The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-25
GOV. JOS. v. FOLK
TO T[NNESSEtANS
@pEMocRATlc IDEALS DISCUSS
ED BEFORE TWENTY THOU.
SAND HOME coMERs.
THE TARIFF A GRAFT
And Unnecessary For the Protection
Of American Labor or Manufac-
turing---EviI of Federal
Aggression.

Nashville, Tenn, sept .-Iehnes-
see homccomers thronged the state
| fair grounds today to hear HonoraG .
Joseph WI Folk, governor oil Missouri.
himself a native of Tennessee The
address was delivered before crowd
OF 100000 persons and aroused much
enthusiasm. Goveror Patterson, on
Tennessee, delivered the welcoming
address and Governor Folk responded
speaking In part as follows:
The prospect for the success of
Democratic ideas was never brighter
than now BY Democratic ideas
mean those principles embraced In
the expression, equal rights to al.
special privileges to none. This
maxim of jefferson expresses every
essential element of real democracy,
With this rule for our guidance we
cannot lose our course or be led into
the quicksands Of dishonor or ds-
spair. With this axiom as our chart
the infamies OF privilege In every
form can be destroyed. Jefferson
phrase sounds simple. but 1t has tax
en- generations for men to attain a
national understanding OF It's wisdom
and justice. II applies to the condi
tions today with even greater force
than when II was first announced by
the Father OF Democracy.
The Privilege Of LawIessness.
The elimination of special privilege
is the paramount issue before the
people Of this country--the srccial
privilege OF lawlessness the special
privilege conferred by law. and the
special privilege Of monopoly. A few
years ago the privilege OF lawless
ness was defended; but the people
We're awakened TO the fact that law.
lessness Is net government. anft that n
lawlegsness destroys the viii IL the
people, From one end of the land 10
the other the public conscience nov
demands the enforcement OF the reo.
ple's laws against high and low rich
and poor that no man should be
above the law and no man below the
law, whatever his class, whatever his
creed, or whatever his wealth.
The Tariff Graft.
The elimination of unjust privileg
by law is moral question
Any privilege Is a graft. whether IL
be a privilege exercised contrary to
law or one that the law itself may
give. A tariff so arranged as TO Gre
ate monopoly and to give few peo-
pie the privilege or preying on the
rest of the people is legalized graft
Considered from this standpoint. the
.ariff is a moral question. Indeed
very governmental question In o
sense is a moral question. in that 1t
S question of right and wrong. Bot
IS an economic question merely.
tariff is undesirable under
he conditions that exist today.
Monopoly Tariff Unnecessary
A monopoly tariff is not necessary
o protect the American workingman
was never intended 10 do So and has
lever had that result. 1t is selfevi
lent that If a tariff equal to the differ
nee between the cost Of labor in this
country and abroad is necessary to
ieep wages Of American laborers On
beir present basis, then American
made goods could not compete with
European goods, for as the American
aborer receives more the American
PRODUCTS could not be sold at the samq
'rices as those made by cheaper Eis
opean labor.
What are the facts? All the great
actories of AMERICA now sell In com.
etition with the entire world abroa.i
The handiwork of the more skilled
nd better paid American lahorer is
ow sold abroad in competition with
he lesser paid European lahorer with
ut decreasing In the least degree TIE
ages of the American laborer The
lw of supply and demand regu'ates
be price Of labor. The average Am
rican laborer is worth mere than TIE
veraEe foreign laborcr because he
; better educated and can aeon
lish better results in a shorter tinr.
- fHthltA-c WIN AAf &AAA8 ANA1F
ccause there is nothing TO prevent
,reigu labor from coming here a7d
hat be manufacturers IS sold abroad
] competition with that same labor.
abor asks no largcsse Of the state. Is
ants but freedom Of opportunitv t.
ave and to enjoy and to cxchas.e
le products Of its handicraft The
rotective tariff cannot Be for the
eneHt Of the workingmsa. Then lor
hose beenit is It Their Is a tar-H
$50 per cent on oil fer the benefit
the Standard OH Company. a,
.ough this same company sells IFS
I all over the world and for less
an It Is sold here We tax hiaeS u
.mper the shoe and leather indus r..
ii Pay higher prices for our shoes
fConrfuaad FINN ga~on1 T1,~eA