Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-19
EVERY DAY TALKS ON TARIFF.
PrOtectfOnlst FalsehOOd About
ROiiers Proves q Boomerang.

SIR: A Republican handed me the enclosed
clipping yesterday and asked me to answer it
where l hope you will please oblige me by an
swering it in your Talks on the Tariff The
Republican bets that you cannot give reason
took him up. CONSTANT READER.
The clipping inclosed is from the High
Protectionist Press. An investigation
shows it to be one of the most brazen
fabrications of all the many fables that
are put forward in favor of high tariff.
1t is, in fact, a succession OF lies out oi
whole cloth, as we demonstrate below.
Here it is:
MANY people insist that the tariff benefits only
the industries protected and the laborers en-
ployed therein. Let such persons read this
tariff talk. 1t may set some OF them right
Philadelphia. There will be about 5 900 per
sons employed in it. Necessarily steam power
will be largely used, requiring many boilers oi
ieat size Naturally thee Is @ great compeetfitlon f
Manchester, N. H.; Taunton, Mass; New Ha
ven, Conn. Syracuse, n. Y; Birdsborough ane
Scranton, Penn, and Salem, o. These estab
"For, if bid be accepted, the boilers must bt
supplied within $50 days. Then 1t must be con
sidered that other work is being done, and tha
other bids are out and liable to be accepted. 81
acres of ground are covered by the building
and the capabilities of the plants are vast
stranger viewing any one of them would say
sThis is no infant industry. This requires nc
.. otection. 1t can hold its own with any,
'But there is tariff of 25 per cent to enable
turer. The tariff is SO essential that in the com
petition referred to above the Salem (Ohio
bidder secured it by but $40 under the bid of q
Liverpool (Englapd) competitor, o.,.-
"rhe successful bid was for 81 large boilers
set in place for $13S,OOO.
.Ihe English company would make the
boilers, transport them across the ocean, land
them, pay the duty, haul to factory and set In
brick for $40 more than the cheapest American
competitor would do it.
"A $40 bill, a 81 bill and duty of Is pei
cent. were all that saved this contract OF $l3s,
"But some free trader will say: That is only
of interest to boilermakers.
'Is it, though?
"The successful Salem bidders employ 5000
hands. These are going to, get their share o.
this $139, 900; and when they get it they are
going to spend it in the products of fellow
"To keep those 5000 at work in Salem ther,
are S 1000 at work in Parks Brothers Bessemel
Works at Pittsburg, supplying them with steel
They will get their share and divide 1t amoni
"our individual share might be pretty small
but it is in fnitely greater than 1t would be /
the English firm had Sc cured the contract
"Whether our share be great or small, there il
in that one contract work for 900 able -bodiet
dSgs; sn; 900 So muitipIied By s. equals 900
muitip led by SO equals $i3s, 900.
"That is what we vote for, and since 1t i
such close shavingon71y $1o on such ;th laFg
successful agent that the tariff had better be pu
up little, SAY to 4Oper cent inJames G. Blaine
way, rather than reduced in Grover Cleveland
"Don't you think SO, too?" :,
1t will be noticed that we are not tolC
the name or character OF the big manu-
factory that is being erected in Philadel
phia that will employ 5000 persons. The
fact is, as a careful examination hal
shown, that there is no such factory ir
existence or contemplated. When the
Spreckles sugar refinery is completed i
may employ 1000 men, but investigation
also shows that this could not have
been the establishment referred to. 1t il
an actual fact also that no one order o
sixty-one boilers has been given out il
Philadelphia since the city was founded
OF course the foundation of the stor.
being taken away, it follows that the res
of it must be very weak. But it is worth
while considering in some respects as
possible case.
OF the seven American cities which ar
mentioned as competitors for the con
tract only two have facilities for film
such an order.
The statement that "the English com
pany would make the boilers, transpor
them across the ocean, land them. pa
the duty, haul to factory and set in brio
for $40 more than the cheapest America
competitor would do it," must be yer
!, funny to anybody who knows anythin
about boiler-making in this country.
, is well-known fact that English mani
facturers cannot and do not attempt
compete with American firms in tn
r market. The Ne,Us has high authorit
: for the statement that not one-tenth
( one per cent. of the boilers supplied hel
. are Of English make. The Babcock an
Wilcox Company and other firms of tn
city send their boilers to Canada, Cub
{ Mexico and the South American repu
b lies, with big lead over the Englil
g article.
, A curious and most instructive illu
d tration of how the the tariff hinders al
restricts business, and how, in spite
y it's burdens, Yankee genius comes out
j. top, can be found right here in this boil
v business. The Babcock & Wilcox Coz
n pany, who are the largest boiler builde
in the world are a pnro1v American fri