The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15
The " Farmer, pays Finally.

From the Daily Beacon and Daily
News of Friday, we learn that Col. A.
l.. Conger, Vice President of the Whit
man & Barnes Manufacturing Compa-
ny, and Chairman of the State Repub-
lican Committee, returned from Wash
ington City on Thursday evening,
whittier he had gone to defeat the
proposed increase 4" of the tariff"
on crucible STEEL" which this Re-
publican Congress meditated, under
the direction of the crucible steel
manufacturers, principally located at
Pittsburgh" The proposed increase"
was $40 per ton-the present rate be-
ing $5 per ton." Col. Conger Is repre-
sented as saying, that chad this feature
of the tariff bill gone through as it
was framed, without alteration or
amendment, it would have made Il
difference of thirty thousand dollars a
year TO the Whitman & Barnes Com
pany."
Col. Conger is reported as having 80
rallied the Ohio delegation in Congress
against the proposed increase in
the tariff i'll this one particular, that
he was enabled to effect q compromise
with the crucible steel manufacturers,
principally located at Pittsburgh" )" by
which they consented to be satisfied
with the "present rate" of fifty dol.
lars per ton"
Our neighbor of the Beacon, who
rides as Marshal in the procession of
the High Prohibitery Tariff men. is
especially jubilant over the Colonel's
success in communicating this compro-
mise. He parades it as a signal victory,
trifold in its effect-first as beneficial
to q great Akron industry; second, as
especially beneficial to the workers in
moving and reaping machine" man
ufactories, and in establishments where
"other implements" are manufactured
with the aid of "crucible steel,n
and third, AS q benefactiOu to 1.-The
farmer" The Beacon informs its
readers, that if the Colonel had not
beer successful the "most serious re-
suits must necessarily" have followed.
The firm of Whitman & Barnes Com
pany would have been compelled -
to save thems elves," "to reduce
the price of their labor, and on the
other hand they would have had to
increase the price of goods to their
customers" aud 1.-THE burden of the
increased Tariff would have finally
come directly on the farmer, would
have seriously interfered with trade,
aud possibly would have crippled some
manufacturers"
If, therefore, an increase of $i0 per
ton on "crucible steel " " would have
made q difference of $50, per year"
to Whitman & Barnes Company "
alone-compelling the reduction in
"the price Of their labor" and com.
pelling an increase" in 1.-The price
of moving and reaping machines and
other implements in which section
steel Is used" which would finally
come direct on the farmer might
not the laborer and the farmer come
to the conclusion that the Tariff of $50
per ton, making a difference of one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
Whitman g. Barnes Company, ought !
to be abolished, on the idea that the |
idea that the total sbolition of this Tax |
infiiction would be to them a very great |
benefaction, as well as of the greatest |
pecuniary advantage to Whitman & |
Barnes Company, to say nothing of all
the" manufacturers o. implements in /
which crucible steel is used."-[ Akron
Times.