Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-22
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1855.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT
GROVER CLEvELAND,o of New Y YOrk.
FOR NONRESIDENT
ALLEN G. THURMAN. of Ohio.
To enforce trtagalty in public eapendi-
lures and abolish unnecessary taxation.
FOR CONGRESS. SIXTH DISTRICT
REEL B. TERRY, OF Fresno.
English Views on the Tariff

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If there be common-sense meaning to
the claim of the Republican press that
public opinion in Great Britain favors
the election of Cleveland and Thurman
because of the tariff policy of the Demo
cratic party, it is that reduction of the
import tax on foreign goods will open
the United States as market
to British manufacturers. But this claim
falls to the ground when it is considered
with reference to the exact facts of the
Mills bill. The raw material for the
manufacture of such goods as the English
have to sell is admitted free, or nearly
SO, under the provisions OF that
measure. The present tax upon
that raw material is from AZ
per cent. upwards. 1t is needless to say
that American manufactures, handi-
capped by tax on raw material to that
extent, cannot compete in the markets OF
the world with English goods made from
raw material free from tax. But the
Mills bill, while it empancipates Ameri-
can manufactures from the oppressive tax
on raw material, lowers the tariff rate
on imported goods made out of this
liberated raw material, and it is there
fore claimed that this will open the door
to British articles. We do not gee how
this position can be logically maintained.
If the American manufacturer is relieved
of the enormous tax he now pays upon
raw material, $3.50, ZOO, 900 in 1884, &C.
cording to Secretary Manning's re-
port,) he can certainly produce
his goods cheaper to the extent of
the abolished tax. The English
manufacturer would therefore be no
nearer capturing our market then than
now. The reduced tariff on made-up
goods would avail him nothing when he
would meet the American manufacturer
with a reduction corresponding to
the reduction of the tariff on
the made-up goods. Indeed the
need of protection afforded the Ameri-
can manufacturer by the reduced
tariff on foreign goods, and his ability to
produce his goods great deal cheap
er, would place him not only beyond the
reach in our home market of the foreign
manufacturer, but would enable him
to become a competitor with the
English manufacturer in the neutral
foreign markets which the latter now al
most wholly monopolizes. Here is where
sensible Englishmen see that the success
of the Democratic policy is not only
counter to their interests, but an element
of extreme danger to them. According
to the last census report, Great
Britain sold $51, 100000 worth of
goods to MEXICO, Central America
and the South American States in 1880,
against less than $4,000, 900 of the same
lines of manufactures sold by the United
States. These are markets that are
naturally and geographically ours, and
which would be ours under a sensible
and statesmanlike tariff policy. With
the raw material for these manufactures
free, there would be nothing to prevent
us from more than dividing this immense
trade with Great Britain. If the cost
of labor is higher here than
in Great Britain so is the production of
that labor greater in proportion to the
cost than it is in England. The testi-
mony adduced before the U. S. Senate
Committee in 1888, and that of all the
reports of the Labor Commissioners of
the manufacturing States, is to the
effect that American operatives are
one-third more effectual in re-
suits than English operatives. This
would place our manufacturers easily on
. par with British manufacturers as far
Is the cost Of labor is concerned, and
with the release of the raw material
from the import tax they would have
An equal field in the markets of the
world with the English manufacturers.
Is it to be presumed that thus placed
ON an equality, the sagacity, en-
terprise and energy Of the American
merchant would not find means to sue
cessfully compete in foreign countries
with British merchants in disposing