"L
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Discredited by History and by
Present Day Facts.
MONOPOLY'S "LAST DITCH."
Hon. John De Witt Warner of New
York Writes on tlio Tariff Issue In
This Campaign Wages Higher Be
cause of Labor's Intelligence and
Country's Resources.
According to the Iteimblicnn re
form, the "true jirlucliilo of protec
tion" requires "mich duties ax -will
Miud the difference between thu rout
of production at homo nml abroad, to
gether with a reasonable proBt to
American Industries." The addition of
"a reasonable profit" Is new In tho
history of tariff discussion and Inde
fensible from any standpoint. If -i
protected American Industry In pm on
a perfectly oven footing with foreign
competitors by equalization of tho
costs of production through tariff du
ties it certainly can find no just basis
for any further demand.
Let us consider for a moment the
claim that protective duties are needed
to equalize the costs of production.
This term Is generally understood to
refer chicily to "labor cost." It Is said
that without "protection" our labor
will be reduced to the level of under
paid I'micI'TU labor.
The pretexts for the establishment of
our high ti'.riff were the greater costs
of production caused by the civil war
Internal revenue taxes and the insulli
clent supply of labor left after the rais
ing of Immense armies. These pretexts
tuning been snatched from the em
ployer by the abolition of the internal
revenue taies except those on spirits,
by the disbanding of the armies and
the introduction of foreign laborers on
an enormous scale, Uitf protected Inter
ests have rallied about the lalior cost
of production, not because of the Inher
ent strength of this p-osition, bnt be
cnuse It Is their last ttlteh. There Is
reason to suspect that It Is because
they have felt more find more the shal
lowness of this fortification, that they
have now attempted to eh out their
defense with the falsi? and awkward
breastworks of "rtasonabl profits."
The argument femidert on TTfferenees
In labor cost has no basis of faet to
support It. The allegations on which
it is based are slmpiy not true. The
q;!' -lion In not as to the dally wage of
the American laborer as compared
with foreign rates of wages, but as to
the labor cost In a Rlen pmrtnet, and
there Is udmlttedly no considerable
"protected" Industry la which tho etll
dency of our labor and th enterprise
of our Inventors har not reduced the
labor cost well below that in any om
peting foreign lndnstry.
Alexander Hamilton, the fin apostle
"protectlom" at Amtvtaa. M noth
ing of higher weajss r "Masdard of
Mvlng" as a baufts f a pr imt pro
tective pettsy. rTla pna wa merely
lor a temporary anantai aapftal
lor the purpee f aatalrrattac otif de
velopment aloag Mtnaal tmm. Ha ex
flalned that t nmwM Irtffher
vages then paid In Aaxrtaa, tally
hi agriculture, wM b s waMmd
'with Kuropaa wnpm by haaiaUtron
f the best and riapest ktr from
European faatarton. n va aqaied
tlmt nnmerua faaMrats wW bmJbd It
possible to utlllo tie warm mt women
and young childre mere n leuty
than was powtfW hi aerrhtaKaae.
Later, In like aaan!, Haatry (lay
asked for a Urlff la tb latarat. aot of
Jhbor, hut of Biaaatfafrtag mytoyors
He pointed out faat Ingeanrfy fn the
instruction of mahlrxirj and adroit
ness In Its us, tonather with large
natural stores of raw matwrluls, utore
than counterbataBjd th lower wages
f labor In Ur4 BrltBBB, "hf they rcul
if existed."
After capital had thns had Its "tem
porary Inducement" the Vnited States
in lMii aliaudoued the theory of "pro
tection," reducing duties toward u
revenue basis, uud iu IK most of tho
remaining "protection" was removed.
The high tarUt of the ciril war,
adopted chiefly to ullow the manufac
turers if the country to get back from
the people at lare such taxes us the
former had been compelled by tho In
ternal revenue system to pay for the
support of the government, was accom
panied by anotiiar measure about
which little was said the contract la
bor law'of lSOk lender thu guidance
f Mr. Sherman In tb senate and .Mr.
Morrill in the honse this labor law.
demanded by th inanufartarcra, was
put through. It provided for ollklul
advertisement thrunghout Europe for
hi borers to com to th Thilted States
aud gave assistant t American em
ployers contracting for laborers abroad
lor the express pnrpose of reducing
wages hero, so that the veteraaa of our
armies returning at th kie ef the
war found their Jobs gon and were
forced to compete with contract labor.
This brief historical outline shows
that tho "higher wages" argument as
the basis of the demand for tariff du
ties is merely a aflert bought laid hold
of as a drowning man snatches at a
straw because wothlng els Is left.
Poos "protee tk" rahe wages? A
already noted, wages ar not high
hero when nmontit and quality of prod
uct are take into aceeuat lt.it the
real question K Why ar menrr wssoa
high here?
