotton goods?
Wheat, under the present Tariff
rate, is being imported into the coun-
try and sold along with our wheat
at the same price. How does the
Herald propose to advance the price
OF wheat and at the same time lower
the cost of the foreign producer for
entering our market? Will not our
wheat under such an arrangement
have to fall to the price of the for
eign article?
Why does not the Herald tell the
wheat and cotton farmers of the
country the truth about their cloth
ing, and show them how much more
they are losing on their crops than
they are saving on their clothes
under the operation of a Free Trade
Tariff? This does not suit the pur-
pose of the Herald. For some
reason it wants still greater reduc-
ton of duties, and it is bending
every faculty at every sacrifice Of
veracity and of moral dignity to
secure its end. We advise every
man in the country, who lives by
honest industry, to discredit the
sophistrv of this intensely false
representative of the Free-Trade
interests in America.
The Wool Markell.