The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-10-18

port trade, The law IL positive that all
aftl ,les manufactured for export from
Imported malerlaR upon which duties
nave been paid, shall, when exported
DO entitled 70 q drawback OF OO per
cent OF the duties paid on such raw ma
terlala, Some use has been made OF
these laws, The remission OF duties Ia
1894 paid upon imported material man
uta0tnrel for foreign markela amount
ed 10 a225H,0ls, On some articles the
drawback N equal 10 the duty paid, but
In no instance where they are imported
70 DO manufactured here and sent
abroad Ia the duty 10 exceed l0per cent,
The markets OF the world, In our con
dltl0n, are y snare and delual0n, We
VIII reach them whenever We eau un'
defaell competing nations, and not
sooner"
Now note the lawyer,like loylInesa OF
the aforesaid gem, GuArdcdly, though
brayely, starting ont with foreign raw
materials, II ends up with the impllca,
ton that our manufacturers have all
raw materlala free, both foreign aud
domestic, Elise what Ia the meaning
and what the Inference from hla conclu,
sion that "the markets Of the world, In
our present condition, are q snare aud
delualon, We viii reach them when,
ever we eau undeHel competing ma.
tlona, aud not sooner"
Clearly the Inference go accepted by
his hearers, and so intended Ia, that
our manufacturers have practically
free raw material OF all kinds now,
hence the Democratic cry for them Ia
unnecessary aud absurd, In Major
Mcltlnley8 speech NJ Defiance, as 70,
ported by his home organ, the Reposi
tory, last evening he said;
"lf free raw material Ia needed TO ia,
cllitato export trade In foreign markets,
then answer that our manufacturers
to-day have substantially free tride In
such material, when II IN made into the
finished product IN the United States,
provided IL Is exported"
OF course Major Mckinley knows
this statement to be false Every intel,
llgent citizen who has read the
u, $, statutes, knows this statement 10
be falie.
Every manufactures knows that the
rebate provided In the sections Of the
revised statutes, referred TO by Major
Mckinley are practically useless be.
cause of the conditions under which
they are given.
The law provides that on all articles
Whoig manufactured Of materials i'm.
ported, ON which duties have been raid,
u drawback of so per cent shall be
allowed when they are exported.
Every person knows that there are
scarcely any articles manufactured in
this country "wholly' of imported
materials, In woOlens, for illustration,
only an admiyture OF foreign woods Is
desired, Under thela IL any domestic
wool Is used no rebate Id
allowed, The rebate dodge
Is simply and solely protection trick,
and no one knows this better than
Major Mckinley,
Far too adroit 10 the demslve ex
FOUNDER Of the great American protec.
tive humbug 10 stultily himself by
plainly saying that domestic raw ma.
terial are untaSed, Had he 80 said and
were II true, his conclusion would not
follow, even then, because the Ameri.
can laborer at his present hire is cheap.
er than his English competitor, when
the amount and quality of his product
Is considered, II is demonstrated by
actual test that the American laborer
is producing more and better goods, at
the same wages than the English arti.
san, This Is on account Of his nm.
equalled skill, his unsurpassed genius
and his high standard Of intelligence.
High rate Of wages means low cost of
production the world over
But 1t will be clearly evident to any
one who will give the subject reason.
able, unpreiOdIced thought, that 1t is
not the tax upon the foreign raw ma
terials, nor high wages that shuts MS
out Of foreign markets, but that IL is
the tax upon domestic products
The ramillcations Of the domestic tax
are endless, Like the threads of Il
spiders web, It's grasping fingers reach
in oil directions, Every manufacturer
who makes things out Of iron, steel,
wood, wool and numberless other
kinds of materials finds his
finished products made high In
price, not because OF high wages
paid in Its production, but because of
the high prices of his material, which
he must pay for the purpose of "pro-
tecting" those who handled IL before he
got it. To the extent precisely that he
is forced to do this, are his goods made
higher IN price, and of course he cannot
compete on even terms with foreign
makers who get their materials untax-
cd.
Major Mckinley is recognized as one
Of the National leaders on the side of
Protection, Snd he ought to be above
the transparent subterfuges that he Is
now using TO bolster up cause that is
condemned by the best thought and
highest intelligence Of the English
speaking race, on both sides of the At
lantic. In other words he ought to
hold himself above the deceptive devils
es Of the ordinary demagogue.
We shall refer TO this subject again.
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