The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-10-01
new JERSEYS TARIFF BENEFITS
Growth and Present Magnitude Of the States Industries
Fourth article

wealth no bank in New Jersey couIa
exist. 1t supports all the retail stores.
! without 1t the store owners would be
bankrupt. The great department stores
owe all their prosperity to the tariff
| protected industries, and every corner
grocery is under the same obligation.
Without this Industrial wealth the
doctor, the dentist, the lawyer. would
+ have little or no business and small in
comes. More than half of them would
be starved out and compelled to take
| up laboring work or brigandage for a
living. And where would the wage
Garner and his family turn?
A free trade authority has said that
the great need of this nation was that
of driving the working population out
OF the cities into the rural sections to
do agricultural work Factory labor.
be holds. should be discouraged in or
DER to make farmers. But how is the
factory worker to get the means Of
support in the rural sections? How
can he buy farm and stock it? How
Is ne to learn farming? And if the
city worker is impoverished and driven
out where is the farmer going to find
market for his products?
Industries that create $500 600. 600 a
year while paying $250.O0O,OOO wear
IN wages and salaries are surely worth
preserving, considering all that they
represent Before we consent to their
sacrifice let us ask what compensations
we are to get. We are promised cheap-
er necessaries. 1t is shown that If we
wipe out tariff protection the foreign
producers will come right in and SIM
ply us with what we want at foreign
prices. Admitting that these prices
are lower than those in the United
States what would the effect be on the
foreigners prices by the opening. free.
OF the vast American markets? AS
suredly it would be to put up the for
elgners prices. And the trusts N
England and France ana Germany
would not be less greedy than the
American trusts have been.
Our tight little Industrial state, with
its vast earning power, its great army
of 100000 wage earners and with all it's
vital interests depending ON tariff pro
lection, is not quite capable of economic
suicide 1t will not blindly destroy it's
own great prosperity-wi not consent
to its ruin. That would indeed be in
credible madness. Governor Wilson.
credited as a presidential candidate to
New Jersey. is a stranger to the vital
interests of the state Entering its
politics through the doors of a uni
versity he brought with him clustered
ideas on the tariff question learned
from British text books. To him the
British system, which has filed Lon
don with 100000 paupers. while Great
ing enormous wealth for the privileged
classes to squander in sumptuous pleas
ures and Injuries. is the ideal one. He
has so little real sympathy with the
American worker that he would merci-
lessly subject him and his family to all
the hazards of an experiment In gov
eminent, the immediate effects Of
which would be universal disaster. BY
what spell. what witchery. can Gov
ernor Wilson prevail upon the people
Of New Jersey, upon its workingmen,
its business men and its manufacture
ers, to vote to give him the power in
the government to carry out his free
trade ideas?