Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-01-21
NJ. Dea. aad theTsriT.

Of Mr.. Deans statements We neye
intended in doing 80 to place ourselve
in an antagonistic condition to Nj
Dean to such an extent as 10 enter til
lists as tariff gladiator, and to be cor
sidered as accepting the chaleng
thrown out by Mr.. Dean few week
ago, to a discussion Of the question
Mr.. Deans challenge was TO agricuI
turists and manutactu ers more es
pecially, az he was both a manufac
turer and a farmer, and OF course W
would feel out of place as the accepte,
opponent OF Mr. Dean, as We are neithe
q farmer nor manufacturer. We did
however, see proper to take up one 0
two points of Mr.. Deans exhaustive ar
gument III order to show that Their
were really two sides TO the quest OIL
he was arguing, and in the same man
ner briefly refer to some points again il
Mr.. Deans article. He says he neye
lived under free trade in this country
That is true, but he has lived in it uE
der very low tariff .ong enough tt
know that be made money and was en-.
abled to purchase more reaI estate I'M
der protective tariff than he ever did
under a low tariff, and if the presen
tariff is 80 unjust and in his eyes 5,
Ubiquitous, why does he permit himself
TO be benefited by it, by engaging il
the very business most protected by ths
present protective tariff? Mr.. Dear
may look upon the present tariff as un
just and oppressive TO agriculturists
but it will be noticed that he is not con
science smitten on the subject, as the
dilemma has two horns, and Mr.. Dean
holds on TO the manufacturing horn as
We as the agricultural horn, only lit
tie more SO. Our genial friend has Ia
bored hard and long to show that under
. protective tariff in 1870, the average
wages paid to hands engag ed In manu-.
features were Si46 for each and every
man, woman and child engaged in
manufacturing, while in 1850, the wa
ges were reduced TO 1915 per annum,
and all this change has occurred under
protection. AS NJ Dean complains OF
those engaged in agriculture only max
ing $j2 year and boarded, and thinks
farmers should be as wei. paid as manu-.
facturers, which they ought Of course,
he should smile benignantly upou the
present tariff, because under il, accord
ing to his own showing, the wages OF
those engaged in manufacturing, have
fallen in ten years $50 per annum.
However ex'ravagant wages may have
been in l",O,a reduction OF $50 in 1880.
which brings the manufacturer aud the
farmer nearer an equality, with the ad.
vantage On the side Of the ia rmer, should
suit Mr.. Dean. The difference between
$3l6 and So is S26i, which will not be
sufficicnt 10 meet board and rent, which
agrlcultur!sts are exempt from. Still,
Mr.. Dean is not happy. Manufacturer,
have been reduced to SID per anuum,
out of which they have to pay board at
the rate of four dollars a week, rent and
aty taxes, and the agrioulturists or
those engaged in farm labor get s.. a
year clear, without city taxes and
no board " pay.
Upon this Mr.. Dean makes a pathetic
appeai 10 farmers. He tries TO make
them believe tina: they are egrepious y
imposed upon, We 10 not believe Mr..
Dean will sue coed in his object. Far.
il'rs know what they are getting for
their produce. When they re urn from
The grea' IN anufacturing cities, where
they have di sposed of the products OF
their farms and count out from pIethor-
ic purses, - per cent. profit On wheat,
30 per cent profit On po.a'oc, 80 per
cant. profit on butter, % per cent. prof,
On eggs, ~ per cent. profit on poultry,
- per cent. profit on hay, to say moth
ing OF the profits on numerous other ar.
t1cles OF farm products, they feel salts.
hed ana have no particular desire TO
return to free trade, which wond ST n
our manufactures, destroy the MAJ
he's mat maintain the farmer,
and send our 'eemiug city population
out through the country begging Tor
Victuais aud work, The majority Of
lar mers court 10 such CHANGE. Mr..
Dean might stand it, as he has already
'nrou On protection to lii va WOODEN
man ufac'OrIes alnassed sufficient money
''"in the manufacture ~ shoddy and
"ooIlen gor d., to enable him to
''''re 10 private life add live luxuri.
"usIy around the to;ter.ng wrecks Of
!uined cites.
we 20 not believe the present tariff i,
ini'hicaI to the agIicu,turist. II %,
W by this great lhgx Of agriculturists
rom Russia, Germany, Sweden, Nu.
way, Er2land and hc,aud, In thsya
c1untrits the great b,es-iap " c,,nn,r
i've free trade, which 50 charm. NJ
Deans soul, have full sweep. WIN dol
these agricultural Entrants coma .,l
lAls GhIintrY. whera aHsioalaar. l..
''u"h"" 10 me earth by protection, if
we accept what Mr. Dean .avs far ,,,g
pei tru'h' Why do these I,u,..o,
Mennonite farmers % 10 The far W.,
Gil the soil, in a land. a. Mr. D..,.
,"!'' '"'h't' are imposed UIou, warn
'hey could Larer.lnail.et IN l,a,,,,y fran
HuHsia? And more, ro make a INN.
p"Iit'cai point, why L, these ,a,c.
ID 'mH' as to'r as iley ar, l.at.ral