| Show I HIDES AND LEATHER Trif Be 5tcn Post says that the nr pcsixl duty o imported hides is a dire di-re < t row at a great Massachusetts in djsf and warns to know what the Massachusetts erators are going to do about it j I then proceeds to say that hides have been o the free list fbr a quarter of a century and thai during that period with free raw material the I great leather and boot and shoe industries j indus-tries have been built up In Massachusetts Massachu-setts giving employment to thousands lof I Its itzens and establishing a large I trade with the rest of the country and j the world During the fame time I says te Post hya combination of i I capital the Chicago beef trust has been cratefl and in 1JDO and now again in Ill 7 the attempt is I made to tax the I pr > ple of Massachusetts for the greater I profit of the monopolists who control the nrice of cattle products at the 1 west At the outset we wish to sav we do I cot favor protective duties but wherein j where-in 1 i it any worse to tax the people of Massachusetts for the benefit ofjtbe jjeople of the west than it Is to tax the people o the west for the benefit of the people of M Massachusetts For 23 years f JtStfvT the people of Massachusetts have had I free hides and they have prospered greatly iI consequence But for 25 years the people at the west have len naylng a very heavy duty on leather and manufactures of leather and all for the benefit of the people of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts And during that quarter t a centun has a Massachusetts senator or representative ever once raised his reDreentaE e voice against the duty o leather and manufactures of leather And the Beef trust Has i not been counterbalanced by the Leather trust I protection is good for the east I must be cannily god far the west on the theory that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander Our Boston Bos-ton contemporary i too thoroughly Democratic to advocate the doctrine of protection but we believe it will agree with the above proposition The country has gene protection mad taking the administration as representing repre-senting the country which must be done and i is our sincere hose that it will get so much of it that the very sound of the word will nauseate the people Having gone so protection mad one could wish that the administration had a touch that would turn all to protection pro-tection like that of Midas turned all told t-old Let the protection this time b made thoroughgoing and let us not have a tariff that is neither fish nor fowl Black or white its best to be even in tariff bills i |
