Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-08-29

Au interesting Interview with II ir"mi-
nrnt Manufacturer.


among tn" most rutCrpri>inE uU1 sue
cc,.iul manufacturers of this country Is
Mr.. f.. f.. Studchakrr. of Indiana. Tn"
firm Of which he is the head, probably
makes and sells more wagons of all sorts
than any other concern i'll the Worlu. The
immense business which they carry on
has been of vast service To- the community
in which it j. established. The views of
such Il man rs Mr. Studcbakcr on Subjects
connected with our American industries,
and the progress and prosperity of the
country. and the causes to which they are
to be attributed. are of more than usual
value We find in the Cincinnati E"q"jr-
JuirCfa report of what Mr.. Studcbaker
said recently said recently in Chicago, in
Il conversation relative to the protective
tariff and its beneficial results. both tothe
farmers and laboring men of the country,
and to uur home manufactures Mr.. Studc-
baker said
| remember distinctly the good times be
fore the war 50 often talked about. We
then had comparatively small public
debt and had the revenues from the sales
of the public lands The tariff was low
but our industries We're lower still We
had Il tariff for revenue exclusively and
no war debt to pay, yet we paid SIX cents
per ward for calico. when il was AT its low
est point. Every manufactured article
made abroad cost more than il does now
under the present 'rObbcr tariff and the
only defense our people had against the
high price was in spinning and weaving
the most of their own goods Farm hands
were paid at the highest &l3 per month
Corn sold as high as thirty-cight cents
Wheat once reached eighty, but the spum
was only temporary, for IT fell back To
ii in, Il
SO To $50 and the best cows could he pur-
chased nj SD or so. Hogs sometimes
reached - - per hundred, but the average
price from $50 to 1850 was about X! But
Ter told al from six to ten cents per pound.
ana eggs ranged from three to eight cents .
per upHcn. ana al points remote from NV
ers and line, of transpoltion. there was no
market for any farm products except the
cereals and live stock In those days we
sold wagons at retail for $40 which we .
now sell at 500. POWs which then cost .
Sl2 are now sold at ST, Labor Of every .
kind commands from - To 60 per cent
more han it did then, while every manu-
featured and imported article which labor .
uses or consumes sells from 20 To 200 per
cent cheaper than it did before the war,
and the only articles which command
higher prices are those produced on the .
farm.
"Do you assert, then, that this great
and permanent advance in the prices Of
farm productions Is due To the high tariff
dutic, - asked one of the party.
"lndirectly, yes. I'm 1870 nearly all of
our manufactures were East of the Allie
ghany Mountains. and all our surplus
farm productions came from the West of
them Without railroads. it took nine
bushels of wheat to carry one from India .
ma to New York now it takes oncin four
and instead of the consumers getting the
benefit of this reduction. You see ii is
given To the producer And You know
that the tariff has iOstcrcd and protected
the manufactures. and You readily see
that the consumers of the farm products /
are the people who own and are employed
in the factories or the dealers who handle
their products. \ good per cent in the
advance in farm products Is duc To the To-
cation all over the Nest, and in the farm
ing regions of factories, which consume
much that the farmer RAISES right at his
door, and that consumption is largely Of
vegetables and other articles which Will
not bear shipment To nydiotaut market.
Mr. StUdeh1kcr is an ardent advocate Of
the election of Blaine and Logan