Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-22
Hish.TariE Prosperity.

HiEh.TariF Prosperity.
The United States and Canada are
two great countries with border line
1900 miles long. Naturally 1t might
be supposed that an economic system
that would benefit one would also ben
eft the other. Such, however, does not
appear to be the case, II the statesmen
in charge are to be believed.
The Republicans who are at" In the
management of our trust ridden gov
eminent are perfectly certain that the
prosperity which they talk so much
about Ito make sure that we have it,
Is due to our high protection policy,
inaugurated five years ago. Canada
lowered her tariff duties about the time
we raised ours, and the statesmen
there are now crediting their prosper
ity to these lower duties. The Toronto
Globe says:
''ff under any scale of duties the
industries of a country are prospecting,
higher duties cannot be justified even
on grounds of eXpedlency. The coun-
try has now been for five years under
tariff very considerably lower than
that which prevailed In the previous
seventeen years, a period amply sutfi-
cient to test the efficacy of high pro-
lection. The prosperity of our indus.
tries under the low tariff has far ex-
ceeded that enjoyed under the high
tariff. That result is that the extreme
protectionists are forced back upon
the idea of retaliation pure and simple.
The United States will not buy our
goods as freely rs we buy theirs.
Therefore we must cut down orr
American imports until something like
equality is established. Germany has
made some foolish Determinations
against Canadian wheat; we must,
therefore, aim to strike blow at Ger
many. In this way the word protec-
tion loses its meaning. What is sought
is not the protection of our own indus
tries, but the injury of somebody else's.
This high tariff produces prosperity
in the United States and low tariff pro-
duces prosperity In Canada. Let well
enough alone and don't touch the high
tariff say our Republican statesmen.
LET well enough alone and don't
touch the low tariff" say the Canadian
statesmen.
Verify this is a queer world and the
tariff is a perplexing question! Is 1t
possible that five years of good crops
in both these countries and poor crops
in Europe have anything to do with
our prosperity? Is 1t certain that we
are prosperous at all, outside of the
protected trusts and the farming sec.
tons of the West? VIII not the trusts
soon have gobbled up all of the sur.
plus prosperity even of these Western
farmers?
Pennsylvania.
The State of Pennsylvania is at pres.
ent controlled by the associated iron,
steel and coal bandits, and the State
of Pennsylvania is therefore but an.
other name for the criminals who man.
age the coal roads and the coal mines
The governor of Pennsylvania is d
wretched creature of Matthew S. Quay
and his lawless associates. The Legis
lature of Pennsylvania Is an aggrega
ton of corruptionists representing botl
political parties, who are In the pay
of the predatory scoundrels who con
troll the State. Many of the courts OF
Pennsylvania are corrupt or cowardly
some of them making no attempt to
conceal the fact that they get theil
orders from the men who are masters
of the industry and the politics of the
State. Elections in. Pennsylvania are
conspicuous mockeries of free and
enlightened suffrage. Intimidation
bribery and false returns are habitual
Labor in Pennsylvania is the mos
impoverished. degraded and brutalizet
to be found anywhere on this hem
isphere. Nothing that America has
ever known equals the hopelessness
and the misery of large percentage
of the labor of Pennsylvania. The sla
very of the coal mines has had nc
counterpart in the United States since
the days of negro bondage, and ever
that infamy did not anywhere reduce
so many people in one congested dis
trict to such abject penury and woe.
Pennsylvania began Its career as
State rs one of the most moral, en-
lightened, just and democratic politica
societies in the world. AS the chiel
seat of the protective tariff Moloch
the principal altar of the high priests
of favorltism, privilege, monopoly ant
plumber, it has become politically, in
dustrially and socially the rottenes
Commonwealth OH earth.
People who would understand the an
thracite coal problem and people who
would attempt to settle 1t must com
prehend these facts. Many years of lie
galized crime and injustice are bearin,
their legitimate fruits. Chicago Chron
icle.
Shaw and Subtrcasuries.
Secretary Shaw, in an authorized in
terview, denies that he is making ar
attempt to abolish subtreasurics Thil
is unquestionably true. The Secretary
of the Treasury cannot abolish them
that is the work of Congress. But the
action Of the Secretary virtually rem
ders the subtreasury system nullity
He is conducting the public finances
in manner that reduces the subtreas
uries to minimum of Importance. AL
public funds paid into the subtreasur
les are checked out for current govern
ment expenses as rapidly as possible
A large share, il not all, of the public
funds not paid to the government