The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24


President Foster, Of the Republican
league, in his famous fat frying cir
cular. If "the manufacturers of
Pennsylvania" wrote this Senator,
"who are more highly protected than
anybody else, and who make large
fortunes every year when the times
are good" think they are ito reap
the fruits of the tariff policy without
any deduction for political expenses,
they are very greatly mistaken"
The deductions" were made, the
election was bought, and Quayiem is
on top.--N. Y. World,
Free Raw Materials and Pro.
lection.
II the sincere friends of the pro
tective policy are wise they will no
longer resist the admission of all
raw materials, not chiefly the pro-
duct of labor at home, which would
enlarge our industries, cheaper nee
essafies to consumers. increase the
demand for and wages of labor, sup
ply our home markets with home
materials and open new markets
abroad for our products Free raw
materials are now a supreme neces-
sity to many of our manufacturing
industries and they are absolutely
essential as an integral part of a
judicious and permanent protective
policy.
If the friends OF protection doubt
this admonition, let them dispas-
sionately note the emphatic utter
ances of leading pfotectionists in
various sections of the country. Sen
ator Blair, of New Hampshire, has
lately publicly declared his purpose
to demand free coal, free iron ore
and other free raw materials for the
New England factories. Governor
Ames, of Massachusetts, has Just
signed petition to Congress de-
handing free coal and iron ore and
the reduction of duty on pig and
scrap iron and steel, and Wade's
Fibre and Fabric, a leading organ
of the woollen interests, now speaks
with emphasis in favor of free wool.
1t points to the closing of iron and
woollen establishments as conclusive
object lessons in favor of raw ma
terial to protect and enlarge our
American industries, to give increas-
ed demand for labor and reduce the
present oppressive cost of necessa-
ries of life. In point of fact every
American manufacturer is more or
less crippled by oppressive taxes on
raw materials, and the high tax on
wool, that protects no labor at home,
simply protects the mills and labor
of Europe by denying our manufac-
turers the free raw materials given
in every other protective country of
the world.
Free raw materials have become
an essential element of protection to
American labor, and if we would
maintain the true protective policy
of protecting the wages of American
workingmen, we must enlarge our
free list to embrace wool, hemp, coal
with Canada, with greatly cheapened
chemicals ard dycstuhs, and with
salt and lumber added to the free
list to overthrow monopoly combines
and aid labor by cheapened necessa-
ries of life. Iron ore is chiefly labor,
and whether it should be free is
simply question whether our gen
eral industries would be benefited or
crippled thereby; but all doubts
should be received in favor of free
raw materials for our important in
dustries. The necessity has become
so great for an advance in free raw
for the maintenance of
protection to American labor, that
no party can stand against it. The
cry of free trade has lost its effect.
and intelligent men of all parties
now understand that free raw ma
terials with protection on our pro-
ducts to the full extent of the differ
ence in wages of labor here and |
abroad, is now the only true stand
ard of protection to American work
ingmen. Any other basis of tariff
taxes must be either for the destruc-
ton of our industries or far the spe-
cial protection of monopoly trusts,
which cheaper wages and increase
the cost of the necessaries of life.
Let all be honest in the advocacy of
protection and the protection of la
Dor will be invincible; but if protec-
ton shall be prostituted to greed
and oppression, it must prove its
own most dangerous foe.-Philadel-
phin Times