The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-07-07
BENEFITS OF PROTECTION.


Congressman w. d. Kelley OF Phila-
delphia is the ablest advocate of the pro-
tectve tariff who has sat in Congress for |
years. He has devoted himself to the |
question during his whole Congressional
service, and is as familiar with the facts |
and figures Of the case as other men are
with its theoretical aspects. In an adj
dress made at reception in his honor, he
summed up the results of the protective
policy in some figures that are well worth
quoting For example, between 1850 and
1860, the production of pig iron, forged
and rolled iron and steel was practically
stationary and in 1860 employed but &c.
600 hands. After twenty years of pro-
tective duties they gave living wages to
more than l40,000 hands. The capital
invested in these branches OF manufacture
in 1860 was less than $4,000, 900, but
twenty years of protective duties served
to expand it to S23O,OO0, 900. The wages
paid in 1850 were but $4,000, 900, as
against $50, 1000, 900 in 1880. The ma
terals they consumed in 1860 were valued
at "a, 900, 900 and in 1850 at more than
$3.50, OOO,00 At no time prior to the
war had our annual production of these
commodities reached the value of $50
900, 600; but having emancipated our
selves from Englands free-trade dogmas.
twenty years have sut.ice3 TO expand
these less than $50, 600, 600 into more
than S296, 100000. These figures, Mr..
Kelley said, are not exceptional, for the
iron interest has not outstripped other
industries in the race of prosperity. The
chemical industry as found by the takers
Of the last census did not exist in 1860
With the wonderful progress of analyti-
cal science chemistry is the recognized
handmade of every productive pursuit.
Its progress may there be accepted as an
indication of general growth and pros
. perity. Making no figure in any pre-.
vious census, it appears in that Of 1880 as
employing more than sS5, 0Oo, 900 Of CAPT
tai, paying $4,000. 900 wages and con-
suming nearly sSO,OOO,OOO Of material.
Like unto the statement is that Of car.
; bodybuilding. We could not in 1860
: make a thoroughly American pleasure
carriage; we must import the springs
q and other steel work and most of the
|: textile trimmings; but as we now make
: as good steel as we import, and produces
: our own silks, fringes and tassels, w
4 build our own carriages. After twenty
It years Of highly protective duties, w
build in the single State Of Ohio NOR
8 pleasure carriages annually than are pro
II duced in Great Britain and France com
m bined, and the return of the census sho'
J. the existance in 1880 Of more than AZ,
:, 600 establishments for the manufactur
r. of carriages and smithing, which en-
te ployed 1850 hands, to whom WEI
ut paid as wages more than S3S, 600, O0l
~ The work of railroad constructing stril
Il ingly illustrates the value to the Amer
il, can people Of the maintenance of adj
a quate protective duties. In 1860 we ha
<, built less than 10000 miles; in 1880 v
III had worked about $1,000 miles, and a
o, now working 40, 900 miles, or more mil
Sc than are owned by the whole of Europ
" In this connection there is one truth tn
,e. American legislators should never forge
Oh 1t is the supreme value Of home marke