Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-06-06
WASH|NGTON'S EGGS
AND SHINGLES AND
THE LOVER TARIFF
How the Deadly" Parallel
Shows Up the Protectionjsts
Calamity Howl.
SOME FUNNY ASSERTIONS.
price the Same but We Il Go
Broke They Say--Other
Ridiculous Arguments.

One has not long to look for eNi-
dences of madness when tariff bill is
pending in Congress- for il is then thar
a species of distemper seizes upon GER
tain of our fellow citizens. through
which they lose all sense of proportion
run riot with logic.
The fatal parallel column has been
the undoing of many an indiscreet
sophist. but it remained for the ultra
conservative Post-Intelligencer of Sc.
attic to demonstrate thus its own want
of consistency. In a recent issue there
appeared two columns side by side,
and running nearly the length of the
page, dealing with the tariff question.
In the first column, which purported
to be special" from Victoria B. c.,
was a review and comment on the
mass of evidence submitted to the
Royal Agricultural commission" lii
the second column was a lacrymose
protest of the Pacific Coast Shippers
association against reduction of the
tariff.
According to the Canadian account,
Oregon and Washington eggs, fruit,
and vegetables are driving the market
farmers of British Columbia out OF
their own markets in Victoria, Van.
eouver and New Westminster" A man
who had had 20 years. experience in
Ontario was forced, after four years of
effort in British Columbia, to give up
his fight against American competj.
ton. Even the American hen has en-.
tered In to the conspiracy, and is lay
ing down eggs In Vancouver for 81
cents q dozen, while the local hens are
holding out for Sc. The suffering Can
adams are wavering between a plan to
have the date Of deposit stamped on
American eggs, or simply marked
Washington" They distrust the dat.
ing for fear the Yankees will post-date
them: whereas II they are stamped
washington" 1t is hoped that no pat.
riotic Canadian will care for them.
Meanwhile the Shippers association
is making out an equally good case III
the second column against the Cana
dian brother I'VE feel" says the as
sociation, that we cannot compete
With the horde Of Hindus, Chinese and
Japanese labor. constituting over 80
per cent. of the common labor on the
ether side Of the boundary" And ii
adds. Even with the existing tariff
British Columbia shingles have foun,
: foothold in the Eastern states be
cause Of these conditions. and we fee
that our manufacturers will either
have to 60 out Of business or remov
to foreign soil"
Very sad isn't 1t? Very. very sad
Whatever is to become of these poor
shingle makers? II they remain on
lhis side of the boundary they will be
ruined by the pauper labor of Canada.
II they move to the other side of the
Nine they will be put out of business
BY the pauper labor Of America. Truly.
. sad dilemma.
Lest there should linger suspicion
In any quarter that the Shippers asso
citation had caught the genuine tariff
distemper, it gives voice to this gem
blown-in-th-bottle, once-an-infant-al-
ways-an-infant logic: THE consumers
and retailers will not be benefited on
cent by the removal of the duty, bt
cause already. in anticipation of free
trade, an act has been introduced In
the British Columbia parliament pro-
posing to double the royalty on IL
censed timber"
In other words, our manufacturers
cannot live if the duty is taken OF
from lumber; but II it is taken off. the
Canadian government, by means Of In
creased royalties. will keep the price
Just as high as 1t was before, so thai
the consumer will not be benefited, and
the lumber man will be driven out Of
business.
Oh, most hellish device ever contriv
cd by Satan to torment a pulling in
FAINT! Whittier shall the poor manu-
facturer fee to escape the diabolica
Vaccinations of the free traders?
Nor are the Pacific Coast Shippers
associations members the only one,
afflicted with the tariff distemper. TIL,
sugar men have it. They declare tha
as soon as sugar goes on the free lis
1t will destroy the American grower
and be SO dear that the consumers viii
receive no benefit. II is the same wild
wool, and with all the various things
the free traders have had the teme,it,
to lay their hands upon.
Can anyone now doubt that the tart
Is joke, and that protectionists hay,
succeeded to tie cap and bells one.
worn by Josh Billings and Bill Nye