The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-10-08
ist the least doubt that our manufacture

list the least doubt that our manufaotur-
ing position is on the wane." etc.
With such testimony direct from En-
gland we are not very bright if we can
not see that our American manufacture
ing and agricultural industries are in
separately bound up together, and that
prosperous manufactures mean pros
porous agriculture. and vice versa; that
each consumes what the other produces.
the other. To-day the low price of la
Dor and the high price of living is driv-
ing the best wOrkmen in iron from En-
gland to compete with her in the labor
markets of the world. OF course the
policy urged by American free traders
has the full sympathy and support of
British traders and manufacturers, be-
cause it is for their benefit Do
Americans believe that the reasons
for upholding a protective tariff of
the great minds of our country-Wash-
ington, Madison, jefferson, Webster,
Clay, Dallas, Governors George Clinton,
Daniel d. Tompkins, Dewitt Clinton,
and others of like eminence-were self
ish. shallow. short-sighted and absurd,
or do they believe that they were lib
eral, enlightened, philosOphic and
statesmanlike, and for the highest good
of our country? We are still young
country and lack the vast accumulatiOns
of capital that Great Britain and France
can boast, and they have the advantage
of us in an abundance of artisans of
eminent experience and skill. Many
foreign fabrics have great advantages
over US. because many consider them
more stylish or attractive; but if every
man and woman here would evince
patriotic pride in wearing American
fabrics the effect would be IN versally
benefcient upon American manufact-
ures
The remarkable development of the
sugar industry in France under pro-
tective tariff invigorated other indus
tries. and especially agriculture, and
caused labor to be better recOmpensed
than before: and France, in 1866. was
exporting considerable quantity of
beet sugar to England, the country that
in the inception of the beet sugar in
dustry in France tried to stifle and kill
it. We need here for years to come
protective tariff 10 thoroughly develop
our manufacturing capacities, and their
command of machinery and power will
enable us to produce cheaply wares and
fabrics exported mostly by Europe~L
nations, whose cheap lab and expert
ence give them advantages over us;
hnt a Uic
icy we shall yet overtake and pass, as
we have already done in the manufact-
ure of edge tools, plows and most agri-
cultural implements, nails and many
other articles. We have great South
and West where the planting of
diversified manufactures will be speed
lily followed by manifest and
palpable increase of agricultural pro-
duction and thrift. We are convinced
that our people will persist in calling
for the maintenance of 4 protective
tariff, to encourage the planting of new
industries, the naturalization of new
departments of productive labor on our
soil, as we'll as the protection of those
already existing, and the consequent
opening to hundreds of thousands of OPP
portunities for earning livelihood SUI
perior to and more acceptable than any
which they else would have enjoyed.
Now. word against ad valorem duties.
A specific duty exacts SO much money
per yard. per pound, or per ton on the
importation of an article without re-
gard to fluctuatiOn in the value or price
of that article, while an ad valorem
duty exacts such percentage of the
appraised, sworn or invOiced value of
the articles imported. Ad valorem du-
ties discriminate against home indus
tries, for the duties are always the low
est when they should be highest, and
highest when the need of them is least.
When the price Of a product or a manu-
facture is high abroad, the duty is high
at home, giving to the American manu-
facturer an incidental protection which
continues SO long as the market remains
high; but so soon as the foreign market
fuctuates the duty falls with it; so
that, at the time when the highest duty
is needed to enable American manufact-
urers to sustain competition with the
foreign manufacturers, the protection is
taken away, thus acting as sliding
scale against the American manufacture
er. To sustain the American manufact-
urer he requires the reverse of the ad
valorem system. When the price abroad
is highest he needs the least duty, and
when it is lowest he requires the high
est
Our Commerce in the Senate.
1t is evident, says the Chicago Journal
of Commerce, that If American commerce
on the high seas is ever again made re-
spectacle it will be due to the efforts of
legislators who favor protection to home
industries and not to the free traders