The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
IT'S A GREAT CURSE.
PROTECTIVE SYSTEM ARRAlGN.
ED BY FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Pampers and Enervates Industries
and Debauches FoIitics-With Free
Raw Materials Our Machine Made
At Free Trade Lcagne Dinner.

Goods Would Soon Capture the World
At Free Trade Lcagne Dinner.
The principal speaker at tie annual
dinner Ct the New England Free Trade
league, held on May s, was Mr.. Frank
lin Pierce of New York. He handled
his subject without gloves He said in
part as follows:
mot only are the farmers beginning
to appreciate the truth that protection
| robs them and their families, but our
manufacturers, as the products of their
looms exceed the demand of the home
market, are understanding that pro-
tectiye tariff, especially upon their raw
material, is against their interests.
''The present population of the world
is about ! 400, 600, 900, aud only 40O,-
900, 900 use machinery at all. The rest
do their wCrk by rude tools guided by
the hands, and we, the Yankee nation,
who have reyolutionized 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 1000, 100000 of nonma-
chine using people create, to enter our
ports in exchange for machine made
products, except upon the payment of
excessive duties, while the more intelli-
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
steady market and continued service
for our 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 i'll 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 lalior 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
er than any other people Oh 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 emasculated our strength
and largely impaired the virility of our
national life by protective tariff.
Manliness asserts its mastery in 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 rs 10 years of free
trade, and we would capture from Eng
land one-fourth of her vast trade. Give
us 90 years Of free trade, and we will
lead the world as exporters.
"The protective system has debauch-
ed public men and corrupted public
life. Give any body Of men. however
pure, the power to take 500, ZOO, 900
from the pockets Of the millions and
transfer it to the pockets of a 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.
''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.
1.-THE remedy is in direct taxation.
Every man has right to know exactly
government, and direct taxation is the |
only means Of stopping the lavish ex-
penditure of public money.
For period of ten years between
1871 and 1900 inclusive, with tariff |
of 81 per cent upon foreign imports, |
and at the very time when we were 60
ing to the great expense Of establishing |
our government, the cost of government |
was only s1S.6 6S per capita for the ten |
years. From 1851 to 1860 inclusive, un- |
der tariff for revenue only, the cost of |
government was only s21. per capita
for the ten years. From 1871 to 1880 !
inclusive the actual running expenses of |
government had risen to S136. Al per |
capita, more than six times the amount |
under tariff for revenue only, |
and during the last ten years the cost |
of government has been increasing.
GAS nation we can stand this lavish |!
of the peoples money, but
we can never stand the luxuries, the
iniquities, the lack of patriotism which |
great wealth, quickly acquired, is sure
to bring.
ave can be robbed by a protective
tariff aud still live, but when the rob-
ber 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 |
in the momentous sweep of battle. They |
rather die from the poison which the |
lobbyist and the vote buyer infuse into |
tho body polite.
1.-THE mad riot of protection will soon |
be over. The evidences of the revolution |
which shall destroy it are upon every
hand. Its growth has been an evidence |
Of what self interest and audacity and |
etfrortery can accomplish as against the /
people not united by any bonds save |
these of the public welfare
Six and FaIf Il Dozen.
If the whole truth, and not Il part of |
it merely. were to be brought to light |