Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-05
The FRUIT OF PROTECTION

With those who have grown odd there
rs small interest taken in the present
tarItf debate When it is not cOmictl
ut is CHASTITY. Old soldiers, like Daniel,
snust stand and fight and die upon the
dring line. That is their business.
Younger soldiers, like Bailey and Champ
Clark, Culberson and Ollie James and
Oscar Underwood are always buOyed
s,y hope of the future. Meanwhile,
-Aldrich and Cannon are hefty hands at
the bellows. When they get through
reducing the Payne schedules to the
Dingley levcl-which was itself devised
ut the outset for IL come-down-the
~pellbinders of protectionism will find in
The mystification of what Miss Tarbell
truly describes as Il Monster" material
for the cunceit that their party has ere
deemed its pied 5es," whilst the trust
made beneficiaries of the tariff will re-
main in possession of their bounties.
md may go on, as Of yore, robbing the
consumer by act of congress and piling
up fabulous wealth for the few by
'evying tribute upon the many.
The claim that the policy of protec-
tion has made the country rich and
great rests on pretenSiOn alone. The
country is rich and great. Through
forty odd years the policy of protection
has prevailed, That God and nature,
The sun and the shower, the activities
and inventions of man, the develop
1neDtS of II continent not yet half
occupied and improved our own
part OF which free trade has shaken her
cDrnucopia of blessings hay, the fact
that under a revenue system we were
Growing rich adi great, dividing with
England mistrcsShip Of the high seas
which under protection we have lost
The frightful augmentation of the cost
both of the living of the people and the
government of the cOuntry-these
things are left out of the protectionist
argument.
Everybody runs to Washington to get
his hook into the tariff. Strip it of it's
complications submit it as Il simple
measure of taXaton--lct the voters see
inst what they are to pay for what they
eat and drink and wear, and the sub
sidy- breeding, bounty jumping, lobby
"OntrivCd thing would not Outlast q
single general election: it, would go
Iowa with dull thud, like rotten
BARN covered by creepers and tccming
with vermin; recalled by future history
.ts the liar of the commercial ut-throat
'tnd the fence of the financial buncO-
',tGeTOr
EVERY argument advanced III favor of
very duty carrying penny of protec.
zen is II lie out of whole cloth. The
FREQ breakfast table is a lie ont of whole
cloth. That the tariff is not IL tax is q
lie out of whole cloth. That if it is Il
FAX the foreigner pays il is u lie ont Of
whole cloth. Each tariff schedule is I'm
;tmbnsca'lc Of loot. Every classification
is IL rifle pit for the butchcry of the
consumer PrOtcCtiOniSm is but an.
Othor name for Icgalzcd robbery. It's
fruits are before us. 1t is u standing
invocation from the government to the
VenaA and the viCruS to come and steal.
Vote the prOtcctioniSt ticket" says
ODD High Tariff, land will give you
mo TAT Of the land" As ~ consequence.
subsidy is rampant the anarchism Of
;he rich with socialism. division of
''te spoil the anarchism of the poor
at the other end of it waving it's rcd
flag and hiding its time st. Joseph
Observer