Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-08

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fostering the sale OF exports to for
eigners cheaper than to our own peo-
pie may force Europe to combine
against us, but all would lose by such
protest against International trade
The tendency is toward free-trade and
more of 1t and those who invite an
economic war, much more military
one, for their own agrandizement will
not be backed up by the American
people.
First Voters, beware!
The American Protective Tariff
League, an organization composed Of
1000 protected manufacturers who
pay 800 year each in dues and who
contribute generously besides, Is send
ing thousands OF circular letters
throughout the country in an endeavor
to secure the names of all first voters
in 1904. The letter says that "a great
number of young men do not look upon
protection as vital interest to them
selves and to their country. No time
should be lost in placing In the hands
of such young voters series Of pro-
lection literature especially adapted.
Young voters. when you get the num-
erous pamphlets which will be sent
to you at the expense of these pro-
tected manufacturers, ask yourselves
n few questions like the following:
l. AS am not a manufacturer, why
should vote for tariff duties which
prevent competition from foreign man
.ufactured goods and enable American
manufacturers to form a trust and
obtain higher prices?
2. How can a duty on goods protect
labor?
3. With labor on the free list and Inn
migrants focking to this country UNI
checked at an average rate of 5000 per
day, why should l vote for system
to make goods dear and increase the
cost of living?
4. Being farmer and knowing that
the prices Of grains are fixed In for
eign, free-trade markets, why should
vote to maintain a bogus tariff on
wheat and corn. which serves as
cover to the genuine protection ON
manufactured goods?
4 5. Why should manufacturers who
are selling goods all over the world
\ at free-trade prices be encouraged by
a high tariff to sell the same goods
here at so or 100 per cent higher
d prices?
g., Why should vote money out Of
my pocket and into the pockets Of the
protected trusts?
q Z. Does the Protective Tariff League
think that we young voters are ever
Z lasting chumps and that we can be
] duped by its thinly disguised sophis-
! try?
Z These and other similar questions,
J taken before and after, will render
J, tariff league literature inocuous and
harmless even when taken in ton
lots. The worst thing that could hap
pen to protection and Its ecIariaG.
j the manufacturers, Is I'd
! discussions In our
, organizations and 9homes -
League is pplyipe
5000 papers every 1T has kept
. steadily Mt this WORT for fifteen years.
! Its membep nave become millIonaires.
3 and mulN.millionaires in the mean.
9 time. fhey are interested in having
r the farmers and wOrkingmen believe
J that all Of our prosperity, our good
! crops. our fertile soil. are due to pro
a tection." They know well that ..pro.
q lection enables the trusts to skim
9 the cream off our prosperity and leaves
e only the skinned milk for the farm.
/ loh Dat .n~v.
e them for asking US to support this sys-
tenn? We can stop the tariff plumber
e ing when we know and vote for our
own interests. Why not do It?
I BYRON w. HOLT.
> Other Departments Need PROBING.
While the public eye is centered on
!. the postoffice scandals 1t Ia well to
remember that other departments Of
the government need probing just az
badly and perhaps even more so.
/. What little has come to light about
n the inside workings OF the war de-
n partment have shown that corruption
J. and cruelty have had full play In
/. some Of the bureaus Secretary Root
n Is smart politician and SO far
b he has been able to keep from the
Q public the baneful doings Of his de-
d partment, but 1t Is quite probable that
before n few months have passed
v more light will be thrown on some
n of the transactions. Gen. Miles will
e retire in August and will then be free
d to give his attention to some Of the
|. abuses that have come to his notice.
d which he has called to the attention
) of the Secretary of War and the
n President, but have never been made
e public. The procedure in the war
o department has been similar to that
If of the postofiice. namely, to make light
If of charges and dispose of them, by al
lowing those interested in. suppressing
n Investigation, to report that most
l. exemplary condition prevails, The
q land department also needs investiRa-
L ton for the cattle barons are still al
y lowed to hold the settlers by the throat
n on the western plains, by retaining
r. their barbed wire fences around hun
y dreds of thousands of acres of public
N land and In some cases have murdered
ts those who would maintain their rights.
- Trust Control and Publicity.
~ The new department Of Commerce
:, and labor has been very busy for the
" past few months, but the principal
: = business accomplished has been the
4 appointment Of Republican patriots ia
a good fat Jobs. The trusts. combines
= and corporations have SO far not met
u with any encouragement from the new
4 department and commerce and labor
10 have not received any encouragement
n but the chiefs and the large army Of
m clerks are receiving their salaries with
p great regularity. All Of which is said
"a to be giving great satisfaction to the
" administration and as the demand for
n patronage has been SO much dimin,
ID ished by the number of good places
IL that have been filed we are prepared
! TO credit this statement Tho only