Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-12
PROTECTION AND ITS RESULTS.

gate this subject farther by taking up the tariff from 1861 and examining it's opera tions and results. Let us go into one of our general hardware stores in the city of New Haven, where everything can be purchased from fish hook to crowbar. Ask the pro prietor how long he has been in the business; he will tell you over thirty years. Ask him what amount of goods on his shelves at that time-thirty years ago-weze foreign made, and what amount of goods were of American manufacture. He will tell you that about ninety per cent. were foreign and about ten per cent. American. Question him farther ss to the goods upon his shelves to day ander 8 protective tariff and he will tell
 you that about ninety per cent. are Ameri-
 can and about ten per cent. are foreign. Still farther question him as to prices thirty years ago, and he will tell you that goods to-day upon his shelves are from twenty to fifty per cent. cheaper under pro
 tection than under a revenue tariff or free trade. And this man is Democrat who answers the questions we have put; notwith- standing the above, the revenue tariff men, or free traders, will tell you that protection is another name for robbery. Let us pursue our walk still further about the city and enter the large dry goods store of Bolton.& Nicely, who are carrying on 8 very large bus- mess in all kinds of dry goods. You can call for hardly anything that they have not for sale. Do not be afraid to question either member of the firm, for they are both gen.
 tlemen and they will be glad to answer your questions. But as MT. Neely has been the longest in business and is the Democratic member of the
 firm, let us question him. 'FNr. Neely, how long have you been engaged in the dry goods
 business," He will tell you, "Some thirty years" ''What amount of goods were for eiRn, and what amount were domestic or American, on the shelves in the store in which you were at that time doing business!' He will inform you that "not eight per cent.
 were American goods, and those were mostly woolens." "Well, MT. Nicely, how is it to- dayP "Aimost everything is American, or not over eight per cent foreign goods, to put large estimate upon it." "How do the prices compare to-day with the prices before 1Se0r
 "FTom twenty to fifty per cent. cheaper and in some instances seventy-fve per cent. less than in 1S60." "Now what do these facts signifyg' They mean that under protective tariff we have driven ninety per cent. of for eign goods out of our stores, and replaced them with ninety per cent of home manu- factured goods, which are sold to customers from twenty to seventy-6ve per cent. less under protection than under free trade or revenue only tariff. This is not all; we have made the goods ourselves, instead of foreign countries making them at low wages We have given thousands employment and every branch of the trade has been benefited by it, The money paid to mechanics and operatives has been spent here, and the doctors, the merchants, the builders, all, every class, have been directly or indirectly benefited or assist ed thereby. Do you wonder, reader, why England should be so fierce for free trade, when protection here has made such revo- lution and such sad havoc with English pro duction and English trade?
 CARPETS.
 Take another interest, that of carpets. Prior to 1860, under free trade revenue tariff, almost all the carpets we had for sale were of foreign make; true we had few in- grain and rag carpets, that was all. To-day, under protection, you can't find, am told, in the city of New Haven one hundred dol | lars worth of foreign carpets for sale in our stores land the same ratio is true in other | plaees), and the prices are from forty to sev- snty-fve per cent. less, while Americans have made the goods and profted thereby. Yet the free traders say our tariff is 6 robber. l My friend, do you believe them with these l facts before youl This is not all; while this | progress has been going on, with wages high, l the prime necessities of life are as cheap here l as abroad. Everything in fact is as low but l rsnts, and they would be as cheap if our | people were willing to put up with the same accommodations as workmen abroad, living | in small miserable tenements and sleeping on | the benches or floors.
 IRON RAILS.
 Take another illustration. In 1860, in | free trade or revenue tariff times, we con- I to build @ street railroad in the city of New Haven. was the presidential the cor poration that built it. made the purchases The iron rails bought to build the road cost us from $57 to $6o per ten. But few furna- ces and mills were in operation at that time with us, as compared with now, for the rails could be made cheaper abroad than here. England with her cheap labor could under sell us. Under the protective tariff, steel rails have been sold as low as $27 per ton. Yet the tariff is a robber, so free traders say.
 Et Is . Curious Fact
 That the body is now mora susceptible to l benefit from medicine than at any other sea- 'on. Hence the importance of taking Hoods sarsaparilla now when it will do you the most good. It is really wonderful for puri- ,ying and enriching the bloed, creating an appetite and giving 8 healthy tone to the Tiole system. Be sure to get Hoods Sarsa- ,arilla, which is peculiar to itself. ts