Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-21

advantage, to hin at least, of protection.
[ knew him as one reared amid 'protec-
ton doctrines, and, more, l knew him
to be largely interested in a manufacture
which, through associations and combi-
nations of the manufacturers, for the
purpose of killing of or buying up young
competition and breaking up the machin-
cry, to limit the product and maintain
prices, was substantially an extorting
monopoly, backed by the United States 4
government with its high tariff.
$50 long as my companion could thus
compel the people to pay nearly double
the necessary price for the product of
his mill, l knew there was no use in talk
ing to him of the pecuniarilv injurious
effects of the tariff system upon the gen-
eral welfare. But l knew my companionD
as a righteous man, in a general wayl
and as a Christian. l knew that he was
interested in the good causes of his
church, and that he gave literally to1
ward sending missionaries and Bibles I'd
the heather; although possibly he had
never comprehended the idea that the in
PRODUCTION and use of American manu-
features among the heather would be
great help in the work of the American
Board, nor had he much considered th(
fact that honest m is the grea
pathfinder in the march of Christian civ
ilization.
81 therefore attacked his protection
rampant by calling his attention to thu
unrighteousness, the tyranny and ute
unchristian selfishness and short-sighted
ness of protective tariffs, in robbing tn
many for the enrichment of the YER
few; of the holding out of false hopes t
the t%oilers, only to prey upon them an
cruelty disappoint them; of the heathe
|. Chinese narrowness of the policy of pro
lection that builds a commercial Chimes
? wall around us, under the absurd an
cowardly plea that it is necessary to pro
: tect our intelligence, skill, vigor an
= ambitious enterprise from the assaults
: the highly protected, but ill-paid, inef
= cient, and unambitious 'pauper labor
as it is called, of continental Eurape.
= talked to him of the broader, wiser, moi
r Christian and more profitable Statesman
/ ship of free-trade England, whose me
f chandise, made by free-trade labor
e day wages very much higher than til
|, high-tariff day wages paid on the cont
: nent of Europe, is landed in every harbd
e on the face of the globe, and who we
"a oop,o- DC on ipnaptiyo on1 DC n h1aee;,
any honest competition in any depar
ment of her manufactures and commerc
l | tried to show him that the most cor
it plete and permanent financial success f
e the individual or for the nation lay wit
e in the lines of justice to all, in doing
n others as you would that they should
n unto you
THE train arrived at the home of n
II companion, and he left me. | had n
intended to appear as a travelling preac
i: err of the gospel, but an elderly lad
It who sat alone in the next seat forwa
d turned toward me, and beaming h
goodly, religious countenance upon n
= asked, in gentle but earnest tones, sWh
e persuasion do you belong to?' l W
$ momentarily embarrassed, but | prom
g ly recovered and replied, To the Har
e ware persuasion.
d "Now, whatever of bias and preiudi
It | may exhibit in what | shall say I'll
l. evening, please ascribe it to the fact til
e l belong to the Hardware persuasion, a
II manufacture somewhat for export
Y well as for home consumption, and
e pecially the classes of shelf hardwa
IS similar to those made in and near 3
mingham and Northampton, and
Prussia, under the experience of cent
f. ries in those places. | have been of Ia
particularly busy in building and in q
y larging our manufacturing facilities, b
lieving, as do, that the people of tl
y country will not always stand protect
n or revenue tariffs even, whether on
J. ported raw materials or on finished good
l believe that this country, especially t
n manufacturing belt of it, is to becor
n the giant manufacturing country of t
e world for export, and therefore l do
p hesitate to build for the future of mar
featuring. This generation may contin
h to suffer from congressional stupid
and protected greed, but the next will
wiser.
"'Those that cling to and are the ma
n stays of the system are: First, the ow
d ers of mines, who get a royalty on b
e product taken out. These property ow
ers are not obliged to be at the expeu
T. of a mining or manufacturing plant,
at a loss in consequence of wear of n
d chinery by use or waste by idlene
They are the nobility of the land, and
IS ceive their royalties for the right to
9 iron and other mineral ores and Goa
e oftentimes more than its price in forei
n lands mined and delivered at the vesse
side. They have their associations a
e combinations, by which to limit the p