Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-05-29
A GREAT CURSE.
PROTECTION HAMPERS AND FINER. YATES INDUSTRIES AND DE
 BAUCHES POLITICS.

of Government - Mad Protection Eio' ] wiH Soon Be Over.
 The principal speaker at the annual dinner of the New England Free Trade league, held on May $, was MT Frank lin Piereo of New York He handled his suluect without gloves. He said ii part as,foll9ws:
 Not on.y are the farmers beginning to appreciate the truth that protection rois them and their families, but aul manufacturers, as the products of then looms exceed the demand of thc home market, are understanding that pro tective tariff, especially upon their raw matorial, s against their interests.
 'The present population of the world is about ,400. 000, GOO, and only 400, 000, 000 use machinery at all The rest do their work by rude tools guided by tho hands, and we, the Yankee nation, who have reyelationized the world by our inventions. who use machinery to q greater extent than any other people, we refuse to allow the raw material which these ,000, 0oo d00 of nonma- chine using people create 10 enter our ports in exchange for machine made products, except upon the payment ol excessive duties, while the more mtelh- gent of onr manufacturers are elainor- ing for free raw material and saying, 'GiYe 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 hut the output several times greater than at present, getting thereby n steady market and continued service for our labcring classes, our trusts and combinations are hiring their cempeti. tors to close their factories and throw tens of thousands of laboring men out of employment
 We have only Go get freedom of trade and we can captHre tho markets of tho world in many lines What the Englishman is to the German the American is to the Englishman, and just as the German is crying cut against competition with tho machine made goods and high priced labor of Engiaua just so would England cry out against competition with tho machine mada goods and the high prleed labor of America. wero duties upon all raw ma. terials removed.
 We Americans walk faster, talk faster, work faster, Go 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 ill the world, we have pampered our life and emaseuated our strength and largely impaired tho yiriHty of ou1 national life by protective tariff Manliness asserts it's mastery in the same way i'll manufacturing as it does in every walk of life. The men in pro fessious who ask no favors, but get out upon the dusty arena and fight for q lead, arc the men who gain strength by every effort Givo us 10 years of free trade, and we would capture from Eng land one-fourth of ier vast trade. Give us 20 years of free trade, and we will lead tho world as exporters.
 'Thc protective system has debauch. od pBblie men and corrupted public life. Give any hody of men, howevel pure, the power to take @100, ,000, COG from tho pockets of the millions and transfer it to the pockets of few men through an act of Legislation, and you have created eorrupting power which will destroy the viltue and the patriot ism of that body of men,
 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 NO stop entire ly this practice of allowing the right of government to tax property to be used for tho 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- pendituTe of public money.
 For period of ten years between 179l and 1900 inclusive, with tariff of s E per cent upon foreign imports and at the very time when we were go ing to the great expense of establishing our government, the cost of government was only $lS6 per capita for the ten years. From 1851 10 1860 inclusive, un. der tariff for ieyenue only the cost of government was only $2i, 88 per capita for the ten years From 1871 to I8SC inclusive the actual runniug expenses of government had risen to $l36 i per capita, more than six times the amount required under tariff for revenue only, and during the last ten years the cost of government has been increasing.
 As nation we can stand this lavish expenditure of the people, money, but we can never stand the luxuries, the iniquities, the lack of patriotism which great wealth. quickly acquired, is sure to bring.
 We can be robbed by a protective tariff and st'll live. but when the rob Der takes the money and buys special legislation and turns it over to cam. paign committees to buy votes with, the very life of free government is as. sailed. Nations do not go down to death II the momentous sweep of battle. They rather die from the poison which the lobbyist aud the vote buyer infuse into the body polite.
 "The mad riot of protection will soon be ever. The evidences of the revolution which shall destroy it are upon every hand. Its growth has been an evidence If v hat eolf iutprest and audacitv anf