The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-01-17

1T seems the agricultural implement
manufactures are protesting against the
of the Tariff Commits
sion to raise the price of steel by in
creRsing the duties thereon. This is the
greaf manufacturing industry of the
Western States, and it is deeply con-
cerned' Ia getting cheap steel, Here is
an extract from the way Whitman,
Barnes x Co. manufacturers Of Akron,
Chic. 'Put!theEcases ~
The effect of raising the duty on steel
will be to make more grievous the bur-
dens Of the manufacturers of all imple-
ments, &C., and increase the price Of
their farm machinery to the American
farmers, who are already made the vic
tins Of long and outrageous tariff ex
tOrtiOn. Half a dozen makers of steel in
Pittsburgh expect to get their hooks in
to men who drive the plOw, and their
wives who make the butter, and rob the
farm children of their schooling. The
town of Akron is representative of the
young manufacturing cities of the West.
1t has 323 manpfactoFies, employing
nearly $500 persons, with nearly 3d.
100000 OF capital invested, and annual
production of nearly $l9,000,0O0. There
are four factories of agricultural imple-
ments there with nearly I,100 hands and
q capital Of nearly $2,5O0,OO0, every one
OF which is meant to be oppressed by
this tariff on crucible steel.
Another Ohio manufacturer Of farm
machinery, has this to say:
In short, this swindling Tariff Com
mission, under Boss divers influence,
proposes to put up the tariff, and there
fore, the cost on farmers tools, from $50
to $S2 a ton. There are but three manu-
featuring concerns, all in Pittsburgh,
that turn out this crucible steel, and ex-
pect to be the sole beneiciaries of this
Infamous job. Towns like Akron, Mans
field and Springfield, now bristling with
Industries, and where much American
steel is used, protest against being made
the catspaw Of Pittsburgh and her
harpies. -
And "Gath" in communicating this
and like information to the Western
people, pays this tribute to an esteemed
citizen who will lose no sleep because
Of it.:
The little black-eyed artful dOdger,
Oliver, of Pittsburgh, has the credit of
having done this job, and any Congress-
man from an agricultural district who
will vote for these rearrangements of
the crucible steel duty, ought to be
marked as fellow bought and deliver
ed. The duties are altered with the
skill Of a devil, and made to appear re-
ductiOns instead of additional rObberies,
which are continued with the genius
and audscity Of the Star-route ring it,
self.
We are glad to see our manufacturers
waking up at the rObbing schemes and
monopoly of the steel men. 1t is time.
1t is time, too, that farmers were under
standing this protection" business.
Have we not had enough of this "mutu-
atty of rascality," under Republican
ruler .......
The Ways and Means Committee of
the House have been recOnsidering the
tin and steel questions, and it is said
that KassOn and Haskell, Republicans,
have changed front. We should be glad
to see Congress do something towards
establishing justice" and removing
burdens; but the millionaire mOnOpO-
lists are at Washington m force and less
than forty working days of Congress re-
main.l ILL .-