Show High Tariff Floundering If it takes a full column of roundabout reasoning to explain a way President HARRISONS unfortunate expressions about cheap coats making cheap men how much will it take to get around McKlN LEYS equally unfortunate assertion that cheap and nasty always go together when viewed in the light of his great efforts to show how the high tariff cheapened the selling price of so many products The Tribune shuffles off from the main point at issue and introduces a number of fallacies in doing so But its whole contention con-tention is based on a bald assumption which is that when free raw materials come into the country the poor man who had 2 a day before will only have 150 a day and that the poor man who raises wool will lose 5110 for every 1000 pounds of wool he has to sell That in to say if he gets 15 cents a pound now bringing him 150 he will only get four cents a pound then bringing him but 10 And this is the sort of protection twaddle twad-dle that economyhaters expect to go down with sensible working people Why they tried this all over tile country i in the campaign and failed utterly It is i only people who hear and read without thinking that can be deceived with such nonsence And our neighbor is as usual very forgetful for-getful It is but a short time since it had workmens wages reduced from 3 to 1 a day as a sure consequence of the repeal of the high tariff law now the reduction is to be but 50 cents out of 2 That is an improvement but it is equally a figment of protectionist imagination Wages are being reduced in mining camps if the Tribunes accounts are correct But the tariff is not touched Lead under the high tariff cannot be mined profitably it says and yet it was mined profitably before be-fore the 30 per ton tariff was imposed As for wool there is no earthly reason why our wool growers shall lose fllO on every 1000 pounds they have to sell when the tariff shall be taken off Wool has never been sold lower in the market than it has under high tariff operations I When so and so takes place the results will be thus and thus That is the sort of argument in which the Tribune commonly com-monly indulges Its so and sott is purely imaginary soils thus and thus is not worth a rush And it hops from one side of a question to its opposite scarcely without taking breath In the same issue it undertakes in one long column col-umn to defend the course of FRICK in the labor troubles at Homestead Side by side with that is a lencthy dissertation in which it endeavors to make itt appear that FRICKS theory is to freeze out every small manufacturer strike down wages and get along with free raw material ma-terial This is in order to class FRICK a protectionist protec-tionist Republican with CLEVELAND and other Democratic tariff reformers a connection con-nection which no candid person in is senses would try to establish Our neighbor has a good forgetter It always had but it gets no better very fast We begin to think that one thing it said three days ago is likely to prove true that is There will be a funeral from the Tribune office very soon and the remains of the deceased will be ready |