The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-08-15
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Commerce Of Helmond, province OF
North Brabsnt, petitioned the King Of
the Netherlands that the tariff laws bs
changed, 80 as to correspond with other
countries. They complain Of thS low
import duties placed by their govern
ment upon imported manufactures, and
the exotbitant-almost prohibitory-
import duties imposed by other govern
msnts. Right here is tho key that un-
locks the whole protection problem. II
one country imposes high duties upon
the manufactures OF another country,
then that other country, TO retaliates
will place high duties upon the goods
imported from the former, and thus
while one pocket Is silled the other is
depleted. And IL country cannot
place u tariff upon the imported produce
of another country, las France and Ger
msny upon American pork then ID
will seek TO accomplish by unfriendly
legislation, and an unfriendly method
Of tho execution Of the laws, what IL
could not accomplish by tariff law.
The theory Of protection is that nation
should be independent Of oil other ma.
tions ~ TO commerce and trade. The
unrsAsoping and unthinking protection
ist would have our people manufacture
aud produce everything they need and
use in life, and at the same time would
have the people Of other nations buy
everything which they need and use Of
US. They would place the tariff 30 high
upon iroR, coal aud other English arti-
cles OF commerce that they could not
be brought here and sold ia competition
with similar articles produced here, and,
at the same time. they would have the
Englishman buy all bis -four, corn, beef,
pork, wheat, etc, from us, and require 0
payment TO be made in coin. Now il
all other nations shall thus by high
tariff rates prevent the importation Of
English goods, how shall the English
obtain money with which TO purchase
our wheat, -four, pork, etc No, il q
tariff which is laid f1r protection is
good for one country, il will also be
good for another country. and If we
thus restrict other countries from bring
ing their goods int our markets, they
will restrict ou. trade in their markets,
ard If they cannot accomplish their
object by tariff laws, :hey will.resort &c
diplomacy as Germany and France have
with reference to our pork. Thus W.
SEQ that the protective theory, insteae
of being great and wise governments
policy is nothing more than q selhsl
device designed to enabls the ricl
manufacturer to tax all the people o
the country that he may grow rich
Lot every farmer, laborer, and mechan
ic stop and ask himself what the tax
duty is upon that coat which b
wears. The answer is 7s per cent. ]
the coat cost him $50, then $S.7
would represent the tax which the pur
chaser paid TO benefit the manufacture
who made the cloth out Of which th
coat was made. During the politics
campaign Of 1880 a manufactures sait
to an Irishman in his employ, that il
case Hancock was elected, Pats wage
would be reduced. Pat, with mucl
force Of argument, ,as well as native wit
remarked, that he should think hi
employer would vote for Hancock then
And here again is one Of the secrets Q
protection. While it may be true tha
the price OF labor is higher by virtue
protection, the price of manufacture
are increased much moro in proportion
50 that the increase of the profits of th
manufacturer is greater than the in
crease of the wages Of the lahoIer.
Herein is the reason why the manu-
facturer holds out so tensciously 70
protection. If he did not receive an
benefit from protection, he would nc
spend thousands of dollars to elect pro
lection candidates. This protection
problem has emily to be considered ra
tionally to be condemned.