The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-01
EXPORTER AND CONSUMER.
The Trickery of q Recent Article ID.
Senator Morrill, Ably Exposed.

EXPORTER AND CONSUMER.
The Trickery of q Recent Article BY
Senator Morrill, Ably Exposed.
Senator Justin S. Morrill,, of Yer
mont, in the North American Review,
says: Happily, Mr.. Gladstone does
not sweeten free trade by another name,
and conceal it by what in America has
been styled it's '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-
come prepared and ready for 1T. 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. Any man who will read and
honestly think will see that all the
trickery 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 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 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 manufacturer free material
he will be able to export great guam
tity of goods, creating a demand for
more manufacturers and more laborers
in this country. Supply and demand
regulate the price of both the manu-
factured 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
are already here employment, and by
so doing give them the wherewlth to
purchase what they need for their daily
consumption. If the manufacturer had
free raw material he could stand re-
duction in the tariff on his manufac-
tured 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
everybody would be benefited except,
perhaps, the producer of the raw mate
rial, but that would 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 greatest number
Mr.. Morrill, says: "Workmen in Great
Britain when out of employment have
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 very
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, 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 workmcn are not
enough to bring up family upon even
in the most meager way unless supple
mented 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
even 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, 600 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 n. Small, of Sedalia, Mo-,
who thoughtlessly offered bonus tc
any one who would consent to be bitten
by his mad dog for the benefit of med
| ical science. Has life really become sc
cheap in this country that hundreds are
| willing to sell it from 500 to S500?" "a
young man named William Miller, g
factory hand, tainted on the street IN
| New Brunswick, n. j., one Wednesday
night from sheer starvation. He wa:
out of work and had eaten nothing fol
some time. He was exceedingly veal
and died shortly after being taken Il
the poor farm the other morning" Mrs
John King, of New Haven, Conn, wa
found dead in her bed. Her three boys
aged two, four and six years, were gath
cred around her half clad and almos
dead from starvation. They were with
out clothing and reeking with filth
Mrs. King, according to the report o
DIR. White, medical examiner, died o
Starvafi0u