The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-29

that OF leather for boots shoes ETC., etc. In 1872
hides and skins made free that our
manufacturers could import thein witnout Gus,
tom house burdens. They have had free trade'
in their raw material now for sixteen years.
The industry has been an exceptionally success
full one, and you can not avoid being surprised
when j say to you that in these sixteen years we
have been able 10 export but per cent OF the
IL att or production of the country.
But IL free raw material be necessary to Sc
cure an expor. trade and the foreign markets.,
then / answer thai manufacturers Today
have substantial free trade in foreign raw ma
tcrials which they make into the finished pro-
duct in the United States provided they export
it. Sections 3,0l9, 1920 302l, and 3,O2 cf the
United States statut. provide for the remission
OF duties on oil foreign materials used in manu-
FEATURING for the export trade. Tie law Ia posi-
tive that al articles man featured for export
from imported materials. upon which duties
have been paid, shall, when exported be enti-
tied TO n d awbaok OF 30 per cent of tbs duties
paid on such raw materials. Some use has been
made of these laws. Tie emission OF duties
in lisa paid upon imported material manuflct-
ursd for foreign markets amounted to S2.2j5,-
65 On some articles the drawback Is equal TO
the duty paid, but in 10 instance where arti-
cles are imported to be manufactured
hero ard sent abroad is the duty to ex-
coed 10 per cent. And yet We are gTavely told
by the tariff reformors that va cennct reach
foreign markets on account of the high tariff on
the material, when, in feet, for foreign
trade fore ign raw materials ere practically foe.
This principe was sc0gnii Ell as early az the
am mi Btrstion OF George Washington, AMI has
been enii ryed and made applcabis To all i'm
port ID IN toericls, the draWDuckS varying from
% u ~ or cent. VIII mt becomes, tncn, OF the
cry free materi Is in tue presence q this
fact? Tho truth Is. are not 30 much con-
Germ q eDoct the foreign market rs we sire about
the home market The latter is The best, and
we have noo yet been able 10 contr~' ., AMI
until we 10, tina. should be our chief coLccrn;
but IL any Ct our people are signing for a for
eign market, and Walt IL more nj zhly than our
own. they can import :orei IN raw material prac-
tically free OF du,y. and after advancing into
the highec forms Of manufacture can 90 out
+, and possess the world markets Taxed raw
mattel lis do not stand in their way, aud 10 8
hypociisy to claim otherwise. Tho markets OF
! the world" in our present condition snare
and "A dslusion We wili reach them whenever
we can undersen competing nations, and no
sooner. Tariffs do not keep out, and FREQ
trade will not make IL aser to enter thom. Let
give you brief exh lit Of some IF our foreign
trade, what we buy ard la. we sell In the
| year ending June 80. 1857, we bought OF Mexico,
/ the Central American States, British Honduras,
and the governments OF the Wost Indies and
South America, products 20 the value Of sl72-
46a, as aud sold these governments OF our prod
ucts about 33t5 PER cen6. in amonnt Ct whit we
Bought of them, or about $50, 00J,O 900; and n
showing that our protective tariff did not pro-
| duce this uncomfortable balance against US, |
| need only state that more than one half OF the
products we bought not subject 20 any
tariff tax at all, but were admitted free OF duty.
THE Mayor of Chicago boasts o. fifty
seven pairs of trousers.