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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
The Tariff on Wool,
Daily Oregonian. June 10, 1882 ]

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Advocating protection" the Dalles
Times says: "The wool growers (oi
Eastern Oregon) know fully that protec
ton guarantees a good price for their
clip, while free trade strikes at the very
life of the industry"
If this assertion were true still it
would not prove the protective policy to
be just and wise one. High prices for
wool make high prices for wooden goods
and there are twenty persons who wear
woolen goods to one who produces wool.
Why should the twenty be taxed for the
benefit Of the one? Oregon is boosted
as wool-growing State, and SO it is !;
and yet even in Oregon, there are twenty
persons who want cheap clothes to one
who wants dear wool. Here, in a dozen
words of one syllable, is camplete and
overwhelming answer to all tine elabor-
ate arguments ever made in the effort to
show the alleged importance Of protect
ing" the wool-grower. But even the
small wool-grower himself-he who has
a few sheep and whose annual clip is q
few hundred pounds of wool-loses more
by the enhanced cost Of clothing to him
self and family than he gains through
the higher price for his wool SO that
the actual benefciaries OF the system
are the great wool-growers and the mo-
nopolist manufacturers. There is no
phase of protection that will bear ex
animation. Every part OF the system is
as weak as the argument for the protec-
ton of wool. The system is, throughout,
a superficial and short-sighted game of
greed-except for the great monopolist
whom it creates and supports. With
them it is studied and profound game
of greed, part Of which is to make large
classes suppose they are favored and
protected by system which either does
not protect them at all, or actually robs
them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
Hard Times in PennSyl'
vania.
Daily Oregonian, April 5, 1885.

Although Pennsylvania enjoys more of
the alleged benefits of the protective
system than any other state in the union,
it contains a greater number OF unem-
ployed or undergrad workingmen than
any other. Its coal and lumber and
manufacturing interests all enjoy the
advantages, such as they are, OF high
tariff; and yet its miners are working for
starvation wages and many OF the mills
are idle. The farmers have also been
instructed by the advocates of protection
that it would make their business profit
able. But Pennsylvania paper says
where it is printed that would sell for
more than the improvements in buildings
and fences would cost. To this the Yer
mont Wdtchman adds: "But it does
not tell its readers how it is that farming
falls so low, in the midst of great indus
tries that demand high protection in or
der to live. These are things that ought
to set men to thinking, for if neither
agriculture nor manufactures are doing
we'll under the coddling system OF the
last quarter of century, perhaps il
would be best to try a more bracing
system"
Having become accustomed to depend
upon the Government, the Pennsy lvauia
statesmen now demand that the prntec-
tive principle shall be further extended
To relieve the prevailing distress bill
has been introduced in the state senate
authorizing cities to Establish pnbli,
improvement industries, under a board
Of managers, whose duty it shall be to
give employment to legal residents who
are in destitute circumstances, and with
out remunerative employment through
no fault of their own" This proposition
as the Philadelphia Times says, "woult
take money out of the workingman'i
right hand pocket and put it into his lef
hand pocket, and say: See what an
doing to help YOU" And yet it des
cribes very exactly the workings OF the
protective tariff, by which the Govern
ment undertakes to make employment
for Il certain few of the people by taxing
all the rest to enable an industry to bt
conducted, which it is claimed could no
exist without protection. 1t would no
be right to attribute the prevailing dis
tress among the laborers OF Pennsylvani,
to the tariff alone. But the fact tina
there is 80 much distress shows that tn,
tariff alone cannot prevent it. tn,
situation is another illustration of the
truth of the lines which DIR. johnson pu
into one Of Goldsmith's poems:
How small OF all the Ills that men endure
That par: which kings or laws can cause or cure
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
He 10 for Protecting ono all:
and dauntiessly advocates the
great principle that we all can get
ricn by taxing each other"



