Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-12-15
American free traders are the following:

American free traders are the following:
"The tariff is q tax" and "protection 10
robbery Then they insist that the tax
is paid by our people, and that they and
they alone are robbed by protection. 1t
is somewhat singular that English news
papers from witch the aforesaid Anglo
Americans are so fond of quoting Gas
infallible authorities) should so fatty
contradict their allies in America. l
quote the following very significant SEN
fences from English papers and COM
mend them to the prayerful attention of
the honest ~ opponents of the "Mc-
Kinley BILL In the Bradford (England)
chamber OF commerce Sir Henry
Mitchell discussing the Mckinley bill''
and its dire consequences to British
manufactures, said: Zone effect of this
bill was certainly to injure the trade of
the Bradford district very seriously. 1t
is impossible 10 export goods to America
now unless We are prepared to take lower
prices, and that means less profits for
manufacturers and less wages for work
people" Fan trade" November ID, 80
Will some of our honest (?) opponents
of the Mckinley bill inform us who pays
the tax" in the cases cited above and if
We pay said "tax", how is it that since
the enactment of said bill the English
must take lower prices on their ex-
portations to America, and that the
English must be satisfied with lower
profits and lower wages. Or may be
our doctrinaires are SO familiar
with the business of their English friends
that they know their business better than
they do themselves. After the said free
traders have digested the above, ask
their attention to the following quotation
from the London England Financial
Times of October 81, 1890:
"The measure which has all but killed
the pearl button industry in Austria has
suddenly resuscitated it in the United
States. Some years ago several thousand
workmen were employed in the twenty
one pearl button manufactures OF Newark,
NJ. Congress lowered the duty on for
eign buttons, and the result was that
three-fourths of the factories had to close.
while wages were reduced in those that
remained opened. Protected by an in
creased duty, averaging nearly 100 per
cent, the American pearl button makers
can now get to work again, and can now
afford to pay wages of from SIS to $25
week to their operatives. Meanwhile,
many OF their Austrian rivals have to
face the alternative either Of retiring from
business or OF shifting the scene of their
operations to the United States"
What measure is this (which has all
but killed the pearl button industry in
Austria and so suddenly resuscltated it in
the United States?" What robber tariff
is it under whose destructive provisions
''the American pearl button makers can
now get to work again and can afford to
pay wages Ito several thousand workmen)
of from SIS to 1926 week." What
piratical despotism is this which will re-
open "the three-fourths of the factories"
which low duty closed and raise the
wages "in those that remained open ?"
Why the same Mckinley bill on which
the boundless vocabulary Of Democratic
vitupiration and mendacity has been al
most exhausted during the late campaign
yes sir, the same Mckinley which has
barred out the pearl buttons which are
largely manufactured in Austrian peni-
tentaries and which the mills bill" would
have admitted free or nearly 80, to come
in competition with the honest labor of
free born American citizens; extends its
! benign protection over the hardy miners