The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-06-26
CHoRus-(As before.


That hides should come in without paying,
And be, we agree, duty free on the list.
Puck
EXPORTER AND CONSUMER.
rhe TricI<ery OF Recent Article BY
Senator Morrill, Ably Exposed.
Senator Justin s. Morrill,, OF Yer
mont, in the North American Review,
says: Happily, Mr.. Gladstone does
hot swceten free trade BY another name,
and conceal 1t by what in America has
been styled its 'varioloid' revenue re-
form" There is no Democrat or tariff
reformer who wants free trade at once,
but to grow to that as the people be-
como prepared and ready for it. Mr..
Morrill, knows that to be fact, but Is
trying to influence the Republican
voter-largely the farmer-to believe
that Democrats and tariff reformers ad-
vocate absolute free trade or tariff for
revenue only now, and in advocating
tariff reform are trying to deceive the
people, thus making the tariff reformer
appear before the voter as tricky and
dishonest. Amy man who will read and
trickery and dishonesty is with such
men as Mr.. Morrill,. What / under
stand the tariff reformer to want is this:
Free raw material of all kinds, SO that
the manufacturer may be able to com
pete with the world with his article of
manufactured product, and BY so doing
export more han any other country.
England has a bout 95 per cent. Of the
import trade of South America and
Australia, and Of large portion of
European countries, and we, as manu-
facturers, with our burden Of high
taxes on raw material, have to
stand by and see England taking
from us and from the people
what honestly belongs to us. Mr..
Sargent says that the only goods
he can export are the goods that the
cost is, in the labor put upon Thorn in
finish, and then says that the goods
where the=eest= It's in-the4 material and
made with little labor are the goods
that 1t is impossible for him to export
This, to yn1ind,1 shows that labor conn
pared to the quantity Of articles made
to the individual is cheaper in America
than England. Now, If you give the
American manufacturer free mate iai
he will be able TO export great gu, u
tity of goods, creating demand Tor
more manufacturers and more labo.ers
in this country. Supply and dehand
regulate the price of both the rAanu-
featured article and the price of labor
SO if free raw material had any effect on
wages it would be to advance them. In
connection with this you would have
more people here to consume the prod
uct of the farmer; not only more people,
but you would give the idle people that
arc already here employment, and by
so doing give them the wherewith. to
purchase what they need for their daily
consumption. II the manufactures had
free raw material he. could stand a re-
duction in the tariff on his manufac-
tured article, at least as much as he
woald be benefited by the tariff being
taken OF the material he uses, and in
that way the American consumer would
reap the benefit of free raw material by
being able to buy what he consumed at
just that much. less-just the amount
his free raw material. In this way
everybody would be benefited except,
perhaps, the producer of the raw mate
rial, but that could be SO small, not
only in loss of property but in numbers,
it should not be thought of. 1t is our
duty to make such laws as will do the
most good and be the greatest benefit to
the grea test number.
: Mr. Morrill, says: "Workmen in Great
Britain when out of employment have
no resource but the work-house, but
American work men generally own their
own homes, take their own newspapers
and have money in the savings banks. "
This is not generally the case, but very
far from it. If Mr. Morrill, will take
the trouble to look it up he will sec, as
Prof Carroll d. Wright shows, that
there are 200. 900 men in Massachusetts
able and willing to work who can not
get work to do The labor bureaus of
two of our best States declare that the
average wages Of workmen are not
enough to bring up a family upon even
In the most meagcr way unless supple
ment6d by the wages of wife or child.
Three hundred and fifty dollars a year
Is the average income of the working
men of our land and millions have not
oven this" In New York City there are
whole sections where.the overcrowding
is greater than in the most crowded
quarters OF London. 1.-Two million men
out of work means 1900, 900 wives, 81
600, 900 children out of bread, out of fire,
ont of clothes. and many OF them with
out roof to shelter Them Letters
and kilograms continue to pour in upon
DR.. Edward N. Small, of Sedalia, Mo-,
who thoughtlcssly offered a bonus to
any one who would consent to be bitten
by his mad dog for the benefit of med
ical science. Has life really become so
cheap in this country that hundreds are
willing to sell it from 500 to S500?" "A
young man named, William Miller, q
factory hand, tainted on the street in
New Brunswick, N. j., one Wednesday
night from sheer starvation. He was
out of work and had eaten nothing for
some time. He was exceedingly weak
and died shortly after being taken to
the poor farm the other morning Mrs.
John King, of New Haven, Conn, was
found dead in her bed Her three boys,
aged twos four and six years, were gath
cred around her half clad and almost
dead fromfS tarvation. They were with
out clothing and reeking with filth.
Mrs King, according to the report OF
Dir. White. medical examiner, died of
starvation
Our agricultural sections, too, are
about equally as poorly off, Farms are
deserted to-day in England just when
Me. Morrill, says that home flanufac=
turers planted in every State alongside
Of the farmer largely save in distribu-
ton. Why then are these farmers in
New England giving up farming, and
why did tho farmers of the State Of Illi-
nois lose $40, 900, 600 on their corn crop
slohslast year? Mr.. Morrill, knows that