MIR. John Roach, the ship-builder was
recently before the tariff commission.
lie favored that body OF investigators
as well as an excessively "protected''
country, with his views, which the New
York World has admirably condensed
and analysed. He appeared in four
characters; but it was in his character
as farmer that he most enjoyed the bles-
sings OF protection. As a farmer he en-
Joyed paying taxes to support himself as
a shlp'builder, manufacturer and iron
master; but after all it is to be feared
that he enjoys himself as protection-
ist simply because as a ship-builder.
manufacturer and iron master he takes
more money out Of other peoples pock-
cts than his own. At least when the
characters united in his person are
divided, it is the former that paws and
grumbles and the ship-builder and the
IRON master who receives them and
seems to enjoy the transfer; and the
farmer who IS only farmer does not
perceive the blessings Of protection so
clearly as the farmer who is also a pro-
tected manufacturer. Still there is a
satisfaction in the old familiar fallacies
OF Mr.. Roach. He is protectionist. "a
ne frankly AYERS, no matter il as farmer
ne has to pay dollar to secure as an
IRON master large multiple of that sum.
~ believe in protection" he remarks.
not Tor Q single industry, but for one
and all, because l believe in the princi-
PIE OF protection" This is refreshing.
ance most persons who come before the
tarlh commission believe yerv much in
the protection ''for a single Industry,
and possess none at all OF the general
p,ntilanthrophy which makes Mr.. Roach's
llberality include not only his own in
lustrles but all the interests with the
representatives Of which he can log.roll.
ne IS Tor protecting lone and ALL
ana dauntlessly advocates the great
that We can all get rich by tax
ng each other, and by putting up prices
IN each other all round the wealth of the
latlon will be largely increased. The
q OF the country consider that
hey pay for this amusement, being the
'.nly protected class. They will BE re.
ieved to hear from Farmer Roach that
ms impression is all wrong, and that
'afmer Roach greatly enjoys putting his
and INTO his pocket on behalf of Ship
'uilder Roach and Ironmaster Roach.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
Partisan Views Of the Tariff.
Daily oregonian, July 7, 1883. |


writer who presents the subject on
rational instead of on partisan grounds,
alter showing that the annual value Of
the wool products of the country for the
census year 1880 was Sal ,O33, 045. and
that the value of our exports of domes-
TIC woolens during the last fiscal wear
was only $500 900, says with equal truth
and force: 1--WE tax the raw material Of
TINS Industry in way that protects no.
oody. 1t keeps out foreign woods that
we need to mix with our native fieeces.
and by restricting the variety of fabrics
winch can be made here, it limits the
demand for American wool. It raises
tue price OF the manufactured article
ana IN common with the ingenious sys.
tenn OF reduplicated duties, OF which it il
part, 1t prevents the competition of
American woolens in the markets of the
world. For our surplus product, we
nave no outlet, and yet for our own con-
sumption we cannot supply the finest
KIND OF cloth. Hemmed in on every
size by the restrictions which they have
contrlved for our own protection, the case
OF the WOODEN manufacturer is an excel-
lent illustration OF how little import
auties can help in the promotion of
trade" The market both for wool and
woolens is in condition that illustrates
once more the sufficiently familiar fact
lhat periods OF depression will follow
periods OF activity and speculative
prices. 'fo0 '''"'''e
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
Agricultural Statistics.
Daily Oregonian, February 10, 1882

