Show OAEAP AND NASTY Tho manufacturing lords of the country who hare grown rich and imperious through their tariff exactions are in the habit of putting up their noses when the victimized begin to talk of things being dearer than they used to be They affecto to despise cheap goods and some of their i champions and defenders have imbibed this I spirit Cheap exclaimed Major Mc I KIKLET last spring I never liked tho word Cheap and nasty go together The whole system of cheap things said he is a badge of poverty for cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men make a cheap country CABOT LODGE the collegiate colleg-iate politician another bright and shining light of Republicanism the author of the force bill declared that the cry for cheapness cheap-ness is unAmerican There is said I ho such a thing as too much cheapness And President HARBISON who rides around the country in free Pullman palaces echoed the samo sentiment when he said I am one of those uninstructed political economists who have an impression impres-sion that some things may be too cheap that I cannot find myself in full sympathy with this demani for cheaper coats which seems to me necessarily to involve a cheaper man and woman under the coats The American people will not be deceived de-ceived by any such defense of the robber tariff as this As LIXCOLK said You may fool some of them all the time and Ell of them some of the time but you cannot can-not fool all of them all the time The people instead aof indorsing MCKINLEY LODGE and HAnnisox in their aversion to cheapness will rather affirm the doctrine of exPresident CLEVELAND when ho said Our government in its natural integrity is exactly suited to a frugal and economical economi-cal people and I believe it is safest in the hands of those who have been made strong and selfreliant in their citizenship by the surroundings of an enforced economy Tho necessaries of life which the masses aro required to pay for with their labor can never be too cheap It is a very important consideration to the poor man whether he pays 5 or 759 for a lot of these necessaries neces-saries and ho cannot be made to have faith in a scheme devised to make things artificially arti-ficially dear that are naturally cheap as tho McKiNLET tariff does The tired overworked and underfed laborer who carries car-ries a tarifftaxed dinner bucket will not object to a big warm overcoat or a substantial sub-stantial suit of clothes because it is cheap Nor will he object to seeing his wife and children clad so as to keep the blood warm in their veins with comfortable clothing because some rich northern manufacturer does not make a profit out of it One of the stock arguments of Republican Republi-can newspapers and stump orators on the tariff question has been that if it were not for it English manufacturers would simply deluge this country with cheap goods The last number of the Standard Mr HENTT GEOBGES paper illustrates this forcibly He supposes that RoBINsoN CRUSOE alone on on his island Is visited by a protectionist protection-ist who tolls him of the danger to which ho is liable to bo exposed from the deluge of cheap goods that passing ships will want to exchange for goats and fruit and warns him so cheaply can everythinghe wants bo produced abroad that ho must make it hard to land them or ho will not be able to employ em-ploy his own Industry at all The Standard goes on with the conversation But I dont want to find employment for my labor CRUSOE would naturally reply I did not spend m nths in digging out my canoe and weeks In tanning and sewing those goat skins because I wanted employment for my labor but because I wanted the things Jf I can get what I wunt with less labor so much the better and tho more I got and the less I glvo in the trade you tell me I am to carry ono as you phrase it the more my imports exceed my exportsthe easier I can live and the richer I shall be I am not afraid or being overwhelmed with goods The more they bring the better it will suit me i This is the whole story of protection in a I nutshell Take the case of the American farmer What he wants is cheap clothing I and implements seed planters j harvesters plows twine etc and what he does not want is his surplus produce European i Eu-ropean manufacturers and wageworkers I want farm produce The American farmer is anxious trade but a customs officer stands between him and the transaction with a demand for duty payable In gold almost equal to the value of the goods he wishes to exchange for And to what end So the American manufacturer can add that much more to the price of tho goods which he sells |