Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-09-24

~ 10y removing bis protection, wheth-
er that protection be genuine or fraud
ulent. No other man or class of men
H. this country can benefit tO the ex-
tent Of one cent. The only benefit that
can possibly accrue Is the reduction on
the price OF cloth, which benefits every
man alike and no one more than anoth-
er. As the reduction of two cents in
the duty on imported foreign melada
and cane juice has reduced the price of
refined sugar two cents, so the reduction
in the duty ON foreign raw wool would
reduce the price of cloth. The forty
nine protected American refiners who
for twenty years have produced every
pound of sugar eaten in the United
States lost one-half of their protection
when the tax on their imported raw
material was taken of, so that they
were not benefited by the change. Was
any cne benefited more than anotner?
Could he be? Would not any benefit
that could possibly accrue be shared
alike by all men-au even division OF
81 per head? Before the suggestion is
made that any body for selfish reasons
puts up any money to save each Amer
ican 81 and no one American less or
more, would it not be wise to insist
upon the reason why he does it being
fully explained? Money is freely con-
tributed, time nd labor are ungrudg-
ingly given; but for the same reason
that money is contributed to foreign
missions our life is risked TO rescue the
perishing.
The men who urge the wool-grOwer
not to listen to me, and to hold fast to
his protection also have a motive. One
of these men is the woolen-mill owner
who buys the wool. What can his
motive be?
If protection adds even one cent per
pound to the price the wooden manu-
facturer pays the farmer, then the l.
995 wooden manufacturers are the most
benevolent business men ever organ
lied into Home Market Club. If it
adds the lawful amount of protection,
from 10 to 36 cents; if they wish to pay
that much more for their wool than
the market price, and insist on it,
spending large amounts of money
yearly to induce the people to keep the
tax on so that they shall be compelled
to pay the farmer higher prices, the
limit of human goodness seems to have
been reached. Unregenerate men
sometimes remark that they are not
"in business for fun" These men are.
The wool-grower who accepts without
hesitation this explanation of the
woolen manufacturers motive will
hardly believe that the man to whom
he sells his corn, oats. tobacco, and
other crops is equally anxious to pay
him q nrinn pnf hx, thnx,
not? Are saints engaged in wool-weav
ing only?
If his protection does not add to the
price the farmer gets for his wool, then
it is bunco game. Could the woolen
manufacturer be benefited by deceiving
the farmer-by buncoing him? He
might? Turn to the tariff law and
observe how neatly the opportunity
offers, unless the manufacturer is too
benevolent to take advantage of it.
1t takes four pounds of greese wool to
make pound of cloth. The farmer is
protected by a tax of II cents per
pound on grease wool, or A cents on
four pounds.
10 protect the manufacturer, and to |
enable him to pay the farmer the A
cents extra for raw material, the tariff
levies two seperate duties on imported |
wooden cloth. The first duty is A cents
per pound, to compensate the manufac-
turer for what he pays the farmer. The
second duty is 80 per cent. for him
self, that he may pay high wages. On
a pound of cloth, valued abroad at 40
cents, and costing to land $1.04, the
duty is "a cents; A cents being to pro-
tect the farmer and 20 cents to protect
The manufacturer.
The manufacturer is authorized by
act of Congress to collect this "a cents
ak from the people of the United
States on every pound of cloth he
makes. He is protected from foreign
up to that amount so that
ne can. He alone collects it. He pays
he A cents over to the farmer from
whom he buys his wool and keeps the
70 cents for himself to pay his work.
nen higher wages. There are no in
'pectors appointed to see that he pays
he farmer the A cents. He is under
10 bond. II is all left to his honesty.
If the foreign duty of II cents per
BOUND on raw wool to protect the
armer should be cut off then the