Telegram-herald., 1890-09-25
aso~rs o. PROTECTION.

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las.xiux = Sssss - az forsAsa oSa1tr1s
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ssrasrS Manufacturers zn1 @griel4t-
artists are f2st easaglsg tAsir sse~s
a caIlax fer 3efsRsise lsglslatiSa-
Th- rsstlsssssss 2Eoag the sorklng-
raen - Eaglaa4 particularly l. gro~lzg
eauy O. great signlnesRce Is the ~
esns setien 0f tAs Cham Der ~ Con eaeroe
q Mancksster. hsretofore TIE hot-esd
a free trade .nd CSodenisA. In 0nsnl-
moasly Recommending tAs IL positisn
O. 3aLes On forsigR products IN cases
whers these products compete vita
native Industry, equal - the fiscal bur
aen koras 81 native producers The
FAR Trade League las become most
influential organization. Ii Is daily
adding converts 70 lis ranks The
Workmxn's Association for the Defense
o. British Industries Is : most potent
ally ia j = ende4yovs % lift the burdens
frOm the down tro3den lsborers of the
Ualted kingiom
In France the protective policy not
enly has q strong hold. especially
among the agriculturists. butts steadily
gaining ia strength. There Is more like
lihood OF greater duties being imposed
than that any VII bs reduced or taken
OF.
Turning 20 Germany, the low wages
OF whose workingmen are held up con-
tinually as an argument against the
power OF protection 20 secure and main
tain high wages. Ne see most emphatic
refutation Of the charge just quoted
German tariffs have aimed 20 be protect
i've since 1880 The Customs Nerein is
really the sire 70 existing German unity
and empire. But there was not until re-
Gently any skillful attempt to make the
rate of duty proportionate to the guam
tity OF labor involved in the product as
in the United States In 1880 this ques-
tion was agitated, and on May ii, Bis
marck, In speech before the German
Reichstsg. said: because IL is my de-
libsrate judgment that the prosperity Of
America is mainly due 20 Its system Of
protective laws, urge that Germany
has now reached that point where il is
necessary 10 initiate the tariff OF the
United States"
Germany adopted his views and ad-
vanced its tariff. What is the result?
The increase in wages has been almost
continuous since the increase Of its pro-
tective features Manufactures have
sprung up on every hand, and Germany
has passed from an importing to an ex-
porting nation. OF course, one effect
being to greatly increase the number of
employed. the per capita rate OF wages
does not show the same increase as this
country, though in compsr son with En-
gland it is most marked. Moreover.
Germany is now reaping the benefit on
home market; and as the German
workingman has economical tastes n
dress and living, and as he can buy
cheaper than his English brother, he ;
doubly benefited by the existing pro-
tective legislation. Recent Govern
ment statistics show that the Iron and
Steel Association of Germany repre-
sents 351 firms with capital Of S202,-
900, coo, and employees 235 600 men.
Ten years ago they were represented by
$50 firms, employing but ISL, 600 persons.
Their monthly wages have increased 50
per cent, and this rule of increase will
apply to all Germany
Going north to Sweden we again see
protection in the ascendancy, and with
the usual result Until ten years ago
Sweden prospered under a protective
tariff. The doctrinaires succeeded IN
having their theories adopted. For de-
cade both agriculture and manufactur-
ing suffered, but in recent election the
chief issue was the tariff. and the result
was an overwhelming victory for pro-
lection. The editor of the New York
Nord Stiernen recently said: For the
first time in a number of years Sweden
seems 20 have awakened from the abb
surdity of her position, and has como 10
think that she should become a manu-
facturer for herself, and not a mere pro-
ducer and consumer OF goods from
others / believe Sweden is entering
now on an era of prosperity. Protection
has built the country up, and while
Sweden has neither the extent nor the
variety Of the United States, yet the
stimulus which protection must give 70
the grain growing, milling and manu-
featuring industries cannot but be
frsught with good results"
Even free trade New South Wales,
which has sneered at her projections,
rival colony, Victoria, for several years
past, at recent test vote could show
but one majority in her Parliament for
the continuance of the present policy.
The benefits that Canada has derived
from protection are too well known II
need more than reference.
In other countries the situation Is
similar, and the practical business men
and the laboriny classes are everywhere
+ combating the theorists. The princi-
pies OF protective tariff and the advan.
tages of home market are more lrml '
demanded than at any previous time in
the worlds history. And no wonder
The eyes OF the wofld are turned to the
United States which has borne and sup
pressed the most gigantic war OF al
history. has nearly paid OF all the debt
+ incurred by that war, has given employ
ment 70 its own millions OF workngmen
and 10 new half million each year o
I the unemployed Of foreign nations In
spite Of all, 10 has become Weather and
+ more prosperous. standing to-day at the
head OF all nations Is citizens. be
they wage givers or wage esrners. pOs-
sess more enlightenment enjoy more
f com forts and luxuries. eat better fool
wear better clothes ard Withal save
mere money than the people Of any
othsr country.
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