Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-26
Massaohusett.' Awful threat.

DIR. William Shaw Bowen, Washing
ton correspondent for the New York
World, says: Senators Lodge and
Hoar, together with most of the other
New England senator's, are alarmed
over the duty on raw hides The story
comes from Massachusetts, by telegram
dozens aud hundreds of them-that
Massachusetts will quit the republican
party unless she can have free hides
Such men as Senator'S Mantle, Shoup
and Carter bristle like porcupines ~
the defiance from the Bay state"
Nothing than this better illustrates
the fallacy OF the protection theory
Lodge and Hoar both high protection
lists, favor protection as applied to
leather, the thing their state has tc
sell, but they are rank free traders
when it comes to hides, the thing their
state must buy. Mantle, Shoup and
Carter are also protectionists, but they
want tariff on hides as we'll as leath-
er. Mantel, Shoup and Carter are of
those who argue that the foreigner
pays the tax and therefore they want
him to pay tax on hides. If it be true
that the foreigner pays the tax, why
should we not obtain some tax from
the foreigner on the raw material used
by Massachusetts factories as we'll as
upon the finished product sold by
Massachusetts, factories?
The threat that Massachusetts will
quit the republican party unless she
can have free hides" is interesting,
coming as it does from such disting-
uished protectionists as Lodge and
Hoar. What novelty for the e. o. p.
leaders in the old Bay state to threaten
to take Massachusetts out of the re-
publican party unless the benefits of
free trade are granted to the raw ma
terial used by Massachusetts, factories!
And may we of the untutored west in
quire, if Massachusetts is to go out OF
the republican party because the &. o.
p. will not give her free trade on the
articles which Massachusetts buys,
why should Iowa remain in the repub-
lican party when the benefits of free
trade-so highly appreciated by Mass
achusetts protectionists-are withheld
from the things Iowa buys?
And in this connection may we noa
also ask, why not if the foreigner pays
the tax, abolish all internal taxes and
! and obtain the expenses ofgovernment
from the foreigner? But it is hardly
fair to pin down the poor foreigner on
leather and permit him to escape en-
tirely on hides. -World-Herald.
The worlds iEgratitude to labor ia
the worst of its wrongs Its toilers are
ever upon the verge of outrage. The
compensation it pays industry is misery
low wages, coarse raiment, squalid
habitation and mean sustenance-a
condition the nursery for crime. The
burdens of society rest heavily upor
labor, its greatest of benefactors anc
curses and lashes are the result of it,
goodness. Why should this be? The
compensat ation of that which places q
palace above your head. feast upon
your table, robe upon your back, and
furnishes you with every necessity of
human effort, is treatee with contempt
and contumely. Labor should never
be satisfied or contented until il re-
elves its just reward
Laboring men be happy! Your Re-
publican friends have placed assafeti-
da, bladders, skeletons, human hair,
acorns and snails on the free list, and
left Immigration unrestricted. You
are protected.
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