Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-21
BLOWS OF A GIANT.
Lcnntinuca rron First Pagc.

nose this heavy tax 10 get revenue, and
Inc is told that for wears past there mas
been an Overlooking treasury; that the
ouestion has been, uOt how To- increase
but how To- lessen that revenue. wv ny
then ne demands. do you put TINS
heavy tax on the products for when
have exchanged my wheat? because
he is answered. the Government mas
undertaken To protect certain gentle
men who desire 10 20 into the manutac-
ture of tiu-plate at PittSburg. And rs
thcythink tney cannot carry on the buSl-
ness proftably nj less than five cents per
mound for their product. the government
undertakes 20 run mp the price OF all
competing tiu-platc 10 that figure.
But saws the angry farmer, the gov
eminent does nothing aud can do moth
ing 20 raise up the price OF my wheat
for me. / must take that 10 foreign
markets ar my own cost. What right
has the government TO make a dliier-
eucc between me aud the man az Pitts
burgh? On what ground does be claim
20 have these heavy taxes laid ca pro-
ducts for which have exchanged my
wheat9' The answer comes that il he
is thus protected he will establish a
new manufacture and give employment
to American laborcrS. But rctort>
the farmer, do not / give employment
To American laborcrS. and with profit
able market for my wheat will l not
give increasing employment 10 them?
AT THE EXPENSE OF TIE PRODUCER.
DO We not see. then. fellow-citiZens.
that the So-callcd protection of the tim
plate manufacturers is not against the
tin-Dlate makers of Wales, but against
and al the expense OF the wh&p pro-
Queer of the Shenandoah Valley. II
YOU keep out :hc products for which he
can exchange his wheat or check their
importation by heavy duties, you are
robbing him of his market or making II
less profitable To- him. have described
what is really the course of trade of my
farmer neighbor. IL is true the farmer
does not send abroad his own wheat
and return with the exchange cargo.
but commits many steps in the trans
action 90 others, but the final
aud net return to Tie fraction
of a cent is the same to him,
dcductiug the profits of these middle
men. II makes no difference whether
hc exchange his grain for tin-plate, or
for crockery, or wool. or steel rails, or
wooden, cotton or silk goods. But it is
not alone TO save the expense of an
empty ship on the return voyage
that the farmer must exchange
his wheat for tin-plate or wooden
goods There is another and more gen
cral law of almost universal application,
and that is that i'm the long run the
exports and imports OF country equal
each other. When you encourage the
one YOU encourage the other; when You
forbid the one YOU forbid the other.
When You shut out S2O,OOO.OOO worth of
foreign Tin YOU shut in ON an already
crowded and distressed home market
$50. 900. 900 worth OF our supply pro-
duets. But there is another man IN this
wooden or tin-platc transaction who has
been entirely forgotten, and that is the
consumer of wooden or tln-plate goods.
"Whcn You increase the price OF tim
plate from three 90 five cents pound
You are increasing To- that extent the
cost 70 the home purchasers II he buys
a hundred pounds il is two dollars, or
two DAYS of labor out of his life, i'm or
der that PittSburg manufacturer may
carry on prohtably an Improbable BUSH
ness. If he buys thousand pounds ii
is twenty days Of labor taken ont Of his
life, by law, for the benefit of the manu-
facturcr Thi, is a question in which
the people of Maryland have vital
interest Your bay, your rivers, your
gardens. your orchards, your farms.
produce in abundance, the oysters, the
fish. the fruits, the vegetables, that can
easily find a paying and expanding
market if the heavy hand of the tax
gathcrcr is kept oil of them. But with
two cents pound added to the first
cost Of the material in which you pack
them YOU are put at such disadvant-
age. both I'm the home and foreign mar
kctS. that one of the most promising
sources of prosperity of your entire
State is threatened wish extinction.
4 FORGOTTEN MAN.
But. Mr.. Chairman. | am not speak
iug at random when say the consumer
is forgotten man. ! am using the
very language OF the report with which
the Mckinley bin was presented 90 the
House. But seven years ago the tariff
commission, composed entirely OF rep
rcScutatiyes of the protected interests,
declared that a reduction of 90 or -
per cent. was not only matter of JUS
tf.. ~ tho Consumer lint AVould faNOra-