Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1888-06-08

rs member of the Wholesale house
of X. l.. Mcdonald & Co. until
1877, at which time he removed TO
and has ever since been identified
with the business interests OF Kan.
sas City"
Free Trade and Protection.
The american People, a new
friend to protection in the journal.
istic world, published at Pit,sburg,
in dicussing the cGcc, of the passage
of the Mills bill asks: How was IL
in free trade timcs1 Young men Of
to-day know nothing Of this. Ask
the older men of the mills and
work shops Of America, and they
will tell you that in free trade times
they were idle from thirty TO forty
days out ofcycry one hundred days
And more. They will tell you
that wngcs were from fifteen TO
thirty.five per cent. lower; that
competition faced them at every
turn; that there were but few mills
10 work; that it was very useless
10 travel for employment; that they
lived under form Of industrial
slavery, from which they could not
extricate themselves.
In the face OF all these facts, the
American people arc asked 20 con
sent 10 breaking up Of their indus.
trial system; TO open their ports to
the products Of foreign labor, to
place themselves at the mercy Of
British capital and British competi.
ton.
This scheme is more threatening
TO the peace and power and prosper
ity OF our government than were the
belching cannon Of the rebellion in
Charleston harbor
Do these pigmies in statccraft i'm.
agine the American people can be
turned from their pathf Do they
suppose that the power they have Sc.
cured will be Telinquishedf Can they
believe that a system Will be tolef.
ated on this soil which, a generation
or two ago, turned the fertile cot.
ton fields Cf the South into a com.
parative desertl
Perhaps another contest is TO he
fought. Possibly it is necessary for
our future development that we
should be forced TO taste the dregs
Of despair in the cup Of poverty. If
so, let the Mills bill pass and then
bend your ear toward the broad
Atlantic, and you will hear the
grandest jubilation Of Britain's peo.
pie that ever burst from their lips
since the news came that Napoleon
was defeated at Waterloo, for they
will then see and know that once
more we are theirs, and that the sur.
render Of Cornwallis 20 Washington
has been re enacted in 1883 by the
surrender by the American Congress
TO great Britain Of American Indus.
trial Independence.
In this connection the failure Of a
large borax producing firm in
California Is mentioned. caused by
the fact that the Mills bill puts
bOrsx on the free list. Before borsx
vas produced in this country the
price of the article had never been
below IS cents a pound In the
present tariff law the duty Is &C per
pound on crude borax, aud &C on
refined The present price of borax
IN the New York market. as quoted
by the OIL Paint and Drug Repoyt.
e., IS Refined, Sta8ic per pound p.
concentrated, 7ia7ie powdered,
5ta8c.
II the duty Of sc per pound on
refined borax brought down the
price from s5c per pound 10 SIC. as
Il apparently did. Congress made
good strike for the people whcn n
imposed the duty-we mean. Of
course, the American people. In
this case, % IS very plain TO the
dullcst comprehension that the
people-the American people
don't pay the duty, and this case is
a FAIR example about all cases that
come under tariff legislation. Amer.
icsn competition knocks out foreign
monopoly and extoriionaie prices
every time. We feel quite sure
that the most industrious free trader
cannot find a single well defined
exception 10 this benefcent effect
OF ludieious protection TO American
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