The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-11-29

ms result was due tc the benefit derived
from an opportunity to buy in the markets
OF the world. When the peonle of this
country, with their inexhaustible resour-
ces, nave any opportunity to buy raw ma
Ierial at the lowest price, then only NAV
England tremble for her commercial sn-
premacy.
As TO GEORGIA MANUFACTURES,
there can be no doubt that the tariff
cnecks Their growth. The policy of protec-
uon mas forced manufacturing interests in
1nls country to locations where they do not
properly belong. When the natural laws
are aiIowed to control the location of cot
Ton mills, you will find them situated near
70 TIE nelds where the cotton grows. With
: ou' stopping to argue this question at
Aeng1n, Will read to you letter written
August 9Th, 1883, by Mr.. w. H. Young, the
largest and most experienced manufacturer
of our state:
Il am really an out and out free-trader
WIN conviction that our people by and
py Will accept it, though not ready for it
yet' as there is latent feeling that protec-
eion is policy we must in measure adj
mere TO- SO favor the Mills bill because
IL VIII tend to educate the people in the fu-
lure AS regards the Mills BILL so far as
nave read it and understood it, it favors the
entry OF raw material free and reduces in
small degree northern manufacturers
ptonIs; say northern manufacturers
propts, but 1T is only prospective even
tnere. AT present, and / may say for
ali tlme TO come, the south can produce all
standard goods they are making at less
cost than New England or old England
can, and If the tariff on all material enter
ing into the cost of manufacturing in this
country was removed, the north could
drive out In all foreign countries the same
productions that they make and sell there,
and the south could drive the north as we'll
as England out, so far as this country could
produce the required goods, especially all
goods that require heavy weight of cotton
and wool. The writer has visited
Europe three times, each time spending
his time among manufacturers in England
and on the continent, and has compared
wages for all the different classes of man
utacturing work, and there was literally no
average difference, and my observation led
me to conclude our labor was less cost to
the manufacturer, as our laborers were more
active and produced more in the same time
than the slow methodical laborer in Eng
land, and 1 have found that L could
sell goods and make money, if
l adopted their style.
1t is my opinion il wool is made
free in this country, it would not reduce
the price of wool grown in this country.
OF course it would reduce the price of for
eign woods to those that can use it, say for
carpets, etc. This company has bought
some foreign wool at seemingly low prices,
but we found it not suited to our wants and
have ceased to buy it, and could only use
it by mixing it with our own native wool. :.
sum it all up by saying that the Mills
bill, only so far as reducing duties on ma
chinery, and all things, dyes, ETC., ETC., that
go to swell up the cost of producing goods
to US, helps the southern manufacturing
interests; but in fact, so far as the south is
concerned. they can now without any Mills
bill, or other BILL make all such goods as
we are making, and whip out the north
and England. The Mills bill, so far as it
reduces the cost of raw material, of course
helps the southern manufacturers, and will
make goods cheaper to the consumers and
yet retain fair return to the manufactu-
rers."
1t is difficult for me to supplement- by
argument the powerful way in which this
distinguished Georgian presents our side
from the standpoint of manufac-
turing interests can, how
ever, urge that the natural tendency of the
money drawn from Georgia by reason of
the tariff to-day, if left here, would be
towards the development of our manufac-
turing interests. We lose S24, 600 each
year as tax and tribute by reason of the
present tariff. How long would it take
such sums to build Georgia into
manufacturing as well agricultural
state? 1t is more each year than our entire
value of property invested to-day in indus
tries nominally protected.
1 beg your attention to the population of
Georgia, to the capital invested, and to the
product from the investments in agricul-
ture and nominally protected industries.
POPULATION, INVESTMENT, PRODUCT
The entire population of Georgia occu-
pied in industries largely agricultural, and
other than protected industries, was, in
$780, by the census reports, in round num-
beers, 100000. OF these not more than
$4,000 were engaged in industries which
the tariff would seem to protect The capi-
tai invested in agriculture in Georgia was
S13S, ,137, while the agricultural pro-
duct was $54, 37S,214. The capital invested
in the protected industries was $4,000, OO0
L
have already shown you that the indus
tries Sin Georgia which might be classed
protected industries, are really not bene-
fitted by the tariff with the ex-
option, possibly, of the iron product
of the state, which is trifing. You there
fore must see that twenty times as many
people in Georgia are engaged in enter
prises not benefited by the tariff as there
are in enterprises possibly benefited.
Nearly ten times as much money is invested
In agriculture as is invested in such posi-
bly, protected industries-while the annual
product from the agricultural pursuits of
the state is ten times as much as that from
the possibly protected enterprises. How
long would it take for Georgia to change
from being state which pays tribute on
account Of consumption, to one which
receives tribute on account of her
manufacturing pursuits? The time
could not come until the amount
produced by our manufactures was so far
in excess Of the amount produced
by our farmers that the balance,
by reason of the protective tariff,