Show Protection as Professor Simmer Views It Prof G W Sumner of Yale College recently lectured before the New York Reveiiue Reform Club on The Evils of lrotection These are some of his sayings Protection is a phase of socialism which instead of making equalitv makes I inequality Protection drives capital out of those industries which do pay into those which dont Can we get rich by taxing each other o Can we increase prosperity by scalping each other Thats the whole question Suppose now we are here we lock the doors and begin peacefully to swap our watches jewelry and money or to plunder plun-der each other how much better off shall we be tomorrow morning unless somebody some-body comes in with more money Protection sets A to work and helps B to live on him Whatever prosperity we enjoy is what God has given us in a great continent minus what protection has taken outLook of it ° with Look at the way Congress deals the tariff Given a commodity the first question asked is Whos behind it from perhaps its a little Congressman Connecticut Well make it 20 per cent Then who is behind this one Big Sen cent And this A I ator a hundred per big combination 150 per cent If you want to raise wages you must not tax commodities but tax men Pro out of one part of tectionists tax a man put and then him the other the wages to give tell him that he wouldnt have had that if it hadnt been for protection |