The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-29

Under these circumstances is it wise to
sacrifice all these great industries, even if it
was necessary, in order to keep alive a few
monopOIes like pig iron, coal, salt and
Bessemer steel? Mr.. Brinkerhoff, of Ohio,
in late speech, gives some illustrations of
the injury the tariff does to the business
interests Of the country. He says:
Il have letter in my pocket now from
Mr. d. Harter, of Mansfield, Ohio, the super
intendent of the great AuItman & Taylor
agricultural implement mandatory, the
largest, probably, in the entire West, and
this is what he says
81 am quite sure the tariff is curse to
US. With free trade in iron, wood and
leather, our business would be larger, more
profitable, and would cheaper the articles
we manufacture to our customers, and
would enable US to offer honorable and
profitable employment to a still larger
number of workmen. The sooner the peo-
pie realize that the grinding taxes they pay
under the name of protection are simply
robbery under the sanction Of law, and that
instead of benefting manufacturers they in
lure, damage and destroy them, the better
$50 with engines and mill machinery, the
tariff Is simply a dead weight. | have talk
ed with many of the manufacturers, and
they are all agreed in opposing protective
tariff"
"Let me read you an extract from letter
of Mr. j. G. Evans, Of Deleware, Ohio:
"For more than ten years | have been
engaged in manufacturing farm implements,
steam engines and mill machinery, and
know by actual experience the results Of a
high protective tariff upon my business.
At the very outset it adds almost one-half to
the price Of pig iron and coal, and greatly
enebances the price of all other materials
ugpd which nf coYarap iparoasaa iv
the price Of the machinery / make for sale.
These facts compel me to use a larger capi-
tai than / otherwise would which necessi-
tates large profits all Of which again en-
hances the price Of the articles sold. What
we iced as manufacturers Is cheap coal,
cheap iron cheap lumber, and cheap ma.
terial generally; with these we can produce
| our machinery at greatly reduced prices
from the present, which would largely in
| crease our sales, and thus bring our manu-
| featured articles within the reach Of more
people, with the increased demand for
manufactured articles would be an increased
demand for labor. Free trade, therefore,
would not only be q benefit to the manufac-
turer, but equally also to the consumer and
the mechanic
In reference to the tariff on wool Mr.
Brinkerhof says
"ln this matter of wool, have d little
experience of my own / own a quarter
section farm near the city whefe live, and
year or two before the tariff on wool |
bought n flock of sheep to put on 1t. got
the ordinary Leicestershires, and paid s.
a head. In due time the Wool Growers
Association succeeded in getting substan-
italy prohibitory tariff on wool, and the
result was that had the felicity Of selling
my sheep to the butchers for an average Of
about Sl50 apiece Ny neighbors, who
had the small bodied Merinos did not do so
well, and throughout the West thousands Of
sheep were slaughtered merely to fatten
| hogs.'