Butte semi-weekly miner., 1888-10-10

In wages ever known in the history Of
the country before or since. Farm
wages advanced 100 per centum, and
manufacturing wages 20 per centuIn.
During this period, Carlisle declares
that the value of all our woOlen manu-
factures increased more than 42 per
centum, the number of hands increased
t1819 per centum, while the total amount
Of wages increased nearly 81 per centum
showing that the total amount of
wages paid was twice as great as the per-
centage of increase in the number of
hands employed. Thus, instead of par
aiyZing the industries and pauperizing
the labor of the country, the tariff act Of
1916 infused new life and vigor into our
languishing manufactures and secured
more constant employment and higher
wages to our laboring people, the conse- |
quence of which was that even the strong
prejudices of New England were re-
moved, and in 1857 every representative |
from that part of the country who voted |
at all, voted for bill making almost a
uniform reduction of 20 per centum from
the rates imposed by the act Of 1916,
placing many additional articles on the
free list. Two-thirds Of the men chosen
by the people of New England to repre-
sent their interests in Congress declared
by their votes that a farther reduction ,
would be beneficial to their industries,
and thus the tariff act of 1857, which the
SO often denounce, became
he law of the land by the votes Of Re-
,ublicans and New England representa-
ives. Id
But even under these low tariffs, the t
evenue had become excessive, and a '
'reat surplus accumulated, begetting Z
Eild extravaganza and great land specu- 9
ations. In order to get rid of this sur a
lus the tariff was revised in July, 1867, "
ut in September, before the new tariff e
Duld have the least effect, the short Il
anic of 1858, occurred, as the result of
lid land speculations, combined par 81
ally with the failure of crops. How n
yer, by 1858 almost the whole effect of b.
lis panic had passed away; and in 1859 fo
nd 1860 commerce, agriculture, and OF
anufactures were all more prosperous R
ian they had ever been before. of
This, in brief, is the history, with the th
cts, of the tariff of 1916, which Chair TO
an McCutcheOn declared had forced tn
m to carry eggs and butter to a mar CT
It which paid only cents for the for til
er and 8 for the latter. La
MIR. McCutcheon alludes to the Morrill, an
Ii, declaring that it is attacked only tn
Southerners. OF course this is un- OF
ne. The Morrill, tariff began in 1861,
d was very protective in its character. tir
constantly increased until 1867. For th'
IRE than year after the adoption of gr'
ls tariff the business of the country TIT
IS in a fearfully depressed condition,
lch, however, the war relieved. In shl
IL, before this Morrill, tariff went into VIII
oct, the average rate of tax paid On all cat
led imports was but 1884. The next ags
II the rate was 1920. In 1868 it was ant
'3. Under this high tariff the panic me
1873 occurred, one of the worst in all q
tory. From September, 1873, until Dor
luary, 1879, the business of the conn. say
was more depressed and more labor are
were thrown out of employment than and
my previous period in the country's A
'ory. And the period up to the present
e, in most parts of the country.
ably where the protective tariff has
greatest effect-as in Penpsylvania- 1ns,
been marked by business depres-
s, falling in wages, strikes, boycotts. D.
the wholesale discharge of laborers m q Il
onpioymeh1' uhtll to-day one OF vest
greatest protectionists in the coun- and
L. V. POwderly, declares there are Idat
million of men in the United States ferre
are virtually tramps. mon
much for the Morrill, bill which uu'i
McCutcheon and the Republicans men, men,
poi po'uaCeu ingtc
then