, 1866-02-13

@. What Is the aggregate amount OF the |
robbery perpetsated upon the thirty-one NIL
lions OF copsume1s under the preteose of pro- |
feeling A,ntrioan induasyf
4. Not less than two hundred millions Of |
dollars per annnm.
O, How Is this Asccrtafncd: |
i. An examination Of the census returns of |
1850 shows an aggregate production Of pro-
oue-haH OF the whole manufacturing industry
OF the country. The average rate Of the tar
III on foreign imports Is IS per cent. The dG-
ference between the tariff and the Internal
duty shows the amount Of the protection. The
internal duty on general manufactures IL 6per
cent, bat Tor tho sake Of convenience. and to
make Ill allowance for crTors, We Will sup
pose that the Internal taxes average Is per
cent. bringing the amount Of tie protection
down to 10 per cent Thirty per cent Of fG53,-
9555,360 is $l96, ,1s0, COS. The protectionists
say TINT manufactures have increased f1fty per
cent since 1850. II 50. the bounties have IN
creased fifty per cent, making the Whole
amount Of taxation levied upon the people,
not for the benefit of the Government, but
tor the benefit OF the protected classes, nearly
ss0o, ,0o0, coo, or $2o, 900 600, more than enough
10 meet the annual expenses of the Govern
ment, including the interest on tho national
debt
Q. VIII not competition ultimately bring
prices down to their proper Level!
4. The laws prevent competition by exclu1-
ing foreign goods, We can not expect manu-
factures TO grow In this country faster than
population. But. In order to bring down
prices y y competition, No. the supply Of goods
tures must grow faster than population.
Stripped Of dIsguises it Is project 10 promote
cosnpefliou BY preventing competitsoH. Wade
Hampton, with like wisdom, excluded corn
from Ills negroes. expecting them to get fat on
cotton seed. His experiment was on the ere
nTr f7nr4 4f1vS
9: What is the meaning Of British Free
d. Literally It means Free Trade In Great
Britain. AZ used by tho Protectionists it Is a
phrase intended to excite popular prejudice
and draw away The attention Of the thirty.one
bed, just rs plckpoc6et will sometimes in-
cite street biawl and attract = crowd while
his pals relieve the excited spectators Of their
wallets. Look at the Alabama and the
Shenandoah, and say whether yon will admit
British goods to our markets !" "Never,
allow three hundred millions Of dollars to bo
1,ched from their pockets every year, under
tho delusion that England Is somehow being
Injured by orr losses.
q. What are the answers to the following
fnllac1es: 1. That the East. is anxious to
abolish protection. 20 q to prevent the Vest
A. First. It Is not true. Ifthe East desired
to abolish protection, she could do IT, aud
the West would rejoice in being relieved from
hall It's load of taxation. Second, II It were
true, 1t would prove nothing. Il makes no
crn man OF Western ono. What we object
to Is the th1Dg. and not the geography Of the
thing.
2. That We ought to butld up aud patron
ize our own manufactures.
a. The one object and purpose Of the
keep out Of riew the interests Of Mirty-one
Millions Of tosasuneTs and to substitute those
of hundred thousand manufacturers as
though taep constituted the country. Ntno
out Of ten Of the protection talIacles will be
Instantly exploded If yon look at them as
puddlcrs. Tell a man he ought to give
dollar for something he can get for fifty cents,
md be will know what answer 70 give
5. That If we establish and protect our
homo manufactures We shall save the cost Of
transporting our products to Europe and their
products back.
4. In other words, BY. paying dollar to
Gill, the weaver. We shall save paying dime
to Jack, the sailor. The English or German
Gill can make cloth for forty cents yard, and
ore asked to pay the American Gill dollar =
yard to save the ten cents We pay to Jack
4. That high tariffs make high wages and
high prices for everybody, and therefore all
prosper alike.
4. Shut ten men up in close room With
jark-knives In the pocket Of each, and let
them call each penny dollar and 20 TO trad
Ing on tlat basis. How much richer will they
be In the aEgrceatc, after twenty-four hours
,ta43ng, t3 b. reason Of their "high prices and
5. That although the consumer Is required
10 pay fifty cents extra for his goods, yet
the fifty cents Is retnincd In the country.
