Show AN ENGLISH WORKINGMAN THINKS ABOUT Written for the Utah Independent by Pritchard 1 Secretary of the Liverpool Wholesale Dr J workers' an English workingman can and does think for generally what about Who Wants Protection is very and most desirable for those are going to be but interests' me where the workingman is know is to going to come h We shall I have no doubt but what your monopolists and tariff backed up subsidized present to you a deplorable picture of an English Wages and 1 Your capitalists and tariff manipulators I of our lower but they will forget to tell you that on the average the English working-man works fewer hours per day and also fewer days per week than does his American cousin but Protectionists never do seem able to tell the half truths suit their case so much for object always seems to to create wrong What About Cost of I do not intend giving any are tedious to read and seldom retained by the but if my assertions are doubted I will be willing to produce official Speaking food and clothing in your great country cost you twice as much as do in little Sometimes the difference in price is even Let me give you an example Here in Liverpool I can buy American beef for one-third less price that you can purchase it in and quite possibly some of the beef has originally come from your own Why is Your monopolists and political wire pullers have observed that with your rich and largely undeveloped was plentiful and therefore you received high but they determined to ge it out of you another by means f iniquitous tariffs they tax your very food and so in spite of your higher wages your purchasing power is-diminished and you are no better off toan the English Wake ake off these tariffs and you will then what real prosperity Tariffs and Revenue A Lesson from The larger part of the price which the confer is compelled to by means of does not go the revenue at One example will prove During a period of nineteen years lk tariff on wheat which was imported into France only but the extra forty million pounds J which the people paid for bread was four so that for every cent the revenue re- k nine and remember that Engird I fr free trade meets a Wh rember England under the hun forties ev W but the Present generation on our foreign trade would be fatal to our but the utter rea their own cause in if a man is useless for any other he is always considered good enough to go and be an advocate for and is simply held up to ridi-cule by all thinking Why Protection Would Ruin We cannot produce our own necessities of If every acre of our islands was under the most scientific we could only produce about one-third of the wheat we therefore we must have Much has been said about Colonial but I will deal with that in another Our prosperity is absolutely dependent upon our of the f will see to it that he receives our exports in if tariffs are going to produce a then they fail to exclude the hence they do not protect our home industries at On the other if the goods are kept then no revenue is but one thing is whether we succeeded in keeping the foreign goods out or home prices would most assuredly be by excluding foreign goods we would naturally reduce our own exports thereby our sea shipping trade would be and not only would our shipping trade but also the which are directly dependent upon marine insurance railway and canal So you see how far reaching would be the evil Apart from many others would suffer indirectly from lack of such as shop in in striking a blow at our shipping trade the whole nation would and all the time the workingman would have to pay higher How Would Work Suppose I manufacture iron If a protective tariff were put upon imported whether were kept out or would raise my for that is admitted the great object of I would certainly but what about the person who buys the The housewife would have to pay one shilling for a bucket I now supply for therefore she would have less to spend on something it may be ribbons or you in protecting mv industry you not only injure the woman who but you also injure the ribbon or feather and if we had protection alL round of the manufacturers would but the workingman would have to pay more for everything he Does Protection Keep the Foreigner No as a matter of protection has always failed to keep the foreigner out and I challenge any protectionist to tell me what article of British manufacture your American tariffs succeeded in keeping the American screw admitted some years ago that a per cent tariff had failed to keep our Birmingham screws out of and they actually came over to Birmingham and offered Chamberlain a subsidy if refrain from sending any more screws to the United In I should like to say that in future articles I intend to discuss fully the various phases of the free trade including colonial I leave just one little fact for American tariff jugglers to explain as best they and that last year the imports and exports of Free Trade were greater than any other country in the and besides this we reduced our national debt by an amount far and away greater than any other So again I free trade is good enough for |