The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-07-28

tree from duty 10 come 10 competition
with wool raised here. The present
prlce of wool is twenty five cents per
pound. With tree wool the value OF
the Cecil county product would be no
more than sixteen cents per pound, a
direct loss to the farmers of more than
one third the value of their f1-eCes.
But, say the Democrats, a man could
get his clothing SO much cheaper when
wool is free. On the contrary, the fact
is as stated by the president of the
Wool Dealers Association of Philadel
phia, that the duty on the wool that
goes into an average suit of clothes is
fifty cents on each suit. Theoretically.
therefore, the farmers of Cecil county
who raise sheep would save fifty cents
on each suit Of clothes they buy, and
lose nine cents on every pound of wool
they clip Actually they would not
save a penny, for the cloth merchants
and tallors would be altogether likely to
put this fifty cents per suit into their
own pockets and to charge the same
old price for clothes.
The Democrats put Kaolin upon the
| free list. There is one extensive de-
post of this earth being mined near
North East, affording employment to a
number of men and teams. There are
other beds of it in the county which
might be opened profitably. But the
Democrats have done all they could to
hinder it.
The Democrats have put lumber
| upon the Tree list. The Port Deposit
lumber trade has diminished, owing to
various causes from what it was in
years gone by, and now Mr.. Mills and
his party have said they will try to add
to the lumber mems troubles by permit
ting the competition of Canadian lum-
Der, cut By cheap hall breed labor in
the northern wiIdS and sent in here free
of duty to take the place of Susque
hanna pine and hemlock.
The Democrats have put granite upon
,b g.
foundland can send here Luilding stone
and paving blocks free of duty to the
detriment of the Port Deposit quarries.
They have taken away one 'urth Of
the protection accorded to paper, and
have placed pulp upon the free list
If the paper makers, in order to meet
foreign prices with one fourth less pro
lection, must use foreign pulp and
paper stock admitted free, there will be
no more work for pulp mills.
The Democrats have reduced the
duty upon galvanized sheet iron to such
an extent that only small proportion
of it could continue to be profitabl,
made in this country. This would re-
suit in closing the large sheet mills al
North East, just as those at Rowland
vile and Elkton have already been
closed, and thereby would throw hun
dreds of men out of employment. The
Democrats have refused to correct the
existing inequality in the tariff on steel
sheets which is so low that literally
thousands of tons are now being I'M
ported yearly into this country apd take
the place of the iron sheets which ought
to be made in the mills that are now
idle. 1t the tariff could be eqnalzed
the mills at RowlardviIle and Ekton
would resume work and become onCe
more centres of employment, aud
hence centres of consumption of the
farmers products, and of distribution OF
wages wherewith to pay for them.
If the Democrats, by lowering the
tariff on sheet iron shut up the mills at
North East, there will be no more de-
mand there for charcoal, and the many
men now employed in cutting, coaling,
and hauling this material to these works,
will have nothing to do but to cut hoop
poles in the abandoned and nearly
worthless square miles of woodland in
the Necks, and to snare rabbits to keep
themselves from starving.
We have obtained from persons in
teres ed IN the iron works the following
statement of the wages actually paid in
England for making sheet iron, COM
pared with the wages paid at North
East for exactly the same kind of work.
The English wages are taken from the
pay sheets of the Woodtord Iron Works,
Soho, Birmingham, and are given in
United States currency, reckoning the
shilling at "a cents.
Rolling sheet iron,