, 1896-09-29

spent for my education had been earn
cd under the protected industries of the
City Of Pittsburgh. This money. earn
ed under the protective tariff. accomp-
lished, as a result of its being spent in
educating a boy upon the political lit
erature furnished by England the turn
ing out of a graduate who at once set
about an attempt to convert the man
who had spent this money to the belief
that the way in which he had earned it
WIS all right. | imagined that every
time | drew my uncle into a debate
upon the tariff question. | simply
moi ped the floor with him. | was
which he often listened to my free
trade arguments was more frequently
charity than inability TO reply. Once,
uncle. getting tired of being used as a
mop. made the remark, Frank, when
YOU get older o will know more" AS
a free trader | did not take any stock
in such a statement as that. but one
day | learned more, and all at once.
Being in a rolling mill in the City of
Pittsburgh, where a gigantic man,
stripped to the waist. was turning rails
as they left the rolls so that when they
cooled they would not be warped, I
.ongaged the giant in a controversy up
IN the tariff question, and imagined,
is usual, l "mopped the floor" with
him. The giant getting tired of being
used rs a mop at last asked me:
Are you fond of music?"
YES said |, but | do not see what
that has to do with the tariff question"
well, may be it has. and may be it
has not-Are you fond of singing?"
Yes, / am ono of singing"
"Wcll, have you ever had this eX-
rrricrCe? Have yOu Eel heard a tune
which you could not possibly forget.
hut which stuck in your mind and sang
and hummed itself there; and you
could not get rid of it to save your life:
neither could You whistle it nor play
il, but if anybody else whistled Or play
cd it you could detect the least false
note and il Jared upon you?'
Yes. | have had that experience
well, young fellow. that is just the
trouble here: you can whistle a great
deal better than | can, but | know the
tune much better than you do
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Of the many splendid illustrations of
the workings of the tariff for protec-
tion. The Republican will give that
made by the speaker in relation to the
kid glove.
When you reached young manhood
and went to New York to improve your
fortune. the proper thing to do if you
wished, for instance, to make yourself
solid" with a girl, was to buy her. if
You could afford it. a two button pair of
Alexandra kid gloves. At that time
the monopoly of the sale Of these
gloves in the United States was pos
EeEsed by A. T. Stewart & Co. Filled
with this ambition you went INTO their
store and to the counter where fine kid
iglovCs were sold, and said TO the grand
gentleman who had charge of that de-
rlTtmcnt: kid gloves, if o please.
Ladies' size, two button And he laid
ont a lot of gloves in a row, beginning
two seventy-fve, three, three and a
Quartor'-until you stop him, warning
him that he was rapidly getting beyond
your reach You selected a two button
pair of Alexander gloves large enough
to cover the tiny hand of a girl. and
you were asked to pay $2.75 for them.
Now, why did a pair OF gloves, small
like those, cost such a price in those
days, when $2.75 meant a great deal to
any young man?
The free trade party was then in
power, with a tariff for revenue only.
The monopoly of the manufacture of
these gloves was owned in France.
Kids were just as plentiful as they
are today anywhere. The Frenchman
and gloves cost him little TO make. He
charged high prices because he could.
He had a monopoly of the manufac-
ture.
When the protective party, during
the war took up the tariff schedule for
the purpose of developing to the utmost
the resources of the country and came