The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-05-11

man will live riotously, he must
suffer the consequences. II a man
lives temperately, he will receive the
benefits. The pressure exerted by
steam, when it is confined, gives the
power which moves the traffic in the
world, but if the boiler plate be weak
in spot, the same pressure will cause
an explosion, destruction of life and
great suffering. Every living organ
ism, animals as we'll as plants, is
made up Of cells and cell life. Pre-
cisely the same law which produces
health and healthy cells, which makes
beneficial germs life creative, pro-
duces also disease and makes death
germs effective. In Nature there is
perfect harmony, and discord will be
produced if man has his way and
could set aside disease, death and dis
aster in order to save some valuable
and noble human life, and thus make
an exception to the great law.
The protective tariff is a violation
to the natural law. It began with the
foundation of this government, and
Alexander Hamilton, who may be call
ed the father of the policy in this
country, frankly admitted it to be
bonus given to encourage the estab-
lishment of infant industries iu an In
fant country. Profound thinkers
know that no natural law can ever be
violated with ultimate good results, no
matter how plausible the theory and
how beneficial the immediate results
seem to be. The este blishment of the
vicious doctrine of protection has
brought untold ills to this country. In
fact, this country would not have SO
successfully overcome these evils, had
it not been for its immense internal
natural resources and the perfect free
dom of trade between the states. The
protective tariff is bonus taken out
of the pocket of the consumer, who is
the poor man or the average man, and
given to the privileged few. Privileged
because those who have the wealth to
establish manufacturing plants are not
many, and being once established they
are secured from competition by the
protective tariff for whoever under
takes to compete with them does so
only to the point of the artificial profit
secured by the tariff, and rather than
go below that, the manufacturers will
make common cause against the
public consumers.
The protective tariff is steal. By
the brute force of law it puts its hands
into the average mans pocket and
robs him for the benefit of few. By
he brute force of law, it says to the
consumer, "You shall not buy where
you can buy cheapest. By brute
force of law it says, "There shall be
no competition, but we will build
a wall around the country to protect
US from the outside" Some of the |
of this violation of a
principal of freedom may
be enumerated as follows: The crea-
Bion of trusts, as the banding together |
Of those having a common interest |
Is always inevitable. The ownership |
IF the United States Senate. The de-
lial of justice to the Philippines.
which are our colonies for the pur-
pose of being governed, but not our
colonies for the purpose of trade.
Reaping machines, nails, wire, and
,ther things, are sold cheaper to Mexi-
sans and to Russians than to citizens
If the United Statse. A man today
s driving an immense business in
in New York by buying
American watches in Europe under
contract, at such price as to enable
Tim to re-import them back to this
,ountry and sell them cheaper than
he American price. The laborer is
ooled by the statement that the tariff
makes industries aud furnishes EN-
,loyment. The fact is that the labor
RS wages and employment depend
lpon the tariff law, depends on open
and the tariff law really
'uts the laborer into the hands of the
Custom houses ought
o be abolished, in order that society
nay operate in freedom and according
o natural laws, and those taxes which
re necessary for government ought
o be raised by taxing the natural val
10 of raw land.
The protective tariff is an indirect
AK and is productive of great extrava-
ance, which extravaganza would not
o permitted by the people out of any