The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-10-18
NO.4O.

4 pduEIuPt, anu our Government, WHICH
four years ago had an average surplus of
$40, 600, 600. has incurred debt of near
ly $50, 100000. And yet Mr.. Blairs
competitor tells you be voted against the
Morrill, bill because be is lawyer, and
cannot understapd the sutjeet of the tar
iG. 10 the name of .our common country,
l implore you to elect to Congress man
who can read history, and appreciate some
OF its lessons man whose heart beats
in unisan with the laborers of America,
aud who will not prostrste them at the
feet of foreign power, or desPotic oil
garehy
This incidental Protection We Repub-
licsns of Pennsylvania believe to be the
pathway to Free Trade. We would,
therefore, enlarge as rapidly as possible
the free list let it admit tea, coffee, and
other articles which we cannot produce,
but upon which duties are laid, under an
ad vaIoren system, free of duty. In this
free list we would also put all raw nate
rials not produoed in the country, but
which enter into our manufactures. This
is the policy of France, England, Belgium,
and Germany. Whatever they cannot
| produce, that enters into their manufao-
tures, is welcomed free of duty.
Thus, England adults our grain, be-
cause cheap food is essential to cheap Ia
Dor. Take as an illustration the after of
indigo; competing nations adzit it free,
but We tax it almost as heavily as manu-
featured goods. Take it, again, in the
natter of glass, of which | have spoken;
it was, with the exception of one ingredi-
ent, wholly an American product. The
laborers who made it consumed the pro-
duct Of the American farm. The coal
and iron used were the products of other
consumers CT American grain. The sand
and other elements, save alksii, of which
it was made, lay thickly stre8n around
! By Natures band But under our ad ga
LoreB1 tariff, as if to benefit the foreign
producer, alkali i. heavily tsxed. Thus
might give you vide range of articles,
! showing that our present system discrim-
mates, at least relatively with other Da-
tons, not for, but against our home in
dustry.
Under the last thirteen years Of free
trade. the production Of American iron,
in which you and we are so deeply inter-
ested, has not increased it is not greater
now than it vas in 1916, if it is as great.
Then the railroad consumption OF iron
vas very slight--n0l0 that consumption is
| immense; but it does not increase the to-
tai product Had the tariff of 1912 been
maintained, the demand for iron would
have grown. aud St. Louis would to day
have been producing half million tuns,
and this city been growing faster than
any Of Der slater cities. | see it suggest
cd in some of your city papers that what
| St. Louis needs is the esta blishnent of
N msnufactory for the general assortment
of frstclass agricultural implements
But suppose you bad it; the demand for
such things has fallen OF, and it would
fail for the want of market for its pro-
ducts. Let ne give yoG the suggestions
of experience on the subject, "a | take
them from the letter of l. P Morris &
Co, of that city to the Board of Trade of
Philadelphia, in answer to interrogato-
ries propounded By that Board.
"Among the great manufacturing interests
of this country, our particular branch has
been rather of secondary character, mainly
! depending for its success on the prosperity of
other branches of industry, to which we may
be said to have furnished the sinews of
strength.
"The demand for motive power prior to
1880, was, compared to that of recent time,
a very small matter. The machinery then
constructed was rude, and the power requir-
ed very limited. As, for instance, drying,
printing, and bleaching establishment on
Broad street, near Race, was driven by two
oxen, which we replaced by six horse en-
CINE The tariff of 1928 gave an extraordi-
nary stimulus to manufacturing industry
AT that time we had neither men nor tools to
do the work, and the demand for operatives
was so great that numbeys of foreigners were
induced to cross the Atlantic to fill the re.
quirements of our shops.
"The unprepared state of the country sue
cessfuly TO manufacture, created the necessity
of modification of the Tariff OF 1928 The
change then made produced effects so differ
ent that there was an actual decline in the
demand from our CLstomers, the manufac-
lures, till, in 1912 it reached the extreme lin
it of depression, so that in this and the sue
. Cee0lD1 year We 00U SCdTCc an OEuGE lot 0eW
work in our shops. In 1914, there was more
activity, and orders for work came upon us;
a more healthy action followed, the effects
of which were felt ali over the country.
"FIrst a class of manufacturers was cTea-
ted these consumed coal and iron, creating
demand for these primary articles; their
existence in the interior capital to develop
them. Railroads, with their attendant ma
chinery, became necessary; coal-mines were
to be opened; steam engines for pumping and
winding were required. This kept, for
time, our shops in active operation; and the
constant employment Of labor, and circulation
of money, produced general prosperity.
"The discovery of the means to produce
iron by the use Of anthracite coal, created
another class of customers. These required
machinery OF the most massive character. A
large company had their first blowing ma
chine built in England. The construction of
these machines has since formed one of the
main supports for our machine shops.
"Our means to provide such machinery