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VOLUME 9, NUMBER 42
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1 MR. TTARDY'S SPUEOII
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oast into the border lino of competi
tion botwcen tliolra and Texas lum
ber,; that thoy would go more into
IlllnoiB, Missouri and the middlo
west, and that Texas lumber, bavins
to lower its price in tho middlo west
to rmoot that competition wouH come
back hero where thoy have us cinched
(Klrby says "without a trust") and
recoup themselves by still higher
prices horo, and so Bob Honry is a
"ill subject for tho confidence man"
for thinking differently.
"For Confidence Men"
Are we not fit subjects for confi
dence men if we swallow that argu
ment? If you supply tho middle west de
mand lor lumber in part or in whole
from the'Paclflc states or from Can
ada, thero will be so much less de
mand for Texas lumber that tlio
Texas mills will raise their prices
to us. There may not bo a lumber
trust anywhere, but even a trust
can't make a rising price on a lessen
ing demand and increasing supply.
X say Increasing supply because,, just
so long as these foreign syndicates
that own ouV mills can turn their
lands, which cost $3 and $6 . into
lumber and that lumber ihtP cash at
$50 to $100 per acre they are going
to cash them and that with all pos
sible speed, and when they over
supply their ordinary demand they
will stimulate demand by lowering
prices. That's the history of trade.
It was urged for freo lumber that
it was wise to let in all foreign
lumber, not only so as to cheapen
the lumber to our people, bu,t also
to prevent the rapid destruction of
our forests.
The statements I have read,. show
ing such rapid dqi traction, especially .
ln-.tfto south., were urged. Mr. Bailey
was ready with his answer; If .you
raise the price of lumber you en
. banco the value of tho tree in tho
forest and therefore the timber own
er would take a care to save his
trees.
We must conclude therefore; that!
tho. higher the price of lumber the
slower they would cut it and cash.
It, and we ought therefore to. vote
to raise it.
A brilliant gem of Balleyp'sque
lOglCI
it in their export business and get
back the tax thoy pay (in draw
backs) and thoy will sell their own.
ore to the fellow who only produces
for Jibme consumption at tho import
price plus a little less than the taTiff.
The trust will have all the foreign
ore they want freo because of their
export trade, and tho struggling,
feeble mills can got none except by
pttying tho foreign price, with tho
duty added, when thoy buy home
produced ore from the trust. The
government will get no revenue ex
cept what she will pay back to the
trust, and thus by the higher prices
which the trust charges tho little
independent steel man for her home
produced ore while she uses, if need
be, her. imported Cuban ore, the trust
will make and put in their pockets
tho tens of millions of dollars which
Mr. Bryan said thoy would, and for
saying which Mr. Bailey charges him
with being insincere or dishonest.
Of all protection tho most odious is
that which is placed on the products
of mino and forest, God's free gift, to
enrich their already over-rich
owners.
I want you to know what Mr.
Bailey seems not to know; that while
manufacturers always want freo raw
material where they do not own or
control the raw material, they al
ways want a duty on raw material
.where, they do .own or control It all. I
The strongest advocates of a duty
oh iron ore. were and are the steel
(rust tor the reasons I have given.
Deliver Demand
If we will pass a1 bill demanded
by tho Denver platform requiring
these big trusts to sell their products
"to an -purcnasers in an parts or inq
country on the .same terms, after
making the allowance" for the cos$
of .transportation,'. I ahd;' thereby pre
vent tnem rrom crusuing competition
by lowering prices in one place and
boosting prices in another to recoup
themselves and then put iron ore -on
the free list, we willTiave sornfe; real
competition and the steel trust will
not fix v the prico ;bf all steel pro
ducts, as they now; do.
I voted with fourteen other Texas
democrats for a duty on hides. 1
made a speech id favor of it. I think
my speeoh as strong as any Bpeech
Hon of those, democrats fiko himself consumer the tax: ho pays on1 his raw
can bo made for that duty. After I
But co down in armthfifiRt- Tnvnrt nearoMr. Bryan at Dallas I still be-
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lis are doing. N iuHVea naa open rignt, c
and see what the mills
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What nbout Iron ore? Mr. Bailey
donlfcideny that the trusts Pfyri, bj,
control the output of iron ore in thp
United States. That seems .immate
rial' to him. He says the trusts own
their own Iron ore and will neither
sell nor buy, therefore will neither
profit nor lose by a duty. Nice, neat,
clear, isn't it?
Free Iron Ore "' "
Regardless of platform, I want
free Iron ore and a duty does hefp
the big steel trust and free iron ore
will help the people.
jFirst, because to party has ever
transferred the taw material consti
tuting an essential part of a manu
facture from the tax to the free list
without at the same time, in some
measure at least, lowering the' dujty
onii.tho 'finished product, and"' Mr.
Balley&' own argument that the duty
flx.es. tlie price, thus lowering1 in Hhat'
slight degree at least the price of
the finished product to the people.
