The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-08-03
IL is 4 VILE FRAUD
TO SAY THAT TPRCTECTION HELPS
THE LABOREH.
That Congressman Who Voted Against
the Mills Sill is the Tool of COncen-
trated Money.

request, | endeavored TO state what was
the real issue before the country, on the
subject of Tariff taxation. My purpose
was 10 AVOID elabol | did not hope
to be able to set forth anything which was
new TO those who have given the matter
much consideration. What | desired was
to make the issue plain to such of our peo-
pie as have not had the opportunities for
investigation
y recent article in the New York Jour
nal OF Commerce states the Issue as did.
repeat it. Shall the present rates of
taxation upon goods imported be main
tanned, or shall they be reduced: The Re
pubcans declare that they are not too
great, whilst the Democrats alIege that
they are The Republicans, notwithstand-
ing their former declarations oppose any
lesSenlne of the taxes, which they now say
are just what are necessary to the protec-
| ton of American LABOR against the pau
per labor of Europe. The Democrats say
that they are so very high, that the OWN
ERs OF the protected industries are enabled
to make too much money out of the con
sumero. whether laborers or not and that
they do not share the heavy profits which
they are assist ed to make by the excessive
duty, with the laborers. whom they pro
1 fess to love; but put them into their own
pockets The Republicans keep the capi
in the front. Their purpose should de
ceiye nobody
| saw, nor long ago, a letter from Pro
tectionisf, who admitted that the manu-
facturtrs, whose goods We're protected,
were more interested in the Tariff than
anyone else, and yet they were unwilling
TO provide 'sthe sinews OF war for the
Republican party in their campaign for
the LABoRER. That was an honest con
fession. He knew well enough who was
getting the benefits of the high taxation,
and he knew it was not the labOrer and
that he was used only as a cats paw for
the chtstnutS of others.
The same letter contained an extract
from communication from a Republican
Senator in Congress, in which the Senator
stated that the protected manufacturers
were more interested than anyone else,
and if they did not contribute literally for
the party who are controlled by them, for
! the furtherauce of heir special ends, he
was for putting the fire under them and
4 frying out all their fat Here We have the
acknowledgement of a Senator, who, from
what IS said, must live either in Vermont,
Kansas or Nebraska, that the Republican
| party, Notwithstanding their professions,
are striving to maintain policy which
Will, as they know, enlarge the concentrat-
ed wealth of the county. ! have long
believed that, and have often expressed it.
Not long since Hon. Nelson Dingley, of
Maine, declared on the floor of the House
Of Representatives,, that the consumer of
goods produced abroad did not pay the
tax which was levied bHt that this burden
was LAID on the shoulders of the for, gu
/ producer Mr. Dingley has been Cover
nor Of Maine, and for the last six or eight
years a member of Congress. Is II posi-
bic that he believes what he states? If il
I Is 50, then We have this extraordinary ex-
hlbtlon of financial wisdom on the part of
Europeans Ia order to supply the people
of the ULlted States, with goods they are
willing 70 pay tribute to the Treasury of
about Sl50. 900 600 every YEAR If. after
that they can make money, how long
would it require, il there was no duty at
all, TO maze tie English, the Germans and
/ the French possessed of a wealth which the
rod of Midas could hardly have produced3 ;
/ And if these people are able to pay 50
largely for the glories of a competition
with such American LAEORERS as Andrew
/ Carnegie, how much money does he and
! others similarly protected make! Where
do these people make their money: DO
! they ..sa Ee It out of foreigners. | he state
ment IS as inpudent, as it is absurd. Mr..
Dingley did not believe what he said If
he did, then he is tit subject for IAN in
1 QUESTION Of lunacy." Mr. d. will hardly
/ deny that unless the duty increases the
4 price Of the article, it cannot protect
against anybody. Nor would he-eyen
| he-deny that the consumer of similar
| goods manufactured here have to pay
more for them, under high, protected
| Tarit., than he would, if the tax were l. SIS.
| Then the most Charitable thing which can
4 be said Of this bright light from Maine
/ this representative Congressional Aurora
/ Boreails-that he was resorting TO a sub
! terfuge not approved by any code of NOR
!; alc and which is never adopted except in
| tbs po>e.tg Of argument. The entire
/ purpose IL laying higit t..xes on imports is
| TO increase their price, and this iEc,s.s.sd
! price, somebody is obliged to pay The
! consumer pays it, and it requires ambush
! ing i.np,4dence to aliege to the contrary.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has made many
millions out of his protected IRON .nteresta
in Pennsylvania. He acknowledged thai
he had received a profit Of million and Il
| half on his interest III the Edgar Thomp
son steel works. With all his love for the
LABORER in this country, he is now enjoy
ing himself among the paupers of Europe.
at his castle in the Grampian Hills of
Scotland, in company with his distinguish
ed FELLOW B.RER, James G. Blaine. Is
it not strange that these Lovers OF the
! American laDOref are so iona OF spending
their money in Europe? Perhaps it results
from a kindly feeling towards those who,
as Mr.. Dingley says, have been paying one
half Of the taxes collected by the Amerl cti3
government
Many of the articles taxed 10y the Tariff
can be made more cheaply here than in
Europe. All heavy cotton goods, made
of thread larger than No 90 belong to
this class. Nearly every steamer which
goes abroad takes ''Domestics" to foreign
markets, They are now sold in England.
Recently | saw that some carriages had
been sent to Liverpool from this country.
Perhaps they We're for that poor laborer,
Mr.. Carnegie Even machinery is export
ed. Cheese protected checse-is carried
to Great Britain by the millions Of pounds
to feed the paupers against whose labor
the Republicans inveigh SO loudly. The
laborers who make watches and clocks, in
this land of patriots, send them largely to
Europe, and sell them there for less than
our people arc forced 10 pay. The differ
ence in the cost of making pair OF bIan-
kets in the United States aud in England
is in 10 case ever 90 per cent. And yet
the tax is So How much of that do these
protected laborers give to the unprotected
workmen whom they employ
have said, and | repeat it-defying
contradiction-that no cotton mill in
n rof y,a 6ariyaS nv adj vaptaua from,