Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-08-16
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WAS "taKlpg IN Sail, Win view U!
putting himself in safe condition In
Case the Democrats. with their free
trade, were successful in tue election OF
1884
Judge Hoadly undertakes. to ridicule
that idea. saying that if that man can
sell his goods abroad he has no earthly
use for protective tariff and has moth.
ing whatever to fear from free trade.
The nswer to that is even more SIM
pie than the other. a mau must de-
pend for 4 market for his goods and tor
the success of his business, net simply
upon what he can sell abroad. but much
more particularly upon that which he
can sell al home. And while it Is true,
~ ven: GU to say at Hamilton, that
through the beneticcHt influence of Il
protective tariff, the carriage manufac-
turer had been enabled to cheaper his
goods 80 that he could sell them abroad,
yet it WAS true that the success of his
business depended on the surroundings
Of his business at home. as Judge Hoad-
Iy himsslf pointed out, and therefore be
must depend upon policy for the sue
cess, OF his business, that gives prOtoc-
tiun to every other kind of business
that is represented in his 10 every 9TH
or kind of business that goes 10 make
up The sum-total Of that prosperity in
she benefits of which We rejoice.
Judge Hsadly went on ts say that a
protective tariff operates most injurious
y and unjustly ss against this carriage
manufacturer, pointing out that he paid
two and one half cents a pound on eve
ry set of steel axles that he used a tar
iff of from nftsen to thirty per cent
upon all his leather; twenty five cents
a gallon upon his varnlshes and paints,
and other things in like proportion that
he may use in making up the product
of his work, the buggy which he SELLS
Well. now. Judge Hoadly had d very
fine argument; but, unfortunately, his
premises were not well taken. fudge
Hoadly would take the trouble to in
quire, he would find that the carriage
manufacturers of Cincinnati do not i'm
port 4 single steel axle; that they don't
use pound of imported leather, or ii
gallon of imported varnish or oil. or
scarcely any other commodity that is ini-
ported. That " hich is used is the pro-
duct Of our own manufacturers here i'll
this country. Take. for instance, the
case of steel axles, and that illustrates
the benefit Of protection. had u car
rizge man looking that matter up for
me, only yesterday. just before l started
here. He told me that eight yeaIs ago
they paid for steel sxles Sl1 and Sl2 d
set; they are now buying them at the
rate of $3.50 ses Their iron axles
we're $3.50 set eight years ago, and to-
day they are 81 set. and all the other
articles they use have been decreasing
in price in like proportion. Now, what
10 the occasion Of shis? How do you
aecount for itP just as said in my
Hamilton spesch-under the protection
of this tariff We have steel manUfacto-
ries started up In this country where
axles are made. We have them at Au.
burn. New York. at Pittsburg, at Chica-
90, and many other places throughout
This country. The result Is they are in
competition with each other. They are
psrfecting their machinery. they are
getting skilled labor, they are providing
themselves with all the facilities of the
cheapest manufacture, and the result is
that the duties levied on the imports
are not taxes but security behind
which the hons competition is cheap
ening. ehsspsning, cheapening. until it
has brought down the price of steel AK
les from eleven and twelve dollars to
$3.50. az stated a moment ago, a diff
ference in favor of the consumer which
Is more than twenty times the amount
Of the tariff which is levied OH these al
ticlss, which Judge Hoadly says is a tax
on the consumer, and all this without
sheapening labor.
And that suggests to my mind to an
swep another proposition OF Judge
Hoadly's. He says tariff works in the
Interest of monepolies, ann he descants
in very vigorous language about the
provisions of the Democratic resolution
with respect to monopolies. l said in
my Hamilton speech that instead of a
protective tariff favoring monopolies, IL
was opposed to monOpolies, and espe-
cially monopolies that existed on the
other side of the water. Now, take one
single instance: Sometime before 1857 d
man by the name of Besssmer invented
a process and procured patent under
the laws of England for the manufac-
ture of what is known in the market as
"Besssmer steel rails" In 1867 the own
ers of that process were selling those
Ressamer stell rails in America at $3.50
ton in gold. We put protective tar
iff on these rails Of S2s per ton. This
was necessary, because without it no.
body could start up In opposition to
such q concern. 1t was powerful, it
was rich; II anybody undertook to START
sp Bessemsr steal rail factory it could
crush him In an instant. We protected
ourselves by lsvying this tariff of $2S
ton. Now, il the tariff is tax on the
consumer. as Judge Hoadly contends,
what ought the Bssssmer steel rails to
have sold for in the American markets,
after that tariff was levied? They ought
to have sold for $3.50, plus S2S-Sl7S is
what they ought to have sold for. 40
oordisg to Judge Hoadly. who says that
q tariff is necessarily \ tax on the con-
sunsr. But what did these steel rails
sell for in eighteen months from the
time that the tariff was lev
ieds A mandatory for Bsssemer
steel rails was started at Troy,
N. Y; another at Pittsburg; and anoth-
sr at Cleveland, think. At any rate,
inside of two years from the time thst
the tariff of S2S ton was imposed
which, according to Judge Hoadly.
ought to bave increased the price to
&l7S-Bessener steel rails from England
were selling in this country at SO ton.
The other day came up the road
from Cincinnati to Columbus in eompa-
ny with the superintendent of the Gin
cinnati end of the Pittsburgh, CinciA-
natl & St. Louis road. Mr.. Peters. In
the course Of eur ride We got into a
con versalion about she condition OF his
road. He went on to tell me that he
had almost the entire road now laid
with these Bssssmer steel rails, | asked
where he got them. He said he bought
them ut Pittsburgh-Americsn manu-
facturs. "Why do you do that?' I.asksd.
at is closer home" he said. ave get
them cheaper. and they are Of better
manufacturs-at least as good" And
what dc ysu pay for them. Mr. Pstsrs ?
"Why. the last wa got few weeks
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