The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-18

senger rates is one of the visible re-
suits. The effects of a tariff is we'll
illustrated in this, as in the case OF
the d.. G. H. & M. R,y., the first
steel rails they used cost $I2o per
ton. Domestic competition has so re-
duced the price that now they pay
only $33 per ton. American steel
mills have furnished the railroads of
this country over 600, 100000 tons of
rails, at an average price of Ss7 per
ton in currency. Wooden goods ex-
cept in the finest grades are as cheap
in the United States as any place in
the world. We have it on the au-
thority of the Adjutant of the United
States Army, that our soldiers are as
we'll and cheaply clothed as any ar
my in the world. In the cotton fab.
RIGS we have very forcible illustra-
ton in the reduction of prices by do
nestle competition. Before cotton
mills were erected in this country,
English print sold here at fifty cents
yard. We have since exported
similar fabrics at six cents per yard,
and to-day compete with England
in her own great seat of the cotton
industry, Manchester. And the pres
ent tariff on cotton goods is not tax
on the consumer, or in any way affects
the price more than the summer
wind. 1t merely serves to prevent
foreign goods from being unloaded
in our port, to be sold at any price
during time of depression. This is
no fancy picture, but an actual bust
ness practice. The Encyclopedia
Brit, gives this as the cause Of the
great financial disturbance in 1919.
A Parliamentary Commission re-
port, makes this statement, "during
times of depression manufacturers
incur great losses in order to break
down and destroy foreign competi-
ton. Then when times revive, after
overwhelming all rivals, step in for
the whole market and make up for
past losses by future advances in
prices" And when we glance at
our lists of exports, and see the arti-
Giles that we send abtoad, we must
conclude that they are as cheap with
us as in any place. Who thinks it is
pure phlanthropic disinterestedness
that supplies this country with free
trade pamphlets, edited and pub
lished in London? Who imagines
it was solely to our benefit that rep
resentatives of English commercial
houses subscribed $4,000 towards
starting the first free trade club in
in the United States? Enlightened
self Interest, and just estimate of En-
glish character would at least make
their intentions toward US very sus
picious.
LUMBER
One of Micbigan's peculiar pro-
ducts, upon which is moderate tar
if. This our free trade friends
would have us believe "causes many
millions of weary and discouraged
humanity in the West to spend their
lives in caves, sod houses, and etc.
And they represent motherless babes
as sleeping out under pelting hail
storms," merely because they cannot
buy cheap canadian lumber. Yet it is
an ugly fact that our production of
that article has been so extended,
that lumber has been cheaper in Chi
cago the past few years than in the
Canadian lake ports.
FURNISHES REVENUE TO OUR GOVERN
MENT.
Under protection we have been
steadily decreasing our great war
debt, provided handsomely for our
pensioners, aided in internal improve.
ments as no nation in the world has
ever done, erected magnificent public
buildings, placed our currency upon
a gold basis, and continued in the
high road of prosperity to the admi-
ration of all people. Truly did Thad-
deus Stevens keep his promise of
providing labor for the discharged
soldiers, by building up under sys-
tenn of protection a manufacturing
industry IN this country second to
but one on earth.