JSecond, I know that Schwab Is
president of tho Bethlehem Steel
cofiapany, and that this company and
the Pennsylvania Steel company own
the greatest Iron ore bedB In Cuba;
and that Schwab is a power in the
united. States Steel company; and
that all three of these companies are
linked together; and that they ex
port every year millions of tons of
steel products. With a duty on iron
ore', tti is; steel combine. will .Import
all the iron ore they want from
Schwab's Cuban mlnos; they will use
but after
I read his speech' in cold type I be
gan to have doubts. I read four old
speeches-of Roger Q. Mills, the great
est tariff student and statesman and
champion of the "forgotten man"
democracy has produced. I have
studied no other question for three
weeks and I am .convinced I was
wrong. I prepared to give you a
historical and platform review of
the question of fre6 raw material,
but for lack of time I must reserve
it. You do not care anyhow so much
to know what the fathers taught or
Baia as you do to icnow what Is the
Interest of the pqople as distin
guished from any qlass or special in
terest. Mr. Bailey: says "the friends
of protection in ibis day realize (and
ho should have added for many a
long year have rpallzodt) that from its
peculiar nature It jvoilld not be sus
tained by public sentiment unless
Its favors are ext.erided to every class
who can possibly participate in them
and they have adopted the plan of
giving all protection at the selling
end of the transaction. They are
wise enough to understand that they
can not advocate free trade in what
the manufacturers must buy and pro
tection on wiiat tfioy must sell with
out arraying against them every pro
ducer of raw material, and their
maxim Is "protection for everybody."
i This, I .think, Is" a. true statement
of the republican and protection posi
tion .today. t In stating the maxim of
protectionists, Mr, Bailey has stated
precisely the substance of the posi-
vho are contending for as broad a
distribution of' tho effocts of tariff
as possible. If Mr, Bailey represents
democracy and has correctly stated
tho present position of tho friends of
protection, the lion and tho lamb
now lie down together.
Mr. Bailey and Mr. Warren and
Mr. Burroughs, republicans in the
senate, argue for a tax on raw ma
terial; first, because they say it has
as much right to the benefits of the
tariff as has the finished product
That' is exactly true, but .neither one
has any such right.
You do not wrong the raw niav
terial man when you refuse to put
a tariff on his product and thereby
raise its price any more than you
wrong tho cotton producer by refus
ing to give him a bounty on his cot
ton. A bounty and a price-raising
duty are the 'same thing to the pro
ducer. But if you put a price-raising
duty on the raw material which
forms any 'considerable portion of
the finished product you must put
at least a compensatory duty on the
finished product. Mr. Bailey denies
this, but that It is true is recog
nized by every candid man whether
he bo protectionist or free trader.
No tariff bill -was every written,
imposing a tariff on such. raw. ma
terials, that did not impose a duty
on the finished product large, enough:
to enaDie tne manuiaciureir to cpi
lect from the ultimate, consumer
enough to pay him hack the, duty
which he paid on the. raw. material
w(lth , interest, ah d profits, added, and
np 'bill has ever beeu, passed that
didhdt add to ihlscompengatory duty
ehbugh' tb give 'an ad'djLtlpnaib.-o.
t6cttonHo the 'finistied. product equal
to ttmt afforded 6nhe.;raw material;
:Ndvith,tandingr;. B&ii.ey to he
op1 raw material you rire bound to
let the finished product man collect
that tax back from the consumer.
Let me demonstrate this proposition'.
I use Mr. Mills', illustration: Two
manufacturers in the !6pen market
in London buy wool, one a.n Ameri
can, the other an Englishman. The
Englishman buys feiir pounds of
wool at 15 cents per pound, making
it to his factory and nuts .30 cents
worth of labor on ft,. 'a'nd( , sinco it
takes four pounds of raw' wopl ,to
make one pound of clothvhe produces
9,0 cents!. The Anjerican .buys' the
same amount .of tho'samo wooj at
15 cents per pound. He, brings it to
the port, of New York; and under
the present tariff of tl cents per
pound pays 44 cents duty, making
the cost to him when he gets it
to his factory, $1,,Q4. He tben puts
Into, it $0 cents in labor to produce
one pound, of cloth at a , total of
$1.34, or 44 cents more .than it; cost
the English manufacturer'. ' Npw, if
you do not put a duty upon that
cloth, Tut put it on the free, list, as
advised by Mr. Bailey, what hap
pens? Tho Englishman sends his
cloth iptp our markets-, free ,of duty
and necessarily drives. our manufac
turers out of business.
Wool Growers '
material.
But that is only half 'the full
truth. If you only wistied to com
pensate tho manufacturer in this
wool example on, that pound pf cloth
you would givo him a tariff of 44
cents only. The Englishman would
then have to pay the same tax on
his cloth that- the American paid on
his wool, and thoy would compete
on equal terms for the American
consumer's trade. But that is never
done-
The manufacturer and the wool
. "hat pise happens? yVhen the
American clpthmuker quits business
Where. wUl the American, wool grow
er sell his wool? Do I need to an
swer? Ho must go to the foreign
market and after paying tho freight,
sell it for 15 cents per pound in
the open market Instead of selling it
fdr 26 cents per pound at home un
der protection, for you are aware
that protection can do no good to
the products that must find their
markets abroad, and so we .get Tmck
td the proposition that when you pro
tect the raw material you must also
protect the finished product to'an ex
tent,, at, least, equal to the 'duty on
raw material, and that means .that
the manufacturer collects from the
Making a Good
Impression
A Person With Bad Breath Invari-
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Unfavorably
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whom they come in contact, whether
In a business or social way.
No matter how well dressed & per
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fensive breath, 'every other consider
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made is likely to be an unfavorable
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The employer in selectiug an em
ploye Is. almost (pet-tain to .rejeqt tho
applicant whose breath is offensive,
even tnougn ne ipay seem a good ac
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No, merchant; cares to employ a
clerk whose, rbreath is foul, to wait
on his customer ; t he would prob
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an efficiaUd.esire to'Tmye such a per
son employed in his office.
- i Many a person making an,.applica
tiqn for ,r position hastiiaen rejected
by a prospective employer on ac
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which proves so disagreeable to other
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hasn't the slightest idea as to. why he
was "turned down1 since he seemed
to fill the requirements of Lthe posi
tion in all particulars, '
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