80 The Tariff and the Farmer. 



the home market, the greatest of all markets, the only 

 market over which our control is absolute, shall be held 

 firmh^ for our own trade. Quite of secondary impor- 

 tance, but still of large importance, is the theory that we 

 should reach out for all the foreign trade that may be 

 had without sacrifices at home, etc." ''A truly National 

 Association of American Manufacturers, speaking with 

 right and by authority for the entire body of manufac- 

 turers of the country, can accomplish these results, or 

 any other results just right and of genuine value to the 

 nation, at which it aims." 



This association, by which it was most sincerely hoped 

 ''great and patriotic purposes" will be accomplished, is 

 purely a manufacturers' organization, and careful pro- 

 vision was made to keep it from ever becoming anything 

 else. The purpose is to unite and concentrate the whole 

 power of the industry so that they can obtain anything 

 they desire of national legislation. How was the abso- 

 lute control asserted by President Dolan obtained! By 

 the groups working together to suppress the effect of 

 mutual competition, and the exclusion by the tariff of 

 foreign competition. The ''great and patriotic pur- 

 poses" of holding absolute control of the home market, 

 etc., could never have been accomplished if only the com- 

 paratively few "trusts" and combines took a hand. It 

 was brought about, and monopolies established by the 

 entire body working each in its own group or circle. 



Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is reported to have 

 said that the tariff has nothing to do, or no coimection 

 with trusts and monopolies. Such a statement, if made, 

 is as far from the truth as the east is from the west. 

 Protection in this country has been the starting-point of 

 the whole nest of iniquity. Doubtless, no less than two- 



