Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-06-27
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ON PROTECTION


lie expressed his great qualification at the evil
dence seen in the public documents and in u
port from the other House, that there caS no dis
position 10 impose duties ercept for The purpose Of
revenue, and NOT TO IMPOSE DUTIES FOR
PROTECTION.-,S ilus WrigTs Speech, March 2,
1912.
In regard TO the Mr.. Clays) second resolution,
relating to an increase duty beyond 20 PER cent.
ms necessary for an economical administration Of
government) MIR. Wright said he lUas not sure that
The 90 per CENT WITH THE LAND REVENUE,
,roud not be sufficient for the expenditures of the
Government. He could admit no such principle,
increasing duties beyond 20 per cent Same
Speech.
Mr.. CALHOUN occupied the floor on the re-
renchmenl and Tariff resolutions until near o.
clock p. NJ, contendmg for the benefit Of FREE
TRADE, and maintaining that all branches Of IN
dusiry Vere Infinitely better IF at The present time
than they acre during the high Tariff Of 1925
Proceedings q. S. Senate, March IL, le42, in The
.Naiiona Intethg nicer.
II then the manufacturers OF lOoOl iron, and
leather fall three Vermont interests mini ye, are
really in the distressed condition in which they
represented 10 be, we may, without destroying the
factories, give Them essential relief by REDU
CHG THE DUTY ON The RAW MATERl-
AL.-Minority Report on the Tariff May 8 ls42
page %.
Speaking Of cotton manufactures particularly :
"Ihe other mode which presents itself is BY A
REDUCTION IN II HE PRICE OF LABOR.
The necessity for this we leave entirely the de-
clslon OF the manufacturers themselves, and those
whom they employ They know best what rate
of wages they can afford to pay out Of their prof
its and we, the consumers only ask, that it they
pay wages three times as high as are paid in Eng
land OH The continent for the same services they
will pay it ont OF their own pockets, aud not alb
stract it from us by way of high proectlon."-
Same Report page 80.
60 these locoocos in CongreSS-ihe file leaders
are now as in 1910 for REDUCING THE PRICE
OF LABOR TO THE EUROPEAN STAN
DARD, which is bur about one Third that noe paid by
our manufacturers! To accomplish this, they go
against protective duties, and for mere revenue du-
ties. We fancy The people of Vermont can now
see what The South considers to be the distinction
between that Protective Tariff which tho Wings
support, mud that revtnue Tariff which our northern
locos sustain. But we quote again. Fearing that
European lOages will hardly he submitted they in
sisl at least upon reduction 10 the standard ia the
SLAVE SiGteS-lhus:
"At least, we may ask that they will not, az our
expense, pny the uborer who digs the ore or the
coal twenty or twenty-five dollars per month when
| in North Carolina and Georgia the same services
precisely IRE rendered by The free white man for
fifteen dollars, as is the both in the iron and
gold mines OF those States. We say, then, that
the reduction OF wages is matter which we nei-
Their ask for nor insist upon though this, with q
reduction of duties the raw material is the only
mode of Protection which they suggest we only
ask that if the manufacturer is disposed to be lib
era in such matters, that he will not do it at the
expense OF him in the South West, Who only re-
CERES has SIS per month and finds himself and fam
lily out of that sum- Same Report page 80.
In the progress of the bill OF the majority thro
the House. il is our intention TO offer either an en-
tire substitute, or such amendments as will make
the bill, when finally passed. as nearly conGormabh
to The great principles Of The compromise act as prac
ticable, The compromise act, as they understand
it, limits duties TO 20 per cent and permits no pro
teclve duties Same Report, page 49,
1t will be perceived that one argument only per
vades the minority report against protection, ant
that is that all the benefit conferred on the produ
GERS is extoded from the consumers-a fase posi-