Telegram-herald., 1891-10-21

INC ftsUit MAS that Il drove the men
she Rad invested all they mad IL this
INDUSTRY into bankruptcy. their labor
INTO tne streets, puG out the fires Of
iheir furnaces aud ruined The industry
absolutely aid when the IRE OF the
furnace Mas put out the forslga manu-
iaciarer turned around aud put up tbs
price OF Fails anu made up All they lost
10 axfy days. doing just what Lord
brougham said N the British Parlia-
ment they could afford to do. VIZ: To
IL Their preduct IL the American mar
kst FOR while NJ \ loss thai they might
taeresy stile American industry while
young.
Take the case OF steel rails. Mr..
Cleveland has poid you about that
We paid Sl60 for steel rails and par
on duty OF SIS. Now il you are
right. Mr.. Cleveland, II what you say
Is true. rails viii cost now. Sl0o
plus the duty, S2s.and sl60 plus SIS
IL SlSe. Does any gent. emaA rcmem-
Der paying siss for ralls9 The moment
We put ON that daty and we com
nsenoed making ra5s and We SIT our
hres burning in our furnaces and were
supplying ourselves with rails. rails
commented coming down. from one
hundred and sixty 10 one hundred and
s.fty and then 10 one hundred, and TO
ninety, and eighty, and seventy. and
sixty. and forty, and thirty-fiye. and
thirty, and 10 twenty-seyeR dollars
per ton, from one hundred and sixty
under tax of twenty-eighs dollars
a ton. Now. wsal some gentleman who
thinks the tariff is a tax. when put
ON things we produce in this country,
tonight. in the quiet of his own home,
when everybody has retired. so that
his mentle operations will not be dis
turbed. take out lis pencil and paper
md figure ont how II is that n man.
.n buying a ton ot rails for so-. paid
a tax OF S2S. G.aughter.) OF course.
it will not take but a minute 10
struggle with the problem, but you
will not sleep any tonight.
For instance. we bought cut-nails a
few years ago-I don't know what they
are now-but We bought cut-nssls at
three cents q pound at the very minute
that duty on cut nails was four cents a
pound. How is il, that man in buy
ing pound of nails for three cents,
pays four cents? could name you one
hundred articles thst We buy in the
American market today at less than the
duty, simply because we are making
them IN great abundance, and have
done IT under q protective tariff, to cs-
tablish these industries to supply our
selves.
We are buying them for less. But some
gentleman save: IL that is so why don't
you take the duty Off i will tell you.
One answer 70 that 10 this: IL it works
that way. why not leave il on; what
harm does it do? Applause.l II does
not hurt you any, does it But would
not take II OF. for the reason that IL we
should take the duty OFF rails, or from
these protected industries, the foreign
importer would food our market with
these very articles, and ciose our fac
torres, sending IN their products, that
they might see our markets and then
turn around srd put up the price and
repeat what l., I'd Broughsam said they
ought to do, "Scii at loss. that they
might stifie our industries" / would
not take IT off for the same reason that
you could not get Hollander 10 take
down the dykes. Suppose sonse ore
should say: Take down the dykes. the
sea has nos come in here for 500 years"
lie would say: "Why bless your soul.
The sea has not come in because the
iykes are there" [Appiause.l
The difference is just this: We col
ected duty last year OF fifty-fght
millioa dollars on sugar; that was the
tax on all the sugar that came into
this country. and the highest estimate
have seen OF the amount of money
we have to pay Louisiana and the
lthcr producing states, at cents
Der pound will not exceed eight million
dollars Now il saves TO the people
fifty million dollars. by taking the
ifty y-eight million off, which was paid
before. Every nan and every fam
ly that bought sugar paid ccnts
ser pound more than they are paying
low. by reason OF the tariff you paid
il. We take the fifty million off.
But some man says. "If YOU go on
making sugar in the Unit States IL
viii not be but a little while before
YOU viii pay In bountses as much as
YOU pay in duties" If you GO 10
work and produce all the sugar in the
United States and pay a bounty OF
sents il will cost fifty-cight million and
and more too" Now. want to state
to you. confidentially; we
put the bounty OF cents per pound
on sugar. as well as saving the fifty
million. TO induce the farmers Of Mich
gan, Minnesota. Nebraska to go TO
producing beet sugar. as Germany.
rance. and other countries have done.
where they make their own sugar
yut Of bcets. and as result Of that
al L..
planted and great plants have gone MP
or the manufacture OF beet sugar
n the United Sfafcs. We have opened
\ new field OF profitable busbandry
Or American farmers.
Now. suppose we produce ell our
sugar long beIore we pay out fifty
sight million year. or long before we
pay fifty million, OF forty. or thirty.
When II Is demonstrated that we can
make sugar. some fine morning We
will take oil the bounty and put on
,irh protective tariff. and shut out the
oreign article. tAppisuse.) shut out
he foreign product and so on doing
business. Some gentleman says. '1 oh
cct TO this tin plate business: mr tin
$ taxed / cannot stand this burden
Di taxation on tin" Do you pay snv
more for TIM I saw a statement in
he paper the other day that tin fruit
ans which a year ago cost 1925 a
hundred. a gentleman in Warren. o.,
contracted for at sl.s7 a hundred.
3u. ~ would not be fair, even n the
,riee has gone up. to pass judgment
lpon that question now, because our
is not sufficiently established.
There is no reason why ws should NOT
he sheets. and tin is nothing hut dip
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