Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-28
THE GAZETTE. FORT WORTH TEXAS. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2s

| been in the mercantile business tbirteer
years, and experience has taught me that
| lust the opposite Is the fact. He boldly
challenges denial OF his bold assertion
that a high tariff makes all manufactured
protected articles cheaper. snail moi
deny that steam and machinery have
made many articles cheaper than they
we're under a lower tariff, when these
same articles were produced alone by
human muscles. All intelligent men, but
protectionsts, know that goods are
cheaper than they were In the olden times,
not by reason Of, but In spite Of, protec.
ton. But as NJ A. r. honestly believes
no iree.tTader can produce protec ed arti.
cles that are higher under the present
high tariff than they were In 1860, under
q low revenue tariff, through pure
cussedness / will stick at him
plate-glass and quluine. The latter
article was sold TO suffering
American consumers at 50 an ounce be-
fore the duty was removed by tariff re-
formers. / have seen the same article
sold this year for only 90 cents an ounce
Plate glass, according 10 the federal
bureaus Of statistics issued last March,
never at any time between 1925 and $50,
sold higher than SO 40 per 100 feet. Ac-
cordlng TO the same authority this same
much protected article, duri e the six
years ending in 1880, averaged $40 20 per
100 feet. Window glass and qunine, all
know, are consumed both by rich and
poor. Now I Will let N. A. T..
tug away at these two articles, the
prices of which have thus been shown
ranged in precisely opposite directions.
| Will remark that making quinine free
has been rich blessing to the malarial-
infected people of our section Of this great
country. The making 1t free has not de
ST Dyed its successful manufacture In this
country Last year 1913, 39l pounds Of
bark were imported for tue manufacture
OF quiz Inc In this luntry.
] 0galn quote ". A. t.; "Why, we
were pnying these foreign fellows some
time ago $3.50 per ton FOR steel rails AT
last congress put tremendous tariff on
steel rails" Indeed steel rails sold as
high In this country .as SlG6 per ton
Now the "tremendous" tariff was S2S
per ton. That was only II
per cent. on SlGG, the price
OF rails. N. A. 7. says steel rails can
now be purchased In America for $50 per
ton-and that Is true, but It Is also true
that steel rails never sold within gun-shot
range OF S36 until the tariff on them was
reduced from S2S TO $l7 per ton, the
present duty. II is also true that they
are being sold in England now at SlS per
ton. A blographer of Henry Ressemer
says that 1t cost 5000 per ton TO make
steel in Englaud before Bessemer dis
covered the invaluable process that
hls name. 1t is also true
That steel rails were manufactured in
England ten long years before a steels
rail mill was ever erected I'm
TINS land of high protection.
with these facts am willing TO let Tex
ans decide how much they are indebted
TO protection for steel rails. This is how
the duty on steel rails Injuries Texas.
But for the duty of Sl7 per ton steel
rails could be to-day bought In England
Tor SlS per ton " Ia certain that tariff
on steel rails Of $l7 per ton adds, AZ
least, $40 per ton to their cost. IL takes
100 tons of steel rails per mile-connting
side tracks-to build n railroad, Now
That adds just 100000 to the cost of
every 100 miles Of railroad built from
Fort Worth to develop Texas. Is
not that a shame? Now, the kind of
luty on steel rails is the most
Objectionable possible 1t is a specific,
40 an advalorem duty. In this day of
potential economy an unchanged specific
tuty VIII add TO the cost OF an article at
east 20 per cent. every year. To illus.
rate, have pointed out The fact that a
specific duty, when first imposed, Of S2s
DER ton, when steel rails sold for SlGG
Der ton, was only equal to an advalorem
iuty OF IL per cent. The tariff reformers,
lfter hard fight, succeed In reducing
ne duty from 1928 to $l7 per ton, Again,
have called attention TO the fact that
'teel rails are now selling at Sls par ton
n England. Now you VIII please motto
Mr.. Editor, how high the tariff won d
rave been had the duty not been changed.
rhere are some kind.hcarted people Ia
his country who honestly believe that
high pro ective tariff causes the HIGHER
'ange Of wages in this country over
wages paid in over-peopled Europe.
This Is great mistake. Now mark how
wages differ IN tho different sections of
'ur great country-I mean the wages
'aid TO hands by manufacturers. Now.
et US travel west from Maine
o California. According TO the
census OF 1880, Maine paid only
1907 per hand for a years. hard work la
Ter manufacturing industries. Mark
we'll that S257, for that is what Mr.. Blaine
'alls high wages. ONO, Il little west,
laid S338 per hand year; Missouri
sSSl, Minnesota Sl06, nd California
S4sl per hand. Now, It is known that the
arih Is uniform In all these states. Now. |
8 1t not plain that the tariff does not
'ause high wagesl IL Is a pregnant fact
hat California completes with Maine, and |
pays nearly 100 per cent. above what is
'aid to pauuer labor in Maine. Now, |
10 one win contend that there |
S greater difference between wages
lald In England aud Maine than there Is
between Maine a2d California. Now, |
low can California build up manufac. |
ures, and pay that great difference In
wages aud compete with Name, IL the
Inference IN wages determines every. |
hngf | lind from the census of 1880 |
hat the value OF all manufactured arti !
les IN Maine in 1880 was only $40 .825.. |
'9S,and IN California as mucha as SllG,227,. !
~. All know that there Is free trade |
between Maine and California.
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