The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-26
Why Maintain the TARIFF

ling statement:
If we can undersell European man
Iufacturers in their own home mar
kets, what excuse is left for maintain
ing a trust fostering Tariff?
The editor and publisher of the
New York american" is William
Randolph Hearst, who is widely
talked Of as candidate of the Dem
ocratic party for President for 1904.
| If the American people should
elect man for President of the
United States in 1904 who favors
the principles laid down in the
above statement they will demons
rate to the world their incapacity
for self government.
Within the last thirty years they
have had two or three oppo,tunl'
ties to learn the great value of Pro.
lection to American industries in
this country and the terrible losses
inflicted upon the people when that
Protection was overthrown.
Cleveland's last administration
ought to have convinced every man
in the United States that Protect
i've Tariff is what the people of this
country need to promote general
business prosperity.
The "excuse" for maintaining
Protective Tariff is. it enables us to
produce nearly all the products we
consume, and the money which the
production of those products costs
is paid to our own people instead
of sending it to foreign producers
Our manufacturing industries, ac-
cording to the census of 1900,
amount to about SIS, 900, 900, 900
year. No country on the face OF
the earta has ever grown in wealth
more rapidly than the United States
has done during the period of Pro-
lection which we have been having
during the last thirty years.
A Protective Tariff gives Ameri-
can manufacturers and their en-
ployees an advantage over the for
eigners in supplying our people
with products. We have popula
tion now of about 50, ooc, coo, 3o,-
100000 of which are producers.
By maintaining a Protective Tariff
we can keep these producers all en-
ployed, pay them good wages and
al grow ,ich marvelously fast. But
if foreigners supply ouI consumers
with foreign manufactured products
md our working people are kept in
illeness, soon poverty and starva
ton are brought upon them.
A significant example of the dis
lsters to American industries of low
Tariff was seen during President
Cleveland's last administration. In
Harrison's administration, preced.
ing Cleveland's, the Government
paid off the public debt At the rate
of nearly SIoo, 900, 900 per annum,
and the debt was reduced to $685.
900. During the first two years OF
Cleveland's administration the pub
lie debt increased S262, 900, 900 and
large portion of the manufactur-
ing and agricultural business of the
country was terribly Frustrated.
Workingmen were out of employ
ment, the country was filled with
tramps, business men went into
bankruptcy, all products sold a,
ruinous rates and there was general
disaster throughout the country.
Note the change that has taken
place since the election of McKin.
ley under the Dingley Tariff bill.
We have almost doubled our manu-
factured products in one decade.
There never was time in the his.
tory of the country when there was
greater prosperity than there has
been during the last three or four
years under the present Tariff.
To elect William Randolph
Hearst, or any other man who
favors a reduction of the Tariff,
would bring greater disaster to this
country than has ever been brought
before. Unless active measures are
taken by the friends of Protection,
conditions very strongly indicate
that man as popular as Hearst has
made himself among the working
classes stands a good chance of be.
ing the next President of the United
States, even main tanning such views
as he does in regard 10 Protection
Hearst ignoles the fact that the
Standard on Company, the most
prominent of all trusts, was develop
ed in this country when there was
no Tariff on petroleum oil, and he
ignores the fact also that Great Brit.
ain, a Free-Irade country, has
about as many dangerous trusts as
We have in the United States, where
We have Protection.
We had better maintain a Pro.