New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-16
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PROTECTION and LABOR
STARTLING FACTS.

STARTLING FACTS.
From The Boston Journal 81,
The letters OF Mr.. X. =. Porter on the con-
NFw-YoRK TRBUse. have already caused uneesiness
tie part OF the American press winch advoche, te
British theory Of free trade There j. cause 2r ms
Tor as an eyewitness and careful and mcthodlcal IN
vesigatoI, Mr. Porter is presenting star'ng I@es 70
the Americana eOple respecting The CONDITION Oh ne
ing cases in the manufacturing towns OF Great Britain
In his last letter Mr. Porter gives an account 81 tne
Known sS the aBlack Country" The district Is OF
the most desoate that can he lmagne, put Ac Illpi
iants are Industrious and Yet the most Wrstehe1
i'm Engllnd They are engaged In making all kinds or
nails rvets and chains and the WORK ls aons III m,.s
@smithes" attached TO the novels In which the wofSer
reside. The houses, rule. are hthy ana Wr,tehea
beyond desert ton. From early morning nnnl la.e
night every member Of the family ls "olh
Feeble women and children OF tender years are COM
PEELED work long hours TO get enough OF food 20 pre-
night an expcrt male mailer - week; his wife
seyenty-four cents and his twelyeyear-old daughter
sam the earnings of three persons is taken thlitysx
cents for tie carriage OF iron and nails roy e ana 5e
wear of tools leaving the net earnings - q. rms
poverty and helpless seryitude are the result OF at poi
ley which has for its sol" Object the production Q, n
tice at lower price than any compeutor.a Potnoy
which free trade advocates are ia6oring 10 hro
duce in this country.
OF VITAL INTEREST TO wORKINGMEN
From The Hartford Post. . AL,
Mr. Porters Investigations in regard to the condition
Of the English workngmen The results OF when ne Is
sending to THE I'm the shape OF letters are OF
yitiI interest to the workingmen OF TINS country VINO
beset every side by the advocates OF ree trade
English ayorkipginen were NOR comfortably situated
than are our workngnrn Rcad wn1l pr ~ tS S
trade in what ia known as the Black Country
OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOR OF PROTECTION
From The JTica Herald
The most interesting series of CONTRIBUTIONS now ep-
pearing i'm any American newspaper Mt Robert 7.
Poriers letters TO THE NEw-YoRK TRInUSr, upon
Industrial England" Mr.. Porter is we'll known in
this country as tie special agent of the tenth census who
collected the statistics OF wealth. debt ANA tnxat0 ana
aferward member and secretary OF the iaIii ool-
mis- .teol Thus has had admirable training ioE the
work he commissioned to do by THE IIibuhE. MT
Porter is himself a native OF England neSng suteha-
cred his home In that country for American citizenship
some dozen years He goes back 10 the Inspection
the English manufacturing towns: as 10 an od nouis,
after having observed and travelled extensively IN the
younger manufacturing centres OF tne Unea Tu ,
The facts for which he Is seeking were never before
collected by one well equipped TO make tue c0mpar,
and draw the differences when are OF netes, hnJ
value the American reader ar Iorler ssenes VI
the English manufacturing cities have Oecn picturesque
from literary point OF VIEW complete s ah sn
features and panstang and judicial IN ther copal-
of the conditions both OF capital ana OF aDo IA ae
two countries. The general deduction rom r. doIuers
observations f. an overwhelming Argument ~ LlIot n
the American system OF protection not only III the inter
ess of capital and for the devel pment Of the wealth
producing capacity OF the nation bit IN It's direct effects
upSh n of the to that effect is too
mllar be restated, and the statistics OF MI FOrer
to gainsay g. SO long as continue TO produce our
food supply in abundance anu I'VE COST oL tuis Ioo
supply is unaffected by tariff laws this regular scale OF
hiIher prices maid for the work must remain
tangible and unanswerable plea Tor the protection OF the
which the condition of the American workingnan, con
siered as not an improvement over That OF MS
ia one of the minor points In his advantage The
only true way fudge OF the ELECTS OF protective sys-
TEN upon a country which pursues It, Is TO take long
uerod of years and in stud that PERIOD TO consider
great variety OF social economic and commercial ques-
OF excluding altogether from the consideration
ACCOMPLISHING a GOOD WORK.
from The NOT10teh bulletin
The series of letters from England which Roberto.
Porter is writing for THE NEw-YORk TRIBUNE Is at
mich i being published in regard to great
zeal problem OF the day Both Mt Porter ana IIE lk-
necessary Tor tue continuance Of the protective system
In one another III this country LOT inc next u
nndersIand Tue exact situation. There is naturally
good deal of criticism the letters from men no see
theiI effect in making the thinking people OF America
appreciate the when free trade Is Ke 10 40
correctness of the deductions which Mr. Porter draws
from his TO e1actness OF the ics
which he reports. MIR. Porters last letter Is devoted
to the condition OF the workmen In the Englsh pottery
districts 1t is not necessary for US to repeat the OH toa
paid in England and in America sumee II 10 say that
the average English rate Is Shown 10 DC less IMAM one
half that INCH obtains III America
THE DANGER OF FREE TRADE DISCLOSED.
IN Feorfq Transcript M -, l.,
There has been no writer upon tDe iaIlD question 10
this country for hall century VINO naS az t 90
attention Mr. Robert T. Porter In MS recent series OF
letters from England to The NEW lORk LIB.HE MS
deserved repute careful writer and statstcan has
given to his facts and figures all the authority OF Official
ia
mas served to instruct and engen the people on this
question: and to show them the true nwardness OF free
trade as compared with the American or Republican
nocy of Projection. In late letter from sDelDelu ne
specifies fourteen trades having something to do with
the manipulation manufacture OF iron and other
uraIs aud shows that the highest weekly earnings OF
skii.ed worknen in them $l4 30. While Tor skilled
aOr I'm the same branches the amount paid ranges from
81 10 Sl2 The common labOrer employed ia connection
herewith receives from - to 80 The average reader
may ca,onay tire OF the iteration OF these facts and
figures but we submit that tie public cannot be made
t1o familiar with them. At n time Ike the present when
the country opportunity to settle down into the
calm and repose OF fixed tariff rafee every voter IN the
land should be instructed regarding the danger which
exists IN disturbing the present situation ANA these
letters OF Mr. plainly disclose that danger for IT
s not to be supposed that any change Will be made
in the tariff law unless it is in the direction OF reduction
Of the customs dutIes-i e. in the direction OF Tree
trade
FACTS HARD TO ANSWER.
From The Trenton 7fmes
One Of the writers whom the anti-tarlh Journals jul
dicously old is Mr. Robert Z. Porter Mr.. Porter Is
fITnisning The NEW-Yo TRIBL Ne with letters from
tbe Industrial of England that are very hard for
The ree-traders answer Especially is tbs true re
specting the pottery Interests. Mr. Porter shows just
how 1ne English potter adds 10 his capital by keeping
the WAGES of his employees down TO the lowest point In
his last letter Porter furnishes an Interesting table,
showlne the average earnings OF the men I'm the various
denarfInents OF pottery each week. IL might lie well