Show THE TARIFF QUESTION I I II i E E I was interested il su g Anti Tariff Arguments Arguments' in llIE I E Ef f M of la You only tho o. o By this J reran are other to the matter that y u I wish you would pursue the further I quite the ra p raph of editorial The one and doEs doE's not count nr ament lS a or rather it docs not o tho fact that thoro is no country on this earth that has ever tried to do business on the free trade with Great Britain for a term of fhe that has not been drained of money and with hungry skilled Po t is contain a of truth vet thero may c who feel di posed to discount it write another editorial when aDd with this happened The tariu is the blindest before tho American people today so I heard a aI thi king when I a n boy It b still II blind I question 1 fo one wish moro li ht I r Den vcr Colo May Ii 1909 We cite the mighty d pr in the United in but more particularly the crash of when all the gold from California had been spirited away across tho sea an the in this country were stuffed with foreign goods and when for the first time killed working men were cat cat- of charity Canada as until she interposed a tariff to protect her work ing enable manufactories to n was worse still in all the states of and to save themselves ono after another put on a tariff The same follows ever where Ko nation can trade raw material for manu manu- goods and keep even for the invariable rule i that in such cases people bu more than their raw products will pay for and they are soon drained of money and it is the volume of money in m among the people that establishes prices This seems less understood b the American people and American than This is why the United States has ted the proposition to try to build up a merchant marine by I Ith th same means ed first by Great Britain and I later by France and German If in addition free trade could be in this country as one great party has advocated it would not rc- rc quire throe years to utterly strand the country's in- in s it would be drained of its money |