Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-13
An ADVOCATE or FREE TRADE.
Diseasess shs Quessien Of Prosscsion Of Indus
tsiss or Protective Tarins.


tsiss or Protective Tarins.
EDITORS INTELLIanNcER-The varied /
climates and soils no less than moral cor
alterations establish the unity OF mankind.
How prosperous and happy would the
world be II each people or nation would
devote it, energies to the productions for
which they are naturally adapted BY soil
and climate, and then to make an equitable
exchange Of commodities through the car.
rying trade.
Each people would then have tho advan.
taees Of the soil and climate OF all countries,
and the wealth of nations would be in-
creased TO the greatest degree possible
Under such conditions, which are not Inn
possible and TO which the march OF civil.
zation will tend, the idea Of protection and
protective tariffs would be renouncod ~
hurtful 10 the common good, ~ selfish and
immoral In our country where the soil
and climate do not facilitate growth and
production in some instances the tariff II
invoked 70 remedy the difficulty 10 nature
A commodity produced In . neighboring
country, cheaply, though probably, 10
taxed 70 cross the border, BY tho collection
OF duties which advances the price as .
matter OF course-ior the purpose Of fostor-
Ing like industry Ut home TO which tho
natural conditions are adverse; IN industry
that cannot be engaged In proftsbly
Ii TO be made profitable by law, to
be kept mp BY the whole people, by
the payment of the abnormal or advanced
price fer the commodity, crOated by the
protective tariff. Lot US illustrate: Say In
Pennsylvania man can produce busnel
OF wheat - the result Of days labor, and
that . bushel Of wheat will exchange for
ten pounds of coffee. In Cuba, soy, sdsy's
labor will yield ten pounds OF coffee.
1t IL apparent that n the PennsylvanIan
will engage In the raising OF wheat and
the Cuban in the production Of coffee the
people will have the advantages Of the soil
and climate nf both countries. saving the
pittanc1 for transportation. by all con-
sidSrations of economy, Pennsylvanians
i should direct their energies TO growing
! wheat, and the Cubans to raising coffee.
! The best interests OF each people 10 thus
subserved. There 10 no plsce or need for Q
tariff for protection. We Will suppose
Pennsylvania had some facilities for rails
ing coffee, and q man could produce five
/ pounds by q days labor, while in Cuba q
man could produce ten pounds by days
labor; now, would 1t be wise In the people
Of Pennsylvania 70 engage In the business
OF cofiee raising and 10 impose such tariff
on coffee imported from Cuba ~ would
| protect the home industry Of raising coffee.
! Would the imposition Of such tariff cure
the evil lying IN the soil and oil mate Of
PennsylvAnia Would 1t be polite
Suppose again that one thousand men In
Pennsylvania established . new industry
tho raising Of coffee. They invest q mil
lion dollars In the business, and employ
II a.
| q little experience, In effect that they can
| not compete with Cuba. Climate and sol
are sgainst them. Something must be done
! or the new industry cease. Protection hert
presents itself and ID accepted - the rem
edy. Let us see how II works: A million
people, say, In Pennsylvania drink coffee
and they have natural right 70 and desir,
the soil and climate Of Cuba. But thous
and men have undertaken to raise cofIe'
at homo and either their business mus
fall or be protected to such an extent as L
enable them TO compete with Cuba. /
coffee il raised from ten 70 twenty cents
Poand the Pennsylvania rAisers can ente
the market This increase is readily &C
oomplished by the tariff.
On all coffee now imported to be used b,
the million people In Pennsylvania tel
4 C0uU Munt 10 pasu Ou oacu pOuuO 70 pro
tect tho homo industry. The merohan
must now pay twenty cents pound instea,
of ten cents for his coffee, and must have
profit on the additional ten cents imposet
for protection.
When he could buy OF ton cents pound
he could soil at twelve and .a-half but q
the increased cost he IL obliged to charg
his customers twenty-five cents per pound
In tracing this policy OF protection to II
results, emitting further details, It is fount
that thousand mon, with capital Of on
million dollars, employing ten thousant
hands, cause million people annually
to pay one million two hundred and fiity
Thousand dollars to protect their homo In
dustry.
There is no tariff on coffee, nor coffee in
dustry In Pennsylvania to protect, but II
shows plainly the very principle which
underlies the whole system of protection.
i GEORGE KoHLER.
LEACocK, March II.