The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-06-19


products, except upon the payment Of
excessive duties, while the more intelN-
gent Of our manufacturers are clamor-
ing for free raw material and saying,
Give us free raw material, and we
will conquer the markets Of the world.
"Instead Of seeking the markets Of
the world, employing millions Of men
now 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
for oqr laboring classes, our trusts and
combinations are hiring their competi.
tors to close their factories and throw
tens of thousands Of laboring men out
Of employment. ~
"We have only to get freedom of
trade and we can capture the markets
Of the world in many lines. What the
Englishman is to the. German the
American is to the Englishman, and
just as the German is crying out against
competition with the machine made
goods and high priced labor of England,
just so would England cry out against
competition with the machine made
goods and the high priced labor of
America, were duties upon all raw ma
terials removed.
"We Americans walk faster, talk
faster, work faster, do everything fast
or than any other people on the face
Of the earth. A people Of the greatest
natural vigor and the greatest enter
prise in the world, we have pampered
our life and emasoulated our strength
and largely impaired the virility Of our
national life BY a protective tariff.
Manliness asserts its mastery ID the
same way in manufacturing as It does
in every walk OF life. The men in pro-
fessions who ask no favors. but get out
upon the dusty arena and fight for a
lead, are the men who gain strength by
every effort. Give US 10 years Of free
trade. and we would capture from Eng
land one-fourth of her vast trade. Give
us 20 years of free trade, and we will
lead the world as exporters. ILL.,
''The protective system has debauoh-
ed public men and corrupted public
life. Give any body Of men, however
pure, the power to take 800, 600, 900
from the pockets of the millions and
transfer it to the pockets of few men
through an act of legislation, and you
have created a corrupting power which
will destroy the virtue and the patriot
ism Of that body of men.
1--WE shall never get rid Of the evils
which have described until every dol
lar raised by taxation is paid into the
national treasury; until we stop entire
ly this practice Of allowing the right of
government to tax property to be used
for the purpose of allowing the manu-
facturer to prohibit importations, form
trusts and rob our people of hundreds
OF millions of dollars each year.
'The remedy is in direct taxation.
Every man has right to know exactly
what he pays toward the expenses Of
government, and direct taxation is the
only means Of stopping the lavish ex-
penditure Of public money. :s sz II. III
"For q period Of ten years between
1891 and 1900 inclusive, with tariff
and at the verv fine when pc were 90, ~
ING to tina great exnensa r. astahl;al;no
our poyernment. the cost a. governments
was only s18. "a ner can;tn fnr tho tan
years From 1sbi "a 1af,f ;nclnsiva m.
der a tariff for ,evanna nnly tha cest 8. =
.poyernmDent wa, o,nlv AL - ,,a,. nan, =
for the ten Years From 1s71 - 18eo
inclusive the actual rnnninp ernanses 81
government had risen 70 &I:s8 a ner
capita. more than six times the amount
required under tariff fnr revenue onIv
and during the last ten years the cost