Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-24
STOP THAT GABBLE.

Without manufactures, the enlightened
people there have in making Adhesion, in
cluded in their count the whole people of
the Unit5d States and all their varied in.
dustries, and have recorded their faith in
their votes. Compare their act with that
of the men Of Connecticut, who rest on
their ability to make clocks and sewing
machines, and other cheap manufactured
articles for a livelihood. There ia more
culture in the east, but for broad mind
edness the people there do not compare
with the men of the far west any more
than the A~lleghanies compare with the
Sierra evadas. Sail Lake Tribune.
There has been a good deal of clap trap
about the effect of the presidential cleo.
ton upon the manufacturing industries Of
the country, as we'll as about the neces-
sity of a high protective tariff TO keep the
country from going to wreck and ruin. 1t
seems to US that it Is high time that all
such senseless gable should cease. 1t Is
very creditable to the republicans
of the Pacific coast that
they have indicated the promise which
their delegates gave at the national con.
vention, but it is not at all credltable to
the intelligence of their section to have
anybody act up the claim that their action
was an evidence of q clearer under
standing of the effect of high pro.
lection than was shown by the
boilers of the Nutmeg state. AS a pc
litical stimulant the tariff bolus was
serviceable in the campaign among the
ignorant masses, but thinking and well
informed people in all sections know that
at this day our industrial interests need
little or no stimulus of that sort. The
sewing machine men of Connecticut ex.
ported and sold plain machines in Europe
for $35, while they demanded and OBJ
tanned from $50 to 800 for the same
machines In this country. This
marked difference in price was largely
due to the patents, but it is nevertheless
true that the wages of mechanics employ
cd in the Connecticut factories were reg
ulated by the low price at which the
machines sold in Europe, and not by the
exorbitant figures obtained in America,
by which the sewing machine %monopolists
became millionaires. To-day the Con-
necticut sewing machine is made cheaper
in this country than 1t can be made any
where, and is exported to all the world.
The tariff has no effect upon that
branch of industry, and If 1t was abol-
ished Connecticut factories would still
have no competition from abroad. As to
the Yankee clocks, made in Connecticut,
the tariff has no effect upon them. They
have been sold by Yankee peddlers like
Sam Slick into Canada, New Brunswick
and other British provinces, and New
England has needed no protection
for its clock-makers. There are of course
other American industries that do depend
upon the protective tariff, but they are
very few and far between now. We want
it distinctly Understood. however, that we
do not deprecate protection of manufao-
tured articles that cannot be made as
cheap in the United States as they can be
imported.
But on the other hand, now that the
campaign Is over, we enter our protest
the bug-bears which the design.
ing m~ountebanks on both sides have con-
Jured up during the late campaign for
political effect. On the one side we have
been told that everything would 60 to
wreck and ruin if there was a reduction
in our tariff, and all factories would close
their doors the moment 1t was known
that the country had gone
democratic. On the other
side rampant free.traders have terrorized
the farmers and business men by repre-
senting that protection is nothing more
nor less than robbery, and that every
yard of calico on the workingwoman's
back represents a tax of two or three
cents, land that every pair
of o~veralls which a wo%rkingman puts on
pays an enormous tax to the government.
As a matter of fact the country is
not going to ruin, nor will any factories
that have not been bankrupted by over
production, be compelled to close their
doors, although Cleveland Is now
known to be elected president. The rob-
berries of the protective tariff do not of.
feet the purse of any body that buys cot
ton goods and hundreds of other articles
of common use, upon which there is a
high duty. The Yankee cotton factories
are producing oalicoes, blesched
goods and other cotton fabrics
with very cheap American labor at q
lower price than they can be made either
in England OF any other European
country. The same is true Of boots and
shoes, hats and caps, watches, cheap
jewelry, fire arms, farm machinery, furni.
ture, stoves, steel rails, railroad supplies,
and a host of other articles which twenty
years ago when the present tariff was for
INFLATED, soould not possibly have been
made In this country as cheap as they
could have been imported.
The very low price of labor which now
obtains in New England, Ohio, Pennsyl
vania and elsewhere in this country, and