Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-07-09

their status through a manufacturing
process. The ore after il has been
melted, the wool after it has been
spun, the flax and jute after they be-
come yarn, cease to be raw materials
Then the Germans call them half
fabrics and put very light duty
upon them, but we load them with
duties as heavy and often heavier
than we put on the finished fabric
and call it protection to home indus
tries while the Germans call even
their very light rates on yarns and
iron a burden upon their industries"
After setting forth and commenting
on the fact that all manufacturing
nations except our own import raw
materials free, they emphasize the
proposition that no legislation can so
protect the home product as to secure
its use in manufactures for which il
is not fitted. No tax law can prevent
wool grown in certain Of our Terri
tories from being brittle and tender,
or make American flax suitable for
spinning. In closing they say:
The manufacturers Of the United
States are now in position where
they must command larger markets.
The markets of the world alone are
sufficient to give relief to their inten-
siiied means Of production. Glutted
by over-production and under-con-
sumption their narrow markets are
now supplemented by the auction
room and the sheriff''s sale. All the
high wages paid to our workmen, held
up as a cause for leaving alone the
existing tariff, do not bring money
into their pouches or bread into their
baskets SO long as they have no work
10 perform. They will remain idle
large part Of the year, if they do not
get free raw materials to work with.
Free raw materials give cheap sub
sidiary materials to all manufactur-
ers and will open the worlds trade
to them, make the United States the
worlds factory, the ocean once more
a highway Of the United States and
the Stars and Stripes swept by the
breezes Of all the seas of the world.
No grandiose craftsmanship, whose
main policy consists in pronigate
squandering Of an immense surplus
wrung from overburdened taxpayers,
is required to obtain these ends, but
simple reform to our tariff, tariff
based upon business principles, a tariff,
which, in giving relief to the indus
tries Of the country, would likewise
relieve the taxpayer from unnecessa.
nv burdens.
The doubtful States in this coming
election Of II President are the manu-
States Of New York, Massa-
chusctts and Connecticut. They are
ripe for tariff reform. Their manu-
features are languishing for the want
IF cheap materials. Upon platform
guaranteeing them this greatest boon
hey will inevitably cast their cleo
orial votes for your party. With
hem you have to seek success upon Il
LIBERAL tariff platform. You cannot
get the votes of Ohio upon a wool
blank that will Guido the Republican
promises, nor those Of Pennsylvania
lpon platform more reassuring to
heir iron men than that of the Re
,ublicans. Their votes are linked
With the Republican standard bearer.
You must seek your allies among the
of more developed in
lustries, among the merchants who
IRE eager for foreign commerce, among
he artisans, the laborers and work.
men who are suffering from depres-
sion caused by excessive taxation.-
Detroit Free Press.