The statistician (report OF the Commits
sioner OF Agriculture for 1880 exhibits
the relative importance of agriculture as
contributor..to our export trade, as fol-
lows:
Total agricultural exports $727 $50 617
Total exports Observation-Disclosures. S23, 946, 1853
These figures show in a most striking
manner that our vast trade with foreign
nations is the result chiefly of the work
of the farmers. All other forms OF in
dustry in the United States are but
trifling in comparison with that of agri-
culture, and yet agriculture is not only
not protected" but is taxed to MAIN
tain other industries which claim the
favor of government. Manufacturing in
dustry is fastened as a leech upon agri-
cultural industry and is gorging with the
profits. In our eastern states, where Ia
Dor is cheap and the market wide, manu-
facturers accumulate colossal fortunes
under this system, which taxes con-
stantly the greatest industry of the coun-
try for their benefit. For our manu-
features there is no foreign market worth
naming since other natious undersell us
in every part of the globe. Goods pro-
duced under our system can't compete
with those of other countries, and cor
sequently can't secure foreign market
But they mOnOpolize the home market
at high prices, as the duties are virtually
prohibltory, and the consequence is that
the American farmer, who is forced to
meet the competition OF the whole world
in production of grain and cotton, is not
allowed the benefit of the worlds COM
petition in the purchase OF manufactured
commodities, but is obliged to pay the
prices which protected monopolists
choose to exact. Our agriculture would
be infinitely more prosperous were it
disburdened of this system and its con-
sequences.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
A Live Question.
IDaily oregonlan, May IA, 1884. I

Less than hundred capitalists en-
gagged in the Bessamer steel ring make
two or three hundred per cent profit on
their money invested, but they pay their
workmen only the average wages, which
provide bare subsistence. The same is
true IN other protected industries. The
tariff question can no more be smothered
than could the slavery question a quar-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
Protection that Kills.
: [Daily Oregonian, October 8, lss6

DAILY Oregonian, October 9, 1886
It was only the other day that the great
coal companies met in New York and
arbitrarily put up the price of one of the
prime necessities OF life, viz fuel. How
were they able to do it? We answer, by
securing monopoly of the home market
through protective tariff, and then COM
bining to restrict production and putting
prices artificially high. What is the re-
suit? The coal miners earnings for the
year are cut down below the level of the
English miner and the price ii the work.
ingman's fuel is increased. Where does
1.-THE protection OF the workingman
come in in this case? You might as well
say that if you cut off a dogs tail and
ears the same day he has reason to feel
highly amused, entertained and CRATE
full, as to say that tariff on coal, which
enables the coal combination to restrict
production, which reduces the earnings
Of the miner, and to artifcially put up
the price OF coal, thus swelling the cost
Of the workingman's fuel, was "protec-
ton" TO labor. .....
A meeting of operatives in the textile
industries Of Pennsylvania last spring
framed petition to Congress, in which
they said: 'Jt is no longer necessary to
scour Europe to find pauper labor. We
have it here in our iron and coal mines,
working for IS cents day. and skilled
operatives in our cotton and wooden
mills working for less than so cents per
day." The pauper labor of Italy is TAX
ing the place OF the Irish in railroad
building and road work, the Poles and
HuDgarians swarm in the coal fields
According to the testimony collected by
the Pennsylvania State Bureau Of Stats
tics, whose chief is a protectiOnist, from
the lips of English miners, the condition
OF the miner is worse in Pennsylvania
than in Great Britain. The British
miner works less hours in the day, but
more days in the year; he does not get
as high wages in money, but he does not
pay high rent, his fuel is very cheap;
nor is he swindled by company stores.
The English miner get. house. garden
and coal for % cents a month and the
company pays the taxes on the house.
lie gets medical attendance and medi-
cine at the same rate when needed.
While it is true as general fact that the
average of wages in the United States is
higher than in Great Britain, and the !
condition of the working class, as a
whole, is better, it is not true in those
very mining districts and industries We
tax ourselves SO heavily to protect. /
John l.. Butler, chief assistant OF the
Pennsylvania Bureau of Industrial Sta
tlstics, in a recent speech declared that
all tariffs are injurious to labor, and the /
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

ter of century ago. The mass OF the
people want now as well as then, justice
in place of swindling, freedom instead OF
monopolies. Ii Just and real reforms are
denied the refusal will only intensity the
irritation which will presently sweep
away system which, whatever may be
said in favor OF its moderate and tenn
porary application, is seen to have be-
come the means for gross abuses and
systematic robbery and oppression.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
Current Talk on the Tariff
Question.
Daily Oregonian. March 81, 1883.

