The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-06-24
THE HENEFlcENT TARIFF

q rev days ago from his pace IN the
United States senate, made the ate
ment that the identical shoe for
which all loyal Americans are COM
pelsed to pay the enormous sum OF
fourteen dolsars per pair are sold in
England for four dollars per pair.
That is an outrageous discrimination
against the citizens at home in favor
of the neighbor across the seas.
Was the statement true2
We presume that i. was for there
were any number of high tariff Repub-
licans present and the statement went
into the Congressional Record uncon-
tradicted for the Georgia sena or had
the official figures before him
May we be permitted to ask, how
many good Americans wear shoes in
proportion to those who manufacture
them?
Yet this beneficena tariff which not
only permits but encourages this dis
elimination is beyond al question
made for the benefit of the few aaginst
the many.
Furthermore we are told that this
tariff is levied for the benefit of
American labor as against the pauper
labor of Europe, yet the very ones
instrumental in having this tariff
LEGISLATION adopted voted to per
NIT the Importation Of one million
laborers from abroad to compete with
those already here in order to secure
a reduction Of wages.
How is that for consistency?
This beneficent tariff not only per.
mits those who are engaged in the
leather goods industry to fatten of
these tariff exactions but any mum
Der of other favored classes are as
generously fed out of the same spoon.
The editor of the Palatka Daily
News in recent article said:
Several years ago we stood one
day amid a vast display of American
made goods arranged in a great semi.
circle in Madison Square Garden in
New York. The display was arrang,
ed by the opponents of the damnable
protective tariff-the tariff which has
protected the infant industries until
they now dictate the policies of this
nation for more than hundred mil
lion souls.
Every article arranged in this vast
display had been bought in foreign
markets, brought back here and the
duty paid on it, as il it were foreign
manufacture, and the result marked
on q placard attached, together with
the prices charged for the same arti-
Gle in this country There were RAJ
zor blades, made in this country by
a widely advertised concern. and
which sold on the local market for
forty cents per package, but which
cost ten cents per package in Ger.
many at retail. There were pocket
knives, farming implements of all
kinds, bicycles, skates, railroad loco
motives, railway cars, street cars,
tire hose, telephones. Photographs.
type-setting machines, automobiles.
rope, paper, woodenware of all kinds
siiyerware, gold ware and iewelry--
everything that one could think of
Ihe tags gave the information of
where each article was bought what
was paid for it and what the safe
price was in this country. In every
instance the article was bought in i
foreign market, after freight and sell
ing charges had been paid. and SOLD
at an average of half what was de-
manded for it in this country where
It was manufactured.
We spent an entire day going over
this exhibit and resolved then that
u federal sta.use books contain one
single iniauitous. unfair tnroatulng
law it is the protective aarln law,
With these facts before them as
conclusive proofs, beyond question or
dispute. we can not for the life of us
understand how plain. practicable,
common-sense-Americans can be won
over to support system so discrimi-
mating, unjust and Ubiquitous.
s IS one Of the unso,ved political
mysteries