The Alaska citizen., 1911-03-20

paper running. We would feel that each private enterprise should take care of itself iii it's own way. This example only elucidates the princi- pie. and it is too mild to if the real facts of our protective tariff. On account of the high tariff. the Amer. ican manufacturer keeps out the competition of foreign countries. and
 huS gives him exclusive control of he American market And the fact is that he keeps the price of the American product up to the point which is just sufficient to keep out he foreign product. That is to say he fixes the price just under what the foreigner could sell the goods ing the freight and the tariff. and it has been so thoroughly demon Strated that our trusts are guided
 nly by what the foreigner can sell goods for here after paying freight and the tariff, that it is idle to undertake to prove it. And the result is that they make the amount of the tariff as a clear, unjust, un earned, and thriving profit. It is ly true that in practically every ar ticle of American manufactured product, the Englishman in England buys the American product for an average of 9 per cent. less than the
 American can buy the same arti- "les in America IL Is admitted by Ill persons who have given thr
 7ubject any study whatever that by
 he means of this tariff the con- by law and that the tax as far as Ill goods manufactured in America Ire concerned, gives. not to the government. but to the manufacturer. Thus it is taxation for the benefit f private interests. This brings IS 10 the important subject of trusts
 Al first the Republicans argued that if would be impossible to maintain prices in America above the cost with a fair profit added, for the very good reason that natural com oetitiOn among the American manu- factures would naturally reduce the orice. That the desire for tho 'rade by each individual would have
 he tendency to a constant reduc- ion. That was the old stock In trade argument, but it had its lay, and is a thing of the past Did
 hey compete for the trade No, em- ohatically no. What they did was Q combine. and after combining in
 he individual lines. these individual combinations were absorbed into other and greater combinations, in . rust as it were until the final com binatiCnS came to be known as the . 'rusts. And these trusts have been he subjects of much comment by the press of late years, and the . source of much annoyance to the . last several Republican administra- ions. They have been and are be- ing prosecuted under the criminal laws of the United States as unlaw- full combinations in restraint of trade. Now right here we find this spectacle. trusts being prescott ed as criminals, for keeping up prices and thus stealing from the people. when that very stealing is the logical result of the tariff laws, without which laws such trusts and their stealing would not be possible. Why don't they remove the tariff, then stealing by the trusts would be impossible and the trusts them selves would dissolve for want of reasons for existence. Why do the Republicans hold so tenaciously to the protective tariff, and seemingly try to prevent the inevitable results that must flow from the system. The prosecution of the trusts is a move, evidently for the purpose of raising big smoke to blind the eyes of the victims of the bernie