The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-05-12
pig.iron II Is worth SIC, aud II manu-.
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} duct Is labor, or rather II represents
labor, which above everything els,
should bC protected, because wealth ant
labor give power.
, The history OF the world proves thu
} correctness OF tho statement that thost
nations that employ their own subjects
In manufacturing their own raw mater
lals arc the wealthy nations, while thu
cony;erse are the poor, the helpless, and
the ignorant.
4. A protective tariff diversiGes n m,
tion's industries. Under practical free
trade, or what Is commonly called q
revenue tariG," the United States was
nation OF farmers; and nation that
employed It's subjects In one particua,
Industry only could not DO other than
J one.idesd.
| s.. A fifth reason why I favor pro.
tectivc tariff Is because It has cheapened
10 the consumer in this country every
article, from a cambric needle to road
wagon and threshing machine.
know Democratic friends, parrot.like,
cry out, "The tariff Is a tax" =
IT | had the, time to-day, Mr.. Chair:
man, could produce five hundred arti-
cles used in our homes, on our farms,
and In our businesses that nre cheaper
under protection than they were under
revenue tariff. Homo competition
brought the prices down to the lowest
possible amount to the consumer. Our
own people competing with ono another
caustd prices to fall 10 the lowest possi.
bic rates-rates lower than they had
ever before reached when England did
our manufacturing for US, and fixed her
own prices upon everything she pro.
duced. How, then, Mr.. Chairman, is
the tariff tax.
hold in my hand n price list taken
from the ledger Of Hewitt, Rulner 4
Co.. n mercantile firm in the Great
kanawha Valley Of my State, rs far
back as 1887, time when wo were
living under revenue tariff. Prices in
that old ledger were given upon forty
one different articles which were needed
then as now in every home.
| HOW PROTECTION REDUCES PRICES.
Listen to few OF these prices: Calico,
81! cents per yard; bleacllei cotton, oj
cents; unbleached cotton, 33t cents;
jeans, 81 rs; coal shovels, 81 81; cast
steel, 81 cents per pound; spool cotton,
l2l cents; white lead, 81 25 per key;
shoe tacks l2! cents; ,rou, l2I cents Der
pound; coffee mills, s.; lambs wool
hose, 81 o5 per pair; yarn. 81 10 per
pound ;qslngham, II cents per. yard;
plns, 124 cents per paper; water buckets,
10 cents; white flannel, 81 % per yard;
needles, per paper, l2l cents, etc. Ali
these articles today can be purchased
under protective tariff at much less
than one-half the above prices; still We
are told that tariff is a tax. H..
1t is well known fact that this very
hour many brands OF calicoes and other
cotton fabrics, bleached aud unbleached,
can be purchased in our own home mar.
kets at Il price even lower than the
duty on such articles; and yet, in the
lace OF this fact, the parrot free trader
will persist in crying that the tariff is
tax. II the tariff is tax, and we should
place duty upon pig iron OF n thousand
dollars ton, then the price OF pig iron
to the consumer would be the price of
production plus the $1,000 duty, would
it not2
Only a week or so ago two schooners
sailed into New York harbor. They
were loaded with fresh mackerel, One
Of these schooners was Canadian yes.
sel-the other an American. Before tho
Canadian could unload his 500 barrels OF
lnackerel he was required to pay duty
Of 81 on each barrel for the privilege Of
competing with our own fishermen in
the New York markets. The American,
OF course, was not required to pay any
duty. Now, il the consumer pays the
tariff duty the Canadian must receive
for his mackerel S2 more per barrel than
the American. Is this correct or false?
The fact is, the Canadian received $40
a barrel for his mackerel, which is pre-
cisely the amount the American received
for his-the price being fixed by the
American market. Now, then. did the
Canadian take away with him $40 bar
rel or IS barrel, for his product? Every
man who has as much sense as n peewee
knows that ho would take only S. bar.
rel with him, because he, and not the
consumer, had to pay the tariff duty OF
81 barrel, for the privilege OF the Amer
ican market. al,
| HOW THE FARMER FARES. .,.I
A Canadian farmer brings his wheat
across the Niagara river and sells it in
the American market. Before he was
|allowed to cross over to the American
side he was required to pay duty Of
twenty cents oil every bushel Of wheat !;
and as matter OF course he sold his
: wheat at the American price. He took
home with him only eighty cents q
bushel, while the American farmer put
dollar bushel in his pocket-tha. be.
ing the price for American wheat. In
this case, as in the other, the Canadian
and not the American consumer paid the
duty, and defy any Democrat on earth
to deny the correctness OF this statement.
In the face Of these facts the free trad.
! ers still insist when II foreign seller dc.
ducts the amount OF duty from the price
OF what he sclla to the American buyer
0 it is the American buyer who pays the
duty. In order. to get into our markets
foreign sellers have been doing this bust.
ness ever since we have had a protective
Y tariff. They could not get into our mar
4 kcts with their goods If they did not
Q Our protective tariff has forced them tc
K lower their prices. Remove this tariff
: and foreign prices will 60 up. Tho for
Q eigu seller thoroughly understands this
:. and that is why he objects to our protcc
! tive tariff. He knows that with free
l trade it would be only question Of time
9 when our industries would begin tc
i weaken. He knows this because hi
8 knows that American labor rs rule cost!
: about twice as much rs foreign labor
+ He knows that the employers Of Ameri
i can labor cannot compete successfully
t with the employers OF cheap foreign Ia.
q hor in tho same kind Of business. Sc
y does every man capable Of performing Il
/. simple example in arithmetic.
: A protective tariff not only brings t
Q US national prosperity, makes us indo'
pendent in times Of war as we'll rs in
:. times Of peace, enables Us to manufact
!. ure our own raw materials, diyersilie
IL our industries, and cheapcns tho article
It to the consumer, but it protects labo
u also; and To my mind this is the stronges
4 Of the six propositions l am attempt
Is ing @S -s1sj 5s 6-. 5laI.
o M nation can prosper that does no
's dignity and elevate its labor. hay