New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-05
FALIACIOUs REASONING.
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The efforts of the antI-prOtecton press are
now drectcd toward showing that wages IN protected
10 arguing from that statement that protection does Not
enhance wages he entire unarness OF this reasoning
becomes apparent Oh moments examination IopaFe
any force Whatever tHo 'ohFdIso Hh"u ot Hhdue WIN
times and places IA winch protection did not obtain
parison could moi fail to result Ia showing that proec
ton does enhance wages, AS ex-C1mnissloner
Tortcr's letters to The NEw-ioRK TRIBt NJ clearly
prove. The decline In American wages IN certain indus
tucs compared with previous years under the same
neither increased diminished. but to Otuer causes
such snarp competition, over production, slack de-
aBti protection agitation IN the country 70 charge 10
protection tsef result. arising from assaults on protec
be pocted from the interruptions recrsdc press
II hesitate, however to resort TO this or any
die Il IN the warfare against American prosperity
AN ANTLTARIFF GROWL.
From me Boston Transcript
There arc signs of Il political attempt TO
stampede the growing public sentiment against subsd
ng favored manufacture at the expense OF the great
body buyers aud users OF the manufactured articles
vigorous hand at the organ appears III IiE NEW-fokK
1RIBrSE, which mas also sent Young Mr.. Porter VINO
occupied very curious and suspicious position on me
late Tariff Commission, into the most dismal ana as
tressfu manufacturing districts OF Scotland ana Eng
land To write b!ck mere hearchdhg W t U
"paupeT laDOr " OF those dark and unhappy lands Ot
Is sgued that tree trade has done u an though
II does not appear how the Scotch or EHsisn laly
woud DO better of If tariff duties added TO iho cost OF
their sugar aud everything made OF Wool OF IRON t1at
they wore or used as IL the case with te IaDoIer IN
country. While they can get hats and coat ior mar
what protection makes them cost III iuS Country
every thing ee the cheapest cost for which IT can be
made or grown anywhere IN the WOru, these phuper
lnborers would nail protective arn as any relief
Protectonists and manufacturers know better IN TINS
latitude than TO attempt any snch scare. inc Mhsst-
chusets Senators do not represent tue contemporary
sentiment their constituents, ony Irrational aud
discarded prevailing. nut now abandoned by
the most ntell gent NeWEngland manu- acturers. Our
manufacturer today recognizes the hOpeessness Of the
struggle with lOboy-hxcd subsidies entering into the
coat of all he would work VITA He that the system
offers premium raDacity and rascalty and renders
him helpless in competition for the worlds trade.
Every New England pulse bids him shake his industry
free, 80 as 10 let him light his battle his own
merits.
CHEAP LABOR AND CHEAP SHIPS
From The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. q,
There is nothing connected with our indus
tries that puzzled the American people more than
the fact that Bntish-built ships predominant on tne
ocean. How to overcome this IL tho question:.
IN Is not cheaper material that helps the
English near so much cheap labor "A COZ
RESPONDENT Of THE NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE has gwen W
tenton to this point What would skilled mechanics IN