Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-11-06


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rMUR sOAv, NOVEMBER q. IA.
Oar Industries and PvOs~cui0n.
It has been twenty-three years since
tho Morrill, tariff bill, the hill which is
now In operation, was adopted by Con-
gress ~ q war measure. Now that the
election Is over, We can refer to 1t
without being accused Of political bias,
on with desire to influence votes for
tho Republican candidate and the Re-
publican party. We refer it to 1t now
that those who are led by their political
teachers to look upon 1t IS an obstruc-
tive measure that obstructs the indus
tries Of the country may see the won
isrful progress the country has made
in wealth, population, and all that con-
tributes to make a nation prosperous
strong and happy, and they that at the
nAmo time may SOC what benefcent
measure they have been trying to break
down.
Twenty-three years ago we wero a
nation OF only 30,000,000 population,
now we number over $4,000, 900. Then
re had 14l cities and towns of over
q, 1000 inhabitants, now We have 2S6 Of
sach cities and towns. Then the pOpu'
lasion Of our cities was 5000, coo, now II
exceeds Il, OOs, 900. Whatever may be
said OF the obstructive tendency Of 3
protective tariff, such arguments must
lose their force in the face OF such a
showing. 1t must be said of 1t at least
shat it has not retarded the growth OF
our city populations. Now let us see
what the tariff has done to stimuli ate
the business of our country
In 1861 our coal mines produced a.,
'OOO, 600 tons a year, now they turn ou
without being worked to their fulles
capacity $1,000, 900 tons Il year, or Z
little over six times as much. Our iroI
products amounted in 1861 TO 900, 00'
tons Of ore, now H. foots up over 5000,
900 tons a year, nearly nine-fold In
crease. In 1861 our metal industries
employed over SO. 900 hands, and con
sumed about 800, O00, goo worth OF ma
tefial, and turned out about $ls0,000,
900 worth of annual products. To-da!
these same industries employ 800, OO'
hands, consume $50, OOO, 600 of materi
n, and their annual products amour
70 e6OO, O0o, GEO u year.
In 1860 the wood industries employee,
In, 900 persons now they emplo.
about $40, 900, while the value Of thei
annual products has trebled. Tn
woollen industry that our friend Deal
Of Newark thinks is ruined by protec
sisn in 1851 employed 10000 persons
while our home mills, which produces
goods of the value If $50, 600, 600 in 1860
now turn out An annual product wort
$40, 900, 900. The cotton industry pre-
SCENTS striking instance Of the bene
fls Of the principle OF protection. Ii
1850, before the passage Of the Morril
tariff bill, we imported from the cottol
'marts of Leeds. Liverpool and Man
chester, 227 100000 yards of cottol
goods in 1881 We imported only 90,
900, 900 yards.
Trade could not have been very mucl
-obstructed when $4,000, 900 yards @
cotton goods were sent into this couI
try that our own mills in that year di
not supply. In the meantime th
number of hands employed in our CO
ton mills has increased 10 200, 900, an
We export over $50, ZOO, 900 yards {
cotton goods n year, instead Of impor
ing 227, 200, 900 yards AZ we did befol
We commenced TO operate under tn
terrible tariff, that the Democrats IL
us is 80 depressing to the trade of OF
country, and which happily they ha'
been baked in removing. The silk il
.dustry presents an array OF facts n
less startling than the cotton industr.
Before the Morrill, tariff bill went III
operation only 5000 persons were 81
gagged in its production ; now we EN-
ploy about $4,000 or seven times
many. Weimport silk goods yet, bl
no more than we did In 1860, and OF
own mills, which then turned out goo,
10 the value of &c, 000, 900, now turn o
product of over $40, OCO.Oae annual
In 1850 there were L., 600 persons Ell
ployed in the American pottery al
stone ware works now there are alb.
~, 900 persons employed, or three-fo
as many. The chemical lndust
tuch OyVop PtiScho Nv
employ 3d. 600, a five fold increase.
the meantime we have nearly five tim
AZ many miles of railway, aud dout
the number Of farms, yielding INC
than double of bushels OF cereals CHI
We had before thi system of protet1i
70 much objected to by our Democrat
friends was inaugurated.
But here is another industry that '
cannot lightly pass by. Ia 1860
had only %, 600, 900 head of sheep al
now we have over 10000, 900 OF the'
and whereas We then produced in ii
county &C, 600, 600 pounds of wool ,
now produce 24O, 900, 600 pounds.
remains but for us to say iu thrown
together a summary of these pIodu
tions that our total exports which
1850 were 800, 900, 900, have now run
70 5000, 900, 900.
la the face of these stubborn facts,
It not remarkably strange that we fl
in our midst strong political par
that opposes the very protective Jar
that has been the very life and prot
tiOn of these varied Industries III
ia just what the Democratic parry b
been trying to do during tho whole
the camp ign which has just close
This tariff law that has been the va
sunlight of our business prosperity
the tariff that hundreds Of thousands
workingmen aud artisans in their bli
adherence to pol itical party have be
trying to strike down They have do
their best by their votes and inhuen
70 strike fatal blow at the very pi
nacle of protection that insured the
employment, and which, though aGop'
rs q war measure, has bc-u foul