The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-12-22
THE TARIFF RlPPERS

farmer and laboring man into the
idea that there is a most eXtrava
CANT tariff on hides that necessarily |
imposes a big tax on the wearer of
shoes.
The effort is to mlslead the voter
and cause him to vote against his |
own personal interests, The facts
in the case are tae tariff ads but a
few pennies to the price of pair OF
shoes provided the consumer pays
it all. According to the Dingley
bill about IS of the hides imported
came in free.
The duty on set of heavy har-
ness would be abont ISc, Oh high
grade shoe IL to I5c, on the better
grades of heavy work shoes 3 to sc.
SO much of this tariff talk comes
from dishonest men who wish to de-
ceive or from the ignorant who do
not know what they are talking
about.
We do not think any of our labor
ing men wish to go back to the
wilson. German era for the purpose
of getting this 3 cent day removed.
The gain tc the workman who might
save 3 cents on couple of pairs OF
shoes year would not go very far
towards compromising for the neces
sary cuts in wages and the enforced
loss of jobs. A great wall seems to
go up from few Of the manufact-
urers because we cannot control the
whole Of the world S trade
They seem willing TO give up this
wonderful home market, the best in
the world, for a chance to compete
in the German market, against En-
gland, France and all the rest, when
we have a ten times better one al
home and all to ouselves.
1t is good business to extend oul
commerce to the remote corners oil
the earth and get all the foreign
trade possible in legitimate way,
but not good business to get the
trade by sacrificing our own home
industries and markets. America
furnishes the best and greatest mar
ket in the world for all kinds of food
stuff and manufactured goods. The
great part of this great market is
only made possible by keeping our
10, 900, 900 of laborers at work at
good wages.
The American workman is a good
spender as well as Garner. His
wages 60 to buy the products of the
loom and thereby support the
weaver; to buy the products of the
farm and the farmer gets the benefit,
to buy building material for the
home thereby helping to support the
laborer in iron and wood, all of
whom have to buy their provisions
of the farmer. Should this tariff be
removed on leather and hides there
probably would be a reduction in
the price of shoes, not because the
three cent duty is gone but becaus e
the farmer and stock man are com.
PEELED to sell their hides in competi
ton with those from South Ameri-
ca that represent little or no labor.
The Republican party is never
going to do the great injustice to
the farming and cattle raising COM
munity that these eastern fellows
ask, other industries are just as de-
serving as the boot and shoe interest
and once this slasAing is begun no
man knows where it will end.
When these eastern manufacturers
&c; ready for free trade and are
particularly anxious to cut western
interests, we suppose they can get it
b. going to the Democratic party.
The only trouble with that policy is
that it pinches every body. Cut
down duties and our country is
flooded at once with goods of for
eign production and the factories
are forced to suspend, labofers are
out of work and can't buy and thus
the great home demand is des.