Show TARIFF AND FREE TRADE Now that the campaign is on the time New York Nation Kation is more than ever insistent in its arguments against a protective tariff and millions of people approve e of those arguments There are arc certain facts however that the American people ought to keep in mind among which arc No Ko new manufactory can unprotected be started and sustained in this country r against a like manufactory manufactory manu manu- factory in the old w world that is firmly established That has been demonstrated in iu the cotton mill in the thc woolen mill in the thc steel industry ill in 1 the thc tin plate industry industry in in- and a n thousand other in industries Suppose we take bike the tin plate for example A hundred attempts attempts attempts at at- tempts were made to o establish it It could not be manufactured in iu this country with the most improved improved improved im im- im- im proved machinery to compete with Wales Moreover Moreover More fore over so soon as i it was tried the thc Welsh tin plate was sent here herc and sold at prices which closed every tin tinplate tinplate tinplate plate establishment in the country At last under the McKinley law a t fair tariff was put upon tin plate The fhe Democrats made one campaign out of that In the east cast they hired peddlers to go through the countr country to explain to the people out ont on tIle the thc farms that the McKinle law Jaw would come into operation at ata a certain date and after that the price of tin plate would be so high that thaL the or ordinary inar- inar farmer could not afford to use it It was a transparent and shameful falsehood but it had its day and it was one of the factors which elected Mr 1 Cleveland the thc second time The law went into effect tin plate advanced a little but within a single year ear so many tin plate manufacturing establishments were started on a great scale in this countr country that competition began hegan and the price was reduced to what it was in Wales The result was that which formerly had been sent away for tin plate was saved sa for this country and many hundreds of working men found profitable employment in our own tin plate manul manu mann l 1 factories The rhe result was even more marked in the matter of nails In Iii two years after the tariff went into effect nails were being sold in this country at half one what hat the they r had cost before the tariff law had been passed to protect the industry That experience has been repeated often in this country countr and yet there is a t class of men and und eminent newspapers which still keep shouting that the principle principle prin prin- ciple is all aU wrong and that it is special legislation to certain favored ored classes that it is a perpetual bur ur- ur den en upon the people There is no sense in the ment The only r justification for free trade that we over evel heard came from the thc south before the war var when lien those people said through the their l' l representatives that they did not want greasy mechanics in their region that t they had a t monopoly on a great groat staple and when the they sold that staple t they her wanted to have tho the ol of haying buying what they needed where the they pleased and md get ct it at the lowest price Millions of men are arc engaged in manufactories in iu this country 1 They Th y dr draw good wages thc they arc are part of our om coun- coun try th the the they get does docs not go away away awa rather it is at once spout and goes into circulation Awl And if the experience proves pIo an anything it thing it proves that in iii a countr country of long distances like ours our ours long lou long distances nail amI high wages for labor labor no new now industry can be established that i is in in competition with foreign n lIat nations na na- t ions unless the bar bur of the tariff is Between foreign lands and our om own laborers |