Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-08-16


unlashed the line that held the
plank I'm position, and turning to
the officer exclaimed, He's gone,
sir, pots and ALL" This, it will be
admitted, is confusing.
In the present tariff discussion
great weight Is attached to the duty
on raw materials. Those who have
devoted most thought to the subject
and are best able to express an opin-
ion, tell us that the free listing of
raw materials will increase the sum
Of our manufactured products, en-
hance wages by creating a more act
| i've demand for labor and reduce the
cost Of living. Gen. Grant in his
annual message Of 1875, defining
raw material, says: 81 refer to
those articles which enter into man
ufactures Of all sorts. All duty paid
upon such articles goes directly to
the cost Of the articles when manu-
facturcd here, and must be paid by
the consumer
A plain reasouer would take raw
material to consist Of articles gath
cred from the mine, the plain and
the forest, upon which no labor has
been expended in fitting it for the
use Of man. Cotton and wool come
under this category, also logs, stone
from the quarry and crude ores from
the mine. They are produced by
nature, and no labor has been eX-
pended on them save in gathering
or extracting them, and perhaps
transporting them to the place
where there they can bc worked
into shape.
But your protcctionists dc rigucur
will not concede so much They ar
que that raw material is "a commod-
ity unknown to political economy.
A protection writer away down in
Maine, cautions his readers against
the expression rs "a catch word to
trick people into the support of the
free trade party This writer's
logic is so original that we will pro-
duce Il portion Of his article. He
says
There is no such thing as raw
in the sense i'm which the
term is employed by the champions
of the Mills bill; that is, wool,
lumber, marble, chemicals, iron,
lime, flax, and the other articles
which we are told manufacturers
should have free, are no more raw
than the cloth, houses
and locomotives into which they are
fashioned. All of them, when they
are i'm condition to become mer-
have been made valuable
by labor or, in other words, have
been manufactured.
Senator Platt, of Connecticut, used
some such confusing argument i'm
the senate during the present
session. Said he; "The tree i'm the
forest, the rock in the quarry, the
ore in the mine when rescued from
their native condition 10y the indus
try of man, and carried to the place
where they can bc shaped iuto
proper uses, are no longer raw
They are infused with
the spirit that has brought them
into the transforming focus of man
utucturc and invention; they have
become a part of our civilization.
The uN that tclled the tree, and the
explosive that detached the rock,
relieved these articles from their
former cudcurs~; they are now
mcrchmmblo they have the
quality of value, and they are TO he
rated us manufacture.
The reader win prcccivc that a
difficulty encounters the learner as |
hc first addresses himself to the /
study of the Nriti, Raw material /
ana manufactures are generic terms /
Ia fiscal clussihcations, and the |
otallcommcrcml countries /
have agreed iu the rule that the /
hc former should bee exempt from
luty because they arc necessary to
homo manufactures.
Hut those hihulous savans in
Chicago taught new political /
'vaugilc, They are opposed to all
commercial iutercourscwit foreign
nations, They would retain u war
arin' ON everything brought into
urport~, aud rather than surrender
my par, of our protective system
hey Mvor the cuuW repeal ot the
utcrml taxes, This Is "a new de-
arWU iu fiscal scicucv, and toHdapt
hc teachings OF political economy
ID this extraordinary declaration, /
written. ou the tariff will have to .
gr,'c ou new tyrmtnology Let it .
a understood that there Is mo- such .