Hutchinson gazette., 1899-04-06

always been one OF the leading organs
for q protective tariff, sayG
The organization of vast corpora
tlons, heavily overcGpItalized, which
monopolize entire industries and Whose
avowed object Is to exclude competi-
tlon, must vitality altar public opinion
aud the demands OF public policy on
the protective duties imposed for the
benetito OF these industries Protection
assumes, as fundamental principle,
that high duty will be accompanied
by free internal competition. . v
This competition will operate both TO
reduce the price at which the article
produced 10 sold by the manufacturer
and Increase that at which tho manu-
facturer buys labor, because, both in
selling his product and In hiring his
hands, the manufacturer Is competing
with other protected manufacturers.
II the Tin Plate trust advances the
price OF tin plato, us II has begun to
do, the duty on tin plate will be put In
the most serious peril, This duty was
imposed TO create competitive domestic
industry, and TO enable trust TO earn
money on a capital OF S50,0OO,OOO, So
with the Paper trust. In the lust 6s-
cal year, 1893, the exports Of printing
paper were l07, 405, d03 pounds, worth
81, ,T0s,35l. An export Of this magni-
tude shows that paper can DO made at
least us cheap here as anywhere else,
yet even with these exports, Us long as
domestic competition exists, the duty
10 valuable TO maintain this competis
tion. The international paper com
pany has destroyed this domestic COM
petition. II Is imposing on all con-
sumers OF paper the burden Of paying
dividends on capital Of $4,000, 900
when its plant could be replaced for
$4,000, 900, The first step under these
conditions ought TO be TO admit Cana
dian paper and paper pulp free In the
treaty now under negotiation with
Canada, II this does not give the
needed competition, paper and paper
pulp should go on the FREQ list, and
foreign competition should replace the
domestic competition destroyed by the
paper trust
The extent TO which trusts are grow
ing is becoming alarming. They seem
to multiply in both hard times and
good times
There has not yet been found n way
for farmers to form n trust TO sustain
normal prices for their products
Farmers are at the mercy Of railroads
and Of competitive prices in world
market The prices Of farmers pro-
duets aro determined In Liverpool
minus the freight charges made by
combined carrying companies. Farm
ers nre not protected by either tariff
or bounty, yet for what he buys he
must pay trust prices, and these trusts
arc protected by our tariff laws. Our
enormous exports that we have been
boasting so much Of for the past few
years and which give heavy "balance
of trade" IN our favor are made up
very largcly-threc-fourths or more
of agricultural products Yet we
grant the farmer no protection, either
directly or indirectly Except on wooD,
and make him pay trust prices for most
that he has to buy, as our tariff laws
protect the trusts. We have law
against trusts, but we have never yet
had an attorney general who would
endorse IT,. 1t is said that the attor-
neys general under every recent adj
have been corporation or
trust attorneys, At any rate the anti
trust law is practically dead letter,
for these Illegal organizations thrive
and multiply in spite of It, We want
just and equitable laws and equality
under the law. When will we get
such simple justice as this?-Dr G. r.
Taylor's Monthly Talk" In Medical
World.