Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-21
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many years have had the Ingot Copper
association and syndicate, happily now
apparent corpses, but probably to be res
directed as 500 as a good demand for
copper appears. We also have the West
ern Iron Rolling Mill association and the
Eastern Iron Rolling Mill association and
the American Iron and Steel association,
all banded together for the same purpose
to regulate Congress, limit supply and
keep up prices. The Western association
controls the country west of the ALLIE
ghany mountains. The American Iron
and Steel association spreads its benevol-
ence all oyer the United States.
"All these associations decide upon the
amount of output and the amount of IL
legitimate gains within the limit of the
protective tariff they shall rob the peo-
pie of, through manufacturers, railroads
md merchants as their collectors. Wheth-
pr making profits of twenty-five per
BENT or one hundred per cent, they are
Equally clamarous for more protection
nd more profit. These protected Mono
Polies interfere with the proper current
f business, and especially in periods of
General prosperity they, by their illegiti-
nate profits, rob the people of the whole
ountry. Iron ore is protected now
bout so per cent; pig-iron fully sixty
err cent; pig-lead more than one hun
red per cent; copper in ingots, plates,
r other crude forms, not manufactured,
bfty per cent; wrought iron, in all the
rhich it is rolled, fifty per cent or more
EEL, forty to one hundred per cent :;
emp, $40 per ton.
"a large number of manufacturers
Ave investigated this tariff business.
hey manufacture goods in which there
much home competition for this one
arket. Their raw materials, their sun
y supplies, and the clothing of their
nployees are made so dear by tariff tax
ion that it is difficult or impossible to
|mpete with free-trade England, unless
ages are reduced to very much less
an the wages of England. What do
ese constant reductions of wages, stop
ges and lock-outs point to? They
int to making up, by low wages, the ex-
4 cost of raw materials and supplies
used by tariff taxation. We must ex-
TT goods by some means, or our fac
ry workers must 60 to farm labor.
1.-THE monopolistic producers of mate
Is to whom | have referred will threat
us manufacturers who want free trade
ngress free-trade raw materials, they
Il see to it that we get no tariff protec-
n on our manufactured floods. We
Div to them as the British manufacture
did to the monopolistic opponents OF
e trade in England: Give us free
de in what you furnish, and we don't
e for tariff protection on our manu-
tured goods, and the people may have
benefit of the lower prices.
During the struggle between the tariff
n and free-traders of England, from
0 to 1870, every vestige of tariff pro
ton was swept away. By 1898 the
of a good living for the workingmel
England was only one-half the cost OF
cor, scant subsistence prior to 1910
ring that period of reduction in the
t of living, wages advanced almos'
city as the cost of living decreased
to-day wages in England are nearly
BILE what they were before the begin
g of the great political battle of free
lie against monopoly. In that tigh
English factory workmen stood by
manufacturers, led by such nobl'
iers as Richard Golden, Daniel OCon
and John Bright. Since the sub
ltial adoption of free trade in England
lufacturing in England has increased
fold. The factory workmen will sOol
ID on the side of free trade in the com
struggle to improve their condition
mis- country"