Show G ISSUE It t appears to be the general understanding under unter- unter standing among Democratic papers throughout the country that the v tl coining com com- ing Ilg campaign n I Is to be fought largely t on 01 the tie tariff queston question In fact President dent Roosevelt has made it Ir It practical practically ly h Impossible for the U Democrats to 0 fight on anything an else lse The fhe arguments of tho Uw Democrats appear to tu be he that the consumers of the Ule country are arc being being Injured because the tariff makes es them bu buy to t a C very large extent American goods It I Is urged that by free tree tt tat trade ade our farm products would find 1111 a much wider market marlet abroad and andl that not only would prices be he better heter for fOl farm prOducts products products pro prO- ducts but that the prices o of articles I which the farmers farmer have havo to 10 buy would I Ibe be lower lowel Tills This argument Is manifestly ty ab ab- surd No foreign country countr IU buys from flum the rite United States Stales or 0 from Crom any aTY other country countr a dollars dollar's worth o of goods that It I can mate make at home with a h profit PlOn Great Britain dol does not trot buy our out wheat because of a desire to benefit us us U or even in desiro deiro for American Amerlean trade tralle it I buys the wheat because It I needs It I and can get it Il In America cheaper than anywhere els else If It wo we bought bough twice as os much goods good ft from om Gt Great cat Britain as we the do now they would not buy another pound of wheat from us us an and the same thing Is good of all tra trade e with an any country They rhey buy out our goods gouda because the they want It and it-and ant I-ant and for no other reason The only effect upon the Uw fat farmer mer of or orthe the country h b by the abolition of oC or th the tariff would be to some extent at least to destroy his homo market marlet and amI force Corce prices down in that If I we Import Import Im Im- port more mOIe goods from other countries manifestly we the cannot use so man many of our own and ant If I these arc aloe not used then there thele will wi not be so man many men employed nor nOl so many mouths to feed from the American farms |