Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-03
PROTECTION RIDlCuLED
Leader Williams Tells What II
Is and How 1t Works.
THE GREAT BANANA INDUSTRY
S-otection Robs Many to produce
..,nc,.l Prosperity-The Way t"
Raise the Price of Bananns-''"'-
ho,.e. Cannot be Expected Z"
ro~nete With Tropical sunshine

The Hon. John Snarp w III" i''' ' ~
new minority leader in congress- ID III
making his Republican opponents "f'- :"
oomf mfortable whenever he rises to speak ia
which is quite often. In his rattlinS "
snooch on Cuban reciprocity he said i'll x
part: ~
.Protection is system OF taxation :"
wboreby many are robbed in order thar - -
few men may be hothoused by lcgls- ..
,a+;on into artificial prosperity. AS
sunnlementary definition protection is il
system of taxation whereby capl'ai ai'o il
labor are DETECTED from naturally prot :
table pursuits and enterprises INTO the
channels of naturally unprotltable paf.
suits and enterprises. And as Il coFoi-
,arv the method whereby they are de
Acctcd is by the enactment OF laws ,
forcing the consumer to pay 10 the anu i
fcial hothoused enterprises Il hlSnei
nYicc than With y free cotnlHerce tne
consumer Hei.ll nave to pay
..Iha1 brings NC, Mr.. Chairman, TO
my fayGri,f ,}a!aAna theory. There Is
va. in the l,nilph &>iAtps. suppose,
,u,ar.,, acla.s of land where bananas
c,n ,,. CROWN i'll the open alF. ana yet
could were t,le reislatnG body or to15
country or We're the ear. with aDso1
lutte power and disposed to make peop1e
pay the price toi i, 'r'a'e sieat
American banana industry cou1o
nut Il tax OF dollar apiece on pahauaS
which are now selling at three for
nickel. and inside OF tive years coulu
with y GOOD custom house service nave
created and exploited vast banana
industry. 1t is true that great many
neople who formerly ate bananas conio
not buy any bananas at ALL but II IS
also true that great many people "no
are plutocrats and aristocrats Woulu
eat them because the common people
dasoes, Jerseyncn and Misslsslpplans-
could not
"If continued that system OF taxa
+,on in existence for twenty years at
the end Of that time there would nave
come to the front a new generation
that knew not Joseph nor cheap oa-
ronos and the moment sensible peo-
ple came into power with the idea OF
revising the banana schedule these gen
+,onen who knew not Joseph and haa
gone into the American banana Dusi
i ness and perhaps formed oahaha
VI trust would come to the comln1''et
lie room of the national Legislature. KNOCK
49, ino unon the doors all the time alls
giving utterance to cries OF unutterap'
y woe. .Are YOU going to strike down I'M
oroot American banana industry! AT
Won Going to reduce the duty from
dollar apiece on bananas TO 81 Genus
wo can't stand it. 1t will ruin u:
Are you going to make the people el
gagged in banana raising go TO the SOU
houses? Are you going to dlscrlilliha'
in favor of pauper troplcai sulshil
against self respecting American ~
house laborers.'
"Iet us stop a moment and folio
tho banana theory little further D
couso T am fond of bananas. Nh
would have been the result OF esta
fishing that industry? Merely tn
that YOU would have DETECTED Ct
tain amount Of American laDoi a'
I canital engaged in the general ~
house industry into a dlHereht cno
mel of hothouse proceedings ana
stead Of having their hothouses tor
purpose they have them now III
would have converted them into
mana nurseries, and the CONSUME
would he paving dollar apiece or p
hans 80 cents apiece for bananas
canse the protected interest would ne
tn undersell somewhat the foreign N
kets.
"After fifteen or twenty years no
comnetition' would have reduced
nrice of bananas in the American II
ket TO. LET us say, 40 cents apiece
+hcn Republican orators ana pOlltlc'
would say privately, in newspapers
q, tho stumn and within these w
with due solemnity and without
t,a, smile: 10 and behold! See
protective tariff has reduceo
nr;co of bananas from 90 cents ap
in 1850 to 40 cents apiece in 1861 II
lv 50 per cent decrease III prlce 10
consumer Protection dld II.
Eyes: reduction from superlatlV
tortion to comparative extortion.
"But in all this picture keep IN
one thing-while protection lasted
nanas would never reach three
n;cke, because If they did that p
:, enemy. tropical sunshine, woulc
master.
"What would you have accompl1s
Would YOU have increased the wag
labor? Not particle. You would
! ly have DETECTED capital from one
mel to another, from one sort OF
house production to another or
one production which was not
housed at all to hothouse produc
re - '''
All Is Lovely.
Our secretary of the treasury,
went over to Wall street the othe
N - A,..o froo1apflv-to or