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Show STEEL TRUST TREASON 4RMINQ POSSIBLE ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES. Under Protection It Sells Armor Plate to Foreign Nations 40 Per Cent. Cheaper Than at Home. The steel truat is a great financial, .nduHtrlat, and especially a gnat po-itlenl po-itlenl Institution. Through political influence It gets free trade labor and the highest kind 3f "protection" on Its manufactured product. Through Its control of the Roosevt It idmlnlstratlon It received permission to break the law, and buy in at panic prices the property of its only strong competitor, the Tennessee Coal and Iron company. Through its control of every Flepub-ican Flepub-ican administration It has been able :o follow a course of downright trea-on trea-on toward the United States government govern-ment and still keep the favor of that lovernmcnt. The steel trust sells armor plate to lapan and other foreign nations 40 per cent, cheaper than It sells the tame armor plate to the government )f tho 1'nited States. The armor plate for which the trust lets $100 from our own gov"rnment is jold for 0 to the government of Japan! Think what this means. I)o you understand It? ('an you grasp the full meaning of t? It means that Japan can build a battlexhlp of American steel for $,-XiO.ooo $,-XiO.ooo which would cost our own gov-eminent gov-eminent $i).oni,nm! It means that Japan need spend only ft) to match our 10 In our own markets. It means that for the same money Japan can build almost twice as big a fleet as our own government can, and build It of American steel! It means that the steel trust Is robbing the people of the I'nlted States with one hand and arming pos sible enemies of the I'nlted States with the other. This Is one use the steel trust makes of the tariff. And the steel trust which does this comes whining to congress for "protection," "pro-tection," and doesn't want the tariff levlsed save .by a board of experts-steel experts-steel trust experts. |
