Show TARIFFS TS some economic points that are worthy of consideration economically what difference is there between restricting the importation of iron to benefit iron producers and restricting sanitary improvements to benefit undertakers to attempt to make z a nation pros ferons by preventing it from buying from other nation is as absurd as it would be to attempt to make a man prosperous by preventing him from buying from other men if not true alrea 1 y T it will not nn der present conditions be many years yeara before the english aristocracy will draw far larger incomes from their american estates than from their home estates incomes to supply which we must export without any return in imports import now against what country is it that american protectionists projectionists demand protection tec tion it we could have a protective tariff against only one country in the whole world what country is is it that american protectionists projectionists would select to be protected against unquestionably it is is great britain which enste instead d of beino being the country of lowest wages is next to the united states and british colonies the country of highest wages it is a poor rule that will not work both ways if we require a protective tariff because of our high wag wages es th then on bouti countries tries of low wages require free trade or at the very least have nothing to fear from free trade how is it then that we find protectionists projectionists of germany france and other low wage wage countries protesting thit that their industries will be ruined by the free competition of the higher I 1 wage industries dus tries of great britain and the united states just as vehemently as our protectionists projectionists protest that our industries would be ruined if exposed to free com competition edition with the products of the pauper Pa labor of europe henry george |