The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
How the Tariff on Eggs Works.

Ono has only to watch the news COL
umns of the reform" press to find
their editorial tariff arguments pune
tured. Here is an example from the
Chicago Morning News of February 25.
We give its original heading:
BOON OF THE AMERICAN HEN.
zAs Tariff Projects H,r Mfan, Ludus'ry-
Canada Selling Omelets for a Song.
'Hens are more profitable than hogs" said a
South Water street commission merchant yes
terday in that brief emphatic wsy peculiar to
the man whose time Is worth ready cash.
Yes SIR" he continued. with n rising infiec
ton. land the farmers OF this country are just
beginning to find it out They don't require
much tending and eggs nowadays are pretty
valuable things Time was when eggs used to
90 to the farmers wife for pin money. II isn't
so any longer; they have got to be an article of
commerce and we count their sale by millions
OF dozens
'Over in Canada the hen has got into politics
and the politicians there are Quarreling about
who has done most for the native bird Our
new tariff has fiattened out their egg market
pretty badly, and Il friend Of mine who has been
there lately tells me that the restaurants in
the big towns are selling omelets for a song. 1t
wouldn't surprise me any il the native hen
should cause a commotion among our Canuck
neighbors. The Canadians used 10 send about
49, 600 dozen eggs to New York every year
until we got tariff OF five cents 4 dozen
capped on to the market price OF their eggs
Now they send but very few and we have most
OF the market to ourselves Last year we
probably shipped close on 1900. 900 dozen eggs
east This year. with the new tariff. we shall
send another Is. .OOO OO) or 2OOOOO.
NO it hasn't made any difference in the
price, we got more last season than we have
been getting lately. The only particular ad'
vantage see is that We shall sell more eggs
and raise less hogs.
We do not expect ever to see more
glowing tribute to the beneficial effects
of the new tariff than this from the
columns of our free-trade contemporary
India Begins to Manufacture-The Reason
Why.
Mr.. Will Clarke. formerly of Bolton,
England. but now employed in a cotton
mill at Bengalore. India, has written a
letter home, giving some interesting
particulars about labor in the mills at
that place. some of which are repro
duced in the Manchester Textile Mer-
curry He says: Il have not seen a
white face since October; all here are
black as night and almost naked. We
work from light to dark. sundays. 100
mo factory act here), and we only stop
the engine half hour for dinner. Our
hands only get on an average six annas
per day, which is equal to FIVE pence.
Great Britain will not permit India to
levy an import duty upon cotton goods
manufactured in Britain, and until re-
Gently Britain supplied about all the
cotton goods consumed in India But
now India is manufacturing her own
cotton goods with labor costing but ten
cents per day, and the British laborers
who formerly found employment max
ing cotton goods for the Indian market
are in idleness, forming large con
tingent of that submerged tenth OF
Britain's population 50 graphically de-
scribed by General Booth in his Darkest
england Canadian Manufacturer, Feb
ruary 20.