Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-24
EXPORTER AND CONSUMER.
The Tric!ory o. u H"cen5 Article by
SenAtor Vi Orrall AblN Exposed.

The Tricisory o; E~eens Article by
Senator 3iorran Ably Exposed.
! Senator Justin S. Morrill,, of Yer
+ mont, in the North American Review,
SAYS: HHappily. Mr. Gladstone does
not sweeten free trade By another name,
and conceal it by what in America has
/ been styled its 'yarioloid' revenue re-
form. There is no Democrat or tariff
rcforlner who wants free trade at once
! but to grow to that as the people be-
+ come 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 adj
+ 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. Any maS who will read and
/ honestly think will see that all the
| trickcry and dishonesty is with such
men as Mr.. Morrill,. What l 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 than any other country.
England has about % 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 them in
finish, and then says that the goods
where the cost is in the material and
made with little labor are the goods
that it is impossible for him to export.
/ This, to my mind. shows that labor COM
! pared to the quantity of articles made
/ to the individual is cheaper in America
! than England. Now, if you give the
! American manufaCtu rer free material
he will be able to export q great guam
/ tity of goods, creating a demand for
| moro manufacturers and more labOrers
/ in this country. Supply and demand
regulate the price of both the manu-
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,
/ bat YOU would give the idle people that
/ are already here employment, and by
so doing give them the wherewith to
! purchase what they need for their daily
| consumption. If the manufacturer had
! free raw material he could stand a re-
ductiOn in the tariff on his manufac
! turcd article, at least as much as he
! would be benefited by the tariff being
/ taken off 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
| that the manufacturer would receive in
/ his free raw material In this way
/ every body would be benefited except,
| perhaps, the producer of the raw mate
rial, but that would be 50 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 greatest number.
Mr.. Morrill, says: ''Workmcn in Great
no resource but the work-house. but
American workmen generally own their
/ own homes. take their own newspapers
and have money in the savings banks. ;"
! This is not generally the case, but veSy
far from it. If Mr. Morrill, will take
the trouble to look it up he will see. as
Prof. Carroll D. Wright shows, that
there are 200, 600 men in Massachusetts
able and willing to work who can not
get work to do. Tho labor bureaus Of
. two of our best States declare that the
average wages Of Workmcn are not
. enough to bring up q family upon even
+ in the most meager way unless supple
mcnted by the wages of wife or child.
Three hundred and fifty dollars q year
+ IS the average income of the working
men of our land and millions have not
/ even this" IN New York City there are
/ whole sections where the overcrowdin~
is greater than in tho most crowded
7 Quarters of London. Two million men
out OF work means 1000. 900 wives. B.
/ 00O. 900 children out of bread out of fire,
! out of Clothes and many of them with
out a roof to shelter them" Letters
| and kilograms continue to pour in upon
! Dr. Edward y. Small. of Sedalia, Mo-,
/ who thoughtlcssly offered a bonus tic
! any one who would consent to be bitten
! by his mad dog for the benefit of med
/ zeal science Has life really become so
/ cheap in this country that hundreds are
/ willing to sell it from 500 to S500?i "A
Young man named William Miller, 4
/ factory hand, tainted on the street in
( New brunswick. y. j., one Wednesday
( night from sheer starvation. He was
out of work and had eaten nothing for
some time. He was exceedingly weak
7 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 tsd. Her three boys,
aged two, four and six years, were gath
| cred around her half clad and almost
dead from starvation. They were with
out clothing and reeking with filth.
Mrs. King, according to the report of
Dr.. 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
Mr. Morrill, says that ''home manufac-
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 the farmers of the State OF Hi
aois lose $40, 600, 900 on their corn crop
alone last year? sir. Morrill, knows that