Telegram-herald., 1890-03-05
GROWTH OF PROTECTION.
TnE PROGRESS IT IS MAKING AL
OVER THE WORLD.


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The principles Of protective tariff are
steadily gaining ground among the lsr
boring classes Of ali foreign countries
Nor Is this gain confined 70 the wage
earners. Manufacturers and agricuifur-
lists are fast changing their views and
Calling for defensive legislation. The
restlsssness among the workingmen Of
England particularly - growing daily.
OF great significance Is the recent action
Of the chamber Of commerce Of Aanches-
Ter, heretofore the hot bed Of tree trade
and Cobdenism. IN unanimously recon-
mending the imposition Of duties "a for
eign products, IN cases where these pro
ducts oompste with native industry,
equal 10 the fiscal burden borne by native
producers The Fair Trade league has
become a most influential organization.
Ii Is daily adding converts 10 IL ranks
The Workmans Association for H. De
Tense Of British Industries is no no
tent ally In is endeavors 10 lift ~ sur-
dens from the down trodden Labor Of
the United Kingdom.
In France the protective policy pnly
has a strong hold. especially am the
agriculturists, bat is steadily ga ng in
strength. There is more likely ! OF
greater duties being imposed thu That
any will be reduced or taken of.
Turning 10 Germany. the low ages Of
whose workingmen are held up continu-
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of Protection to secure and maintain high
wages, we see a most emphatic refuta-
ton of the charge just quoted. German
tariffs have aimed 10 be protective since
$780, The Customs Verein is really the
sire to existing German unity and en-
pire. But there was not until Gently
any skillful attempt 10 make the ate OF
duty proportionate TO the quantity Of
labor involved in the product, as in the
United States In 1880 this question was
agitated, and on May IA. Bismarck. in a
speech before the German reichstag said:
because it is my deliberate judgment
that the prosperity of America is mainly
due TO its system of protective laws, /
urge that Germany has now reached that
point where it is necessary TO initiate the
tariff of the United States"
Germany adopted his views and ad-
vanced it's 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 10 an ex-
porting nation. OF course, one effect
being 10 greatly increase the number of
employed, the per capita rate of wages
does not show the same increase as this
country, though in comparison with
England II is most marked. Moreover,
Germany is now reaping the benefit on
home market; and as the German work
ingman has economical tastes in dress
and living, and as he can buy cheaper
than his English brother, he is doubly
benefited by the existing protective iegis-
lation. Recent government statistics
show that the Iron and Steel association
of Germany represents $50 firms. with
capital of 1852 600, 900, and employs 1885,
600 men. Ten years ago they were re-
presented by 800 firms, employing but
Isl, 900 persons Their monthly wages
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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 manufacturing
suffered but in a recent election the chief
issue was the tariff. and the result was
an overwhelming victory for Protection.
The editor of The New York Nord Stier-
men recently said: For the first time in
a number of years Sweden seems 10 have
awakened from the absurdity of her
position, and has come TO think that she
should become a manufacturer for her
self, and not a mere producer and con-
sumner 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, vet the stimulus which protection
must give to the grain growing, milling
and manufacturing industries cannot but
be fraught with good results"
Even Free-trade New South Wales,
which has sneered at her protectionist
rival colony, Victoria, for several years
past. at n recent test vote could show but
one majority in her parliament for the
continuance of the present revenue pol
icy. The benefits that Canada has de-
rived from Protection are too well known
to need more than reference.
In other countries the situation is sim
liar, and the practical business men and
the laboring classes are everywhere COM
batting the theorists. The principles of a
| Protective Tariff and the advantages OF
home market are more firmly demand
ed than at any previous time In the
worlds history. And no wonder. The
eyes Of the world are turned
10 the United States, which has
borne and suppressed the most gigantic
war Of all history, has paid of nearly all
the debt incurred by that war. has given
employment 20 its own millions Of work
ingnsen and % a new half million -ach
year Of the unemployed Of forel, ns-
tons In spite Of all. il has become
weather. and more prosperous. standing
today at the head o. all natious Its cia-
zens. be they wage givers or wage earn
ers. possess more enlightenment. en- Joy
more comforts and Injuries. eat better
food. wear better clothes. and withsl