Eli On The Tariff

Sume American workmen n Des Moinea, ïowa. who had made bets about EU Perklos' bellet on the tarlff, ■rote to litan to decide the question, 'Pilis is Eli's rcply: Ou the cara in Colorado, October 1. Mr. .T. 1!. Cajacobs: Dear sir:-M,v aecretary forwarda yonr note of Jiuiuury 18, Baylng yon wlshed ui deelde a hundred dollar bet li.y askiaig me if I am a free tradet or protectionist. I am glad to have the opportunity to answer a business man i:i a plaln, busincss way. I am a protecttouist. If thoy know enough to make a good harneas or a good knit'e Ín Germany, where harnese makers get 40 cents a day, without protection, how soon thpy would flood us wfcth harness equipments and (erman knives at so low a price that yon American harneas makers would atarve or work for as low wages here in America as they do in (ícrmany- plus the frelght, whlsh la about 20 cents per hundred pounde. l'rotection allows us to pay good wages, and compela us to iaüveni good and new machüiery. It is so wlth iron, ahoea, cotton cloth and Avoolen blankets now. If you take away jirotect ion. and yon harness makers are asked to work for 40 or 50 cents a day. you. wijl say: "TÍO, sir! I -vill go on to a farm. The farm hands set a dollar a day, countLng board." But the rush to the farm will knock wageBj. Tht man working on the (arm -will har to work as cheaply as the mechante. Now, yon live in a briek house, pep. haps, made of labor at $4 per day. Suppose labor soes down and a man builde a brick house wlth labor at $1 per day, right along slde of yours. Your house would fall iji value. Wlth free tra.de everythins would contract. The farm would fall in value wlth the rest. The truth now is the farmers are makLng 100,000,000 bushels more wheat and 1,000,000,000 more cora than we want. We can't eat it up. But manufactories are inercasinji and the. eaters will soon catch up with the food makers. The English already find that. they can't get oer our protection politically, so tley are coming over here and establishing manufactories. They havo placed $300,000,000 in this country within 10 years. They have bough.t potteries, breVeries, ilour milis and cotton f actor lee. When. 1 asked the president of an English syndicate why he bought the Trenton potteries he said: 'Because we have to pay $50 every time we slüp $100 worth of pottery to America, to beat your blasted Yankee tariff." Yes, and that is the way we want Uieni to beat it. Coats' thread folks abandoned their buildings in Glasgow and built nvills in New Jersey. They sent over 5,000 workmen, who are getting our wages a.nd eating our bread and uu-at.. We Avant more Ol bhem! and tlu'v are coming 300,000.000 stronir!