Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-01-12

~. D2Au ARGUES rsaE QUEs-
THoH ON EREE TRADE.
mIa neM1R e. the Letter Of James
D4nSpsf Philadelphia, which
Sasea In the kEPUBLI.
CAN two weeks ago.
Ksf ~ kepubliean.

answers MI, Dedn "oii "O "A' s
II for granted that the statement which
quoted from.in the Public Ledger, was
AiferwaSl corrected yet did not see
the corrbuttAln. will give up the l.od
ger report agsa humbug and take Mr'
Dube0nfn fn01n statements and suppose
then u Nv true. He says STATED
that under ftee trade the census showed
thneI y papul alton of Philadelphia in
iS60 Wa6 sU32, 900 and there were em-
nlDtEd HI me various industries 10000,
al Y NJ thifteen per cent OF the entira
Mona afiph while in 1880 we had $40, 600
81 Y poculation and there were en-
nioScd 0ver 2VO, 600 people making the
norcontaae OF the people employed 20
~ emit. VI nearly double the number
eurlnSea under free trade" II Mr.
DoSuCa tnows anything at all he will
knOW sfxSk there never has bcen free
trRX4 IN HE United States during his
shoxt atay here. have lived here for
,ny3r AtxtY years and at no time during
my llfe time have any knowledge OF
fraa trnde. having existed in this coun-
m. Now let us call things by their
risht names and have no quibbling or
a0uRtuR and If 1t is possible for Mr.
4 UQUUUn 70 tcll inc tIutH lot MN h""
have y trial Of it. Talking of the time
when C4rtain things were so under
| froa trade" is a thing which defy
him TO prOye that ever existed
Iho only mode OF collecting rsve-
nu1 f0r The general government during
nv rocoltecti IN was by import duties
81 DEMONSTRATIONS Of foreign products
nutll 1881 since which time we have
I'M s0ne OF our reyeuue collected from
tntSrnkl taxa.lou We will take it tor
Srnntnd that there may be well on To
100000 persons emp.oSe in PhiIadel'
phia vet does that show it TO be the re-
spltpf = prou i've tariff Is IL not some
l0uAl matter that may have brought
about 70 great extent this result :"
The cheap coal for the purpose OF
generating steam power cheaper than
+ II Aatsb be done by the coal that has
added 70 IL the cost of freight TO
Naxxx u into the New England States;
th4 kcilities for getting cheap ma
chinery And also educated skilled labor
All tend ID concentrate the manuf6clu,
4 ring Of many specialities in and around
PhilniGlpnia, and not as he suggests
the effects OF the present tariff laws.
y For lei me ask either Mr.. Dobson OF
any 0f the persons who attended that
convention, did they ever experience a
worse time since their recollection than
was put through from the failure OF
Jay Cook up TO the latter part of 1878;
and Was not this same tariff of which
W ieAf 80 much blowing about at the
late convention, in full force and effect
during all that time? If it Is the pa
nxcea for all the ills that befali trade,
why did it not come to the rescue at
the time above named? Mr.. Dobscn
s&Ys.w never, said there were 200, O00
people now engaged in the woolen in,
dnhtry alone" gave my authority
and had not seen the contradiction he
speaks Of. He has not yet denied that
he said, "Philadelphia consumed more
than 100, ,0Oe 900 pounds of wool and It's
substitutes. Now let us look at the
facts., The census report of 1870 show,
thcre were in the city of Philadelphia
At that time, engaged i'll all industries,
106, ,166, of all ages and sexes, out OF
which there were about 25OOC
engaged as bakers, butchers. distillers,
oyxtarmen, rattmen, dress makers, mil,
lineras seams.resses, tailors, dentists,
Il patent medicine, photographers, &c.
WoWill admit as Mr.. Dobson says -
They get better wages than in any city
ia The world" Are they as well paid
~ they were in 1870? shall not wait
fJI Mi. Do5son's reply, but take the au'
4 thOrity given by such man as Mr.. Ar,
yott the special agent appointed by the
RDyernment 10 collect the statistics OF
FhIladelphia industries for the census
year. He tells us that in 1870 the
wages earned for each person employed
a In the Industries of Philadelphia were
S446sper year. In the year 1880 the
same persons earned only S3l3.1j each
Vet with reduction in ten years on
the wages of each individual of Sl327 x
p0r year, and both under the operations
of this same tariff Of 1867, how many
decades will we have TO experience al
Il this rate of reduction of wages, before
the much talked-of American laborel
6 - reduced to the condition of the pau
per laborer of Europe? We must ad
NIT what Mr.. Arrott says to be true ol
s ~ government would not have SO
lected him for 80 responsible a position
yet MI. ArrOtt's statement says
re has been reduction of % pei
eent In ten years on the wages" and
1iDohays, "The reputed value of tn.
pEodncts (of the Philadelphia indus
tsjea) over and above the amount o
MAterials used and wages paid is about
4b0, 600, or about % per cent. Of tht
eMflre product and about 81 per cent
pe0nt on the capital invested. l Cal
FiAlnly see why the great manufactur
My embellishments of the city of Phila
d6lphia want the present tariff to re-
mann Is 1T Is when it reduces and cheap
ems the labor they have to employ, and
n ~ the same time increases their profit.
4 - - to give profit OF 81 per cent. pei
Annum on the capital invested.
IL this thing of reducing wages and
n increasing profits Is allowed to 20 on
N shall we not soon fiud the American
n Morkmen fleeing to the Pauper paid
n lAbor fields OF Europe tor relief from
TITS system OF humbugging called
Protection to American labor?" Now
Al lss us look at this thing little further
Wh0 is it that pays this profit of 81 pc,
NJ 1ent on the capital of the American
I'll $1nnufacturer? We find by the census
VI 1870 that there were engaged in ag
ss ltulture 8, 922, All persons; in Profes
nal and personal services 1854, 1893
trade and transportation, , 19l, the
hole number of persons of all age,
nd sexes engaged in production and
eful pursuits other than maunfactur
mechanical, quarrying and mining
,79S, 500. These are the persons who
taxed by this protective tariff to
eble the employers and The 2,O53, ,99f
sons employed in manufacturing
echanical and mining pursuits to live
~ pocket a profit of 81 percent. or
eir invested capital as these persons
N able to do in consequence OF pro
Ctive tariff levied and collected on the
ports of foreign product ranging FROM
to l5O per cent. These are the par
es who Mr.. Dobson tells us are tn,
st paid laborers in any city in tn,
orld. And why should they not b,
hon the government gives them sucl
monopoly? Now let US compare th,
hges Of 5,o22, All persons employed a