Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-03-27

ID I'LL kUS 000o Gme, WnlI0 EufO-
- Jtioo eto On the up grade. The
nerjcan Manufacturer OF Pittsburg,
1uoeod b Nr. Weeks. who IL an expert
nnno0tnkoe upon The Iron trade andits
11neioe, oalle attention TO this remark.
- discrepancy between the conditions
+ enna outside our country, and bases
- & IN opinion that the current hero
VA shanee tomsee the general movement
g. ~ outside world and this may be
ID Y must b noted that the putting
t q tariff wall around the coun.
~ b the cause for the fact that
80 DO not feel the worlds current.
80 tariff has tho effect Of combining
<noply end demand 70 our own limits.
70 pCoduce iron manufactures at much
oW1r prices than they can be imported,
SonA our manufacturers have the home
& lnneket TO themselves. But the produc-
4 -, q present, b In excess Of the demand
~ ~ market; and the tariff imposts upon
CAe1r materials tend to prevent makers
Akom manufacturing cheaply enough
~ The market outside of the country.
They do mot, therefore, participate In the
upward outside movement nor IL that In.
Nosrlsred with BY their competition.
BY some persons this condition may be
oited % On argument against protec-
E1ivo tNi6. They will say that 1t does
& Sot sppear to protect. But It has been
4 pgutsctive In the past and has cultivated
I the excessive manufacturing capacity
which we have developed. 1t is evident
now that this capacity needs larger
l market /; and that 1t must have lower
cost. 1t needs certainly TO be freed from
\ ~ duty on raw materials, and.can afford
~ give up in return portion Of the pro-
4 eective duty upon its product.
Pig iron is now claimed to be made
IN Alabama at q cost as low as that in
England and the Northern producer
( 1nds that there 4 no tariff duty to pro-
tsct him from this competition; and
thsre never will be one. We hear that
q Southern No. foundry iron is being sold
at our seaports at less than fifteen dollars
\ ton; and at this price few Of our own
< furnaces can put 1t there. They will
% out OF blast In large numbers IL they
ars not able to secure lower cost. The
furnaces in the Lehigh region Of this
neate seems to be particularly In distress !;
bat there 10 hardly furnace In Eastern
Rsunsylvania, outside those connected
With tho Cornwall deposit, that does not
need TO seek lower cost Of production
/. 70 meet the competition OF the food Of
Southern iron that is poured upon our
eeaports by the vessels that deliver the
Southern iron all along the coast from
Maryland TO Maine; and whose rates
aEs now being met by the all rail routes
that bring the iron to the very stacks Of
4 the Pennsylvania furnaces.
Ar. Hewitt, who Is q great iron pro-
ducer In New Jersey, has been
stating the results Of his observations OF
~ iron business in Alabama and he
nnds. that which il the observation Of
every intelligent person who has given
Aesentson to the matter, that its great
e growth and present commanding position
b y due to the favorable freight rates
/ granted by the railroads.
The railroads, a. well "a the towns and
furnaces OF Georgia and Alabama, have
been built upon their iron and coal de-
1 posts, which laid 30 long idle In the
ground, and now have been viyifled by
& tho mines anG furnaces that produce
pig Iron and the railroads that carry
The product. Necessarily the railroads
glve the iron producers rates that stimu-
late the largest production and the great
ese amount Of freight they carry to them
their ore and coal and take from them
PIG iron; which they must carry
9 the distant market at q price
3 will enable 1t to be sold
& there. 1t may be that they must carry
. les than cost; and 1t may be that the
nanufacturers must manufacture at less
than cost but the absolute necessity
upon them Il to sell their product, and to
10 It they must undersell the makers
eaoss TO the market. II they can do this
and get out cost all around for railroad
segvice as well a. manufacturing, they
can live; and ut the same time be draw.
ing population to them by their success
md thus be bringing their market closer
70 them.
The Pennsylvania furnaces, whose
& market they invade and seek to take
away, cannot rave II unless the railroads
that brings to them their fuel and ore and
taks 70 market ther product, carry for
mem ct rates that will effect the object.
Ihat they are not 30 ready to do this As
= are the Southern roads is natural, because
the furnace freights are not their only
dependence. They can live perhaps
without them. The stacks in the
Lshigh, Schuylkil and Susquehanpa
Valleys may all be quiet, and still the
Fsnnsylvania, tie Reading and the
Lsaigh railroads willha freight to carry
4 ~ and from the dense population thew
serve in the state and in the great West
which uses their carriage to the oc AN. i.
2he sacri6cs that they will make TO
0ve 1t, Just depends upon how
vital they consider the iron manu-.
4noeurtng business of Pennsylvania
- their interests. 1t is Carrying rates
nsone that will settle the question of iron
nonufacturing In Pennsylvania. II the
81 1n4ustry Is permitted to have the natural
yeueection that accrues to 1t from lis prox
NY 70 market, aud Is giyea as low rates
81 carriage Tor its materials and product
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