The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-05-11
SUBSIDIES AND PROTECTION
The Republican System Which Pro
tects the Few and Plunders
the Many.

Secrrt ary SHAW. with his vague !
ideas OF ccoiomics. often mokes most
extraordinary statements. Through
reading the protection literature, pre-
pared by the Protective Tariff league,
he has registered in his partisan NINA
thGl: The government has granted
either protection or aid 10 every in
lustry which is now being prosecuted
by our people and every industry that
can appropriately be prosecuted. IN
tcrnatIonal shipping alone excepted,
| That statement was made In speech
| TO the Eastern Commercial Teachers
| association. and II they were not lot
Of chumps, how they must have
| laughed In their sleeves AT the shaw
| protection philosophy, Il is true the
Republican party has protected the
| trusts and aided the manufacturers,
but the people pay the bills and their
| industry Is made less remuneratiVe by
! the protection the tariff gives the
trusts The greatly increased cost OF
living since the )ingley tariff bill was
enacted has virtually decreased wages
over one-third and reduced stationary
Incomes by a like percentage. Yet
Secretary Shaw would add to their
burdens still another tax to subsldize
the steamship trust.
The policy of the nrotectionists Is
to Indirectly foster with the protective
tariff, or directly subsldize the few
who dwell in palaces at Newport, out
of the hard earned money of the many
who labor and pay the taxes. The
southern planter has no protection for
his cotton, neither has the northern
farmer for his cereals, for both must
sell at the worlds prices in open COM
petition with all countries that like
wise have surplus to dispose OF,
But all this great agricultural class
must pay the increased price for what
they buy, which the fostering tariff al
lows the trusts and combines TO
charge. The storekeeper, the CONNER
cia traveller and the clerk do not find
profits, or salaries, advanced In pro-
portion to the increased cost OF liy-
Ing, for they are all paying their share
Of the tariff tax TO the trusts to whom,
Secretary Shaw so joyously reminds
us, the government has granted eth
err protection or aid"
, The trust and corporation barona
would make serfs OF the workmen
, they employ, and only through organ
ization have the workingmen been
able to protect themselves and remain
free men. Republican policies and Re
publican laws have given them no aid
or comfort, for under the protective
!. system everything they buy has in
creased In n much greater ratio than
the wages they receive.
! This, then, is the policy Landed by
% Secretary Shaw and the Republican
politicians. To protect and subsidizt
y the powerful and rich, by taxing thu
farmer, the tradesman, the artisan ant
the laborer Promises have been made
: by Republican conventions and poll
ticlans to revise the tariff, and similar
promises are being formulated L
again fool the people, but as long a!
i the protected interests dominate thu
Republican party there can be no rea
u tariff reform, as the standpatter3 viii
u never consent 10 cut off the campaign
! contributions from the protected trus
: barons. Those who feel the pinch o
) high trust prices should think OF thes
matters when they vote next fall TO
those who are to represent them.