Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-10-31
Who gets that $50?
The U. S. Government.

Who gets that $50?
The u. S. Government.
Who gets the $45 difference,
the extra $45 added to the price
of the American Harvester
Trusts machine sold here in the
United States?
That goes into the pockets Of
the Trust.
Then where does the Ameri-
can laborer come in? How is he
| benefited by the protective tar
lift?
(Here is where the "varmint"
takes a tee.
1t seems as though the laborers
would catch on to this; that they
would come to understand that
they are not benefited by protec-
ton.
Bless your life, they have
caught on That is why
Woodrow Wilson is going to car
ry almost every state in the
! Union the 5th of November.
There is no warrant under the
heavens for a tariff except to
raise just enough money, togeth-
er with the whiskey tax and
other internal revenue, to defray
the expences of the Government.
Every other cent Of it that has
been leviedin years that haveg gone
by, has gone to swell the massive
| fortunes of the trusts magnates.
That is why we have so many
millionaire manufacturers in this
country of ours. If the manu-
facturer would only divide their
extra profits with their laborers,
they could more than double
the wages Of every one Of them.
But instead Of protecting the la
! borer of this country against the
'pauper labor of Europe" as
they make him believe they do
at election times, they bring that
: very "pauper labor" over from
Europe and employ it here, and
our laborers have to compete
! with it. Ask any man who has
worked at the big factories in our
cities, and he will tell you That a
: majority of the laborers are
/, foreigners.
:. This condition is not only true
of harvesting machines. You
, pay BIZ to $50 for a moving
mac ae here in America. The
Trut has bought up every one of
the factories that make them,
and there is no competition here.
You can by the very same kind
of machine, made by the same
factory here in this country-you
can buy it in France, England,
Tor Germany for about $27. The
: Harvester Trust is not engaged
in trade over there for it's health.
, 1t pays the freight across the
ocean and then sells the machine
!, for little more than half the
prices it makes you pay, and, of
course, makes a profit. 1t could
sell the same machine to you for
!, the SGT, and could take the freight
across the ocean off of that, if
it only would, and still make the
same profit it makes on the ma
chimes it sells over there.
!. The same is true of Elgin and
Waltham watches. You pay $40
for a Vanguard (Waltham) or a
Veritas (Elgin) movement any
where in the United States. In
England or France or Switzer-
land you can buy the same move
ment for less than $25. The
! same.is true of every article man.
ufactured by trust of this coun-
try-yo can buy it in Europe for
/, almost half the money they make
you pay for it here. That is
how onr laborers are protected
. by the tariff. That is how mill
ionaires have become so plenti-
:, full among manufacturer who
have formed trusts, and that is
why farmers remain so poor,
why laborers live from hand to
mouth.
And that is why, as we have
n said, the farmers and laborers
: of this country are going to vote
for Woodrow Wilson Tuesday
week.