New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-11
ADVOC1TEs OF PROTECTION.
THE TARIFF COMMISSION IN PITTSBURG.
THE VIEWS OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE VARIOUS
IRON AND STEEL INTERESTS.

IRON AND STEEL lNlfhbSio-
PITTsBURG, Oct. 1O.-The proceedings OF
with q statement by william Bodino in the
interest OF window-gass manufacturers. "hat
the windo manufacturers asked he was aeon
nuan6e of present mode Of assessment and OF the
present rates of duty. They also wished to have
clause insertedso to avoid improper Custom House
cOnstruconthat sheet glass cut uncut DO the same
as all window glass.
James Park IT, of Pttsburg presented the proceed
ngs of the convention of miners Of and manufac-
turers OF steel and ron held at Cresson Penn Spte-
her IL and ID. He avowed himself firmly welded to
the principle OF protection. The business and wages OF
the country had adjusted themselves to the present.
tariff rates. and any important changes therein would
bring disaster all the country American manufac-
turers could compete with any portion OF the globe III
they had the wages Of labor brought down Gs low as In
other countries, and il the territory was
restricted as theirs that the transportation OF
material would not be 30 expensive He ridculed the
preensiOns of the college professors and doetrinares
who preach free trade and characterize manufacturers
mOnopolists. He said that these very professors
were themselves the employees OF subsidized
monopoHes, which prevented individuals from
going into the business Of education.
Tariff Iron and Steel justified by its Results, was
presented to the commission without being read IL
Association II states that iron and steel works and
iron and coal mines exist and operated in almost
iron and steel used in this country that these enter
prises and the transportation Of their products have
given employment to large number OF persons, whose
wages have in turn contributed to the prosperity Of
other domestic industries that the results plain to
every Man who has eyes TO that the country has
been assisted in its development by the abundance and
cheapness OF iron and steel and that therefore it must
be concluded that the manufacture OF these products ON
a large scale IN this country has been blessing
1t asserts that protection does cheaper prices and
that has cheapened the prices of iron and steel and OF
articles MADE from them 1t gives various instances OF
analpg. slOVplg nlOuQlS
rows wagon and carriage tires, steel for circular saw
rails 1t gives the reduction in the price of rails
being from $50 to SIP In gold per ton In 1854 and
were ready to rece orders for steel ras to I5 ton
to-day. Without the policy OF protection the magnh-
could have had an exstenoe-it was preeminently the
child Of the protective policy Why should that policy
benefited the people OF other countriesi
The protection of the iron and steel industries in the
last twenyone years had so greatly contributed to the
prosperity and greatness of The country that Amer
statesman could afford to belittle or ignore such
ment of the protective policy Not people. No pub
lie sentiment demanded it no meetings had been
held to protest against It, 10 was demanded only by
few honest leaders of public opinion; by certain I'M
poIters; by few manufacturers VINO cared nothing
about the rights OF American labor and by Great Britain
and her American agents, who might be found among
college professors and writer's Tor leading American
newspapers. Great Britain was now, and always had
BEEN the enemy OF the United States Her own
Industries had grown up Under protection, and now she
wants the United States to adopt free trade for the bene
Ut OF British capitalists.
W. ii. Wallace OF Steubenvie Ohio representing the
pig iron interest proposed The following rates: On iron
In pigs So per ton on cast scraproI of every descrp
ton, wrought scrapirOn OF every description,
80 provided that nothing snail be deemed scrapir0n
except waste OF refuse iron that has been Ia actual use
and Is fit only to be remanuacured On maeable iron.
In castings not otherwise provided for, 29c per pound
all other castings OF iron not otherwise provided Tor
40 cent ad va0rem, provided that no castings OF
iron shall be admitted al lower rate than that which Is
Imposed on iron in pigs.
The pig iron interest further advocated by j. j.
sherman, OF Sharon Penn, and G. Butler OF Youngs-
town. ONO The latter gave the following reasons FOR
advancing the duty on pig iron Flrst-TO enable pro-
duccr5 10 the demanded over foreign wages
second, to stop importation and TO enable American
manufacturers produce all that is used here third.
to equaze duties between pig iron and iron and steel
In other forms; fourth, to neutralize the
freghts; fifth, to afford the manufacturers fair
and continuous profit corresponding with the great
risks and chances of the business.
William Clark OF Pittsburg, an iron manufacturer, pre-
sented the views OF the ho0pron manufacturers, asking
the continuance OF the rate OF duty except to
cotton ties which he asked to have taxed hoopiron
that Is at % cents per pound instead OF at the present
rate of 80 per cent ed valOrem
The barbedwire manufacturing interest was repre-
sened by L. l.. Mocn, or the firm OF Waslburn Moen,
OF Worcester, Mass He advocated the maintenance OF
the existing duties on wire with some notifications In
the wording OF the law. A. f. KeaUing OF f1ttsburg
manufacturer OF nails, made an argument for the
maintenance VI the present duty on nails etc. except
that he desired the duty on bar iron. rolled and ham
mered reduced from q cents to Il cents per pound
the proposed rates duty steel and III
manufacture read by Cyrus Elder of JohnstOwn,
representing the Cambria Iron Company.
W. Metca OF Pittsburg, presented the views or the
cruobe steel manufacturers In favor OF increasing The
advantage OF protection in this line by showing how 1t
had eheapened various article extensively used such
shank steel tor ladies' cOrses bades, knife
blades, watch springs, etc.