Show SOME INSIDE FAITS FACTS TARIFF ROBBERS WANTED TO WRECK THE WORLDS FAIR tho TI director general W was to almu Iter sill tile aidor oidor or exhibitor 11 its III it A laito lapoure aire the country has little knowledge k of till extremity to which tariff robbers will ivill go to prevent p intelligent people front from discovering tho the rubbery practiced them in ill tile ala amme of protection little information has been axen to escape from committee rooms reolus and confidential conferences about a pro lionil if adhered to would havo bava totally grecs ed the foreign pt exhibits at the worlds columbian exposition and left that colu sal undertaking representation beany by any produce producers rs except those of the united stiles states st iles tho story is die lie of the ilia moat striking ilig illustrations thit that could bo added to ill those ose of tariff it IMS has always been tho the privilege or 0 foreign exhibitors at international il exhibitions hibit ions to mako their own ov n description of their own exhibits any other pi in ciple would bo be necess necessarily absurd and intolerable if foreign exhibitors may inay not state in ill it ii catalogue on cases containing goods in price lists and in advertisements verti what they please about the their irown own lex exhibits hibits they will simply ro fuse flue to exhibit and there the aa matter atter would end one great object in holding in 1 international expositions is therom ho comparison 1 arison of cost of production P ashvell as well as of processes esses arid and materials it is thesa comparisons that make international exhibitions hibit ions gi cat schools of progress in innumerable lines of industrial activity i evolution lias has been brought about by the study of experts among exhibits of rivals one reason liy i 1 umber number of h manufacturers refused to participate in our fair was frankly stated that skilled workmen would discover the secrets crots of oe their workshops and avail arail of the cheaper clie aper methods by which being ol oller older ler pr practitioners than W we eibey they are aio able abl at lower rates to put many grades of popular goods on the market it has also been an invariable rule of exhibitions to admit ant diee all foreign exhibits subject to the domestic Il tariff only if offer ell ed for sale after alio ion of an exhibition this rulo rule ijas has been observed in all british continental and colonial ekpo expo expositions irions it has also aho btu atu recognized in the international exhibitions previously licud in the united states that at new york a failure in I 1 IMS that it at philadelphia a success in it was covered among the rules officially promulgated for foreign exhibitors by the director genral general c of the wor ids columbian exposition at chicago ag all but universal grumbling among foreign produce adien requested to participate I 1 in it our fair they havo have gradually acquiesced ced to a considerable cle degree gree the they accepted our invitation on oil the tel ins in which Ilic ll it was conveyed these terms implied that the same saine rules wol would 1111 operate erate that were reco recognized nihed by previous international e the american tariff robber was slyly at ile he became alivo alive to the fact that it if bolei foreign n goods veto magud in the worlds Wor lils fur fair air ures for which they can ba produced and pay a irolia to the manufacturer in ill addition to the cost of production lie he would be in ili dali danger of undoing mandof miny of the coun tries lies frum from which foreign exhibits arv ari coming coining ire themselves protection countries yet they can call place on the barket goods in many respects sup prior to outs at prices running front from one third to one cone half while the he cry of starved li intili labor is ii rung by republican dernago sies the cry of starn staged ell french labor will not serve cau causes ea that starve labur labor in ili england cause not at all related to t brills tariS Cs 10 lo do not exist in franco france there land alanl is fice und and the people are able to feed as well as thenis eh cs niovi should the american tariff robber keep from the ilia knowledge of americans visiting tim s the lair tho the fact that in Fr france atice a 11 highly prosperous prop erous country its libor labor the bil piebe and gayest in the and a i protective country goods wn lie ile put on oil the ha maratt tit at one third to one halt their cost in ili our ru market arket control controlled leil exclusively by the american tariff rub her ber an ali expedient was adopted which came near wrecking the ilia worlds fair a 0 wai brought to bear on oil the dai ector general to prohibit foreign exhibitors from placing my any pieces on oil their goods except with tho the addition of the anari can mckimley McKi uley robber tariff two objects wery were to lie bo mccoull by this the alist was to cust sustain aill tho the untruth of mckinley McKin loy and ins his ful followers follower lower s that the foreigner pays tit alu tax be condly to deceive tho the grat inas of ulu r abc 5 about I 1 ile I 1 leal eal cost fit cd production irinus the tariff tax british li ri fionch bueb italian south american anil canadian exhibitors raft ell so furious a protest that the director bettera get tera was compelled to annul tho tha order which would liao anade earv foreign cali ii aitor commit wil willful I 1 fill alle ail i hood in as the price of lna his goods goo li what in fact was nut not their prie inc but tile pi ice with wilh the tribute added which the Amr buyer pays to tain american tariff ro blier nad ILA abo im iiii script iam for fale falsehood hood not lot bf recalled recal leil the forc foreign ign exhibitors would h laivo WO willi drawn droira in ill a body the benc benefits tits of lie ilic inte iii v reposition to the il aeple of the united states cheso patriotic pat noti tariff robbers v were ere rendy ready all and to annul rather than nian that their robbery robbi ry should be laid imre bare in the exposition itself bitsi lf ano let ou is timely no finoro com of bavo bave been U cn made CIli chicago cago P erald I 1 |