Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-18


Assuming this to be true, and the
tariff on iron, in accordance with
the bill now before Congress, being
on Pig ST, per ton; on scrap Sc ION
slabs, loops, blooms &c, being an
article between bar and pig iron,
$40; on bars of one kind $40; of
another, S25; on R. R. bars $50 ION
wire of steel 800; on steel frogs
&c. $40; on steel car wheels $40;
on steel locomotive springs &cS12O;
per ton.
Thus you see that $40, per ton
may be put down safely as the av
erage tariff on iron and steel used
in Ohio. But it is more.
Then 100000 tons,at s2O,per ton,
shows that the farmers of Ohio, for
the pay must come out ofthe ground }
pay annually for the tariff on Ohio's
iron the nice little sum of Three
million two hundred thousand dol
lars, not one dollar of which goes
into the treasury Of the nation !!
Where does it go, the Protectionist
asks? 1t goes, farmers, and labor
ing men Of Ohio, into the pockets
of the Iron Master! 1t makes him
a money King while you are toiling
for the bread to keep you alive.
He sweats not :sneither does he
spin," and yet his lash draws the
blood from your veins at every turn
of his wheel.
"Ah, yes,' says the Protcctionist
'but if you take off the tariff our
works must all stop, and then Eng
land will again combine to run up
the price!' Have you forgotten,
Mr.. Protectionist, that you just
said in answer to the argument that
"American Iron Masters combine to
run up the price, they never can
hold such combination together"
If in America it cant be done, how
can it be done in England? Tho
same rule applies in both coun tries
because of the tariff on Iron, Ohio
Farmers pay over three millions OF
dollars, annually, and what do they
get in return? They get high -pri
ced machinery, dear transportation
for their produce and consequently
low prices for wheat. Why are pri
ces low? Because the cost of trans
portation on rail roads built anC
kept up on tariff iron, eats the cror
half up, and also, England and the
markets of the world being shut out
by our ''high tariff send but few
ships here with iron, and those few
go home loaded down with our ma
tional promise to pay instead o
wheat DC. Remove those bars anl
an hundred ships will come. They
can't go home empty and they thel
will load down with our wheat, corn
oats, meat &c. at good prices, ant
the ''bill will be paid! %
But let US look a little further
You, farmers of Ohio, lose three
MILLIONS on what you buy in the way
Of iron alone, S3,000,O00!
You have to sell a surplus of tel
millions bushels of wheat on which
you lose SO cts. per bushcll becaus,
of this tariff, which amounts to a loss
of five millions of dollars, now ado
the 100000 lost on wheat to th,
S3,000,0O0 paid on iron and yo,
have $S,O00.OOO as the Iron Mas
ters' part of the profits on his Iron
Your loss corresponds to his gain.
Your$1O, 100000 bushels of whea
brought you $10,000,0O0 in money
Then eight from ten leaves you 50.
100000 for your wheat. Will tha
pay you for your work !? Who reap
all the reward A few Iron Mas
ters' They laugh at your calami
ty!
But let us look again. Was it no
for this tariff you would have savet
the So, 100000 paid on iron, not t.
the Government, but to the "Irol
Master" You would have saved til
$5, 100000 lost on your wheat, max
ing in all $S,OOO,O0O saved, whicl
added to your 100000 woul'
make 100000 kept in Ohio, in
stead of the 100000!
Would not that be worth some
thing to us as state and people
But says the Protectionist, "with
out tariff, high tariff, how can W
raise Revenue and pay our grea
debit" I have already said tina
government gets no revenue fror
the So, 100000 tariff on iron. Ho,
is this ? why, dear reader, duty, o
tariffs only paid on goods brough
from other countries into this. Irol
made in the United States costs NJ
more to make with than it doe
without tariff But with the tariff
at $40 per ton ON iron, enables tn
iron Master to add just that muc
more to his former prices, which
with the former profits go, directly
into his pockets!
Now let US see about this. Eng
land can make ton Of iron say fo
j 90 90, add freight, handling &c. t.
and at New York 5 00,makes it cos
at N. Y. 25 90, now add the tari1
England must pay, Z 90 per ton an(
the cost Of her pig iron to. Ameri