Arizona republican., 1909-07-05
When Both Parties are DiVid- ed Among Themselves
 ON THE TARIFF QUESTION
A Call Is Issued to Citizens to Join in an Effort to Consolidate the Ere e Trade Sentiment of the Nation.

New York, July 4.-The following address, issued by a committee of free traders, was issued to the country to- night:
 To the Citizens of the United States;
 The apparent acceptance in some de- gree of the so-caIled protective policy by the present congressional represent atives of both the political parties-the republicans champIoning protection with incidental revenue. and the dem ocrats urging revenue with incidental protection-might beget the impression that our nation contains no men who believe in the absolute and uncondi- toned freedom of trade between the peoples of the earth.
 The undersigned. proclaiming them selves as free traders, contend:
 CD That protection erects artificial barriers between nations. preventing that natural and healghful interchange of products which makes for increased comfort. for peace and for the solidar- ity of mankind.
 CD That protection, by reducing the quantity of incoming foreign goods, reduces the buying power rep resented by such goods, and conse- quently subtracts from the demand for merchandfse and labor which would inevitably be fostered by the unre- stricted freedom of exchange.
 (3) That protection. in addition to lessening the demand for labor, and to a consequent reduction of wages, greatly increases the cost of necessa- ries. thus becoming a powerful agent in dragging down the condition of our wage-earning classes.
 4) That protection has not only become the Mother of Trusts, but that, by stifling foreign competition, it has granted them a license to prey upon the community.
 C5) That protection encourages ex- travagance in national expenditures. which, as they are paid by taxes on what the people consume, are in the main extracted from the pockets of the wage earning and salaried classes.
 co That protection. by it's meth ods of indirection, cunningly disguises the incidence of taxation, and thus weakens that desirable interest in leg islation and in government policies which direct taxation tends to develop.
 CD That protection, which is in ef- feet a process of class enrichment by legislative favor, is a fostering source of political corruption.
 (8) That protection, by engender- ing special over production due to ex- cessive profits and widespread under consumption due to excessive prices, contributes to producing those panics which cause so much human waste and misery.
 60 That protection, by cOnferring on favored classes the right to tax their fellow citizens, and by the con sequent unequal and negotiable dis tribution of the boundless wealth which is created by the energy and nat ural resources possessed by the Amer ican people, has generated resentments which express themselves by danger ous methods intended to wrench from its possessors a portion of the wealth which has been unjustly appropriated.
 00) That protection, by the swol- len fortunes which it heaps up for it's beneficiaries, and by the concentrated, selfish class interests which it fosters, becomes so powerful through their ability and readiness to debauch pub lie opinion by the expenditure of money, that it can never be dislodged until the great body of our people are brought to realize its wasteful sinful, anti-social character
 Concurring in such views. the under signed call on all fellow citizens who are inagreement herewith to join them in an effort to consolidate the free-trade sentiment of the nation Such a consolidation will reveal the true economic opinion of at least a portion of our citizens, and will fla cilitate cooperation with the free traders of other nations which are also suffering from the evils of protective policy.
 Names and addresses should be for warded without delay to any of the undersigned:
 John Bigelow, 21 Gramercy Park, New York.
 Charles Francis Adams, India House, Boston, Mass.
 James H. billiard. 571 Audubon street, New Orleans, La.
 Louis R. Enrich, 50 west Seventy seventh street, New York.
 William Lloyd Garrison, 6 Beacon street, Boston, Mass.
 Bolton Hall, 56 Pine street, New York.
 Byon W. Holt, 54 Broad street, New York.
 Tom L. Johnson. 234S Euclid ave nue, Cleveland, Ohio.