Tn ITT! AtVnrn Ptaitli. no:;n!r fie dif
ference in i!iny wnrrns betweu Hilt
lfh :itv1 .V'lcrlraa werkmoo. (miii1iii(!
that "plenty or pand land and liberty
to manage thuir awn affslrs In their
own way soemvd be lUe twn grtnt
onuses of the prosperity f all no"
countries. Tvcrr elenl'-t." said he,
"has more land than ho can possibly
cultivate. lie Is, therefore, eager to
secure laborers from all quarters and
to reward them with the rnr t liberal
wages."
Alexander Hamilton noted the sinnc
fact and explained It hi the same way.
while Clay, reasoning on the same
Hues, argued that, though wages might
fall on account of the imortatlon of
foreign lstlor, yet "the extent and fer
tility of our lands const Hut e an ade
quate security against an excess In
manufactures and also against oppres
sion on the part of capitalists toward
the laboring portions of the communi
ty" in othr words, that our unpro
tected Industries would always be a
protection to labor ngulust the oppres
sion of protected capital.
In lato ywtrt wages liar advaaed
uioco rapidly In Oreat ItrlUIn than In
the United States, and tha same was
true In Cermany until her tariff legis
lation of recent years. This renult, co
incident with extremely high and In
creasing "protection" In America, mig
gesfs one of the open secrets of the
general advance In wages. Another Is
angjested by tho fact that the con
stantly Improving physical and mental
condition of tho world's worklngmi-n
lias maila their hands and beads more
eftlclcnt In production and themselvc:
more plucky to insist upon an equita
ble share. In thirt country, about the
only one whose Inhabitants havo never
n.- a wlx)l( been hungry, whose chil
dren Imve nover as a whole beet
wretchod and whoso women have nev
r as a whole mink under unwomanly
lalxir. the result tho greatest prosper!
ty since tho sun shone upon Eden b
due to our free soil and the blesslng
of Provldeniv. neither of which wnitei
for or came through tho custom house.
J OHM IE WITT WAHXliU.
TARIFF SUPPORTS THE TRUST
Cleveland's Secretary of the Interior
Speaks on Paramount Issue.
It U Utecto.NH for I'ltpl'OtfClUUltlVM of
the Ilcpethlionu p.-Mly to iLooture ho
tiiity tu tniNta whilo they waluuin
the protective tariff. The protutlvei
tariff which they mauls aud which
Micy umort malua and Kapiiorla the
trusrt. The trusts, with their tarLa"
protected mouoiHily, coutrul lb raw
materials aud thcrcftiro UoJd at their
mercy the manufacturer uu wil as
oiisuuiersi. ImliTuluiil Kitwrpal hi
artiliclally ciiei lted, aud tkn rauuable
ehancea of the average tuaa are U
wtroyed. Kor a hng time aa effort haa been
made to deceive the l:Uxrir with the
claim that a protective tariff waa In
tended to protect hW wauatt agiiut
foreign pauper lalsr. WtUi the ooin
blnatiou of jirotivted luduittrles de
stroying competition among taploy-eH-s,
with no rostrtctloil agaiiwt iuier
labor coming to tnke tha laboror's Job,
with Inflated stock and bond Utfue ab
sorbing the prolKs from lueraawed
prlcea thought alHiut by the tarta. thi.s
argument hns fulled. At lMt th Re
publican party iflthetcallr aduiita that
Wie high tariff U W give aots t
those who held the watered Gteok f
(he tariff areeted aruta.
The lieuoooratlc party a4 aty tep
efit3 the financial tatcawwt at the
feoplo on thU quetka, but at aapre
ataita the laoral aide. It hi laoaally
wrong t permit ome olaaa t tax aa
iier dasa. It la Daarally mi( far a
aVw to deatro dntneatio coaapetrkioa
k the alfl of law which cut oa fbr
mgn coiii(etttloB and thea t charge
earreaslve jarhea for canatoHtla s
aeoesary to commerce, t aadaaarial
aursulta and evea t daily Hrhig. The
tow may make at legal. It oaanot
make It rrcht. Governor Ifoke Smith
f Georgia hi Letter to New Turk
Watd.
ScaVvng tan Acrostic.
Fake Prosperity.
The sleid trust denies th.it it will
(lend $J,mn,tuii In tvsigeM before clei
Hon, chicily Iu Olilo. Indiniiu, llllnoisl
ml West Virginia, for the purpose of
clvlng work to KlO.dDH Idle men whoso
employment is not Justified hy triule
renditions. Hut the 'llniincial man"
of the New York Journal of Commerce
snys that this story "comes from n
source that is always Interest itig uud
often rh;ht." It Is pointed out Hint II'
this should result in keeping the lilu'h
best possible "invest ment," which Is:
not a wild gitex
fhil the trust a;
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De Mar in niihidelphia liecord.
Death ot Mrs. Martha (iaddls.
Another good woman Rone. A bout nix months uko
thin khk! womun wuh attucktMl with that awful
diM'iiW' (cancer) ttiat dsn slain ho muny of the
human race. 8ho dleil Octiiticr IS. Her Milti.T
iiiK was treat, hut huTiug tliat Kid uncoin
plainiiiK UisHsttion, not once ilid shu develop
that fretful Hpirit thut ts so coinmon in such
coses. I Imve known her all uiy life uml 1 want
losuy mimetlilnK of th life sliu lived.
