The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-03-31
TAXING RAW MATE8IALS.

RAIDER.
Inc FREE TRADER ui,ropresonls tie
pro- ctye lar,t. 1t dO,S levy dune.
lNNhlrn are uu, always "tpX,s'J uplu lh'
importation f such foreign materials ~
may hc produced AZ hOWr--tht Tchy cn
lcuuraglng J. IN" industry but II impose
sui higher Ioies upon The importation Z"
lsuCh iureiln manufactures ~ ln!o wulrl
oulu raw materials enter Thereby cuGout
IagIng home industry n2aln-hut u does
lupt Tax IAN materials which are net ul
ICaulO, hr, produced a. home. On he con
lrar,, free trade, 70 Tar 10 It's advocate
have had The OPP riunIy Ia apply It, nH
luriv inN.s raw materials but, NPat IL Ia
ifiGIjclv wus'. niu.I free OF Gu'y manu-
flclurps INTO when such raw maj, rial en-
Ter Thus. "A few years ago, when The FRO
IicCliunlsts were IN the minority Ia Con
grc.s, Free Trader. aud Their 60 worker
passed an act admitting foreign qunln'
Tree of duty, but the taxes on toe raw una
itrals used IN the manu- aCtur" 81 QuinIn'
we're nat taKcn imertc0n WdHWGc
turT, (PHhjurg).
! Wei, If the free traders" passed sucl
au act IN regard to quiune they went back
on their own principles, for 1t would CeI-
tainy not be " free trade" to admit quin
inc fee and tax the bark OF which it is
made. But on looking over the tariff lis
we zee no tax ON CinChOna ~ Peruvian
bark, either IN the form r tariff or the late
amendments The Manufacturer seems to
be mistaken.
But this glib talk of the protection ST.
about the free traders" is always ana 10
tentonally deceptive. There are very few,
if any, advocates of free trade IN thi'
country in tue sense IN which the prote,-
tionists use the tenn. The mass OF th'
western democrats, at least, and many
western republicans too, for that matter.
tiou Of the present tar II rates, have NJ
thought of striking off duties where such
change would tend 10 cripple or adversely
affect any Legitimate industry oi the Couu
try. What they object TO is the Tickle.
ne-Blly .uud I II tickle yos-J ohnuy' prIn
Clple upon which The body of oar presCnl
taria system is built mp. For instance
they gay nothing cripplcs our manuiactur
Crs SO much and SO excludes their ware
from foreign markets As the tax on raH
materials. But" says our PIttsburg pro
tectionlst, the tariff only lcvIcs duties Oh
such foreign (aw) materials as may he
produced NJ home--lhcrcby encouraging
home iudustry-but 1t imposes stiII higher
duties upon the importation of such for
elgn manufacturer as those INTO which
such materials enter" &c. That is just II
Ottawa Is interested in tn" Manufacture OF
glass and an expensive raw material they
must use IL soda ash Our glass works are
crippled by a duty of $500 q ton on thai
chemical. because Il company at Syracuse,
called the Solway Process Company, and
another company at Bay City, Mich, want
the government to give them Il bounty in
the shape OF tariff duties against foreign
competition to enable them to manulac-
tgre soda ash, although they admit that By
new process, called the ammonia pro-
cess, and by the free influx OF foreign Ia
Dor, they arc able TO manufacture the ar
tlcle at less cost than any foreign estab-
lishmcn, (Sce Jos. i. Merriam's argu-
ment before Tariff Cummssion) Then
there is the Lake Superior Copper Mine
Monopoly, Copper is raw material that
enters largely Into great variety Of our
home industries, and II reduction Of four
or five cents pound in that material
would largely increase the output OF a
number OF our manufactures hy enabling
them to send goods abroad, whereas now
they are Limited to Il home market When
we take into consideration the notorious
fact that the copper monopoly in question
is sending abroad annually hundreds of
tons of copper and selling it at from % to
A. per cent less than they sell il 10 domes.
tic consumers, what but a viiiau'- excuse
can Ice gwen for legyinS heavy tariff on
copper? Nickel is an expensive raw ma.
terlal" to many of our manufacturers, vet
the mining of nickel IN this country is
controlled by one man, ana the tariff on
lha, article, which costs the people many
year, is levied for the benefit
of that one man. there is but one manu-.
factory OF the important sal, OF 5Lchro-
mate OF potash, which Is SO extensively
used as n moriant III The dying of cotton
and wooden fabrics, aad the output of
these important manufactures and their
demand tor labor Is cut down
by the nciarious layitl on that article.
Aud SO we might 20 on and extend the,
lis, to hundreds In regard to the chomic-
al last named, an excellent authority states
that it may be manufactured for Ten cents
PER pound, but the selling price has aver.
aged from fourteen TO sixteen cents per
pound. The foreign article could be I'M
ported for ten or thirteen cents per pound,
but the duty of four cents per pound pre-.
vents large quantities from being brought
in, although nearly one.fonrih Of the total
of the country Is imported,
"a ,ha ,,,,aeti, nrndurtion AZ not on iripnt