Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-12-14

We have heretofore startled our
readers by quoting from English
journals their trothtul admissions OF
the progress and prosperity of the
United States, resulting from our
policy of Protection to Home Indus
try. These admissions are directly
in conflict with the laborcd state
ments, reports and speeches of Amer
lean advocates of Free Trade and
Revenue Reform, who are endeavor
ing 10 secure modification or repeal
OF our tariff laws in the interest ol
our foreign trade rivals.
The business columns Of English
newspapers are daily making direct
contradiction OF the ialsehoods, which
such English commercial agencies ir
the Unite3 States as the Free Trade
League, are sowing broadcast among
the people. OF these lies none has
been more constantly alleged or bet
ter stuck to than the assertion of D.
A. Wells, late Special Commissioners
of the Revenue, that the existing tar.
iff unduly protects the monufacture
OF iron, and that the whole duty
goes into the pocket of the American
manufacturer. We add to the plenti.
full refutations OF these talschoods,
the following explicit statement OF
Ryland's Iron Trade Circular of July
lst, published at Birmingham, Eng.
land, and beg our Revenue Reform
friends to copy:
''The exports of iron during the
week have been of avery heavy
character, and at all the ports OF ship
ment vast quantities of rails, and
pigs. and miscellaneous kinds OF iron
have been dispatched to most of our
customers. Prices, as a matter OF
course, are firm, and are likely to be
so. Notwithstanding the efforts
which many Of our foreign customers
are making to developc their own
IRON trade, we as vet do not seem to
suffer. The mos: important Of these
efforts is that made by the United
States of America. We have often
called attention to the remarkable
development OF the American iron
trade, and the possibility Of the peo-
pie of that great country supplying
themselves entirely with their own
iron. America teens with the raw
material, and it only waits the hand
OF man to dig the ore, to smelt and
puddle the IRON, and to turn it into
all the varieties OF the finished ar
ticle. So far America, no doubt
could supply the world with the
whole Of it's requirements, and could
thuse close the English trade alto
gether But as long as the labor
market III the United States re.
mans in Its present condition, so
long will the English iron
trade MAINTAIN its hold upon that
country. American capitalists arc
not at all anxious to invest in the iron
trade, notwithstanding its strong Pro
tectiye Tariff, and while labor forms
ninety per cent. of every ton manuiac
tured iron, and when this item is Of
far greater value in the States than it
is in our own country, it's quite I'M.
possible tor the Americans to com
pete with MS even with such a highly
Protective Tariff as they now enjoy
Here we have the distinct admis.
sion that the most important effort to
aevclopiron industry is in the United
States; that the Tariff is not suffi-
cient equivalent for the difference ir
the cost Of labor III England and ir
the United States: and that unless
wages are greatly reduced the main
tenanee of the Tariff is essential K
the development of four home manu-
tactures Industrial Ballst'n for Aug