The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27
THE DEVIL OF GREED.
From the Cleveland Recorder.


From the Cleveland Recorder.
Tariff protection has been imposed
upon the American people by a sea of
political charlatans working under
the guise of Republicanism. ,Protec-
tom has had a fair trial and has at
last broken down of its own weight
The Republican party that became OBJ
sessed by this devil of greed has gone
so far as to declare that protection
produced prosperity and yet the
words were hardly out of its mouth
before tariff protection was helping to
produce the causes that eliminated
in a panic from which the country is
still suffering.
science in protection, but it stands
for that Internal Republican doctrine
that the few shall profit at the expense
of the many. Under protectionisrh
the manufacturing class is subsidized
at the expense of other classes, and
very naturally begot monopolies
which we call Trusts. Foreign COM
petition is warded off by the high inn
port duties, so that instead of the
government collecting all the tariff
taxes most of the tariff taxes are
collected by the trusts for the less i'm
ports there are the more the trusts
are able to collect by increasing the
price of their products to what the
price of imported products would be,
Still some of the Trusts are not sat
isfied and want higher rates of duty,
because some people are so unpatri-
otic that they will buy imported
goods. So the Republican platform
has declared for a maximum tariff
under which the rate will be SO high
as to be absolutely prohibitive and
prevent any importation Of manufac-
tured goods.
With such a promise of complete
monopoly of the home market, no
wonder the trust stocks are selling
higher in Wall street, although under
the present panic conditions they are
doing but rs per cent, or less, of nor.
NAL business. To deceive the voters
and those who speculate in stocks, the
trust managers are trying to appear
prosperous. Sunshine Clubs are busy,
through their Press Bureau, publish
ing statements of works starting up,
more men being hired and goods being
sold, but after all these efforts, busi-
ness still drags, for high trust prices
continue. The trusts control the
markets and plunder the people at
their own sweet will, for competition
is dead, protection has killed it.
The price for this tariff protection
will be paid by the trusts in cam
Daign contributions ~
If the Republicans win at the COM
ing election the trusts will receive
their reward in greater protection.
If the Democrats succeed the tariff
will be revised and the trusts will be
compelled to reduce prices, which will
lead to greater consumption and even
tually much more prosperity than
ever known before. For it must be
be remembered that tariff taxes are
an embargo on business and by rails
ing prices prevent the people from
buying, for man cannot spend more
money than he earns. The cheaper
goods are sold the more can be bought
and consumed.
The Republican idea that high
price of manufactured products pro-
duce property to any one except the
Trusts or manufacturers, is so absurd
that it is a wonder that any voter is
deceived by it. For instance, less
than one out of hundred people are
bale to wear or use real woolen goods,
because the price is too high. They
have to be satisfied with mercerized
cotton and shoddy with just enough
wool, in some cases to deceive the
eyes of the buyers. Every one would
like to use, when winter comes,
clothes made of "all wool and a yard
wide" but the tariff protected
Woolen Thust is protected by the
tariff in not only being able to put
down the price of wool to the farmer,
but to keep up the price OF its pro-
ducts to the cosumers.
The Beef Trust has been reducing
the price of cattle and sheep and put
ting up the price of beef and mutton,
because it is protected by the tariff in
SO doing, in spite of the so-called
trust busting, the trust is still doing
business at the old stand, and has
a virtual monopoly of the buying OF
cattle and sheep and the sale of beef
and mutton.
And these things, and many others
like them, are all done under the
plundering system called protection
which the Republicans declare is the
cardinal principle of their party.