The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-04-30
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1901.
THE RECORD AND THE TARIFF,

The editor of the Helena Record
an excellent gentleman and a good re
publican. but in his eagerness to
serve his party he puts himself into
some very embarrassing situations.
For instance, few weeks ago in dis
cussing the assertion that whatever ex
cuse there may have been for a pro
tective tariff against foreign manu-
facturors twenty years ago there is
absolutely no such excuse now, the
Record said:
Ii congress should enact such I'm
wise law and tear down the tariff
schedules, the products of the pauper
labor combines in England, France.
Germany and Belgium would be
thrown upon our markets, which
would be monopolized by them, with
perhaps competition from our larg-
est combinations.
To which the Bee made the follow
ing rejoinder:
The truth is that the protective tar
if by excluding foreign competition en-
ables the protected manufacturer to
hold up the American farmer for $3.50
for binder, while he sells the same
machine to the foreign farmer for
800, in addition to paying transporta-
ton charges.
In answer to the above the Record
of the 9th said:
The Bee uses the same old free
trade story that has served so long
as the greatest argument against pro-
tection-that under protection Amer
lean manufactures are sold at less
prices abroad than in this country.
The assertions SO frequently made
have not been proved.
The Record should certainly keep a
memorandum of what it says from
day to day to avoid reversing itself
tor having said on April p that were
the tariff removed the products of the
pauper labor of England would be
thrown upon our markets, which would
be monopolized by them, it now comes
just eight days later and reverse Itself
as follows:
We sell our goods to free trade Eng
land lower than the English manufac
turers can and the people of the
world trade with us and buy more
goods from us than was ever dreamed
of few years ago.
On the 21st of April the Record wa.
in fear that the pauper labor product:
of England would flood our market.
were the tariff removed, and on tn,
9th of April the Record proudly as
serts that I'VE sell our goods to fire.,
trade England lower than the Eng
fish manufacturers can" One da.
the Record is trembling in fear O
the pauper labor of England and tn
next day it boastfully asserts that w
can undersell that same pauper labo
in its own market. One day tn
Record walls that if the tariff is re
moved the poor trusts will be at tn
mercy of the pauper labor product
of England and next day, getting ne,
courage from some source, it says tina
If the pauper products OF England ar
not to be driven from their own ma
ket by American products they wi
have to be protected by a tariff.
Now the Record should really e
on record and stay there. Either tn
American market is in danger of b
ing flooded by the products of En-
fish pauper labor or it is not. Eth,
the English pauper labor products al
in danger of being driven from the
own markets by the American "fr
dinner pail products. or they a
not. The Record is alternately ru
ming with the hares and chasing wi
the hounds. 1t should try to be CO
sistent.
AMI " ~l-,7eA,