Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-03
PRESS OPINIONS.
IMPORTER AND HOME PRODUCE


IMPORTER AND HOME PRODUCER.
Cleveland Leader.
The current issue of Puck has a full
page cartoon that incautiously betrays
the motive of metropolitan Bourbonism
and Mugwumpery in opposing the Nc
Kinley bill. a prosperous looking New
York importer is depicted as rebuking
Senator Evarts and Hiscock for support
ing tariff bill that discriminates in favor
of American industries and as presenting
to them protest on which appear the
names of thirty-one importing firms and
" 500 Others not named. These are in
deed the men who oppose a protective
tariff. 1t is to their interest that all our
manufactured goods shall be imported.
Every dollars worth of goods manufac-
tured in this country lessons their trade,
and the mercantile business of New York
city, where most of the imports are en-
tered. by just that much.
The interests of the importers, how
ever, are not the interests of the State
represented in the Senate by Evarts and
HiScOck, or of the nation. The tariff fight
is largely fight between the home pro-
ducing interests and those of the impOr-
terS, and in any such contest home in
duStry is entitled to favor and preference.
The importers represent the interests of
foreign producers, and however honOra-
BILE and wealthy the former may be, they
have no right to dictate tariff legislation
inimical to the labor and capital of the
United States that are jointly employed
in productive industry.
MAY BE-ROBBED OF THE BENEFITS.
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
If sugar is put on the free list, as the
Mckinley bill provides, it will not follow
that the price of sugar in this country
will be lowered, unless reciprocal advant-
ages are obtained from the countries ex-
porting sugar to this country. Our eX-
perience when coffee was put on the free
list should not be repeated. When the
duty on coffee was taken off in 1872 the
price of coffee did not decline, as was eX-
pected, but went up The year before the
duty was taken off it was 16c pound,
shortly after it was taken off it was 1870,
and in 1874 was 2lc The chief reason
for the advance was that Brazil put on a
heavy export duty. The sugar-import-
ing countries could very easily rob us of
the benefits of having sugar on the free
list
PRAISE FOR THE EANTI-TRUST BILL.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The prompt reception by the House of
the Conference Committees report on
the Antitrust bill is praiseworthy. Dur
ing fourteen years of Democratic ascend
ancy in Congress not a movement was
made toward suppression of trusts, tho
every Democratic orator and scribe has
made ostentatious depreciation of their
existence. But in the first session of
Congress Republican in both branches a
legislative measure for the suppression
of these great evils makes its appearance,
and Sugar Trust certificates make tum-
BILE of seven points day.
AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING.
New York Mail.
What is to become of all this old free
trade rot about Americans not being able
to build ships and about protection of ship
building being absurd, when we produce
a twenty knot ship like the Philadelphia,
and the English capitalists come over
here and buy the Roach ship yards? Facts
are great eye openers and these two facts
are startlingly significant of the wisdom
of the protective policy, which has made
us able to produce the fastest warship in
the world and forced British capital to
recognize the financial value of our ship
building industry.