Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-03-04

operate little better, but not one of
them speak of it IN terms of approba-
tion. | believe it was compiled by
the British minister at Berlin; per-
haps that may be regarded as evil
dence against it; but that nearly
200, 900 citizens left there after the
protective tariff had been i'll operation
for about year is vOuchcd for by our
own authorities. am satisfied the re-
ports OF the chambers of commerce
are truly set forth. Bat | must has
ten on. One of the arguments which
the senator aud those vino like him
advocate protective tariffs press with
much esrpestness is, that they can
pOlnt out projected articles which
cost the CONSUMER less HOW than
they did when the protective tariff
was imposed, and the senator gave
several INSTANCES rs though he thought
that was evidence, that home colHpe-
titiOm bad reduced prices. The pro-
ductive power Of the machinery we
have been subsid zimg so lnmg and so
heavily to enable them to produce
has increased many told. l have
seen hundred seif-binders on the
Halrympie farms i'll Dakota doing
the work of five hundred men every
day, and not adding pound to the
weight of the machinery that cut the
gram. All the machinery now OWL
cd by the protected manufacturers
can produce goods at rates greatly
reduced below what human labor
and skill alone could do. Are they
to claim credit for reductions below
former handmade rates, when all the
nations i'll the world have like ma
chinery, most of it obtained by its
owners without subsidy, which
makes like goods now 50 per cent.
cheaper than The American manufac-
for that he boasts of having cheap
cncd !?
This people taxed themselves about
sixty million dollars TO aid the great
Union aud Central Pacific Railroads
i'll building their lines from the Mis-
souri, river to San Francisco, and
gave them lands enough to found a
great empire. Whom they charge the
people OF Reno, fer example $S00-as
Mr.. Daggett proved they diu i'll the
house of representatives-so carry q
car load of goods from New \ 1ork to
that point, and yet carry an exactly
similar car, with like load, over
the same lines, past Reno, to San
Francisco, 400 miles farther, tor $500,
is it any answer to the men III Reno,
who are thus robbed, to be told by
the railroad magnates that they have
no right to complain that they are
getting their goods much faster and
cheaper, even at these rates, than they
used TO when they hauled them i'll
wagons over the plains ? Of course
not; yet it is quite as good as the
claim that Mr.. Morrill, and his CO.
protectionists set up for the manu-
facturers, in order to enable them to
maintain their eXtortions. l admit
that if we tax the people sufiicien tIy,
and take enough of The money col
lectcd by the taX-@utherer, we could
grant subsidy liberal enough to
enable the senator to raise oranges III
Vermont Drotitably, if we wonld pro-
tect him against southern and foreign
competition 50 we could protect the
gas companies against the intrusion
of the Light of the sun in the resi-
dences aud public buildings in the
District of Columbia. lie Is u foreign
intruder who undcrwnrks our pro-
ducers i'll many things. Raising
oranges is a legitimate industry, and
the senator might want 20 engage III
it, but l submit to him whether II
would not be better TO: Lie county it
he would raise potatoes, haul them 10
Cuba, and swap them for oranges,
which the sun has produced, and
pocket the profits OF hauling both
ways, thus furnishing each country
at cheap rates with abundance OF
what both needs, rather than TO lob
by bill through congress to give
him a monopoly of an unnatural and
unsuitable, though Legitimate busi-
ness in Vermont, 6y increasing ten
fold the price OF oranges to all the
people. Extension OF trade, and the
furnishing of needed supplies at
cheap rates TO our people by appro-
priaiing all the advantages OF soil,
climate and the peculiar talents OF
other people, paylng for them with
the products which We can sell cheap
er than they can get them otherwise,
is the problem American statesmen
have to solve rs best they can i'll the
years to come.
Mr.. Atkinson, iu the article from
which read, says:
"lt has become apparent to grea
many representatives OF branches Of
| industry that were formerly urgen
for protection that the extension o
their own markets would be greatly
promoted by the removal OF the re
strictions upon commerce.
| And among other facts showing
why that is so be says:
| zone operative in Lowell, working
machinery one year on cotton drill
for China, produces 5000 pounds o
cloth, enough to clothe 900 China
Or 5000 East Iudians at two and
or weaving can long compete unde
these conditions; neither can th,
farm laborers OF India or. Eastern
Europe compete with the machine
made wheat of .he western states"
Every Intelligent GisiDtcrestcd mar
who viii take ;ho trouble to looi
over the elaborate report of Sccrctar,
Blaine, issued III October, 1881, an,
the reports-of the American consuls
on which it is based, ON the "cottol
goods trade OF the world and tt'
share of tie United States therein,
which has doub'iess been Furnished
TO every senator, will see at once tb
folly OF our protective tariff, aud tn,
contemplate ii cure we make in tha
great World Wiie industry. Th
cotton product Of the world IN 1855
was estimated at $500 .00O. Geo pounds
of which we prnduce,! 2,770, 900, COG
nearly four-liiths Of the whole; .
which England took from us in 1SS
l ,S0l $50, ,520, our total exports hnii,
SO per cent. of all we raised. Eng
land exported cot1 on goods in 1851 {;
the value OF 1867 ,24l 900; the export
OF the United States Amounted t.
,9o1 ,0GO, of wi1irH England an,
Canada took 81, ,Gi3 779, ,,lh all th
balance oi The world ~ 337 .221. no
much more than VIC collect annuall
from the tax of one cent on a box c
matches, less by 81, 40 than W
received III 1881 from matches AM
bank checks. OF course the bulk G
our cotton trade with Canada is car
ricd on by smuggling across the line.
They are easy 20 cross III Vernon
New Hampshire and 2ieiin. SncrelS
ry Blaine shows. 81 f,a~a ID Of hi