The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-10-12

range a tariff for revenue onlr
and to abandon the protectiy6
theory.
Whenever our industries get GO
strong that they are able to com
pete in foreign nations with thei in
dustries over there, everybodr
knows that they are able to stanS
by themselves and for themselya.
and it is time for the people 10 de-
mand that something be done for
those who live here and who con
sumo goods.
For a long time one party has
affirmed aud the other partv boa
denied the charge that two nrices
were made. Now, and within tho
last for or five weeks, both mar
ties admit it, but one party is ar
tempting to justify. We are hs
ginning to understand now thar
these protected factories which
dump their goods across the seas
exact contracts from foreign lob
bers and wholesalers, by which
they are expected TO agree. and
by which they do contracs. that
the goods they sell to them shall
not he reimported to the United
States, and | propose to present
the proof within the nexy week
if | can get time to do it, on the
floor of Congress which establish
es cOncluSively that one Of these
great trusts, one of the most afro.
cious of all of them, the Watch
Trust, makes this sort of con.
tract now. Whenever they sell a
consignment of watches across the
sea, they compel the purchaser TO
agree and to enter into q bond
that those watches shall not he
reimported to the United States
This is only an example Of what
they all do. | am able to prove
this assertion, and | expect TO
present written evidence that will
establish this charge agaiusr the
Watch Trust within the next
week, down at the Capital.
They meet all these arguments
by referring again to the old bal
ance of trade theory, by calling
attention to the fact that matters
have been adjusted so that We ex.
port more than we import, and.
therefore they say. we ought to be
prosperous. This is the Old mer.
camille theory that was exploded
years and years ago.
For thousand years the Orient
sold goods to Europe aud took
back nothing but gold in return,
and for thousand years the great
nations of the Orient grew weaker
and European ma ions grew
stronger. For four hundred wears
Spain sold goods to her colonies
and took back nothing in exchange
but gold and silver. Did SPAN
grow any stronger on account Of
that sort of arrangement? In The
recent past we, the youngest of all
the nations, were able without ap.
parent effort to wipe her proud
armadas from the sea.
A ship leaves this port loaded
with twenty thousand bushels OF
wheat, worth here twenty thouS-
and dollars. The wheat is sold in
Europe for thirty thousand dol
lars, the thirty thousand dollars
is Invested in goods, the goods are
brought back to this county and
sold for forty thousand dollars
There is then balance against us
on that transaction OF twenty
thousand dollars. A condition
most deplorable, according to the
theories of the proponents OF the /
protective system. But suppose
the ship with its return load OF
goods had sunk out here in the
middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The balance of the trade then
would be twenty thousand dollars
In our favOr-evidence, according
to these gentlemen, of the greatest
kind of prosperity.
Down in Washington tley are
saying to us, "dOn't tinker with
the tariff; whenever you threaten
to change the tariff schedules you
bring about a period of depression;
prospective tariff changes cause
people to be worried about what
may happen in the future there
is an unsettled feeling and there
will be another panic if yon do"
Why, it is not tariff changes
that affect the question OF future
prosperity. You do not look al
that question when you are trying
to determine whether the county
will be prosperous for tie neAV
twelve months or not. The tDlls
you look at is this, that from the
north to the south one hundIeu
million acres of wheat are waving
in the breezes of summer-tha'
across parallels Of latitude the
northward march of the self blhder
has commeuced-that in the Sied.
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