The Penn's Grove record., 1886-10-30

ltlt tfHSt aiNt lbfN HffN ldkllb III
eum,nt h a~o,tcaies OF a protective
tHiH Use TO 1iiC p~ople : THAT u tn
tafiff i tiue All the Dl- : ngs which the
American wOrkiE- Inan enjoys. lie
kuuws that. grrrTaily sfpakm9, lac Is
better of than his follow ers ACROSS tile
waters. and as there must lie = calfsi.
fer H.. and lie h. ,oiu 81 otl, u that that
CauSe Il the lHrili, lac receives ii Ms n
fixed fact. liz will not take Tia. trou-
blue Ia invest gate MOI cad profound
a~Iticies np ~ the subject, and there
IoIe continues ON ~ blnd faith. IL the
acts are ~ esrnIe,i To hun W. Il knocA-
d " sort of ST yIe ils may comprehend
t.lrun; not other wise.
Wnh that View ispresent q few salient
roin = IN n form Thai ''Io who rdiis
may read" hoping that soIne may see
il Tor their bencii Ii ANY protectfon-
lists can drsprUye the statements let
him do 81.
/. Wages have always been higher
Ia this country than in Europe ~ En-
gland, Iariff or no tariff. Wtrf the
ii, nry Gay tariff of ls42 was r. waIed
and replaced by the revenue tariH OF
1876 wag did not d~eclinr, but, on the
con raiy, improved.
Z. Wages are higher IN England now
under Il free trade regime tlatti they
were wlien tlEt natlun hat Il high e
~prnIrctiye tariff. Wages are also from
80 to so per cent. higher ia fsce-ira tie
England titan they aie IN higii-taiif
Germany and France.
8. Wages arr one THIRD higher ia New
south Wales than IN Victoria, with
80. Rt..U fl,..f ftfTV. a. a..l.tsu.
OF bI. ami Consequent Prosperity.
New South Wales has free-Lrtlc, Vic
toria u protective tariff
4. Wages are not a5 high IN this
country now rs they were during the
a yet they have the s;iile high tariff
Wages have STEADILY declined since
the close Of the war aud employment
has become very uncer ain, with
Standing the tariff. When does :ir
potency o! the tariff come IMP
8. C,,al and ir.,l miners, who are es-
u~ecially protected b, the tariff, do not
sst Us much wa rs rs hey din la fare
the present tariff VAS eirictcd. They
get less for digging those minerals than
the tariff on llirui amounts 10. Wages
uer da, 81 cents. Mn $ IL toms Il day.
Tariff Oh ore q cents pei Ton. How
protection benefit them?
q. The occupations that afford the
best remuneration are tirtse not PRO
tectedii iy the tariff, liz: brickla,ers,
plastpters. blacksmiLifs, etc.
-7.-If tariff should be abolished t.,
morrow, four millions of m.n all 1t
from industrial pursuits and CONVEX
ted into AL army of was,eful cuDstlm-
ers, and The cutiI,try II ottd wi h al
i~rredceniahle currency, you would ser
wages 60 UP, just rs they did Outing
the Inst war.
8, In En- land and on the Continent
The population averages $50 souls
To the suuaie mile, while in this c,'llii-
try the averages is hut 14--jnst one-
twentieth, Fill orr cnnntry az W III
Huns, Ilagus and o.lier ..pauper labor
to the density of Ear,l,e las Oliver Il
Co. and other clamorrrs for protect ion
are trying u loud wages will fall
AS they Oft. in T. lr ,pe, in spite of any
protect i've tariff
9. Ti,a Am rican farm RS wheat
and corn IS reg I'll utd ly the lice III
Liverpool. India wheat raised with
labor 1T six cents a day sci! in the
same market, tlirref,'rr farm labor
here lras to completes wi h them.
Why can't other industries do ii Q
saInrp
10. Fishermen pay about 30 cents
a pound on gilling twine or Sl5 per
net. No man can show n cent more
he gets for his fish b-catis- of it.
IL. There have been m rs srikrs
aIlavcsse ou,s this year under the high
est Tariff the country ever hid than
ever befofe-arrr all OF TIN m in ind :
tries proteclcd by u iii
II. The farmers wool, wheat, and
pn,atoes are lower now under the
highest tart than they have been for
26 wears or under the low tariff from
1916 to 1851.
IL. NJ, Hires believes in a protcc-
tive tariff ~ protect his lalmrrr1, and
imports glass, thus depiiviIg his la
borers of making it.
ii. The window glass manufacture
erS have fl med a riig to regulate anu
raise prit; ) for he benefit of their
mnn"Ia,ly. Tariff protects them
IL. La six months the g~efnment
will he receiving II hundred ami
Fifteen millions of dollars Il year more
than 1t lie DIS. Proiec ionist SAY re-
ducr the taxes IN whisky and tobacco
and Leaves III ON coal, lumber, salt cloth
ing and n~eccssaries of life.
Is. Those Industries protected have
been the nnes to import cheap Labor.
Said Ralph Beaumont in y Knights
OF Labor meeting: "ror Twenty-Five
years we've had this protection aud
VT have made more m'ilioiares aud
ra,lprrs under that system than were
ever made in u civilized country on the
earth in the same time before"
There are explanations which might
be givei: as to why the tariff oil 1861
was passed, but they are not pertinent
to this article Ii any reader has
doubts of the correctness of the fore
going stat ements he cal, satisfy himself
by very little research, wl,ei lie viii
he no iongefvieceiveti by the snfhisti-
Cal cry that protective tariffs make
high wages.
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