Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-08-15
ENGLISH MANUFACTURES AND THE
TARIFF.

our readers that not many years ago were
almost dependent upon England for every
kind of cutlery, steel pens, rails and the
thousand manufactures of that tight little
island. They never sent MS sewing machines
or reaping, moving or planting machines
they did not manufacture our cotton gins nor
our parlor organs, but they did sell us cloths
and paper, muslin, made of American grown
cotton, and nearly all the cutlery sold in the
land and notwithstanding we sent them cot
ton and tobacco, wheat and pork, the balance
of trade was against us, and every steamer
carried out heavy shipments of gold to square
accounts. The war ruined American shipping,
and England carried both to and from and
reaped rich harvest from our trade and COM
merce. But we have discovered that it is
just as easy to import foreign artizans and
manufacture here as to condemn them to
eternal pauperism by purchasing English
made goods, and so Meridian cutlery knocks
Sheffield, with its Anticipated, ideas out of the
market, and the effort has been made, and sue
cessfully too, to send our iron into England.
American beef sells on English SHAMELESS in
preference to English fed and at lower rates.
Yankee cheese" has become staple.
American wheat and corn regulates their
prices for grain, and American machinery
covers all the land. And now John, who
tried to ruin his best customer, has put that
customer on his mettle and growls and sweats
because he has forfeited his trade. But as
we began to say A circular has reached US
Zone Of ten thousand, no doubt, mailed to the
United States to manufacture capital and in
fence public opinion) from London, setting
forth the manner in which our tariff Expresses
the consumer in America, which, in view of
it's disinterestedness, is worth studying, and
as an indication of the straits to which British
manufacturers are driven is instructive and
valuable. 1t starts out by saying 1T is
duty we owe to the food and cotton producers
of that (this) country, as well as to ourselves,
to bring under their notice the extraordinary
extent to which they are taxed by their pres
ent fiscal system, in support of what is called,
encouragement to native industries" Now |
there's a pious, considerate and utterly I'M
selfish old uncle for you. He thinks quite as
much of us as of himself, and volunteers the
wholesome advice that we are paying heavy
tax by a protective tariff, and this tariff is
working adversely to emigration from England.
We note that the emigration does not fall off
much lately, and also that $50 Sheffield cut
lers and their families have just been landed
at New Work. The pamphlet argues the
tariff question from the English standpoint
and holds out the threat that unless our pro-
tective tariff is removed, England will be dis
posed to retaliate by sticking a tariff on our
exports. AS the bulk of our exports pro-
visions, and England is dependent upou US
for her supplies, We cannot see that they will
benefit themselves, or hurt us much, by such
a course, which would only advance the price
of breadstuffs, and create more suffering and
more dissatisfaction among their half paid t
and half fed laborers than there is at present
The great trouble is, England is losing its
prestige as the great manufacturing center, {
and we are not only competing successfully
with her in other markets, but We have car
ried the war into Africa and can beat her on
her own soil. 1t is but few years since, that d.
all American steamer was not to be found on :
one of our ocean lines, for ships could be
built cheaper at Greenock, Birkenhead or :
Belfast than we could begin TO build them @
that is all changed too, and ship building has,
through the enterprise of few men like
John Roach, sprung into first place. But b
lfter all, what chance has ship builder who n
pays his men FIVE dollars day, with the man il
IN the other side who pays but five dollars a Il
week 2 Remove our tariff from manufactures Ii
md we either have to reduce the wages of fC
'ur mechanics by so much, or admit English Ell
,auper made goods to 60 i'll competition and
uin our manufacturers altogether. Is it
,etter to inaugurate this state of affairs, and .
educe our working men to the British STAN y
lard, or to pay our own rate of wages, and IL
un the risk of paying a little more for goods tt
nade abroad, and suffer the oppression OF
'hich this very generous party says we are OF
roaming under on account of an oppressive OF
nd restrictive tariff John is in bad way
lie could not keep out our beef, and it is as
oubtful if he can keep out our manufactures in
HENDRIC B. WRIGHT has made speech, mi
synopsis of which is reported in the Chron- Fc