The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-03-03

ANN 11NhA hF" go
before us here by letter, charging
us with increasingly the rates on steel,
when in fact we had lowered them.
We tclt that we ought to protect
the steel manufacturers, especially
these crucible steel manufacturers,
that while reducing rates we did
not desire to reduce the rates on
that class so low as to destroy in
dustry and Why Because the
crucible steel men arc selling better
than English steel in the American
market 2 cents n pound less than
John Bull sells it in his own mar
ket. Reduce the prices of these
crucible steel men, and you neceS-
sarily injure them.
They have from II and 1G and 10
cents Il pound. reduced the price
down 8 cents and 10 cents a pound
and have brought some grades
down step by step until You can
buy it at + or 5 cents. Why should
not we keep such an industry upon
its feet One member upon this
floor said ; 81 want to vote upon
this bill from the standpoint Of that
great mass Of my Western farmers
So do | but in nine-tenths of these
industries touchcdby this tariff bill,
by the invoice from the factory, |
can prove, | think, item for item,
classification for classification, that
our farmers under Il protection sys.
TEN are getting their goods cheap
er than hey did under the free sys-
tenn. Why, let me give you just
one more instance Of the working
Of this grand policy.
Going back to the days ofthe tar
IF of 1884, when cotton goods were
selling tor q cents per yard-24
cents for an unbleachcd cotton
they started a few mills in this
country and came down here to
Congress and had the temerity to
ask S cents a yard protection on
their cotton cloths. Congress had
the wisdom to grant it i'll that tariff
and before it was repealed these
cotton cloths that they got S cents
ii yard protection on, that had been
selling at 25 cents a yard when the
tariff was framed, were sold for 81
cents yard. | have on my desk
the statement eff one Of the factory
men who established the mill and
who came to Congress and asked
this protection.
Now, before | close, there are a
few general propositions | want to
call attention to, for | believe |
have referred to every schedule
that has been commented upon by
the other side, and when we come
to the 5-minute debate on these
items we car prove to the House
from the facts and the bill the actu-
al reduction | have stat d and all
the arguments and statements that
have been made against the idea OF
reduction will go for naught.
The price now on steel wire rods
of which barbed wire is made, has
dropped SO low hat the rate OF
duty at 80 per cent. al valorem is
only sIx-tenths off 1 cent a pound.
The rate OF duty fixed by the bill
amount to seventy-tive one-hun-
dreths of a cent a pound, and will
! consequently be a slight advance
on the rate that Just prevails on
wire rods and a large reduction on
:, the average price for the last five
years. Wire itself is reduced il
/ the tariff rates a quarter Of Il cent
a pound below the report Of the
Tariff Commission.
Mr.. Chairman, we have heard
from the other side references
made to the wages paid by the En-
glish manufacturer, and the state
/, ment was made yesterday by tht
| gentleman from Virginia Mr.
Tucker that the cotton-spinners o
England were paid about as higl
as the cotton.spinnerS Of America
| Now, | hold in my hand Il state
| ment Of the wages paid by a com
pany that ought 10 know whereo
/ it spenks. | refer to the Clarl
r Spool Thread Company, that own.
an enormous factory in Newark,
P j., and another in Paisley, Scot
-, land, and they have sent a state
ment Of the wages paid by them il
&. both places tn the committee.
Y call your attention to them. Herr
/ they are;
Cop-winders, IS a week in New
? ark, $3.50 in Paisley tinishers il
| Newark, $3.50, $3.50 in Paisley
| reelers, IS a week in Newark
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