Telegram-herald., 1890-05-19

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Industrial nalloAs although. tire yeasra-
ceysl0pEnsnE 0f al ksr industries, she
hzs Hlost faV0r&ble conditions. The con-
diUo1s n England and the u llsed States
are quite different. and thls difference
suggests for each "a Industrial policy IN
Ike thaL of Tie 0rheT The United States
produces TIE greater part of hsT raw ma
teri4Ls " manu1aGsaEe and somewhat
mere of fOOd proGacts than she uSes-
The prOdactlon of raw materials with
Der = lot minor, out al important IN
dUstry. The raw materials which we do
not produce, snd which do not displace
our American products, ShOald DC ad-
miLted free.
Investigations OF the conditions and
facus Of production peculiar % each in
cCstry show Us thar fres competing raw
materials can confer DO advantage upon
the labor and industries OF the United
States which are not counterbSlAnced by
attendant disadvantages
Free raw materials would not help
agriculture. Tor tho farmers products
are themselves raw materials.
They would NOT help manufacturing,
for, while they would lessen the consun-
ing power Of the home market, they
would not enabls the United States 10
gain a permanent place ia supplying the
markets Of the world.
They would not help tho mining in
dustries, Tor the miners products are the
raw materials OF manufacture.
They would not help our commerce,
for they would decrease the exchange Of
services and commodities between the
different parts Of our country, while the
increase Of the carrying trade, whatever
might result, would be absorbed by other
countries having a more efficient mer-
chant marine
AS her industries are not benefited,
neither is her labor. Like 80 many other
phases of the tariff question, it upon last
analysis resolves itself largely into a
question Of labor and wages. The United
States cannot compete in production
with England, Europe and India and
maintain her present scale of wages. II
the United States cannot compete in
manufacturing with the pauper paid Ia
bor Of England and the continent: In
commerce, with tho subsidized ships OF
England; in mining, with the half paid
labor Of foreign countries; in agriculture
and stock raising, with the cheap lands
and labor Of India. Australasia and the
South American states, it becomes i'm
portaat TO consider where she shall find
such field for the exercise Of her labor
and capital as VIII keep her industries
from decay, and her labor above the
starvation rates or competing countries.
The economic policy that viii insure
to the United States a measure of pros
perity in the future equal to that which
she has enjoyed In the past is not policy
T which viii create for Us a one sided indus
trial development. 1t viii rather seel
10 develop the various branches Of hu
man activity which the character OF oul
people, our soil, our climate and oul
natural resources give us a capabihty OF
supporting. 1t is a policy which vii
give 70 labor the largest possible con
ditions of varied employment.
Such a policy, logically carried out
along with Encouragement to the manu-
facture Of finished commodities, will Civ,
protection TO. our raw materials which
have to meet fhe competition OF foreign
countries with superior facilities fo
cheap production.