Our manufactured goods have to compete with
the manufacturers of other countries. Conse
quently, the foreigner who buys American
goods gets them at a lower rate than is given
us. Tn short, our tariff, levied for our benefit,
*at a tremendous expense to us, burdens us with
the yoke of Monopoly, while it carries to the
foreigners the benefits of competition.
The general result, the ruinous fact, is that
THE TARIFF HAS BECOME A COLOS
SAL TRAP, in which the Trust holds the
American consumer, while it imports cheap
foreign labor, uses it to combat American la
bor, and thus compelling the American CON
SUMER TO PAY TWO PRICES, is enabled
to go abroad and undersell the European man
ufacturer in his own market.
THE HISTORY OF MANKIND HAS
NEVER PRESENTED SUCH A FRIGHT
FUL SCENE OF CAPITALISTIC EXPLOI
TATION.
Under our Tariff system, duties are laid upon
several thousand articles of home consump
tion ; these .duties are laid to increase the price,
and thereby protect the Americans who manu
facture those articles. Great Britain does not
put one dollar of duty upon any article for the
purpose of protecting the man who makes it.
The two hundred and sixty million dollars
which our Government collected on imports
during the fiscal year of 1904 had to come out
of the pockets of the American consumer, be
cause the import duty was added to the price,
and the consumer paid the duty when he
bought the goods.
But that is not all of it—not by a Jug
ful.
