People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-07-10
tains of money. 1t is wonder he
doesn't squeal.

Even England has Tariff upon
wine, spirits, tobacco, snuff and fruit
The duties collected by England
upon these five articles exceed one
hundrt d million dollars per year.
According to Mckinley, England
makes the foreigner contribute That
much to her national expenses, an-
nually.
Thus you will observe that each
nation gets rid of taxation by means
of the Tariff.
Later on in the campaign, MoKn-
ley will probably be kind enough to
tell us who this foreigner is, where
he lives, and where he has his wash
ing done.
owe must increase the Tariff duties
in order to protect American labor"
says Maj M ,Kinley.
According to the official reports
labor gets 10 per cent of what it pro-
duces in the manufacturing indus
tries. Capital gets the balance
80 per cent.
Now when we remember that the
Tariff is already AZ per cent, on a
general average, it will be seen that
the laborer gets none OF the proteo'
don. He could not, to save his life,
work for less than he now gets,
even if he had absolute free trade.
The very fact that the Tariff gives
the American manufacturer an al
most complete monopoly as against
foreign competition, explains why it
is that the American capitalist can
dominate the prices of labor, and
drive them down to the point which
barely allows the laborer to live.
Maj. Mckinley says, in one breah,
that we cannot compete with foreign
manufacturers because our wages are
higher than theirs, aud, in the next
breath, he says that we must enlarge
our foreign markets and get larger
share of the worlds trade.
How can you reconcile these two
statementsP
If our manufacturers can success
fully compete with foreign manu- 'ac-
turers in the foreign markets, why
can't we successfully compete with
them here at home?
In sending our manufactures
abroad, freight and insurance are
against US: in selling at homo they
are against the foreigner.
Are our manufacturers more able
to compete with the foreigner when
they have to pay the freight, than
when the foreigner pays it?
In advancing such arguments as
these Maj, Mckinley shows his con
tempt for the intelligence of the
American voter.
The real truth of the matter is that
our manufacturers get raw materials
and labor cheaper than their Eu-
ropean competitors can get them, and
thus they can enter the foreign mar
ket with a fair and equal chance to
trade. Its the home 0aarEet that they
mean to monopoliz9. They mean to
drive the foreigner out of it and then
despoil their countrymen with trust
prices, while they pay their laborers
the lowest living wage.
y
The maintenance of the gold stan
ard means aahrinking volume of cur.
rancy. 1t also means more bonds.
Consequently, MoKinley's platform
can be fairly boiled down to this,
'Less money and more taxes"
The only comfort can see in this
programme is that Maj. Mckinley
says we can make the foreigners pay
the taxes
If the Major is correct about this,
there's going 10 be rocky time for
the foreigner.
The government only added about
two million dollars to our public debt
last month.
In the meantime the most cheerful
item of news is that the federal courts
are beginning to shut down their
mills for want of water. There being