The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-06-10
TOM WATSON PuNcTuREs THE
TARIFF


There is hope for Tom Watson as
there was for Ben Tillman.
When the South Carolina states,
man fought his way into the United
States senate with an appraised pitch
fork he permitted that useful instru-
ment of the farm, so often used for
purposes for which it was never in
tended to go to rust or as the late
Grover Cleveland would have express
ed it: Under his indirecti0n it was
consigned to the pile of "inoccuous
dessissitude' rubb, sh
Indications are already cropping out
that Tom Watson, the Georgia sen
ator. will soon become entirely tame
and docile and in little while viii be
willing to discard his little vial OF
vitrol for just plain ink.
The Georgia senator, has at least,
planted his feet squara-toed and fat
footed on the tariff issue, something
some of our Florida congressman have
failed to do, and has shot holes into
the Fordney emergency tariff bliP'
big enough for an elephant to crawl
! through
We make few quotations which
are entirely orthodox:
Congress never passed a worse
economic law than that which receiv-
ed the full Republican vote and that Of
two Democrats, last week.
1T will not put one dollar into the
pocket of the workers, nor reduce, by
one cent. the war profits of the mono
polists, or add single market for any
American product.
Behind the graves of ur dead
soldiers, our insa1 able money-makers,
have thrown up high breast work to
keep our goods from coming in
When the damnable system of in
direct taxation was first established
its favorites were the shoemakers of
Lynn, Mass.
1T was an infant industry and
claimed the right to be protected
from the foreign manufactures while
the Lynn shoemaker was establishing
himself.
The SHOEMAKER is now so well es-
tablished that he can get $14 for a
pair of shoes which. in England. would
sell for 81.
The farmer gets less than ST for
the hide of COW, and it often hap
pens that the freight takes the entire
value
The same applies to nearly every
one of the 1000 articles protected by
the tariff: the man who produces the
raw material gets virtually nothing,
while the manufacturer gets it all.
THE man who produces the live
stock, the wheat, and the cotton, is on
the brink of ruin. while the greedy
hogs that manufacture the products
control the wealth of the country.
1T used to be the stock argument
OF the manufacturers that, when
foreign Compel ton was excluded,
reasonable prices would always be
assured within the American market
by competition within America.
We have lived to see the evolution
OF the agreement between American
manufacturers which fixes the price
in every market and leaves the
citizen to pay the price demanded or
go without the goods
1t used to be said that the pro-
tective system would insure employ
ment for American laborer at high
er wage than could be paid by foreign
manufacturers.
This Congress has passed a law
allowing the immigration of nearly
q million laborers in market where
we already have two million Amer
cans unemployed
At the same time, we have passed
a bill which enormously increases the
profits of such combinations as the
Steel Trust, the Meat Trust, the Shoe
Trust the Clothing Trust. while it
leaves, at the mercy Of these UNI
merciful gougers. the great mass OF
the American people.
THE Emergency Tariff Bill pre-.
tends to put tariff on foreign cot
ton when every ten-year-old child
knows that the only foreign cotton