The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-04-20

and VIII not the foreigner continue ~ Btll
bis IRON Tor $50, The American price
Then add $40 10 the duty must he nol
pay this $40 into the treasury, and still
sell his pigs at $50, the established Amerl'
can price? lie can't get more, and he
won't take less. SO whether the duty Is
high or low, on, or of, the customer gets
the iron At the same price. Again, do not
protective duties not only sustain our
wages at home, but are they not now In.
ing up the dOwn.trodden labor OF Europe,
where every day labor Is demanding high.
or wages, threatening TO go to the United
States where they can get two orsthIge
times the amount, and must not the CAPT.
talist submit to the demands Of labor OF
loose 1t?
Again, we ask, is not the common idea
that protection on the one hand, or free
trade on the other, Ia the true policy OF all
nations an absurdityS What Gamble moro
clear than that in the Commercial inter.
course between two countries, in one oil
which labor und It's productions are high,
and In the other low. Is not protection
always the true policy, Of tho high priced
country, US between the United States !
Would not free trade open our ports 10
the free importation Of their goods and
the expectation Of Our, money until our
money was all gone? Then would not
our prosperous labor have to come down
to their degraded level-make our own
shoes, hats, caps and clothes or 60 with.
out them!
Mr.. Kerr and others have repeated over
and over that protective duties favor the
rich monOpOlists At the expense Of the
farmers and laboring men. Now l sub,
nit tothe candor and good senAe q, 1hlr.
Kerr md others, whether lust the reverse
Of this is not true.
Suppose in some village there is q single
wooden or other factory, owned by some
rich nonOpOlist, who dictates the wages
OF labor and the price Of wool and other
produce in It's neiGhborhoOd. Then sup.
pose, by highly protective tariff you build
up two or three other competing wooden
mills in this village, requiring two or
three times as much labor, two or three
times US much wool and provisions, and
producing two or three times as much
cloth, would this not favor the farmer
and the laborer, by increasing the price
Of the produceoi the one, and the wages
oftlie other, at the expense OF the mo.
nopolist; who would thus have 10 pay
more for what he bought, and take less
for what he sold, thus destroying mo.
nopoIy by building up competition, the
only thing that can destroy il?
by doubling the duty on pig iron, would
not the, first effect be 10 raise the price by
shutting out the foreign supply and there.
by cause such Il rush OF capital into this
highly profitable business, us to soon in.
crease the home supply by home competi-
ton, 10 such an extent as not only to
supply ourselves, but Europe also with pig
iron, our capacity for production being
unlimited, while theirs is becoming every
day more and more exhausted?
would be glad to know what answer
Mr., Kerr and his friends have to make to
these questions, should they meet with
them in debate.
Protective duties should be specific. Id.
rdIOrem duties not only promote frauds
and undervaluatiOns, but what Is worse,
going up and down with the price of for
Cign goods, they take away protection
when foreign goods relowland protection
is wanted, and give higher protection
when they are low, and protection is not
required.
Bet why destroy American manuiacto.
ries by iree.trade? Why give foreigners
monopoly at labor.saVing machinery =
Why compel our people TO work the pillow
and hoe against the spindle and the loom,
| by Which one woman can pay for the
labor Of fifty men in the field sRg,y 9lAg
B 10 the non:producers, It, matters not
how low the productions of labor are,
which they purchase and consume, nor to
the rich lf6nopolist, how low the wages
oilahor he hasito pGyEbnt to productive
labor the great and only source Of national
wealth, embracing more than three.
fOurths Of our entire population, protec-
tion Is lie, and free trade is death. let
free trade strike down productive labor,
and the blow will be felt by the nation
through It's every nerve.
Will tho Tree trade Democrats allow me
10 ask them, why in the Senate and House,
they;g0 against reducing protective duties
on articles extensively produced in their
own districts-Iron in Pennsylvania, Coal
in, Maryland, Salt, Sugar, &C., elsewhere ?
Is 1t not because they considered these
protective duties q good thing? And il
tgood in theft own districts and States,
why not equally good in others? Is not
the votes therefore Of these free traders
against reducing protective duties for the
benefit OF their own constituents, vir-
tual confession Of judgment in. favor OF
protection Or do they so vote because
protection, as Senator Morton said q few
days ago, is u party question, as was
proved on Mr.. Cox's motion to reduce the
duty on pig iron when every Democrat
outside OF Pennsylvania voted for the re-.
duclion except two, one in Michigan, the
other in Kansas; and is not this likely to
he the great, il not the only issue in the
approaching Presidential campaign, all
The other issues having been surrendered,
and given up by the "new departure"
Can the Republicans desire better issue
When was our country ever more pros.
porous than 1t now is under the present
protective tariff? Go where you will you
see itsrich fruits springing up everywhere
in the greatest prolusi0p. Furnaces, Fac.
tories, Iron, Cotton, Wooden Mills, with
Railroads being everywhere constructed
to carry and distribute the mineral and
agricultural developments produced by
the protective policy to their appropriate
markets, reducing internal taxation, pay.
ing OFT, with unnecessary rapidity, the ma.
ti0nal debt, and filling the treasury to
Overlooking, tho the revenue from Gus.
toms being voluntary contribution paid
by those only who prefer foreign to
American goods Thousands who use
American productions only, paying not a
cent into the national treasury: why then
interrupt this general prosperity by this
constant and Injurious free trade Clamor