Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-03-23

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ton sl3 3,5l2,l77.
Rolled iron, 2 1858, ,2ls; tariff, $751;
200; Pennsylvania product, 1,O7l ,UOS;
protection, s26 777,45o.
Bcsscuer stool ingots, 9S5,20s; tariff,
Si4 3oo, 800; Penusy'vania's product, $685.
81; protection, S25 ,U34, ,l30.
Open hearth steel iugots, Si,302; tariff,
SO 1872 800; Pennsylvania product, 81.
O02; protection, 81 $50, no.
Crucible STEEL 7G 20l; tariff, s3,42o,.
Obs; PennsyIvania's product, GO,303; pro-
lection, 81 1885
Pig iron blooms, &C., 1921; tariff,
$G9S,iS0; Pennsylvania product, 2t,4IG;
protection, S49S 920
Iron rails, 4GG.0l7; tariff, S6,53G,S38
pennsy lvauia's product 157 ,2l3; protection,
$40, ,233 ATS.
Open hearth steel rails, 9,l05; toriff,
S227 ,G25; Pennsylvania product, 1850.
protection, sS4 900.
Cut nails, 252 $50; tar;T. s7.5sd 900.
pennsy'vani''s produce. IS $40; protection,
81 27'JJ,47o,
Total tariff on iron products in 1880,
sl70.4lO O60; Pcunsylvauia's share, SSH
$50 370.
respectfully ask, out Of whose pockets
came these fabulous SUNS TO enrich the few
iron manufacturers Of the United States?
But let US look little farther and in-
vcs'igate If we can the subject Of enhanced
wages.
We have no means Of estimating the
numbers engaged in cxhnmirg the iron orc
from mother earth. Those digging, dclv-
ing, hard working fellows are not suiii
| n n u w ,f -,
intelligence to be worthy Of enumeration
by the Ccnsns Satisfied l}urlau. But that
other class, that well paid, well fed, highly
favored SC. who have the privilege Of
working in tho iron manufactures of the
! United State. are reported as numbering
l40,9TS, and to each Of these is pnid as his
annns wages the average SUM Of 1898 5 / :,
| or total amount Of &55 iTG.795, or u little
over one third the total amount paid by the
! people TO the employers in the shape Of
! protection. Or, in other words, the iron
manufacturers pay their lab,rers $50 5,IIG,-
1S5 annually, while the people pay through
| protection to these iron manufacturers
$40 10000. And the State of pcnnsyl
varia, receiving through protection SSH
9S0 3I9 upon her iron production, is paid a
bounty Of 500 ,572 ,5ai ny the consumers
of her products over aud above the toa!
amount of wages annna!y PAID hy all the
iron manufpctorics OF the United States to
oil Of their employees. Is it any wonder,
then, Mr. Chairman, tba: our iron manu-
fac'urcrs "re able to pay large salaries to
laborers? Aud still less is there cause for
surprise that iron manufacturers are pro
tGc'lvc tariff moE, regardless Of any other
phase Of their political creed?
| THE woRIMEN DO NOT GET IT.
Bu,, Mr. Chairman, there is one aspect
of this subject that does provoke my SUR
| prise, aud that Is that auy sane man should
attempt to prove or should even assert, Us
We have had it asserted, repeated, and re-.
asserted several times IN the same speech
since the assembling If the present Con
GreSs, that 80 per cent of the manuclc.
turcd products of oar cnuntry is labor
Str.ngc iniatuAton! Unless irnres lie and
| unless our census statistics are fraud, the
bounty paid by the tariff 10 The iron m,uu-
lecturers alone of the single State Of Penn
sylvania is mnIe than 50 per cent. in excess
of all the wages paid by all the manufac.
'urrrs of i!on in all parts of the United
States.
But, Mr.. Chnirm,n, let ns examine
another phase Of tins kalcdnscopic :irct.
In 1880 the segregated capital invested in
iron and steel industries in tho Uu;cd
| States "as &23O ,0Tl ssh OF .his amount
SlOG,247,O66, or Ij per cent, were in
,ted in Pennsylvania. What the murkc,
vn!ue OF the annual product Of this pcrma
nent investment is | have no ucalIs of ;uow-
ing, but do know that, be il what i, may,
1t is enhanced in value by protection 10 the
amount Of *i70 10000 or 70 per cent :,
upon the capital invested throug hout the
Uui,ci States and 81 per cent upon the
Investments in Pennsylvania Vulgarly the
bondhnldcr is dcnominaled bloatcd because
he pays 90 tax upon his investment What
| shnll We Stplc the mnn whose Investment is
annually enhanced IN value ncnriy 100 per
cent. by the bounty Of tic Government?
| Wise rs scrprn!s are these irun.cind pro
tectva tariff men, for they have cnjol1G
bo'h their employees nnl this great .oy--
crnmcnt into the belief that The tariff is an
institution founded expressly for the pro-
lection of the lnhoring mnn. Suppose
these labnrers, imbucd With that spirit Of
rebellion which the gcnticnan from Penu-
syvania (Alr kelley told us yesterday he
had seen manifested IN his State in orposi--
tion to the supervision required by our
system Of internal taxation, were to strike
Tor co"oper tive distribution of the
e'rnings Of their own labor, think yon, Mr.
Chairman, it would amount to moro than
80 per cent. Of the bounty pail these
manufacturers by the government? In
| agriculture labor is frequently estimated US
the vnlue Of the product In iron manu-