Show FROM TUB THE WORLD Is protection robbery robber this is the only ta tariff ailt question before tile the people 0 no O other oilier should be debited or considered the file tweed charter passed tile the new york state stale Legisla legislature turc by tile lie solid republican vote of both assembly and senate it in its fior only one republican voting with tho the democrats against it ta the I 1 I 1 tweed ring had to buy and lid did buy every republican call vote except one in order to pass it hut but it could not buy the democratic etc pa party rv of tile state of new york and within three tarco years tile ring r was broken and its members indicted by the democratic leaders the democrats of new york do not permit t the republicans who rushed to tile the defense of tweed to delude the people with any talk of the lie tweed ring furnishing work or absing aising 0 wages or lowering tax rates or r beautifying the city its defenders were asked only one question has it stolen money they were not lot pr emitted tc to speak on oil any other the today should not permit the lie republicans who rush to tho 1 defense l of tile the Anic american rican league 0 of protected tariff trusts to speak on oil any but the ono one question Is protection robbery tl if protection is not robbery all tic opposition to it is madness if it is robbery nothing 0 that can bo be urged 0 in its favor will it the tweed ring took about ab out of the public money to improve new york paid about 4 26 20 in wages for honest work and stole the protection rings take from the people over 00 yearly paid less ICES than boo in wa wages 0 cs and divide up ul over they take this money from the people under the false pretense that it is all 1 I I 1 to be paid to their r workmen in addition to foreign wages it i is 3 a trust fund of which tile the members of tile the tariff rings are the trustees the tweed ring ft used money from a trust fund of which the fenbers of the ring rin 15 were the trustees and when the t g thel 1 st ole ATA ieves but jr it the they became bulit Yu lit i T when the members of the jt alti ill rings 0 put into their own pockets tile the belonging 0 to the workmen they are arc not thieves they are arc philanthropist public benefactors who furni furnish h employment at no coast to 0 for wages 0 for thousands of men hut but if they were not protected by federal law from state prosecution for larceny they could bo be prosecuted Rs as the tweed rin ring 0 was and convicted as tweed was tweed did not steal r enough to buy a single state the mckinley INIc Kinley rings 1 I divide up enough 0 to buy up the united states |