Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-18

WhNtN ttiNuUt0ttuIt> Nit unHfNtttttNt
II this were not true the advocates Of
this bill would not he here demanding /
and defending prohibitory duties that
ket by law. To-day you reject 80 per +,
cent. IA insufficient and retain 90, 40,
and 80 per cent. to protect iron, earth. |
en- and glass ware and WOODEN goods In |
our own market, When this taritfwas |
adopted you asked but IS per cent. M |
all-sufficicnt. Under our system Of |
bounties for manufacturing we have |
bilbcd capital to leave the sea, aban- |
doned the foreign trade, and given Il
over 10 our chief commercial rival
Carrying across the sea IL unprotected
and free To all nations, and England,
competing with herself, bears the sur
plus of our harvcsts to foreign markets
at less than halt the former cost. Rail
roads, unprotected except ~ they pro.
tect themselves, have made greater re.
auctions In prices than any protected
industry IN the country.
There are members In this house not
older than myself with scars In their
hands made by Smelling corn n third Of
n century ago. Then IL required u
whole days work to shell Ave bushels
of corn, and IL wages were but 30 cents
per day then Il cost 10 cents per bushel.
while now, with the use Of machinery
OF little value corn Ii shelled for .
cents per bushel What IL true Of the
diminished cost of Smelling corn Is true
Of the cost Of making cotton aud VOL.
en- goads, manufactures OF iron and
steel, AID all other fabrics In the pro-
duction Of which improved machinery
Is extensively used. a better knowl-
edge Of science and the arts and OF
mechanical appliances help us ~ do
our work. The work being more ELI,
Client, the O, st and the price Ia less not
because Of protection, hut In spite OF u.
PRICES IN OTHER COUNTRIES RE-
DUCED AND WAGES INCREASED.
Neither IL II true, ms Is sometimes Ms
serted, that prices have been reduced
abroan 10y reducing wsges and thereby
lowering the cost Of production. In
Mr.. Webster's time he advocated n
duty on iron To compensate for the DIFF
ference between wages here and In
Sweden. He said that waves In Swe-
den were but I cents per day, aud Ia
this country five or Fix times as much,
or about 10 cents per day. To-day
there IL no manufacturing country In
Europe whore wages are five or six
times LEES than In the United States
Wages ARE higher In England than
elsewhere In Europe, and poorly paid
as lahorers still are they receive Their,
double the wages of forty years ago aud
more than ever received before. HAY,
we more than doubled wages In I'll,
Inst forty years? think not. am
J not well advised Of what has been th,
growth OF wages for the past half cen
tury In France, Germany, aud othe,
nations Of Europe, but we all do know
that, like England M they are IN al
+ their conditions except that they have
, the protective system, laborers re
ceive much lower wages than
ARE paid bv their English neighbors
|, And since England has kept her owl
markets and maintained her CONNER
: cial supremacy ri home and abroad n
y againsi,her German and French neigh
bors who have both protection an,
cheaper labor, II Ia fair Ia Infer tina
= whatever may be claimed for proiec
: ton here II neither increases the wage
: Of labor nor decreases the cost AN,
price OF manufactures on the other sid
:. OF the Atlantic.
q PROFESSIONS AND PRACTICES OF PRO
TECrIoN.
Not quite n century ago In the frs
a congress Mr.. Hartley of Pennsylvania
: said:
4 We have been forced by necessity and VI
\ rious causes 10 Increase 7 domestic mani
:, lectures 10 such degree ms IN be able 10 ~
, pish some In sufficient quantity 10 nnsw,
v the con sumption of The whole Union. WIN
q others src daily growing into i,nporiaDo'
A Our stock OF materials IL In many Instance
u 'quai Ia The greatest demand and eur artisan
u sufficient 10 work them up even for export
a. tion. In these cases take II 10 bo the pole
:, OF every cnlilh'cnod nation 10 give 'hcl
% manufartur's that degree OF encouragement
!. necessary 10 perfect them ~ lthout opprcs
q ing other parts of the country.
" The degree oi announcement tn,
y deemed necessary to 'perfecp' man,
- features WAS fixed by the first conRrrs
" on clothInv aud iron and other Tx
- articles ut u per cent; and this copfsl
:, ence committee proposes nearly eel
:. tury later 10 go on perfechng man,
- factures with "A duty six or seven time
~ higher.
III MFR. Clymer Of Pennsylvania, sal
:, that the manufacture OF steel wa
y "rather In It's infancy" hut was a
ready established and attended vii
considerable success land with
IN Ilttit IuTtutF tuc'uhg'iiF'ht W'ui
- supply enough for the consumption
a the Union.n
u The congress In 1859 laid n duty ,
~ half cent IA pound on, and gave
: little further encouragement To ate,
~ "ratber In its infancy,p and now !
u 1888 Pennsylvania asks and IL give
!, five or six times IA much ~ littl
- further encouragement to steel.
y And Mr.. Goodhus said that Penn
. sylvania and Massachusetts, nlnde MOI
= nails than they conld use, and In
! little time with, Of course. a little 81
- courngenent enough might he mad
=, by them to supply the whole UnioI
= Mr.. Fitzsimmons said the people I
y Pennsylvania no longer imported bee
D. ale and porter, and In two or thrt
?, years, with the fostering aid Of go'
y ernment, would be able to furnls
: enough for the whole consumption I
70 the United States, The first congrei
=. gave the little encouragement aud 10
:, :. tering aid asked for, and the forty-se'
~ emit congress continues the little 81
10 enlargement and fostering care wit
several hundred per cent. increase.
y. Nearly fifty years later, now lift
y wears ago, Mr.. Clay, the f0rem0.t IA
u yocste OF his time, II not the first NOV
y. 70 OF the protective policy ~ then Int
~ preted, urged his compromise tari
n liking ra' es OF duty after nine years
~ 20 per cent. considered BY him sun
"a Client encouragement and fostering a.
~ 10 maintain the system OF which
=. was ut the time the reputed father.
% 1t thus appears that the advocates
4 a. -. III