The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-25

e0ti' iHe taootefS employed IN protected
industries form an insignificant part of the
great body of consumers which makes the
nome market" Not only are they small
IN number, but they are, with few excep-
tons, the poorest paid, and are therefore
tile smallest consumers per capita, of all
our working classes. The great body of
the people are engaged in professions, call
ings, industries and avocations that are
injured, not benefited, by The tariff, and in
my Judgment this is its most baneful eff
fect Our farmers, our merchants, our
traders, our bankers, our lawyers, our doc
TORS, our clerks, our agents, our builders,
our carpenters, our mRsons, our packers,
those engaged in transportation on land
and water and hundred other professions,
pursuits and avocations are engaged di-
rectly or indirectly in free trade with each
otnef, as citizens OF the different States
OF tnls union, and under that
system they have prospered in
spite OF the distractions that have been
placed upon the great highway OF progress
py those VINO would wreck the train to pill
lage It's passengers. Less than a million
operatives are employed in the manufact-
ures, benefited by The tariff, A consider
aole portion of these are females and chill
dren, SO that it is safe to say that not more
than four millions of people are deriving a
support from protected industries. Five
bushels of wheat will bread one person for
year, SO that all those employed in these
industries and those dependent upon them
consume in q whole year but twenty mill
Ion bushels. What home market for over
two hundred millions of surplus The
advocates Of home market base their ar
gument-courtesy requires that call it an
argument-upon the idea that there is
loss OF national wealth in fore On trade.
wherein foreign is different from domestic
trade they never explain. Why citizen
OF the state OF Washington can profitably
trade with citizen of Oregon on the
South aud not with citizen of the British
possessions on the North is one of the
Things that we ''cranks" probably could
not comprehend and therefore eXplana-
ZION Is deemed useless. The farmer will
raise twenty bushels or more of wheat for
which he will receive $50. If he should in
connection with farming undertake to
make his plows he would devote as much
OF more time to making one plow than it re-
CURED to raise twenty bushels more of
wheat. The plow manufacturer, being
prepared, Is able to make plows at profit
at slO apiece. If he should at the same
lime undertake to raise his own wheat it
would take him, probably, as long to raise
ten bushels OF wheat as it would to make
two plows. The farmer raises wheat aud
sens his extra twenty bushels for $50 and
buys his plow from the manufacturer forslO,
mus saving ten dollars on his labor. The
manufacturer sells the farmer one plow for
ten dollars and purchases the product OF
ten bushels of wheat from the miller with
the proceeds and has plow left, which he
seiis 10 some other farmer, for another ten
collars. Now each has supplied the other
cheaper than they could have supplied
themselves and thus, each, by being able
10 trade, has surplus which has been con-
Verted into money for future use. Both
made money as both always will make
money in legitimate trade 1t is the same
between counties, states and countries
the only difference being-the larger the
area the greater the advantages.
Here Mr.. Bynum read extracts from his
speech IN Congress on the Mckinley bill
relative to the tariff on wool and tin plate. |
There has been a great reduction in the
cost of production OF different articles dur
| Ing the last fifty years and when this fact
is mentioned up hobs sir Oricle and ex-
claims, behold the glories of the pro-
tective system ~ "Protecton did all this gu
How did protection do it? and the answer
IN sun more shrlll voice co mes back, "By
building up American Industries and Great
ing home competition" 1t matters not to
these braggarts that prices have been re-
! duced IN free trade countries as well as
everywhere else. Upon this point our op-
ponents are supremely Inconsistent. They
say to the consumer that the tariff reduces
the cost of his purchases, and to the pro-
Queer that it gives him home market and
better price. They tell the farmer in The
same breath that it will raise the price of
! his grain and his stock but reduce the price
! OF his clothing; that it will make wool
1 higher and cloth cheaper; that they have
removed the tax he paid on sugar but kent
the tax, which the foreigner pays, on other
articles. This protective machine seems tc
be the only one of the kind known. 1t Is a
regular back action, self propeller and
runs both ways at the same time with equal
velocity.
HOW COST OF PRODUCTION Is REDUCED.
A reduction in the cost of production
must come from one of three causes
cheaper capital cheaper materials OF
cheaper labor. Does the tariff furnish
cheaper capital! No. Does it give cheaper
materia S! No. 1t increases their cost,
Does it reduce wages? No, shouts the pro
tectionist Under the stimulating influ.
ence of patent laws new discoveries have
been made and new machinery invented
which have brought about the Great reduc-
ton in prices. a protective tariff retards
rather than promotes these. Wider fields.
larger markets and greater demands. all OF
which are obstructed by a protective tariff
are the prime influences which stimulate
] n
vention Of better methods.
MANUFACTURERS AND PROTECTION.
The wall of the manufacturer for the
protection of American labor against the
low wages in Europe Is at times almost
heartrending. They would willingly sinh
NIT to the reduction of tariff were it mot
| that they would have to reduce the wages
! of their employees. What great philauth
ropists they are. They donate millions fo,
campaigns, and thousands for lobby tc
give the farmer more for his grain and his
meats; to supply him with cheaper clothing
and to keep up the wages of their en-
ployees. When the Mckinley bill was
under consideration many of its increases
were defended on the ground that they
would enable the manufacturers to raise
the wages of their operatives. Have Won
heard of any increase Of wages in any of
the protected industries since the passage
of this measure. The pottery manufactnr.
ers received an increase of sbou-
10 per cent. in the restoration al
the duties on crates and COVERINGS
which was followed by a reduction
of 10 per cent in wages. The duty on silL
was increased and the wa es of the opera
tives in the mill at Patterson, N. i re-
was increased from rs to It's per cent. and
q reduction of 20 per cent. in wages shortly
! followed. The rate on glucose was in
creased 10 per cent. and the factories al
Buffalo reduced wages at the same rate
The rates on wooden dress goods was raised
from 20 to SO and from So to ITO per cent
and the wages of the female operatives al
Valley Mills, R. l., and other points were
shortly afterwards reduced. The rate on
vomen's clothing was increased from s. r.
So per cent. and the manufacturers at Rir-
mingham, Conn.,, acknowledged the favor
by reducing the wages of their female
laborers 20 per cent.
could continue this list of reductions a,
great length, but will not take the time
now. Wages have gone down in the pro
J +ao.a5 ;ninstrias whila thav how - -