The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1908-08-28
A VOTE FOR TRUSTS
is EVERY BALLOT CAST FOR RE.
PUBLICAN PRESIDENT.
Higher Tariff Rates Assured II P1es.
ent Party ls Continued in Power,
and Protected Monopolies
viii Continue to Rob.

Tariff protection has been imposed
upon the American people by set OF
political charlatans working under the
guise OF Republlcanism. Protection.
ism has had fair trial and has At
last broken down Of its own weight
The Republican party that became
obsesscd by this devil Of greed has
gone so far as to declare that protcc.
ton produces prosperity, and yet the
words were hardly out Of It's mouth
before tariff protection was helping TO
produce the causes that eliminated In
Il panic from which the country IS
5till suffering.
There is no true principle or science
in protection, but II stands for that in
fernal Republican doctrine that The
few shall profit at the expense OF the
many. Under protectionlsm the manu-
featuring class is subsidized at the ex.
pense of other classics. and very
naturally bcgot monopolies which we
call trusts. Foreign competition is
that instead OF the government col.
lecting all the tariff taxes most OF the
tariff taxes are collected by the trusts,
for the less imports there are the
more the trusts are able to collect by
increasing the price of their products
TO what the price of imported prod.
ucts would be.
Still. some OF the trusts are not sat.
isfed and want higher rates OF duty,
because some people are so unpatri.
otto that they will buy imported
goods. So the Republican platform
has declared for a maximum tariff I'M
der which the rate will be so high as
to be absolutely prohibitive and pre-
vent any importation of manufactured
goods.
With such n promise OF complete
monopoly of the home market no
wonder the trusts stocks are selling
the present panic conditions they are
doing but IS per cent, or less, of
normal 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, publishing
statements of works starting up, more
men being hired and goods being sold,
but after all these efforts, business
still drags. for high trust prices con
tinue. The trusts control the markets
and plumber the people at their own
will for competition Is dead protec-
tionIsm has killed 1t.
The price for this tariff protection
paign contributions.
II the Republicans win at the com.
Ing election the trusts will receive
their reward in greater protection. II
the Democrats succeed the tariff will
be revised and the trusts Will be com.
PEELED to reduce prices. which will
lead to greater consumption and
eventually much more prosperity than
ever known before. For II must be
remembered that tariff taxes are an
embargo on business and by raising
prices prevent the people from buy
ing, for man cannot spend more
money than he earns. The cheaper
goods are sold for, the more can be
bought and consumed.
The Republican idea that high
prices OF manufactured products pro
duce prosperity to anyone except the
trusts or manufacturers, is 30 abeurd
that Il is wonder that any voter IL
deceived by II. For instance, less
than one out of a hundred people arc
able to wear or use wooden goods, be
cause 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 oil
all wool and yard WIDE" but the
tariffprotected wooden trust Is pro
tected 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 products to the consumers.
The beef trust has been reducing
the price OF cattle and sheep and put
Ting up the price of beef and mutton