As she was submissive tu (irsl's will tu her last
sickness aud dwith, uud daily liu. nvery day
and every hour she lurried with her that noble
Christian spirit, and. not one went from tier
after holding cotiversu ion, thnt was uot tieucnt
ed. If she louud thcr wivi a shadow in your
life or tu trouble, she was nut like to muuy of us
shun it, but she would lift the curtain, aud the
light would shine In as she showed her noble
Christian spirit iu that way she showed In many
oilier ways, feeding the poor, clothing the
naked, admiuisterlui; t ) the wants of any, who
she thought needful.. Never a child went from
her door empty handed. She loved children and
for miles she was known auioiut-t them as
(irandma (iaitilis. The writer will never lowt
the lu-t hand clasp when she said she uas wait.
iiiK for the summons to meet her up yonder.
1 want lo say tn the children and Krand chlla
u, weep not for her who died, having lived s
gissi Christian woman. Take hvr life Into your
homes aud hearts aud live by the example she
letl for you.
A friend,
CYNTHIA UUYAL.S
, Why Colds are Dangerous.
Hecaaw yon luive coutraeteit ordinary
colds and recovered troiu tlieui without
treatment of any kind, ilo uot or a moment
imagine that colds are .not dangerous.
Kvry one knows that pneamouiu and
chrome catarrh have their origin m a coin
mi 01 cold. Cunuuuiptiou in not caused liy a
oold but lli cold urcpare the Hysteni for
I'uu reecption nml development of the xerius
ikat would nut oilier wiso havo found long
ment. It i the Kline with nil infectious ills
ease. Diphihcria, scirlul fever, rueaiile
ami whooping pjmgli are much more likely
t be coutractoil wteii Uic cliild lia a oolil.
You will ee ru tliis that more real dan
ger lurk in a cold than in any ollir of th
vonimoo ailments. TIih on.iet ami ipiickent
way to cur a cold is to Uko Chamberlain's
Cough Itemedy. Tho timny reuiarkahle
cureK i(fectel by thi preparation have made
it a alaple article of trade over a largo p.irt
of hhe world for Kale hy all druggists.
Japan Das arranged to build in
her own yards two battleship of 28,-
000 tons each.
A ltu tu I'. Idcrly People.
Most elderly people liuve some kidney or
bladder disorder that is both painful ami
ilaageross. Foley's Kidney lteineiiy has
proven a Usui tu many elilvny people an it
limuluV the urinary organs, corrects ir
regul. rities and tones up the. whole system.
Commence taking Foley' Kidney Ueniedy
at euce and lie vigorous. Ashelioro Drug
t'o.
Chile should be avoided by emi
grant, warns the British Gonaul
Utueral. Haved Ills Hoy's I. He.
"My three year old Ixiy was badly consu
putt, had a high fever ami was iu an awful
condition, I gave him two ilobos of Foley's
Orino Laxative and the next morning the
fever was one and he was entirely well.
Foley's Oriao Laxative saved his life." A
Wolkasti, Casiiuer, Wis, Askehoro Druu
Co. "
China is buying
British Columbia.
lumber from
Harried Man In Trouble.
A married man who permits Bny member
of the family to take anything except Foley's
Honey nad Tar. for coughs, colds and lung
rouble, i guilty of nigicct. Nothing else
is as good fur all pulmonary trouble. The
genuine Foley's Honey uud Tar contains uo
opiates an" is in a yellow package. Anlie
boro Drug Co.
A Card.
This Is to certify that all druggists ar
antsoriaed to refund your money if Foley's
Honey and Tar fails to cure your cough or
celd. It stops the cough, heal the lunos
and prevents serious results from a cold.
Cares la grippe cough and prevents pneu
monia and consumption. Contains no
opiates The fireauiue is in a relloiv pack
age, Uefuse sulwtitut. Ashelioro Drug
New Zealand is a good market for
timber ami lumber.
The w-)iolesouie, harmless green leaves
and tender stems of a Iiiiil; healing mountain
ous Blirtih, give to I r. slump's Coiili lie
tuedy ils curative iroperiies. Tickling or
dry lironcliial coughs quickly and safely
yield to this highly effective Cough meili
citie, lr. Slioop assures mutliers tliat they
ran with safety give it to even very young
hnlicri. No opium, no cliloviform ubsulute
ly noiliing harsh or liaruilti!. It ciiltus the
distressing rough, and licals the seiisiiivo
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lr. .Slump's. Sold hy Aslieboru Drug Co.
We Sell
on the positive guarantee
that if it does not give sat
isfaction we will return the
entire amount of money paid
us for it. .
We ask all those who are
run-down, nervous, debili-
tated, aged or weak, and
pvprtr riprsnn siifiVrinrr from
' y r 1
stubborn colds, hanging-on
coughs, bronchitis or incipi
ent consumption to try Vin&l
with this understanding.
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