The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-09-14
MANUFACTURES IN THE WEST.

are SLrlKerS ana lnelT ITleuuS 10 vote
against the continuance of the present
tariff.
MANUFACTURES IN THE WEST.
1t is frequently said that the policy
advocate is hostile to the development
of manufacturing in the West and the
establishment of manufacturing insti-
tutiOns in our Western cities and towns.
The argument is that Eastern manufac-
lures were developed by the protective
tariff. and that We should not abandon
it until ours are developed also. The
proposition made is that protection is
necessary to the development of West
ern manufacturing. Why, friends, the
very reverse of this proposition isstrue.
Unless the tariff is reduced to a revenue
basis there never can be any manufac-
turing on large scale in the West and
South. What | shall say does not apply
to the manufacturing of patented artl-
cles, which are practically without COM
petition. A moments reelection will
show the correctness of the proposition
| have laid down. Admitting that East
ern manufacturing has been benefited
by tariff, how has II operated? By
keeping out foreign goods the manntac-
turers were enabled to mOnOpOliZe the
American market They grew strong
because they had no competition, ana
were at last firmly established. While
their industries were infant they were
protected against the competition of
those stronger than they. How can that
same tariff protect the infant industries
of the West? 1t may indeed keep out
the productions of the man ufactuTers of
Old England, but how can it afford pro-
lection against the established interests
of New Englandp 1t is the competition
of New England that our manufacturers
have to fear. There is not q Western
manufacturer who will not tell you that
that competition daily threatens his
business. Indeed, so far has it been
carried that often when a new manu-.
featuring interest has been started in
the West the New England manufactu-
rers have sold their goods at sacrifice
to crush out the infant industry. Tn
der the Constitution of the United
States no tariff can be established
against the New England industries.
This competition must embarTass if not
destroy Western manufacturing Unless
they can find another market they will
be driven by the necessities of business
to make war upon our struggling indus
| tries.
The only relief for them is to be found
in giving to New England the foreign
| trade. Its people live upon the coast,
commerce if our tariff were only redu-
ced so as to permit them. If they did
they would soon sell their go ds abroad.
If New En- land should, as she readily
might, sell $500,00O,OOO worth of pro-
ducts abroad, the Western and Southern
manufacturers would be left undisturb-
ed in the enjoyment of the markets nat
urally tributary to them.
would proclaim from the house tops
g., Il. -. 80 - 4
you would develop manufacturing i'll
your own localities let New England
and the East out to the markets of the
world.
INTERESTED IN CHANGING THE TARIFF.
My fellow-citizens, know of no dis
| trict more interested than this one in a
changing of the tariff to revenue ba-
sis. 1t extends for a hundred miles on
the southern shore of Lake Erie. Its
nearest neighbOr to the north is Canada.
| There are four millions of people there
not disSimilar to us in tastes, dispOsi-
| tiOn, habits ana wants. There is nO
reason why they should not have large
trade with us. The census shows thai
in the States of the Union among which
absolute free trade prevails, there is by
every four millions of people trade OF
| 81 ,00O0O0,000 annually with the Other
| fifty millions. If the same relations
existed between Canada and the States
which prevail among the States them
! selves there IS no reason why there
| should not be between it and our peOpls
trade of $1,000,000, 600 annually. Yet
| the statistics show that in 1880 there
was trade between the two countries
of only $50 100000, a loss of $940, ,OOO,O 600
That loss falls most heavily upon a bOr-
| der district like this, whose cities and
towns would be the points of distribu-
| tiOn of goods which would be exported
to Canada, or of goods which would be
brought from there here. All this is the
result of high tariffs which each cOun'
try has established against the other
Both might almost as well make IL a
penal Offense for the people of one cOun-
try to trade with the people of the
| other.
Every city in the West is the center OF
| a trade which Tadiates in every direc-
tiOn to bring prosperity to it. But the
cities in this district have their radii OF
trade only to the southward, and some
what to the East and West; but all the
radii which go westward are cut off and
| deprived of their power for good by the
| tariff regulators which both countries
have established. To reduce the tariffs
| to bring to our cities and towns their
share of this immense trade of a thou
sand millions of dollars is the highest
duty of those interested in the prosper
| ity of the Tenth Congressional District
In the advocacy of the propositions
have urged tonight l am maintaining
no new doctrines. They have been pro-
claimed by the Democratic party from
the day of its foundation. They were
the opinions of Thomas Jefferson, its
great founder. They were inscribed
upon the banner of our party in the
great contest of 1914, when James K
Polk defeated the great champion OF
protection. They were declared in the
last Democratic National platform
when it pronounced for tariff for rev
enue only. They are approved by all
| the writer's of political science. They
are taught in every college of standing
in the land. They are the demonstrated
truths of political economy. / have NJ
other interest in prOclaiming them thai
the good of the whole people. To tht
labOTers, who toll without reward with
out knowing why, to the business MAJ
who does not get the profits he expect
without knowing why, to the farme
who bears burdens knowing not wha
they are, commend them, certain tina
the God of Justice, who always in hi
own way gives victory to the truth, viii
hrinO a SIGNAL triumDh To their eausp