Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02
FREE TRADE WILES.
ATTEMPTS ToGNK TIE TRUST AND
'TARFF ISSUES.

Farmers That would Attend the
Removal of Protective Duties ms -
Remedy For Combines.
1t will be somewhat difficult under
taking for the free trade press to show
chat crust is any more of Repub,
lican cooperation than trust is
Democratic union. Twist the shares Of
stock which way you will, hold them
mp to the light of the sun or candle.
and in vain will you look for a party
label or finger mark We heard good
Democrat say the other day that he in
tended to be against trusts as soon as
he succeeded in selling his mill for
twice the sum it is worth No farmer
can pose as an honest weed hater if he
shuts his eyes and hoes up both the
weeds and the beans 1t is safe to say
that he dislikes beans. So is it with the
free trader who pretends that he objects
to protective tariff "because it fosters
trusts. He is in love with free trade
j. E., idle American workers and busy
foreign merchants-and if trusts or any
other known thing but poverty could
flourish under that un-American system
he would point to that thing until his
outstretched hand grew as stiff as a
poker. The factory the free trader own
ed has been sold to "the trust. " He has
in his pocket all the cash he ever ex.
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~ ne 'i'''i NO "" -
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and now it Is his expressed opinion that
Henry Clay and others never asked for
giant industl les to be protected, but
lrtaut Industries only, and he asks that
the tariff he removed and the workers
1n the giant Industries be thrown
our of empoyment
When sGme of the old advocates OF
protection 10 American industry asked
fcr tariff for protective purposes, il,
dustries were not only infants, but they
scarcely existed The old advocates saw
a sure way 20 gain work for idle Amer
leans, men and women, at some wages
The cry was Give us workl'' Europe
is supplying us with necessities at high
prices, while with tariff it is posi-
Die for rs to supply our own wants and
gain employment at the same time.
, The wage question did not enter into
the problem except SO far as it would
give wages where no wages existed 1t
was going too far to imagine that with
the tariff not only the mill and factory
would come and tie wages, but that in
time the compensation would first be
. much less than thlt abroad, then become
equal and il, tina ,ontgroXv. rppst - /,
~ W. "A'' ~, o' 40 "'7I p"ieI 20 q - "" -
r L"I 'i,9 SanIe ilio VI NoiA Aitnou8Li
/ me on" say !"S rlo'eet!o" 70 Alierl
10 can iliu us'li39 was Iol 'in"C" III use,
Y ~ was uISco'eI0' tIIa' 'ii9 u "o name "a
/ Tue piooiein wa Iiocec'loi' 70 amen.
5 can l"DoI anu An Int iG ID. "aSes' Il
:. pr"tectloh plo'Sn' inUo existence
a WAGES mat Wages US u INT"
|. II Iolio"eC tn"' 'no hisnei lile wages
h 'he greater he@ lol hl8heI 'arlh 10
q pIolecC theHl' HFeH 'llo llouerate Tree
. tfaoer ooes notopJecO 70 tarIH that
i represents Ihe 'lllereilce pe'Weeh wages
$ ABROAD ana wages III the Ohltea states.
but sucn an 1eNhoW!eogment carries
t, win IL tLue 'euuo' 1oh tn"t wage
Fate Oh 9lo "eeA lequlieS SreaGer
L protectlon 'hah d wage rate OF SIO a
d week, Inc question Is therefore one OF
d wages ana "ha'eFer .he wages are
10 unGer "oIkinS 'alill 'hey VIII always
go GOWN WIN leu"Ceu piotecIloh.
IN trust Is an eFll UhaI no honest
N man should attempt TO INK with pro-
il tectlVe tarIH' true projection, when It
is allowed an uhqistoroeo trlal' always
given worn 10 Inc masses ana places
spare money ID 'nelr pockets Tor invest
heht purposes anu az S'ch tihles me
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