Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-10-26
Is a Protective Tariff
Consumer

trade doctrine that the tal
duciions Of a country ia 1T
- consumer is increased ~,
tariff. A study Of hist 90, N
the uniform tendency Of - 81
system is to build up vast nd st
cheaper prices How is 7.
i've tariff is q tax, that in n :.
wool.us formerly had a l. MI
whore tho duty on iron w .r i,
nd ovr again from two 6f. u,
y cents 10 tiiriy-ive do IN IT
woulrns aud iron grew Ct . :"
time? The brains and c h. g
American inventor. lnd I'll H. Il
3 American workman, have Ia
bled Us to supplent many No. Fl
duets by novelty Of construd :. q
ccllcncy Of work. Is it not 20. :
q; BY th, advantages We han h.. =
ed, aud will gain still more mr. G
future, maintain the princip Ia. .e e
ton, and thus command ~
market as well as our own q rs C
imported at fifty cents a yard bur
mills were built, have been n !
six cents under high tart N !
better quality. The tariff ,Arl
cotton is no more a burden or line
home consumer than that on or
beef 1t is simply a barrier a he
flooding Of our market by Eng 10 DDS
at less than cost, that they Mak
down competition and control Aole
market when prices revi Bur
American silk is better than Il! #ch
or Italian, aud in price and qu bis
tances foreign competition. WI Hrty |
per cent duty, which, Accord the
free trade theory, ought to a its
cost, it has gone down instead I'll
is greatly improved in quality, fthe
price is third less. During HEN
protective years from 1870 tdsS0,
there was a gain of forty-three ID ut
in sheep husbanory, against a d bf a
little over three per cent. from & to
1860, and all this wool was bod. by
our own mills. The wool-grows IN
lustry in America would suffer nous
injury by any decrease in our holman
lfacture Of woolens, and the m,t6ac-
.urers would be equally injured any
decrease in the home supply of w +
Their interest is ono. More tharlSur.
ifths Of our wooden goods are mad Are
nd the sixty million consumers blu,
heir common working clothing as shesr
5 it could be in England, and are "a
et'er able to pay for it than the peopl
here.
The American mills making steelrail
ave furnished US steel rails for te
ears at an average price a little les
IAN the English price in 1870, whlc
as about $57 93 per ton. Up to III
ate of the opening Of the first steel IA
NIL here the English controlled Iou
larket and tho prices. $780,
. ssss.ls1 ~. -s4s- f'''''S no
zen sold at $27 per ton. thenJ Oh
of our nails was frst under
ken in this country, wrought nails
hi III then cost twenty-five cents pc
ound, were largely imported. On th
st of January. 1876, the price was tw
nd one-half cents. For a long tim
re have exported nails to foreign coun
ries: the value of the exports Of nail
nd spikes in the fiscal year 1871
mounting to half million OF dollars
In 1910 a Philadelphia firm commeaee
he manufacture of saws on sSaI
scale. At that time English saws OIL
IN our market at from fifteen dolIarsln
seventy five cents to nineteen doliss
lozen. In 1876 the Philadelphia mn
lfacturers were sending saws to hg
and. and selling them at $40 80 z
,n-fully fifty per cent. less thanth'
charged us in 1910. WEI
his firm commenced business, comor
avs of foreign manufacture were SO II
his country at 81 80 dozen, and ey
,ould not be made here for less thaS7
dozen; but now the firm in queen
shin common saws to South Amerh at
I'll 80, and their exports IN 1879 IRE
fully 100000. The firm make cir
own steel. Under protection crocry
ware has been reduced, and we canlR
buy for s. 50 as much as 'oul5e
hought for 81 before the business as
protected by the tariff We maker
one hundred and sixty-six mil'loDl-
lars worth of boots and shoes yCy.
and over forty-three million dolli of
yearly wages are paid to our woren
in this department of manufactured
we sell in our shoe stores as ch,as
the English retail shops do. Afthe
war, before the rice interest waslh
up by protection, the price of rler
! hundred in this country was twelNl-
lars to fourteen dollars In Issue
hundred thousand to two hundreda-
sand people we're engaged in prGle
occupation. and rice was only fowl
lars and twenty FIVE cents to four RS
aud fifty cents.
The frmcr, who, it is claims
robbed by the tariff, can read fca-
self that there is an import duty at
f cents yard on cotton sheetipae
can buy domestic cotton, howebr
seven cents yard He can buy
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