Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-26

neY, Il will be noticed that they do not say that
the shovel purchased az 1921 per dozen is
, imes' shovel at sill, but the Frey sh vel The
Anes firm felt called on to deny the impUts-
I tion. bat they. too. stumbled ana exposed
themselves and their scheme for plurderi1g
the American consumer under the preteNt of
protecting him. hey say;
"The only concession We make TO the eV-
porter is tina: we pat him on sthe same footing
with the largest dea ess Ia the L aited Stata"."
This is double barreled back action denial.
Anes admits that he was to sell 10 small deal
ers for export at lower rates thsu 20 he tame
dealers for tbs Am erican market. just what
| the smouut of the concession ls, he does MOI
state, but every mere rant knows that there Is
always wide margin between prise, for large
or small packages. So far the case against
Ames Is sustained on mis- oua testimony.
Further than this, Aues admits that The
lowest price to American wholesale dealers =
which. of course, secures SONS profit TO the
manufacturers low enough to enable him
to enter the foreign market unprotected IA
competition with England.
This Is true or false. It true. thea the tariff
is not needed to protect him in his me mar
ke.. II Ease, Aues /. mating the American
consumer pay for his Iossss in Mexico. He
may take either horn OF this dilemma.
But what will be thought OF workingman
who, after these confessions from two CT the
greatest manufacturing concerns OF this coun
try. will vote to sustain the tariff ulder tie
impression that 1. is needed to secure good
vsges.
The tariff /, 8 tax on the consumer paid to
Amos, and Disston, and Carnegie, and Captain
Silss Miller. portion of which is then con.
triouted to the Republican campaign fund.
VIII workingmen vote to continue ouch an
iuiqllty?
AS a matter of fact, the circu'ar saws. under
the existing laws paya duty OF 30 per cent
and this rate is not cHanged By the Mills BILL
Ye: Dissson is putting thousands Of dollars
into the campaign fund OF the Republican
party.
Ard upo this ssne sui ject OF prices
CT goods sold at home and abroad, re-
apectively, the Ch!csgo Herald says:
The tariff tables for 1881 will show tha: cur
Ing the year the Inhabitants OF the United
States impHrted 1916 7sS of cabinet ware and
furniture" on which duty If So. $40 was
paid, or IS percent
The oti3ct Of shis duty. according to the
statesme who levied 1t, was to furnish reve-
nue., and incidentally 10 protect American in
dUstrT in cabiLe. ware ana furniture. If the
duty be reduce to 90 per cant, as the Mills
bill would have 1t we are told the cabinet ware
and furniture Industries would languish or be
ruined
In the light OF this doctyine II Is worthy of
rot, that Mr.. Blaine, last Monday. spoke st
Grand Rapids, Bill h town where cabinet
ware and furniture }urish His speech was
short and did no! Ill the demand of his hearers.
A acc nd speech followed, In which Mr. Blaine
is reported saying that since his lost vi II to
Grand Rapids, four years ago, he had been in
E rope, and taw nothing that Interested hin
d orc than, when touri & in Scot and. to sleep
in room sll Of The furniture In which came
from Grand RapiGe. a city which had made
such progress in manufacturing under the pro
tective system could be relied on to cas- Its
v1te for that grand and great cacd date, Der il
min Harrison, FIR President Of the UniIed
states.
L: will dcub less cheer the farmer who pays
35 per cent. bounty to the manufacturer Ct
Grand Rspics to learn that he Is able to pay
II eight TO Scotland and there compete with the
unprotected manufacturers OF tbs old world.
II thas Industry would 1amish on fee traGe, 1t
ought perhaps to be given dose of inst sch
anti-fai.
Contemporaneous y with this testimony OF
James Blame, Mr.. Hatch of Missouri ses In
the federal House and makes good h charge
that TIE Oliver Chill Plow Works Of South
Bend, Ind, hsvs cold plows IN Canada for 81
less than was charged for them IN thi, com
try. On there exported goods the farmer pays
a bounty of abou. - per cent.
The victims Of overtaXation for the sake of
pro getting homo in;ustries may thus see that
the furniture IN akerS and p'owmakers ara no
longer infants. as Farmer Whiting has siguif
cantly said: "Protection i: calf that wss old
enough 20 wean long ago.