Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-13
wHAT pRoTEoTroN DOES.

WHAT PROTECTION DOES,
 rvro s,r,ksur Casee-An Early Ef- 4fect of the McKin1ey Bill-A Great
 French Dyer Starts up Big Fac-
 torv in this Country - Another
 striking Instance of How Protec-
 ton Fosters and Protects Ameri-
 can Industry.
 Protection protects" so remarked MT. Champion of the firm of Champion 6 Heaton, dealers in window shades, DOT tieres and drapery, on Saturday afternoon as COURIER representative inquired of him regarding an important report which had been the topic of an animated conver- sation among several of our lead ing merchants few minutes before, caus- ing emphatic expressions of satisfaction. "Yes sir," said MT. Crampton, 'I will most willingly state the subject of our conversation. It is an emphaticillus- tration of the wisdom of the republican party's protection principles and of the Mckinley bill. Among the cases in point are two which I will detail. They are arguments which are incontrovertible in themselves and which hit straight out from bu0 buOuluor. III tuo uI59 PAaco ou1 AAAn3 though it does in parta local business, does also large jobbing business, which brings us in contact with the trade over @ large extent of northern territory. For one thing, we deal largely in plushes. Hereto fore we have had no recourse but to use mainly imported plushes. Now the Mo- Kinley bill puts 30 per cent. duty on these French plushes. What is the result: The biggest manufacturer of French plushes, Hermansdorf, who is the king pin in the foreign plush business, what does he dos He has sent agents to New York who have contracted Jersey where these same French plushes will be made as in France, only on American soil and by people of this country. This will give remunerative employment to at least 1, ,000 people here. By this thousands will be benefited here while the American buyer will be likewise benefited. Here is practical example of how protection protects and the case in point deserves the attention of all thinking men. The Mo Kinley bill is going to give great impetus to American manufacturing and don't you forget it.
 Now take Rocksonia sun fast Hollands, which our concern deals in so largely as jobbers as we'll as retailers here in New Haven. We had hard fight to convince dealers that on American soil could be produced as good sun fast Hollands for window shades as those produced in Scot land which had long held possession of the American market. But we succeeded in finding and establishing big market in the New England states for these same Rocksonia sun fast Hollands-American prices than the Scottish make. The foreign make had full swing at one time Why, when we took hold, all but three Connecticut houses dealing in this class of goods used none but the imported. ''Why," said the dealer in amazement, Eve must have only John Kings sunfast Scotch Hollands; none else will do." But the American make won it's way. It is by protection alone that the manufacturing industry has been fostered and developed until it af- lords employment to a large force of peo- pie here on United States soil. The fac. tory in Wilmington, Del, which we repre- sent, employs 1 1000 hands alone. A mar in this line by the aid of protection. And mind you, this Manufacturing in dustry would go to the wall but for protection. As it is the man. agers of the business get only a small return on their capital employed, and there are no high salaried officials. The highest salary paid is only $2, 500. We annually send out of our house 100, 900 window shades, Hollands, and just look at their fine splendid quality. American manufacturing is fostered, American workingmen benefited. They can make | their goods at less expense across the l water than we can, because labor costs lest there. The employees over there get less pay and do not have the comforts that working people here in the United States l require, hence were it not for protection
 this industry in question would be knocked
 out and instead of hundreds of people
 ment and faring we'll througl
 this industry, the shops her
 would have to shut down. As sai'
 the duty paid for imported goods does no go into the pockets of the American manu
 lecturers, for with the duty on they ar
 shops owing to the higher wages paid i,
 this country. The concern here pays jus
 living profit. Take away this duty ant
 the big Connecticut manufactory up il
 Greenville where similar goods are made
 would have to shut down. Protection
 surely protects. ...
 In a thousand different lines home pro
 ductions are cheaper to-day than were tn
 imported articles of the same sort her
 twenty-five. thirty and forty years ago
 Protection has stimulated home produc
 tion, the goods are made here, the none.
 paid for their production is kept here in
 stead of being sent abroad, and hom
 competition, labor-saving machinery an
 Yankee invention have made them cheape
 than they ever were before without low
 ering the wages of the labor which pro
 duces them.