The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-22

reeentstives of the interests which de- mand protection. These representa- iabofing men. and yet they carefully avoid writing Into the law anything that will require the guardians to ex- scnts the s,sI trust It h. Is strange that a go ceived as to the object and the opera ton of the laws which are ostensibiy designed for the protection of the wage eerners; it can only be accounted for on the theory that the voters have not 1 understood either the theory of pro- ! tection or the facts that are relied upon to support l., =. | Tn ordinary affairs there is no dif- | ference between a tarih reformer and In business. in society, In the lodge room and in the church. In. their daily life they apply the same rules and are | guided by the same business rules. l This similarity manifesto itself all through life and up to, the very, hour will. he makes 1t upon the same plan | that the tartff reformer follows. As death approaches. he estimates the value of his property. leaves to his | to liave. and then makes such be- l quests as he liKes to public institu- | tions and to those outside of the fam
 and sssh sdPsr Pep' ss esrdfss s ssys' s,das S ss | among them giving to each definite l share. He does not give all his prop l erty 10 one child and say that he trusts
 shiid da.s 5o deal fMSry Msgy wts scsnse sas ress ss { knows his children and would not put a child in a position where seihshness 1 might lead him to do injustice to other l not trust his own flesh and blood to | deal fairly with those reared at the same hreslde with him; and he Is wise | in not placing this temptation before one of his own family. But when 2 | protectlonist comes to make 3 tarin l law, he acts on an entirely different | plan; he votes millions. yes hundreds CTS whom he has never seen. and trusts them to be Just In the distribu- I tion of the trust fund among their em- | ployes. And what has been the re- | suit? Just what might have been ex- pected--the manufacturers have ap- l propriated the trust fund to their own l use and h ave paid their employees only such wages as trade conditions com
 The Homestead strike occurred af- ter the Republican convention of 1892. but before the Republican candidate could not ignore the strike, for 1t pre- scented an object lesson, which even q high-tariff Republican could not fall to see, So MT. Harrison. the candidate
 T regret that all employers of la. Dor are not Just and considerate ana that capital sometimes takes too large h shars of the prontsYr Yes; more 1 than that. The protected manufactur- l CTS have secured. in many cases, q tariff of more than twice the percent. | age paid to workmen in wages. The net profits of the steel trust last year were just about equal to the entire | amount paid in wages, and the wages totai value of the product. According l to thIs statement each working man employed by the steel trust earned, on | an average, not only the amount paid | for his employer. And. I may add. | while these benefciariea of protection have been pretending to make the tar If laws for the dtrect Dsnent or tne | as a rule. been kept close to the hum l ger line, while many of the employers | have become the possessors of the tSs ~0ilsR nsVioSs moras nia ss %sii ss iss
 And Yet the Republican party was not willing that single iten on s ths l tho Republican campaign committee l will not dare to publish. before. the election, the contributions that have been made or will bs made to the Ike. Es. most largely interested in the steel
 Let me show you how the tarin cp- by Mir. H. E. Miles, Chairman of tho l Tariff Committee Of the National As- l sociation. of Manufacturers and head Of the Agriculturai Implement Trust. can Industries of November ie, 1907, paper which Is now supporting the Republican ticket and making a spe. the the psmocratic platform. Here is what MT. Miles says:
 T have made money eevry year out of the Tarin Graft; Not much, but
 The tariff barons raised their price | t50.0o0 to me. l. made charge against the jobber of S60,000 and I know that ne eo enarEsd ana mSrS man s,ors stv. reaching thes consumer, the &bO,OOO charge became about si00.000 to be paid by the agricultural consumer.
 prosper ps must make a double profit, one by the shrewd management of his business and another by still shrewder manipulation in Washington.
 we have no great difficulty in shop ping abroad for we could get as high prices as at home. We are 50 held up, however, by our supply people that to mos. of us there Is very scant profit
 When Congress gave us forty-hve per cent. we needing only twenty per cent. they gave us q congressional per- init. if not an invitation, to consoli- date. form one great trust and advance
 
 the difference between the twenty per cent needed and the forty-fve per cent
 MT. Miles shows how the tariff raIses prices to those who. in manufacturing, have to buy other manufactured pro- ducts This expense is transferred to the fnext purchaser. The jobbeI charges a profit on the tariff as well as on the cost of the article, and each person who handles the product coll iects a profit, so that. according fo MT. Miles, the first charge of eSO,O0o becomes si00. 900 bx the time 1t reaches the consumer. Mr. Miles in another people at $500, 900 900 annually. The statement of Mir. Miles also shows that the tarif law Is an invitation to consolidate, and that having been giv- en the tariff on the theory that 1t is needed, the manufacturers naturally as' sume that 1t Is intended that they shall take advantage of IL. even if they haze to ,1 SSDins Mr !S Tsst ao ssns,n so .0 ts. average man the benefits of protection: He can easily convince a trust that 1t profits by the tarin, but what about the victim of the trust?
 No Republican leader will now deny that reductions ought to be made, but who is to make the reductions2 The is that the tariff ought to be reformed by its friends; that is that those who made the last tariff should be entruSt- cd with the making of a new tarin law. But suppose the people adopt the Republican idea and entrust the mak- ing of the tarih lay to Eepnollcan of procedure7 Fortunately for the voter, Mir Niles explains this also. Tn the April 1908, number Of American