Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-04-05
REPUBLICAN TARIFF.

In an able speech recently deliver
ed 10 the Hous Congressman Hamil-
ton Of Michigan clearly and fully and
in a most convincing manner ex-
pounded the Republican doctrine q
a protective tariff. We regret our
inability to publish his speech in full
in which he also showed upr the
inconsiste ncies Of the Democratic
PARTY. The following are few ex-
tracts from his address.
an the year 1910, the people were
told that the Republican party was
the party Of protection, trusts, and
monopoly; that protection protects
trusts, makes prices high, anil rears a
wall around the helpless victims oil
licensed plumber.
- by, in 1910 prices we're high
the world over and the Republican
party bad not built a wall around the
world.r
aPnces we're high in Europe, high
in South Africa, high in Australia
high 10 China and Japan, high in
South America, high in the United
States ane high in Canada, high in
nations which protect their markets,
and high in nations which impose
tariff for revenue only.
"But nobody saw that. All the
people saw was some feverish orator
on a platform somewhere denouncing
something. And the man who de-
nounced something did not care
much what effect his denunciation
might have on the country so long
as he won. As Mr.. Dooley says:
at was like gettin' fame by bein'
among those present at boiler ex-
plosion.
Notwithstanding this, you ge tie
men won the last campaign by tell
ing the people tnat the inIquitous
Payne tariff law was the sum total Of
human depravity and the cause Of
high prices.
aNobody read the Payne law that
Il, not many people debut every
body knew that .rices were high
And for campaign purposes it was
}ufiicient TO assume that because two
thugs existed at one and the same
time therefore one was the cause OF
the other.
"You told the people who live in
cities that prices were high, because,
by reason of protection, farmers were
getting too much for what they had
TO sell; and at the first way station
out of town you congratulated the
farmer on the high prices he was get
ing for what he had to sell to the
people who live 10 the cities, and you
will do il again.
aBut you did not tell him that by
so much as the foreign manufacturer
gets possession Of this market, by so
much he displaces production here;
and that by so much as he displaces
production nere he deprives Ameri-
can labor of employment here and
increases the employment of labor
abroad; and that by SO much he forces
prices down by competition, by so
much he forces down Am rican
wages; and that by so much as he
forces down American wages he
farces down the purchasing power Of
A melican labor
@Yon never told the American la
boring man that it is Of no advantage
to man to be able to buy things s
per cent cheaper when his wages are
25 per cent lower or he is out If work
entirely.
@And you never told him that if
the foreigner got control of our
market, prices would go up.
"You never reminded the Ameri-
can laboring man that the ~ ore peo-
pie there are employed in factories
the more people there are to buy
what the farmer grows to sell, and
that the more people there are to buy
what the farmer grows to sell the
more the farmer sells of what he
grows to sell, and that the more the
farmer sells of what he grows to sell
the more he buys of what the manu-
facturer makes to sell, and that the
more tina manufacturer sells Of what
he makes to sell the more people he
EN- ploys to make more goods to sell
N ovorvhodv and the mora tho rai,