Daily Republican., 1889-11-19
AN IGNORANT AND VICIOUS CAR
TOoN
From tl,e Now York pross.

From the New York Press.
A more Utterly noraut and vicious
cartoon has never disgraced the pages OF
Q mic paper than the one published Ia
. recent issue of Puck. Ihis cartoon was
intended to tonvey the idea that the
United States could not sell commodities
to tho fouth- American countri because
o. our Protective Thrift, aud hence II was
absurd to invite the representatives Of
mos countries here to inspect our work
shops and mills and factories, and TO
examine the products of our skill, In
genuity aud Industry.
The Press 10 capable Of apprec'atIng
good hit, even II IL 10 at the expense Of
the ideas we advocate. There IL, how
ever, neither wit nor truth In represent
Ing the manufactured products OF this
country as out Of the roach of the people
OF South America because of their higher
prices. The prices CT of nearly all arti-
cles OF general consumption and OF nearly
all commodities which our South Amsri-
can neighbors require CONF are favorably
with the prices OF the same com modi les
In England. Our cotton faboics, our
cheaper grades OF woolens and w orsteds.
our machinery, our agricultural impll-
ments, our cutlery and hardware, our
leather aud rubbsr goods, our msnuiac-
lures OF wood, OF glass, of paper, OF brass
copper, tin, hemp, and indeed, almost
everything consumed by these popula.
tions can be furnished, quality and style
and excellence OF workmanship ard
design considered, to as good advantage
here as in England.
IL this were not true why do the latest
statistics OF exports into Canada show
N thn .ir.t- II ~ n
last year eighty-one per cent. OF its brass
goods of the United States and ONLY
nineteen per cent. OF Great Britain;
eiehty-six per cent OF its manufactures
OF copper of US aud fourteen OF England;
nineteen per cent of Its cordage, eighty
eight per cent. OF its ginghaus. sixty
hye per cent. OF Its manufactures Of
glass, ninety-nlne per cent. Of its rubber
goods OF this tariff ridden country and
only one per cent. of free trade England;
ninety-four per cent. Of its printing ink,
hfty-four per cent. OF its carpets, ninety.
two Per cent. of its manufactures of
wood, hfty-two per cent. of Its twines,
ninety-one per cent. Of our taxed tnware
and only nine per cent OF the free"
tinware OF the United Kingdom; ninety
per cent. Of our wall paper, seyenty-tyo
per cent. OF our manufactures OF paper,
hity-two per cent. OF our olcloti.?
il we are incapable of furnishing these |
South American countries with articles |
as cheap and as good in quality as those |
furnished by Great Britain, why DO the |
Canadians import seventy per cent of |
leather goods and niuety PSF cent. of |
their boots and shoes from here and
only thirty per cent. and ten per cent. |
respectively from dear Free Trade Great |
Hrff.in1 Ia
pre- iers to walk around In taxed" shoes, |
or Is 1t because he can purchase as good
and as cheap IN article here as he can 10 |
England2
The tariff, DO It remembered, Is pre-
eisely the slime. The freight, especially |
ON heavy goods, should be cheaper from |
England by water than from our great |
Eastern centres oil Industrial energy BY |
rail. The British vessels go forth laden |
with tine raw material AID food products |
OF the Dominion and gladly take return
freight at almost nominal rate.
And II American haryesters and Grain |
drills and moving machines and locomo-
tives and plows and engines and miscel-
laneous machinery are out of the reach |
OF South American countries, as repre- |
scented In Puck, why, pray, doss Canada |
buy none OF the first four OF these articles |
of Ens land, aud why, oh! why, do. she |
purchase ninety per cent. of her |
plows OF US and only TWO per cent. of |
England, ninety-seven per cent OF her
engines of us aud only three per cent. OF
England aud ninety per cent. OF her mis-
celaneous machinery Of us and only ten
per cent. OF England These are some
of the questions which Free Traders will
have to lace when they try to helitt,e and |
mifrepresent and falsiiy the productive |
powers OF this great country. II the un- |
patriotic cartoon In Puck had one atom |
OF truth for foundation, would the fol- |
lowing table represent the proportion OF |
cutlery and hardware purchased by Can. |
ada OF the United States and the United |
Kingdom in 1851
Exnor,. c.n,,. 1890 From Prom