Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-09-05
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New York Evening Post
TIE petition which has been circulating
some weeks among Nav EGsland iron
manufacturers asking for repeal of the
duties on iron Ore, coal and coke. and
reduction Of the duty on pig iron to u
per cent I'D yalorem, has not engaged the
attention of the Boston Home Market
Club TO the extent ihst might have been
expected. Nor have we seen any aiiusion
to it in the columns OF any OF the splcial
organs Of protection. Neither the Tariff
League Baiittie, nor tho Manufacturer,
nor the ron World has had whisper
about it. Seeing how closely the move.
ment comes home 10 them, one would
have supposed that they would have ere
this examined it with the greatest care
and subjected it TO the most refined
analysis. sueh treatment was due to it
on grounds of friendship II on no other,
because these New England iron manu-
faeturers are mostly Republicans and
proteotiouists. They are headed by the
governor of the state, himself an iron
| manufacturer on large scale. They
| might fairly have asked for more respect
| full treatment at the hands of their
| political friends. As they have not re-
ceived it, we shall 'land a hand,n and
mike it our business from time to time to
enable them to gain the public ear.
What answer is to be made to an
American manufacturer who says, II
cannot go on this way any longer.
mutt have free raw materials or perish.
have been crowding down the wages of
my hands in order to keep my works
going until l can 90 SO no longer. I
have been systematically engaged in the
degradation OF American lahor'-these
are the exact words of the petition. Tho
time has come when must have cheaper
coal and iron or go out of the business''-
what answer, we repeat, is to be made to
such man /? Will you say, "Let him
perish; let his hands migrate; lot his
| works stop; let the population of New
England fall away and the value OF her
real estate decline 2" That is very easy
answer for Pennsylvania manufacturer
TO make. II the New Englander is willils.
to accept SUCH an answer be desenksop, !.
perish. The gods help those Wy.
themselves. In the long ru M"ye ri, y
no others. The man who a[mano ne,p
to trample on him viz =. Iney he,p
on to the end anseb, ',loWs o1asss
The New Englandsiore, j. " t asaIi.es
are quite abls.A. G, y las onsp.e.
1t is only slie AZ iron manniaotafssi
say, throughyuhe; TO noip themselves
sentativeyaH 4. necessary for them tt
asid in Kiss n their senators and rep;e
!; thSs Jog in Congress, whit they hay ,9
yxena their petition to securo all thu
XMSay have asked for, namely, oomplet
q Removal Of the duties on coal and iron or
| , s,A& &a- MI
: | "a per cent e., to about 43 per ton
= instead OF Sc ", the present rate.
o Senators Hoar and Dawes will each max
!. one speech from this text, ard il Senate
!. Blair will make one even rs brief as b
q interview in the Boston Herald the otht
ia iay, those needless and crushing taxes wi
" come oif-not instsnteneously, perhap
Is but before the end Of the 5lst C1ngres
u There vii. be sqlirming and sq1ealing
is Pennsylvania, Maryland and tue .tH
n. yirginias, perh9 ps in o few other place
=, but tie custom house levies on raw Co
20 and iron will come 10 an end, and Ne
es England will orce more be free to bu
III the coal aud ores OF Canada in exchan!
a for her own proiucts.
IL, OF course the movement for free 70
"a materials will not stop vita coal and or
SO l ne IlUfEu1oIL lOt llpOA NiN'Ap "AA- -
=. end with reduction Of the daty on p
hs iron to "a per cent. The taritf fanetl
d, and the trainers o. the Chicago platter
in are quite right IN saying thst titie viii
to the entering w9lge fnGt will before ~
~ ceayo the whole system in twain. i
IN what is Now England 10 de- Is she
a offer hefsalt as brrnt Offering to
irt theory that may after an 10 erroneoV
ed Is sic ia capt certain iaGth in order
an sustain doc rims which may possibly
ss, false, and which is nod - ba 50 hy ma
he OF har wiseat men, by n!ost Of her coi!f
{ professors, aid hg near one hrit o.
ted voters? Is it net ;ho .zafsssei obient
ug, | the tariff TO easble mon 70 make ligii
zen and TO prevent The degradation Of AM
i'd. can lnbo,trs2 Has the tarid shy reiigit
till aim which entities it to tbs sacrifice
,2h ones life and heath? Il It not 7
nee fessedly and whollya question o. MON
lers II it feiis to yield money, II 1t prcmt
an the degradation CT labor, IL il closeH
dea workshops, and causes our people to
any grata, is il spything like The Rock
aso Ag IS that We should cling To it for
. 10 soaal goodf