Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-26
A GREAT CURSE.
PROTECTION HAMPERS AND ENER- YATES INDUSTRIES AND DE
 BAUCHEs POLITICS.

Franklin Pierce With Rree Raw 5a-
 terials Our Machine Made Goods would
 Soon Capture the Yorid-Inoreasing Cost
 of Government Mad Protection niot
 VIII Soon Be Over.
 The principal speaker ct the annual dinner of the New England Free Trade league, held on May 8, was Mr. Frank lin Pierce of New York. He handled his subject without gloves. He said in part as follows:
 Not on1y are the farmers beginning to appreciate the truth that protection robs them and their families, but our manufacturers, as the products If their looms exceed the demand of the home market, are understanding that pro teetive tariff. especially upon their raw material, is against their interests
 ssThe preacnt population of tho world is about ,400, COG, coo. and only 409, GOO, GOO use machinery at all Tine rest do their work by rude tools guided by the hands, and we, the Yanlxee nation, who h8z revolutienizad tba world bg our inventions, who nse machinery to a greater extent than any other people, We refuse 10 allow the raw material which these 1000. coo, GOO of nouma- chine Esing peoTlo create. 10 enter our ports in exchange for machine made products, except uEon the payment Of excessive duties, while the more iHtelli- gent of cur manufacturers are clamor- ing fer freo raw material and saving. Give Is free raw material and we Will conquer the markets af che world
 Instead of seeking he markets of the world, employing millions of men HOW lying idle, making tHe margin of profits less but the output several times greater than at present., getting thereby q steady market and continued service fer CUT laholing elasses. ogf# trusts and combinations are hiTing their competi. tors to close their factories aEd throw tens of thousands of labalins men out of e1npIoymcnt
 Ne have only to get freedom of. trade and WIG can capture the markets of the world in many lines. What the Epglishman is to the German the American is to the Enelisbman, and just as the German is crying ent against competition with the machine made goods and high priced labor of England, just so would England cry out against competition with tAa machine made goods and the high nfIeed labor If America, were daties upon all Iaw ma terials removed
 Ne Americans walk faster, talk faster, work faster, do everything fast CT than any other people #en the face of the earth, 4 people Of the greatest natural vigor and tle greatest enter. i prise in tho world, we have pampered our life and emasculated cur strength and largely impaired the Yirility of our national life by q protective tariff Manliness asserts its mastery in the same way in manufacturing as it does ill every walk of life. The men in pro fessions who ask Eo fay0fs. but get out l upon tho dusty arena and fglle for ] lead, gro the men who gain strength by every effort Give IS 70 years eff free trade, and we would capture from Eng land ene-fonfth of her sast trade, Give ns 20 years cf free trade, and NC will lead the world as exporters
 ''The prot, tive ssstem has deaaueh od pablic men and corrupted public life Give any body ef Hen, however pure. the power to tako &1Q0.000, 000 from the pockets ef the millions and trunsfsr il 10 the pockets of few men through an aet of legislation. and you have created q eo1rnpfins power which will destroy the viltue sssl the patriot ism of that body ef men.
 Ne shall never get lid Of the evil: wiiah I have described until every dol lar raised by taxation is raia into the national treasury until zge stop entire ly this practice cf allowing the right of government 10 tax property 10 be used for the purpose of allowing tho nann- faeturer to prohibit importaions, form trusts and rob. our people ef hundreds of millions of dollars each year
 Tho remedy is in direct taxation Every man has right te know exactly what he pays toward the expenses of goverinnent, and direct taxation is the only means of stopping tie lavish ex- penditure of public money
 For ! period cf ten years between i791 and lS00 inclusive with tariff of S1s per. cent unen foreign imports, and at the very time when NO were go. ing to the great expense ef establishing cur government, the cost ef government was only SIS. 6S per eapifa for the ten years. From 1S5l to isG0 inclusive, un= der tariff for ievenHe only, the cest of government was only &al.S8 per capita for the ten years From 187l to lSSe inclusive the actual running expenses q government had risen to SIaG ] per capita, more than six times the amount l required undera tafil9 for revenue only, and during the last fen years the cost of government has teen increasing.
 As natlop we ean stand ihls lavish l eSnetidit1re of ihe nean!a.a naaaeg. hat