New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-24
Tariff PHILOSOPHY.

at will kill the Republican party" said a
we'll dressed and kid-gloved citizen on ferry
boat Yesterday speaking of the Iarlii Dill
which the House had just passed His neigh
Dor was a hard-fsted farmer who SENDS
deal of products to the New York market, and
no answered "Well, bill which helps all
the farmers. and lot of the workers IN the
largest branches of manufacture, and supplies
inducement besides for the employment OF
many thousand who can find no work now,
! does not seem to me likely to kill any party
unless the one opposing it," The well-dresSed
citizen no doubt felt pity for the man who
thought il would really help him to put duty
ON Bermuda potatoes, Spanish onions and eggs
from Holland. but despaired OF convincing
him. Still the farmer had practical knowl-
edge the other man had read the books OF
British economists
This measure is pronounced scheme 10
enrich favored interests One of the in
terests which large share of tho changes OF
duty is designed to favor embraces about nail
the inhabitants of the country, and the farm
ers really need to be favored by reasonable
defence against foreign competition at leaS'
as much as any other body of men. announcer
interest is the great woonen manufacture
which supplies living for several hundred
thousand workers when we'll occupied but al
nrcsept has many of its mills closed because OF
FOREIGN competition Another is the manu-
facturc of IRON which embraces still larger
number of workers. and has demonstrated its
ability to supply the Nation with as cheap
rails. nails tools and machinery as can DC hau
anywhere else but in some or It's branches
meets damaging competition. Without add-
inc other Industries which are also directly
favored. far more than half the inhabitants
If the country are directly interested IN these
three. Legislation for the greatest good OF
the greatest number is apt TO prove legisla-
ton for the greatest good OF all.
But the tin plate monopollsts have tri-
umphed" In that one phrase Is condenser
| ignorance deep enough, dark enough ana des-
| pcrate enough to account for the existence OF
Democratic party. There is not maker OF
tin plates in this country; not man, or irhi'
or set of men. who have or can have any
| monopoly under the bill, or the slightest adj
vantage over anybody else who may choose To
On into the same business. There arc literally
thousands of manufacturing concerns which
might undertake it, and millions of people who
!
ufacture if they chose "Monopolists' are
they. these unknown individuals any one OF
whom NAV strive on equal terms with any
other 70 get the benefits which the duty offers
The only real monopoists are those manu-
facturers across the water whose trust has
fixed prices = tin plates and fceccd American
consumers at pleasure for years.
Yet it is denounced as a private tax or a
tax for the benefit Of individuals when
! Government assists to break the hold OF this
foreign monopoly upon the threats OF all
Americans. The object Of the tax Is to set
free sixty millions of Americans from bondage
10 a foreign trust and 10 that end large profits
are offered to those who may be the first IL
establish a manufacture here. Whoever
pleascs can take hold; the offer Is for the
GOOD of the whole Nation. But whoever goes
into the business will do so knowing that the
domestic competition will soon be so SHARP
and fierce that he can expect only living
profit.
Never mind these filings and ignorances anC
falsehoods. Protcctionists Of the Senate Whcr
your duty has been done, as thoroughly anC
well as the Republicans Of the House have
done their duty, there will be quick demand
for the labor of a hundred thousand more
| Americans, if as many can be found idle
There will be life and hope among farmers wh'
have long complained in vain. And there
will be Republican victories hereafter.