The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-10-19

ports should he adjusted on purely rev.
enue standard. Il is maintained that
whatever goes to protect any branch of
industry is necessarily a tax upon the
consumer What will prove 20 be q npraIv
revenue tariff is hard to determine. For
instance, suppose that there was no roll
ing mill for the manufacture Of railroad
iron in the country, and you place q dntv
Of $40 per ton on railway iron. You i'm.
port 100000 tons of railroad iron IN ;.
given year, and collect So 100000 rev4
nue. That is revenue tariff, and tha
duty is a tax on the consumer. Bnf fhe
effect of your high duty has be, to brine
into being many rolling mills, 80 thai the
next year you import no railroad iron and
tariff which was purely revenue when os
tablished, has ceased to be so,and in hioh
ly protective. 1t is hardly possible 10
have a permanent tariff that shall ba
purely revenue tariff unless you place it
upon articles that we cannot produca in
this country, and the free traders comnro
bend this when they insist upon hioh
duty on tea and coffee and other articles
not produced IN the country Taxes tbns
le WED, benefit no branch of industry and
when so collected you have comparative
~ free trade in all such articles as we
manufacture In the country There is a
numerous party in the country who think
that our duties should be thus collected
| do not agree with them. The true noli
cy in my judgment is not to permit other
ma ions to bring their burdens upon
us. To that end we should allow snch
neceSsarles as are not produced by u. Int
which are consumed by all classes, like
tea, coffee and sugar to come in at o yerv
low duty, and on those articles shat can
rs we'll be produced in this country as
any other, [ would SO place the duty AZ
{" obtain large revenue and encourage
home production at the same time. And
in luxuries consumed by the rich I would
place the duty so high as to collect A.
much Of our needed revenue from chem as
possible Take the case Of iron. No other
country has greater deposits of coal or
iron, or better quality than ours. Coal
and IRON ore as it lies buried in the earth
is OF no value, nor do they become vafha
bic until the different processes of labor
are placed upon them A ton of coal rep
resents SO many hours of labor'engaogd in
mining it 1t is labor, and little or roth.
ing else, and if coal brings high price,
the man who mines it obtains bioh
price for his labor. The same may be
said Of iron
When labor is still further applied to
coal and iron ore, and by the aid of capi
tai invested in furnaces and rolling mills.
you have pig iron, wrought iron, RAILROAD
iron, steel, DC [ labor was as cbpan in
this country as in Ems land, France, Bel
GUM and Prussia, no protection whAtev-
er would be required IN the manufacture
OF lrGn. But labor is not as cheap, and I
hope never TO See the dav wien the la.
boring man in free United States vii be
compelled TO work for the starvati, n pri
ces of Europe BY reliable complra
tive table prepared by Mr.. d. A. Wells,
good authority for all Democrats and free
trade men, 1t appears that the wages OF
workers IN iron I'D different countries are
about as follows: Iron puddIers receivein
the United States 1864 per week; IN
England, 1915; Prussia, $4,32 Belgium,
| $4,20. LabOrers about iron works in the
United States $3.50 per week ENGLAND.
$3.50; PrusSia,$2 SO Belgium, $2,4O; and
labor IN all other employments bears
about the same relation. Now, ought we
to allow pig iron to come in free of duty ?
[ make use Of iron to illustrate nv argu
mcnt, as what [ say in regard to that, will
apply with equal force to many other
articles produced in this country.
1t you let iron come in duty free, Won
declare one OF two Things: that we shall
close our furnaces and mines and cease tc
make iron, or we shall make It as chea
as the European nations that are allowed
freely tC compete with us. IF the latter
you declare that the labOrer engaged in
making iron shall work for the starvation
wages OF Europe; if the former, YOU de
clare that the labOrer brought up to work
in iron, shall either remain idle, or Ell
gage in the cultivation of the soil, and
thus add to our vast agricultural SUI plus
and rendering prices to the farmer still
more ruipous.
/ take the true doctrine to be this
place your tariff high enough upon thos,
articles that can be produced here as wei
as elsewhere, but for difference in labor
to enable the laborer here to be we'll paid
; we'll clothed, well housed and well fed
and being so, to compete with the i'll
paid i'll fed labor Of the Old World
3 bu5 not so high as to be prohibitorv, o
to prevent fair competition. The tarit
, on pig iron has been high since Senate
? Doolittle made it so, while he was in tn,
r Senate. After he left, and the verv nex
session, it was reduced about rs per cent
s by the help of my vote. I believe tina
s it ought to be still further reduced. Pi,
3 iron approaches so near being raw ma
t terial, that we should endeavor to cheape,
s it in every possible way, as the success o
so many branches of industry depend up
on it. The great number of persons work
t ing in iron in its more advanced form
make it our duty to give them raw iro,