Show TALK MB is a talker not an orator a claptrap clap trap politician not a logician a man who is not very choice in words and very poor in grahamer gra camer who recites in a school boy like manner things which ha has heard others aay or learned by heair from democratic test books thus letting his aramenta aru menta conflict in many vital points his whole argument was founded on a fallacy ia assuming that the consumer pay the on imported goods and all an opponent would need to show would be that on numerous articles the selling price is actually lower than the anty imposed that foreigners haye invariably lowered the price of roods when a protective tariff has been imposed major mckinley McKiNL BY in his last speech in ada ohio fivos two examples which fally coyer the ground abiva men tinned he gays if yon want to know who pays the tax ask the canadian farmer who brings his wheat to buffalo the erie county new york farmer takes his there too and takes home 99 cents a bushel with him the canadian farmr takes 90 cents less 25 cents th american tariff the duty on wire nails was four and a half cents a pound we reduced it to two and half cents they can ba bought at tha placa they are made for two and two donth cents per pound who pays the mr ahola argument is thus sadly or fall his tariff figures were based on the proposition that the consumer is the er the is as ha says th peo plo can not realize that the tariff is a tax and hence the terrible revolution that he predicted is aborted avor ted it is hard for the people to un truths or impossibilities or as once said it is hard to realize a footless stocking without a leg first told w that the balance of trade between countries is neyr paid in money and later on ho said you can lalk about england and ireland aa you will but last year they sent to the united states in gold tor their surplus trade with this connary con this last argument i correct er else the united staffs is no gainer because its exports ex aeed its imports more than three hundred million dollars a year the man from the hoozier state ascribes the cause of lower prices er to improved machinery but according to hig argument it would ba best for the united states to raise wheat cotton beef and pigs for which conr country ia beat adapted and free trade would naturally encourage their reduction then that bu encouraged the invention of mac machenry hinry and manufacture why of course the inal lenca which has operated against abw country bacon ing solely a profiteer of raw material protective tariff it has created a for manufacture and made the flame profitable which in turn has promoted invention |