Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-27
UNJUST TARIFF LAW
FAvORITE EXPRESSION OF DO
MESTIC FREE-TRADERS.
Woaid BE Hard to Name Single
Interest That Is Injudiciously Affected,
Unless 1t BE Foreign Manufacturers
aud American Pawnbrokers.

Our unjust tariff laws" is a phrase
much in use these days by the psa
fessional American Cobdenite an. the
free trade press in general. TrJust to
whom?
The National Trea--rye
For two years our customs duties
have averaged $40 I'D. 900 a month,
nearly half the expenses of the gov
eminent ,exclrslve of the postal depart
ment, viii "A is nearly self-sustaining.
Our cp-Ioms revenue was never so
larre, and it is paid by those who can
lord to pay it.
The Capitalize?
American capital was never SO large
ly or prof1tably employed as now, not
only at home, but the world over.
The Wage Earnere
More people are employed today in
the United States than ever before in
our history, and these people are in
dividually and collectively working
more days in the year and getting
more pay for each days labor than in
any previous year or period.
Tho Consumerf
The cost of living is much lower to-
day than during the period when the
Wilson-Gorman free trade law was in
operation, and the general cost of llv-
ing is as low or lower than any time
in twenty-five years. There is such a
thing as commodities being too cheap.
The Farmer?
He is selling all he can raise at good
prices. He has paid of millions of
mortgages in the last three years, and
his farm has doubled in value.
Tho Ranreads1
The only complaint that comes from
railroads these dayc is lack of cars.
They are carrying more passengers
and more freight and paying higher
wages to more men, and stockholders
are receiving better dividends.
Our Banks, Etc?
These great repositories for money
reflect the prosperity of the working
Glass; by which we mean all who work
for wage or salary. Surplus income is
put in the bank, in the home or in the
insurance policy. This not only pro-
vides for the future but it furnishes
capital for great and small enterprises
and increases the number of employed
and adds to the great home market
which creates such a huge demand for
products of the farmer and factory. In
this way our Industries are diversified
and the endless chain of independence
is ceaselessly continued, gaining in
volume and strength at every turn
Again We ask, Unjust to whom? We
can think of only one class and that is
the pawnbroker and his kind.
Perhaps, however, our free trade
friends have in mind the foreign
manufacturers. Yes; our tariff law may
be unjust to them; but what law Di-
vine or human, demands that we go
naked and hungry and cold ourselves
to provide for our neighbor who should
provide for himself?
There never was a more just tariff
law on our statute books than the So
called Dingley law now in such sue
cessful operation. AS a measure for
revenue and for protection to our di-
versified industries and our millions of
laborers it is more than fulfilling the
expectations of it's trainers and most
thoroughly indicating their wisdom.
When it needs to be amended, as do all
tariff laws, to meet changed conditions
it will be amended on just basis. to
continue the greatest good to the
greatest number.