Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-05
The Way it Works.

that the home producer may add the
rate of duty to his price. 1t is to eu-
aole the home manufacturer to tax
the home consumer the tull amount of
the duty without putting anything in
to the public treasury. This is the
science of protection.
The rate of the protective duty
must be in proportion to the greater
amount and higher skill of the labor
required to make the home article
This is the science of protection. For
example, If the protective duty on pig
iron be the equivalent of 35 per cent.
ad valorem, as by the present tariff,
the duty on the higher forms of iron
must be higher in proportion to the
greater amount and higher skill of the
work, or the protection will work in
versely.
On this sliding scale, the protective
duty on so low form as simple rail ,
way bars is seven tenths of q cent a
pound, being $l4 ton, and equiva.
lent to 1921 per cent. advalorem.
The rate should rise as the workman
ship rises. If the finer products have
not a protection in the same proper
tion, then protection works lnversely
because Of maladjustment. But as the
manufacturers of the finer forms OF
iron may not be so well combined or
powerful as the pig iron men, the du,
ties may be so maladjusted as to kill
the higher industries. Our tariff has
these "incongruities. -
For example. small round iron in
coils or bars has protection of only
one cent a pound. which is only 2l.7G
per cent. advaloiem. To admit rolled
iron at 2l.76 per cent, while laying 81
per cent on the crude iron is to pay d
bounty on the importation of the high
er product. In like malformation
wrought iron in slabs, &C., has only
the same rate of protection as the rails
for railroads. In other articles thest
incongruities may be observed, hav
ing wider range, showing that th'
! protective taxes have not risen accord
, ing to the greater quantity and higheI
skill of the work, and therefore tn,
protection works to the contrary, ant
kills the industry in the higher form
of iron.
A lower duty on the article of high
er labor than on the crude materia
kills the higher industries. Our tarit
has many such incongruities in th
metals and in other things. This i
one of the reasons why the importa-
tlons increase with the raising of the
duties, which proves that the protect
i've duties are so badly adjusted tba
they kill home industries instead Q
promoting them. But even when tn
protective duties work protectively i
the several forms of iron, the irol
workers cannot enjoy them withou
similar protection to the woolen, cot
ton, wood, leather, and other indus
tries.
In al. these the object of the pro
tective duty is to enable the hom
manufacture to add it to his price:
while the treasury gets nothing. Blu
the iron worker is consumer of a
tgese articles, and this forced increas
in prices neutralizes his wages. Wha
protection puts into one pocket it take
out of the other In woolen and leath
er articles the duty must be higher O
the more skilled manufactures than Of
the simple materials. The duty of te
cents a pound on woods of the frs
class, which is equivalent to Is pc
cent, makes necessary protection @
at least double that on common wool
ems made from the protected wool, ant
the same increase on che finer woolens
But the workers in iron, wooler
wood, leather, and all other protected
goods are all consumers of these good
and they have to pay the highest pri
ces of protection, all of which come
out of their wages. 1t is like tn
method of Indian trading, which pleas
es the untutored mind of the savag
with two or three prices for his skins
and then charges him three prices fo
his skins, and then charges him five o
six prices for the goods put upon him
The farmer has to pay these protect
i've prices for everything which h
buys, while the price Of his grain ant
pork is fixed by the market prices il
free trade England. He has no wa,
to get even with the protected manu-.
facturers The scientific protection
makes him even up the burdens by loe
prices for farm products. This is tn
way that taxation for protection work
in detail.
The general result corroborates tn
details. Under an extreme protectiv
tariff the manufacturers of the countr,
were terribly depressed for six yea, s
from 1873 to 1879, and had to be re
vived by low free trade prices. Unde
eventually the same tariff the agricul
ture and manufactures Of the Who'll
country are now in state of great de
preston and calamity, and the small
ness Of the wages and the number o
the unemployed allow no chance for
terror by raising the spook of fire.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Wabash Railroad Company ha
filed with the recorder of this county
and all other counties through whicl