4. That depends on circumstances. It the
extra fifty cents Is cleai profit 10 the manu-
tacturer, 1t is evident that it Is retained In the
/ country, though that does not prove that It
would not be rs well spent to get fifty cents
worth Of something else from foreign conn
| try with 1t. Being manufacturers profit, 1t Is
simply taken from you and Efren to him
and although yon are robbed Of half dollar,
lie is enriched by half dollar. But If only
| twenty-fl cenfs is the manufacturers profit,
the other twenty five being the amount that
! it costs him to produce 1t, over and above
what 1t costs an English or German manufac-
| turur, then this twenty-five cents was dead
loss to every body. II is robbing the commu-
! nifty, and throwing half the p,under into the
fca-
6. That "1t takes sir days work of an ILL.,
DoIs farmer to equal the production IN home
labor, Of one day Of British artisan aided by
| machinery and steam Is II any wonder we
cTOw poor when we engage In this sort of bar
r"-Protec,ion, IN CAicago Tribune, Fe6.
10.
A. This is not very intclligib,e, but we will
| suppose ii means that we had better pay
| cents, or that II Is better to have two blank-
cts than four. It is plain that the object Of
| all industry Il to get articles Of human utlli-
| IT,. If England, By reason Of cheap wages
md steam-power, can gire Us more articles Of
o certain kind In exchange for the products of
atap% fInrn INV
| the same exertiou, and CHM and Brazil can
| give us more OF certnIn other kinds, we shall
| be idiots Ii We don't take them. Pick out any
man off thousand and aak him whether he ui1l
work month to make plow when he can
ret plow by working a week digging pota.
1oes or showing q Jack-plane, md he Will tell
you be will get 1t By working the week rather
Than the month OF, II he does not, the other
nine hundred and nfnety-nine will send him to
| the asylum, Yet the Pretecttonfsts would
have us believe that what is good for each
man In the community Is bad for the commu-
I. That England will not take our surplus
brcadstufs any way. She will raise her own,
or bug Of RusSia, or tfussia, Or Poland, OF any
country in preference to us.
4. It is certain that there Is always larg-
cr demand in the world for things eatablc
tlan tor anything else, because all persons
must cat, while some persons can get along
without clothes, or With next to none. The
country which can produce things eatab1e to
the best advantage and with the 1east cost, will
wants in the markets Of the world, whether 1t
be iron. cloth, tea or gold. England trades
most with those countries which trade most
with her, not from any affection for those
countries, but By an fnc1orable Law of trade.
She must pay for her imports with her ex-
ports She must buy her wheat with her
cloth and iron. If New York shipper sends
i cargo Of gtaiu 10 ENGLAND WORTH $1,000,
and fnds that he cannot bring return cargo
Of goods on account Of a prohibitory tariff,
he Will not take ont a second car-
I1 hsFs i no profit r. The trnd
designed and intended to diminish trade, and
when the result ie accomplished the Protec.
tionists point their fingers at foreign coun-
t1fcs and denouncc them for not taking our
breadstafls. They first require us to pay a
dollar for something that could be got for
markets 50 that We can get only fifty cents
for something that ought to bring rs dollar.
Sire Trade In Iron! Yes, By all means give
US National Free Tnde In iron md in every
thing else. But don't give us British Free
Trade. That is horse of another color,
ti,ion with American iron, satisfies the logic
Of Economy, satisfies the requirements OF
tfade, produces harmony Of interests, gives
equilibrium OF values, md tmparts stability
10 oil the pursuits Of industry. The cheap
enlng Of American Iron By competition with
Imported British Iron is arrangement OF the
national business, destruction Of the wages
which free institutions require and are willing
to pay, degradation OF the national life, and
floancial embarrassment to the country and
its Govenment.-N. 7: Tribune, Ft6. q.
d. The old story. Make people buy some-
thing they don't want, OF buy At dollar
what they might ret for fifty cents, which is
the same thiEE and this By way Of protect
Ing industry and increasing wages. What bo-
one million Of consutnerss When wigs went
out Of fashion In England, the wig-makers
prtitioned Parliament 10 pass a law requiring
pcople to buy wigs. "We don't want your
Eipt. p said the public But you &hau hdpe