New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-30
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are important chemical works. They employ
several hundred hands whose families I'LL two
or three villages, and buy not little stun from
the farmers of the region over the hill.
These works exist because tho Republican
party has enacted and steadily maintained a
protective tariff. While some of the products
are not defended by duties, or by adequate
duties, others are so defended, and this manu-
facturo is of such nature that it cannot be
pro6tably continued unless markets can be
found for all the different products which re-
suit from q process At times, OF several pro-
ducts resulting from one operation, one or two
can be sold at a loss if the others bring good
profits but such works cannot continue to e1-
ist unless there is adequate defence for sufl-
cient proportion Of their products. The wages
paid vary, but are about double the amount
paid in England for similar work; thus, in
treating indigo, the material is brought from
England, where men are paid one pound a
week. 81 So while for the same work here they
get $40.
Suppose Mr.. Morrson's bill, for which about
f0ur-ffths Of the Democratic Representatives
voted last May, had become a law. 1t would
have reduced by one-ffth the duties by which
this industry is enabled to exist. AS to many
important products this would have been
enough to enable foreign products to undersell
our own. Then the works must have stopped
or the men must have worked for lower wages.
The profits, as matters now stand, are not
enough to tempt many people into the business.
If One-ffth had been taken from the wages,
SO that, instead Of $40 per week, the men men,
toned had been paid -, who would have
suffered The men and their families would
have had less food aud fewer comforts. The
traders of all kinds would have had less bust
ness. The farmers over the hill would have
been able to sell fewer vegetables and other
products, or else must have sold at a lower
price. Everybody in that circle of exchange
would have suffered
But this bill, Mr.. Dorsheimer declared, was
only "a first firm step toward free trade
More was to follow; other reductions OF duty
were promised by nearly all the members who
supported the bill. IA soon "a they had carried
the Presidential election. If they should sue
coed. we may look for "a longer step toward
free trade this winter or next. lnstcad of one
fifth the reduction must be such IA TO leave the
Government only money enough for its needs
and interest on tho public debt. The surplus
revenue last year was about 100000, 900,
which went to reduce the public debt To cut
down the revenue that much, at least half tho
duty must be- taken gilmore, indeed, because
the lower duty tends to bring in larger mpor-
tntions, and so to yield n relatively larger row
cnue. But if only one-hllf the duty should be
cut of, what would happen9
1t Ia hardly necessary to state. The workers
would close. Several hundred men would be-
driven 10 wander oil i'm search of other work.
The farmers would lose entirely that market
for their products. The men, forced to work
for what they could get In order to support
families, would offer their labor In other places
everywhere depressing the wages OF 0tnor
vorl,crs If they Aud work NJ last, II must bo
IN place of others who nrc now employed, and
who I'm turn would be sent ont to hunt work,
and 10 drive down Wngcs still further Per-
hans. however some OF tho mon can I'LL the
ground, and would get possession or rental ol
lnud. md then they would begin To offer farm
products In direct competition with the farmers
whose vegetables they would no longer cat
This IA but an illustration of the effects which
Democratic victory would produce in hundreds
of industries, and in thousands of towns and
villagcs. People who want panic, whether
they are farmers or mechanics or workers In
manufacturing establishments. can vote the
Democratic ticket with assurance that they are
taking the snortcst and stmightcst way to tho
end they seek
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