The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-07-21

than l have | am willing and want TO
see H. Since he has started In this way,
/ will try and help him TO keep the ball
rolling.
did not ask for enlightenment Of the
origin OF tariff. az / already knew II, and
was surprised that you so readily acknowl-
edged though perhaps unintentionally
expression OF free trade tariff is quite
a confiction, as anyone may see, as there
Is no such thing as free trade tariff.
For those interested In tariff here is
little tariff pointer, for their benefit
How high or how low should tariff be
TO protect the producer and consumer?
Suppose hat is produced IL Europe
for 80 cents and in America for 81. Sup
pose tariff OF 10 cents on the European
hat. and the American has an advan-
tage over the European equal 20 the cost
OF getting the goods from Europe TO
America. Hence he can undersell, and
still make the same profit as the Euro
pean This-deHe, the American could
hold the market. But If he charges ex-
oroitant prices the European will under
sell him, so while a small advantage will
enable the American 10 hold the market
against the European. it's smallness also
protects the American consumer against
the avarice OF the manufacturers.
Suppose we impose a tariff OF 30 cents
instead of 10 cents. The American can
raise the price of his hat % cents ana
still keep the European out clean gain
Of 20 cents 10 the American S1anufac-
turer and the American consumer is le-
gally robbed OF the amount
Master the above IDEAS and the tariff
will have lost much of It's mystery. We
once thought II quite rational when we
claimed 10 be in what we chose TO call
our infant industry stage, 10 use what
l call a little tariff pap. l will say II
might have been well enough 10 protect
~. g,,Fo hill lt
self by the use Of the pap, but when
the infant gets big enough TO raise a
moustache and kick the foot out of the
cradle, because he can't stop others from
having what they are entitled TO with
out his tariff pap. II Is about time TO take
the pap away
SO | think by the time we finish this
tariff question the Life Long Wage Earn
ers Advocate may lose much of his pap.
which is no advantage To the wage Garner
and no Socialist should endorse IT. The
Creator had provided all right for the
infant, but I'm consequence OF the selfish
ness, covetness avarlce and greed
Of man made laws (and tariff is one of
them) Is the cause OF the Infants indus
trial trouble For as Bobby Burns said
Mans inhumanity to man makes count
lees millions mourn"
| once knew n manufactures OF alto
mixers that believed In competition, also
In tariff. He employed a small number
Of men and held the market subject TO
his prices. but there came a time when
Germany could supply the market with
atomizers for less than he could buy the
material for making them.
Then, he did not like competition be-
cause he could not compete. Therefore
he wanted high tsrifr so TO keep foreign
trade out so he could extort from the
consumer all that II cast for manufactur-
Of
terial. which. OF course, the consumer
must pay, and wheh ] pointed out to him
IL was not the wage Garner or the con-
sumner that interested him most he be-
came quite angry and very reluctantly
acknowledged that all he cared for In the
matter was self
And so we most invariably see when
clearly scrutinzng the claims OF advo-
Gates OF tariff that they do IL from selfish
policy and not from good principles. So
you see the thing he once wanted he does
not want and vice versa. But never
mind, his jig is up. lie could not con-
tinue the business. lie had his way TO
his own hurt. as many do.
So struck the eagle stretched upon the
No more through rolling clouds to soar
again
Viewed his own feather on the fatal
dart
That had winged the shaft that ouivered
in his heart
Keen were his pangs, but keener far 90
feel
lie nursed the pinion which impelled the
steel
While the same piumage which had
warmed his nest.
Drank the last life drop from his bleed
ing breast
As have been obliged TO say so much
concerning the private letter shall have
90 omit any particular remarks on the
single land tax question at present. as
space will not permit mo 10 do II JUS
tice As he ls 40 mixed up with tariff
free-trade- ingle-tax Socialism and the
monetary question. but hope TO do 80
later on.
hut ! hope he will not for a moment
try 10 convey tho idea that ! am not
working for the wage earner's interest.
for m cannot nuku them believe IT. ~
they know too well 10 the contrary.
Thanking you for 20 generous a space In
the past 7 would ask you tu kindly grant
me the favor once more
DR. WILLIAM REX
"a Alverson Ave. Providence r. l.