Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-10-31


our legislative halls and into our
courts. They have organized
themselves into a mighty politi-
cal force to preserve the protec-
tive features in our system Of
taxation. The republican party
has been their medium of accom-
plishment for more than a half
a centuay. 1t has always been,
and still is, the party Of protec-
ton. Protection is it S
mission, its reason for exist
ence.
If the reason for protection has
ceased to exist, then the tax it
imposes on our people is unjust
and it should be abolished. If it
does protect the wages of our
laborers, it has a debatable
reason VI continuance; II not, it
is a political crime to continue
it.
A vote for Roosevelt is a vote
for Protection; a vote for Taft is
likewise a vote for protection. A
vote for Wilson is a protest a.
gainst the protective principle.
a vote for tariff for revenue only
just enough to defray the expen-
ses OF our government. taken to-
gether with the whiskey and to-
bacco tax and other items of our
internal revenue.
Tax money is hard money to
pay. 1t takes the eye-teeth, SC
to speak. In all ages and in all
countries men have revolted a.
gainst the payment of unjust tax.
es. Taxation systems offer the
most favorable field for graft in
all the world. 1t should be the
mission of our officials, one anc
-all, small and great, to jealousy
guard the people against the i'm.
position Of unjust taxes. Now, il
this system of protective tariff
protects the wages of our labor.
ers, it has a reason for existence
which we shouldmeasure against
the hardship of taxation ever
then, it is debatable whether It'll.
right. But if it does notprotec
labor, then it is iniquitious anC
unjust, and has no cause fol
existence under the heavens
and should be abolished.
Now, let us see. In order t,
be of value to the laborer, tn,
employer of labor must divide tn,
proceeds of the adLantage tn,
tariff affoads him with his EN-
ployes. Does he do it?
] At a point down in Texas tw,
harvesting machines sit side b.
side. One was bought at tn
factory of the Internationa
Harvesting Company Tin Illinois
| believe,) and the other wa
bought over in Germany. 4
German farmer in Texas fount
he could buy his machine in tn,
old country and ship it her,
cheaper than he could buy it il
this country, and so he procured
a kinsman in the Fatherland t,
buy one over there and send it t,
him. The two machines wer,
placed side by side in a Texal
town as a silent protest agains
the false claim that a protectiv,
tariff protects American la
Dor. They are exactly alike il
every respect, and were boil
made in the same factory in ILL
nojs, by the greatest of all trust
the international Harvesting
company. One was bought il
Illinois for SIPS 90; the other wa
boughtin Germany for 5000
Forty-fve dollars difference
The Harvester Trust paid tn,
freight across the Atlantic OF
one of these machines and sold
! for $4,000. The other, just Xix,
lit, was sold at the factory TO
l$125.OO.
Why did they charge $125. OOfo
the same machine here in tn
United States?
4 Just because they could.
Why didn't they charge $685.
for the one just like it in Ger
many?
Because they had to sell i
competition with the Europea
factories which they didn't ow
and control.
But how could they compel