The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-23
OLE LONDON MoNoPo1K.


Representatives of the English beef in
dustry complain of the "pernicious mon
opoly" which American beef has secured
in London.
Beef is one of our great American in
dustries not protected by tariff. Flour,
boots and shoes, and dairy produce, are
others of the non-protected. The reason
that beef is not protected industry is,
that in its early day of development it
was not in the hands of a big few, but
was distributed among the farmers and
butchers of the land in every town and
hamlet; and so there was no organized
effort to secure for it tariff protection as
an infant industry" The reason why
flour is not a protected industry, similar
ly, is that the milling industry is carried
on in every farm hamlet In America and
in the early days of tariff tinkering there
was no powerful few to own and operate
| congressional flour lobby Boots and
shoes, also, in the days of high tariff in
PRODUCTION, were manufactured by the
small shoemakers of America in every
village and city corner, and so the i'm
agination of washington politicians was
not inspired by hired lobby to the idea
that boots and shoes needed the tariff
| cradle The same is true of dairy prod
ucts, which flow from the little dairy
plants of thousands of American farms
and local creameries.
American beef, Upholstered by tariff
| nurture, has made it's way into the mar
kets of the world, and today, according
to the wall of English beef producers,
has secured a monopoly even Of the Lon
don trade-an achievement as great as
that of monopolizing the Newcastle coal
market What American beef has done
IN London American flour has accom-
plished, not only in London, but in
large proportion of the flour markets of
every continent. From Havana to Lon
don. and from Hamburg to Hongkong,
American bread is an important con-
stituent of the bone and Drawn of civil
lied people. AS for American beef. it is
part and parcel of the blood and Drawn
of the beef-fed Englishman; and the
American shoe walks into every mart
where there Is civilized foot
If the beef, butter, -four, and boot and
shoe industries are able, not only to with
stand foreign competition at home. but
to invade successfully the markets of the
greatest competitors abroad, why is it
that American cotton goods, American
iron, American lumber, and American
sugar and salt cannot do the same?
There Is no reason whatever More
over none is seriously offered. The hro
tected baron who owns an interest in the
political machine which insures him his
tarin tolls, says to the American people:
I've got what L wanted and 1 have paid
the fellows who got it for me; now. what
are you going to do about it,"
There is not a child but knows that
there is no more justice or need of pro-
tecting the white pine lumber barons
from foreign lumber than of protecting
the Red river valley wheat producers
Everyone knows that American cottons
require no more protection, from any
point of view, than American boots and
shoes. What American beef, butter and
flour have done by independent develop
ment without government tariff bonuses
American iron and steel and American
salt and sugar can do. From the stand
point of labor or capital involved. the
protected and unprotected industries
stand on the same basis. The difference
is purely political. and not industrial.
Hypocrisy built on paid Hobbies and
campaign subscriptions is the right name
OF the so-called protective system" If
We are to be held up" by these politi-
cal highwaymen, let US at least have the
deed committed under its proper name.
Minister (1OnStanc