Show foreigners favored by protected manufacturers Manufacturer sl president J M gates of the illinois steel company tries to explain the action of that concern in selling steel rails cheaper in japan than in this country by saying the large mann in this country are obliged to sell goods for export at remarkably low prices in order to keep their works in operation and their men employed I 1 this if intended as an answer to the democratic claim that since our steel producers can sell their goods in japan in competition with biti Ear european manufacturers there can be 1 no need of a tariff to protect the same 1 I 1 kind of goods in the domestic mar ket american consumers who are complaining pi pla of the high prices of iron and ate steel el and of the thousand and one articles of which those metals are the j raw material may find comfort in knowing that they are making up the losses on goods sold to foreigners some people may may ask why the cheap goods which ai are made in order to keep the mills running could not be ISO sold ld here so that the men who pay the tariff taxes would get a little beni befit from them but that is not the way the protective system works it is designed to give dear goods to americana and cheap goods to the people of loreign foreign lands this is what the McKinley inley ites mean when they say that protection reduces prices lower prices for goods sold to the japanese higher prices for the plundered taxpayers of the united states grand and eglorious glorious glo rions scheme for foreigners I 1 |