The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-06
EXPOSURE OF THE TARIFF.

! EXPOSURE OF THE TARIFF.
The campaign text book issued by
the Democratic congressional commit
tee exposes many of The fallacious ar
euments re:orted to by the Republic
cans. The book does not deal in
sweeping generalities as did the Re
publican campaign book which was
recently issued, but furnishes facts
and figures and many undeniable
Truths 70 support its claims
A. was expected the Democratic
handbook dayotes much space to the
tariff and the trusts. and especially
| the former which IL the creator and
supporter of the latter After tinker
ing with the tariff for forty five years
"the Republicans. says the book
and their friends and providers of
fat campaign barrels, the protected
monopOlies, have secured a measure
that ha. so fostered and fattened the
corporations that they are quite will
ing TO stand pat. especial since
they have succeeded in defeating the
reciprocity treaties, TO provide for
which the tariff schedules were pur
oosely Increased 20 per cent beyond
the rates that the protected m0nopo-
lies named as sufficient to protect
them from competition. Hence the
people are now burdened with tn
rate Mus a revenue AMI PROTECT IKE
rlte, three all told
This is not mere political campaign
| ak, it is true, and the people who
are thus burdened are coming to-
realize il. They are learning by eg
perienCe that the tariff a. now in
operation under the Dinaley act. isl
nothing more or less than a supporter
Of the monopolies which contribute
IT every national campaign a huge
sIush fund TO keep the Republicans,
heir agents and allies. in power The
only real reciprocity practiced by he
Republican party is hat which exists
as an eXpedient and practical deal be
tween itself and the trusts The
trusts are created ana supported by the
tariff. The Republican party is Fe
spensibie for making and maintaining
that tariff and the trusts reciprOcate
by contributing the campaign funds
needed TO elect Republicans TO con
sress. That Is the whole situation, ana |
the facts and figures show it.
In the Democratic campaign book |
tables based upon facts show in
thousands of ms ances that the
American manufacturer charges often |
100 per cent more 10 American than
10 foreign purchasers for the same
products. and that practically every
thing the American housewife or the
American farmer or mechanic uses /
can be bought by the German or
Freedman at a greatly reduced rate. |
You may talk forever about the adj !
vantageS OF the protective tariff in /
its alleged encouragement 10 so-callcd /
infant industries and IT'S wholesome /
aid 10 the American working man
but the American working man with
intelligence knows that the great OK
cess which he pays for American
manufactured products far surpasses
any increase in wages which he re
ceives for his labor and he is fast
coming 10 realize that the difference /
goes TO further enrich the trusts and /
the mOnopOlies. He refuses To be /
fooled by generalites. and looks al |
the facts. He is contributing a heavy /
tax % the support of monopoly and 4
he doe not get half OF it back in in /
creased wages. When his wages are /
advanced ten per cent. and his living |
expenses are advanced thirty per cent /
he hasn't anv arithmetic to figure /
where he is benefited.
Say the campaign book.
The graspins trusts and corpora |
lions. through the monopoly created !
by prOteciionism. suck the life blood /
of those with limited incomes 10 the +
tune OF a. per cent That Is Republi- /
can usury made legal by he statute /
known as the Dingley tariff law" And /
so it is What an argument for the |
next congressional campaign. Secre /
tary Shaw. in his speeches. admitted /
that Americans pay more for Ameri- /
can made goods than do foreigners T
Can the Republicans ho-e - justify /
this shameless discrimination against /
our own people for The purpose Of en-
couraging and fostering trusts and !