1t is growing clearer every day that
the American laborer will never be ade-
quately protected until the pauper la
borers of the old world. as well as the
product Of his toll, 10 kept out Of the
country. Not all the high tariff speeches
that could be collected from the pages of
the Congressional Record would give
ampler demonstration of this truth than
hve-line paragraph among the press
dispatches from Ireland the other day.
From Limerick, We are told, three hum
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
The Wages in Europe and
America.
daily Oregonian. December IL, lss

The wages of brickiayers and masons
in London are $50 per day, in Paris
sl.40, in Berlin $l.25, and in New York
"a per day. In all four places, for a
period varying from two to four months
OF each year, very little, if any, wages
are earned, in consequence OF the inter
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

"The time will come when men
will find it as difficult to conceive
that this obstructive and absurd
policy could ever have prevailed as
they now find IL TO account for the
perversity which once denied free
dom OF speech and press, or the
infatuation which believed in
Witchcraft and slavery"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

Philadelphia Record, multiplication or
gan, has the largest circulation OF any
paper in Tire state Mr. Blaine and his
school treat all these facts as Lord Mel
son did when told at Copenhagen that
the signal OF the admiral was flying to
retire from action; he put his glass t.
his blind eye and swore he could not see
the signal. Blaine don't wish to see and
shelters himself behind his blind eye.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

no imposition is too great to
catch stupid people, and herein
lies the great strength of our
glorious protective system. 49, Pro-
lection is a IegaIized form Of rob-
berry, which makes the farmer foot
the bills ofthe Manufacturer"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

There is no phase Of protection that will bear
examination. Every part Of the systemis as
weak as the argument for the protection Of wool
The system is throughout short sighted game
of greed, except for the great monopolist whom
il creates and supports"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

we tax the raw materials of the
WOODEN manufacturing industry in
a way that protects nobody. II
keeps out foreign woods that we
need to mix with our native fleeces
and by restricting the variety of
FABRICS which can be made here,
limits the demand for American
WOOL"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

But these men must be hypocrites for
they leave the American laborer 10 starve
while they run their mills with 'paupers'
imported from Europe. This IL protec-
ton for the master and not for the man."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

but at least we can let it be
known that we are not 50 gullible
as to accept without protest, and
as II we were perfectly satisfied
Herewith, the sophisms and the
resulting injustice and loss Of the
policy Of protection"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
Thus our labor I suffers

Thus our labor I suffers
from a-system Of robbery,
disguised under formsi Of
quackery for pretended:pro-
lection Of. American labor.
The stupidityxthat--d
see it, particularly on this
coast, where.the producing
classes are SO plainly the
victims Of it, is phenomenal
and perhaps hopeless
Daily OregOnian. Oct. 81, 1881.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
Thus orr labor suffers from Q

Thus orr labor suffers from a
system of robbery, disguised unoier
forms OF qttachery for pretended
protection Of american labor.
The stupidity that doesn't see it.
particularly Om this coast, whese
me producing classes are so plainly
me rictiMs Of 1T. is phenomenal
ana perhaps hOpeiess.--D Daily Ore
g0nidn, October FL. 1881.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

"Among the false claims Of pro-
lection It the census Of 1890 ex-
piodes Is the pretense that our
almost prohibitory tariff makes
work plenty and keeps wages
hjCh."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

0The iaborers in unprotected in
dustries In this country receive
higher wages relatively than the
operatives in protected indus
tries"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

Manufacturing industry is fast
ened as a leech:upon agricultural
industry and is gorging with the
Profits
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

Our system now tends to foster
home monopoies rather than to
protect the wages ofthe working
man.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

THE mass of the people want Justice
instead of swindIing, freedom instead of
monopOlies."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

h, the operations OF a protective tariff,
1.-The Government undertakes to make
employment for a certain few Of the peo-
pie by taxing all the rest"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26

You might as well say that II you cut
Off a dogs tail and ears the same day he
has reason to feel highly amused, enter
tanned and grateful. rs to say that tarin
ON coal, which enables the coal combina-
ton to restrict production, which reduces
the earnings Of the miner and artificially
puts up the price Of coal, thus swelling
the cost Of the workingman's fuel. was
sprOte CtiOu' to labOr.o
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-03-24
Lowell Glove Co.,
i60 wEsTMINsTER ST.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL.

