Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-10-08
OUR1TARIFF,.
VERY DlSPLEASING TO ENGLISH
MANUFACTURERS .
They Openly Complain That Wo Are
Taking Their Markets from Them.
Hope Expressed That the Democrats
Will Be Successful.


Taking Their Markets from Them
Hope Expressed That the Democrat.
Will Be Successful.
Evidence that our British friends are
finding the effect of our new tariff very
damaging to their business and manu-
features continues to come from every
hand The latest proof Of that fact is
brought over by Hon. A. G.. Bowen, of
Denver, who has just returned from a
four months sojonrn abroad, and who
made q careful collection of clippings
from English newspapers, trade papers
and periodicals concerning the effects Of
the American tariff upon British trade
and manufactures, called at Republican
national headquarters today. His vol
une OF clippings IS pregnant with facts
It tells the whole tariff story.
Bitter Feeling Among Manufacturers.
81 paid he said, CLOSE attention 10
all the political conditions | was sur
prised at the bitter feeling which seems
to exist among the manufacturing in
terests against the people of the United
States. And it's tho tariff that has
caused it. Englishm IN Interested in
manufacturing deeply resent the recen.
changes in cur American tariff law
upon the ground that they attack direct
ly, the dearest interests Of the British
trade. They don't relish having Ameri-
cans use American products to the det-
rimcnt of Great Britain.
They Want Democratic Success.
The anxiety for the destruction of our
tariff system by the English is shown in
clipping from the London Times,
which says: ''Englishmen can feel little
sympathy for either of the parties en-
gagged IN this lgnoble struggle, bat un-
doub5edly our interests as trading
community must make us wish sllccess
to the Democrats, who now for the first
tune go to the polls as theavowe,i cham
pions Of free trade"
Our Reciprocity Damaging British Com.
In regard to the new tariff giving US
power over foreign countries, The Col
iiely Guardian, a very influential Eng
industrial jo5tt Mi, printed u long ar
ticle On July 90.
THE protective policy" it says
which the Republican party in tho
United States has SO successfully main |
tanned in spite Of the determined at
tempts of the Democrats to put al end
to it, has permitted SO great all exten- |
sion Of their iron and allied industries
that that country has taken the place
hitherto held b., Great Britain as being
the largest producer Of pig iron and also,
of p~a~~-.>",' r+o~l y. ~ "a
production has in faet..sry faee..ess:sry TO nAN
capacity, ct 70 pp5:;;: p2S tie monop-
ON Se|1ss of the trade of the New World, and
they are so influencing some OF the
countries that produce from the United
States is being admitted duty tree.
whereas the goods OF other nations nave
to ray heavy duties. The Mckinley
tariff affords an excellent bargaining
power when negotiating trade treaties
which we in England cannot possess.
.:Last year, it Will be remembered, We
mad one prominent example OF ts5is new
ly inaugurated policy Of the United
States in the case Of its treaty VITA
that large and interesting nlarl.et, Brazil,
which placed Us at a great disadvantage
in our trade with that country. in"
hardship of chat treatment to our manu-
f,ct,,re1s cannot be denied, for whatever
DEVELOPMENT there has been III the III
1ustries and commerce Of that country
t;as been in great part brought ahout by
English aid; British capital has been
fonnd to construct the railways anu
other public works, and private under
yakings have been extensively assisted
out of English pockets.
"lf therefore any nation had right
to have its goods received III Brazil on
the most favorable terms 1t was the
British and not the United States, which
has done nothing to foster the deFelop
ment of the country and till the he"
treaty was signed charged heavy duties
on all Brazilian products imported t
it's shores, whereas for years we hav'
levied no-or at any rate very small-du
ties. The people of the United State
are now therefore reaplng where w
have sown, and our government, whlc]
has been appealed to by the chambers o
commerce and various trading bodies
appears to be unable to OBTAIN lot u
better treatment.
"Another instance of this new pollc
: ia their treaty with Cuba and Port
: Rico. 1t will be almost impossible &c
: orr producers to compete against thcs
Of the United States in the Spanish Wes
p India islands, and the hardware nlani
= facturers of the 1nidlands, III endeavo
: ing to get our foreign Office to move
this matter, have represented that the
Il business with those islands-Wh1ch
9 not at all inconsiderable-will be pra
t tically annihilated, Their cast IRON po
and stoves have to pay duty OF "A p
If cent. on their invoice values, their II
u irons "a per cent, iron chains % p
:. cent, shovels 50 to 70 per cent, ancho
:, 60 per cent, iron nails Is per cent. al
plowshares 40 per cent. whereas SUI
goods received from the United Stat
W will be received duty free; then galya
al lied iron tiles sent from Great Brlta
1e have to pay 115 per cent. duty, tin plat
81 per cent. wrought iron tubes 30 p
a cent, lead tubes and sheets IS per cen
II similar articles from the States pay1
,s 70 only half the duty formerly levied.
w ..Wben it is considered that steel ia
he imported from England have to pa.
ot duty equal to 70 per cent. OF their val'
n while American steel rails pay no d'
er at all, it will be seen that there Is sln
chance for British manufacturers.
.ei will be we'll for our government to
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