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II honest endeavor % reduce our stock 10
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o fer special lot at prices that are really v"fh
yolr attention Make no mistake fricts t'e
real and goods are Just as advertised.
Read our special inducements this week
% dozen Pure silk Mittens. regular made With
handsome wrist AZ ~ cents.
We recommend this Mitten as a special bargain
no mistake.
60 dozen all-wool Cashmere Gloves embroid-
cred backs, colors aud black al 10 cents-nJ mis-
take.
These gloves were bought 70 sell for S!11c. but
turned out TO be poorer than sample, ana rather
than oler them az that price, We have decided 70
sell at the above low price, and not 10 buy again
from untrustworthy manufacturers.
We are agent for the genuine Florence Silk
Mltfens. Also agents for the Russi n Iannefl
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that have seen them. Make no mistake, but
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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-03-24
Business Mems Association.

The regular meeting OF the Olneyville
Business Mems Association was held in
the District Court room, Tuesday evening.
The committee on express facilities re-
ported that the international Express
Co.'s representative in Providence had
been out here and looked over the field
and saw the desirsbility Of establishing
an office in this village. There is little
doubt that arrangements will soon be
effected for this long needed convenience.
The International Co. desire 10 have AN
office in Irons Block and il is quite prob
able that the rear Of John O'Connelrs
store will be rented for that purpose.
The committee on railroad facilities re-.
ported that Supt. Palmer OF N. Y. * NE.
will soon select site for freight depot,
and the building will probably be erected
in the near future. II is also expected
that n passenger depot for the use of the
NY. & N. l.. and the Springfield road
will be built between the Broadway and
High street bridges. Supt. Palmer
stated that eight outgoing and six in
coming trains on the n. Y. x n. 4. and
three or four trains on the Springfield
road could stop here, thus giving Olney-
Vile with the Stonington trains already
stopping here. a train TO the city at
very frequent intervals during the day.
The committee on banquet reported
that Caterer Fred Brown had been inter-
viewed. and would provide a supper at
80. 20 cents and 81 per plate. 1t was
voted to order at the latter price. Messrs.
Boyden, Weaver and Sans Souci were
appointed committee 20 arrange fr
several fifteen minutes speeches by out
Of town speakers. The following persons
were voted into the Association: ID.
Everett Rounds, Pryce Owens, Charl-s
Leu and Fred ID. Brown. The meeting
then adjourned till next Tuesday eve
ming.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-03-24
uuGIitsDALE.

Owing 10 the appearance Of scarlet
fsver among the children the district
school has been closed for the past three
weeks The children are all now enjoy
ing good health, and il IL TO Ice hoped
that they will soon be in their accustomed
seats. there TO obtain that education
which the liberality Of the State 80
generously confers upon him.
At the close of the Sabbath school
Sunday afternoon Mr.. Damon. former
superintendent Of the school. now super
intendcnt of the Bethel Coffee House,
wickenden street, Providence, delivered
an interesting sermon, which was highly
appreciated. from Deuteronomy XXI.
Mr. Damon was for several years super.
intendent of the Sabbath school M
Hughesdale He was called from there
TO the position which he now occupies as
superintendent of the Bethel Coffee
House. Wbiie at Hughesdale he made
many warm friends and his occasional
visits 10 the Sabbath school remind him
Of the deep interest the people Of Hughes
Gale have in his welfare.