The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-02-20

S23 ,O00, ,000 tobacco and manufactures
thereof, 81, ,U0O,0OJ wood and maui
factures thereof Sl5, 5,00O,000 copper ore,
ingots and manufactures, Sl3 ,OG0 cot
ton manufactures, sl3,0o0.UD leather
and manufactures thereof, 100000
fruits and fish. mainly canned or pre-
served, S, ,000,0O coal, SS.O00,OOO naval
stores, & 100000 oilcake, 81 ,G00, 900 cot
ton-seed oil and paratfine. $1,000 900
chemicals and glucose, S,O0O,00O car
riages, cars ard Instruments, and
s. 100000 sugars. Into such items 90,
not only the labor and enterprise OF
Americans who produce the raw mate
rial from the earth, but the labor and
enterprise of other Americans who
manufacture or prepare the products
for use.--Ne,C York Iribuue
How Protection Protects.
Not many comprehend what it means
when they see that the country is turn
ing out 1885, 900 tons of pig-iron every
week. 1t means that this great industry
has been SO thoroughly established by
protection that it is now able to supply
| more than ten times the quantity iron
produced in 1860, the last year of a rev.
enue tariff, and at prices averaging over
s. less per ton. The best known brands
OF No. | anthracite now sell at Sl1.oU IN
the same market where iron by no
means as good averaged So. - in 1860,
and had never sold for less than
$50 even in a period of rX
traordinary depression. Only once,
and for 4 month or Two, has iron ever
been cheaper than il is now, if indeed
the improvementin in quality and grading
does not warrant the statement that it
was never cheaper. But in ls1S, when
the average for one month was $3.50,
! the production was only 2,o17 ,30l net
tons, whereas for the last seven months
! it has been at the rate of IL ,0a0, 600 net
tons in year, and in 1899 the produc
! ton was lO,30l OPS net tons. What
marvellous increase in only twelve years
| Yet the circumstances differ even more
! than the figures: in 1873 the industry
was prostrated, and even the furnaces
! in operation were scarcely able to make
! ends meet; but now furnaces are thriv-
| ing SO far that new works are being
! fastened to completion or have recent
! ly gone into operation, although II 600.
$50 tons of iron are going to consumers
| al prices scarcely above those of 1873.
! This would have been utterly impoS-
| slbIe had not the manufacture of iron
and steel in forms for use been rigor-
ously protected. The industry has
| grown, not because especial advantages
| have been given to makers of pig iron,
| but because home demand has been
! steadily developed for all the iron they
| have been able to produce. Now and
! then, for short periods, as within the
| last year, it has seemed questionable
| whether production had not outrun the
| demand. But the consumption in 1873
| was not more than 2.5o0OOO gross tons,
| foreign and domestic iron included,
while in 1890 it was about 1900, 900 gross
! tons, and during the last half OF 1891
| has been at az even greater rate.
Some features of the new tariff con-
tribute powerfully To this increase of
the domestic demand. Owing to defects
in the former tariff the country used to
get most of its cotton-ties from Europe;
now substantially the whole supply is
made here. Imports of wire rods,
| steel ingots, and cutlery have been
| greatly reduced, and all these changes
! involved the use of many thousand tons
! of american iron, besides employing
! the additional hands required in new
manufacturing works.
The tin-plate duty alone, if sustained
until it works out its legitimate results,
| Will add more than 100000 tons to the
| consumption of American iron, besides
| employing many thousand hands i'll
working up the iron into tin plates.
As if they instinctively hated most of
those duties which promised most ben
eft to American labor and home indus
! try, the Democrats have been constant
| ly threatening to repeal the -iew duty
on tin plates. But they will md it nee
essary 10 eject a President tirst.-NeW
York Tribtut.
The Deadly Parallel on MIR. Schu,nEof.
The Democratic press has been busily
engaged for some time IN quoting the
statements of eX-Consul j. Schmnhof
at Iunstall, Eng, in regard to the
! heavy tax the working people Of the
| nited States are compelled TO pay for
| their clothing in consequence of the
tariff duties. Mr.. Schonhof is tariff
''reformer" after the order of Mr..
Cleveland. He wants 'cheap clothing
for the millions. as he puts it, and has
frequently tired to make the people be-
| lieye that they were suffering because
of the robber tariff. He furnishes the
| Democratic press lot of trick mule
| statistics in the effort to show that pro-
| lection Is not necessary to elevate labor
or cheaper articles of clothing.
! There was a time, only short time
ago, when Mr.. Schmnhof was in the
| service of the nited States as consul.
| lie was requested to report to the State
| Department concerning the wages and
| cost of living of English workmen at
| Tunstall. lie gave his views on the
| subject. and what these were when he
| was consul, and what MS views were
! when he became a Democratic reform
er," are printed side by side. and will
! prove interesting reading:
| L,t.F ri . RJora1cr" Report # aoh~a, sc5oa-
| S,h"ghoi t2 the Nsw hef q tbe Dqortac"
York Tirt.S. Df StHt.
| To concentrate our So far as clothing and
efforts one great dry goods in general
| line which embraces are concerned / find
| everything OF prime i'm that cotton goods are
portance in the tariff fully cheap III the
| issue. like wool and nIted States as here.
wuoiens, acComplishes ShIrtingS and sheet
| all that can be expect Ings. ii any nything, are
| ed without engaging US superior in qua lity for
| in the risks of an oppo- the same money with
site policy. II such Us SO far a. can Judge
| measure be defeated by from the articles eN-
the senate or vetoed by posed for sale in the
| the President upon retail stores Articles
| tnem then the reSpon- for underwear for wCm-
| Sibility. It Il becomes Ell, made Of muslin,
| a law then the Demo- are lar superior in
cratic party VIII have workmanship ami I'm
| all the credit due II iSh and ctc"pr IL prje"
! from having secured to in tn. taH(' states.
| the IN lions chap Nor can find that
| goai.. c'ottHay ana to IN n S shirts. when
| the manufacturers and chiefly OF cotton, are
| their W"rk-people the any cheaper here. OF
! great boon of free wool boots and shoes, if fac
| upon which 10 exercise tory made, the same
| their efforts and great may be said. In
| productive power. workmanship ana IN
i-h find c,Trc<Poa|iRy
| articles ii tbs ,rholssnE
superior in the United
states. lhis j. true Of
clothing well as OF
collars, cuffs and like
articles.
| So here is the difference between the
| opinions OF one man when he reports
| facts az All official of his government.
and when he appears in the role of
| politician. ON which does Mr.. Schan-
! hof wish to rest his reputation?
Brevities Worth Reading.
/ There are in the nited States l., 800
/ ou0 families. and of these lU,G25. 900 are
! living in houses or on farms that are not
| encumbered by any mortgage obIiga-
/ tions-BruFnqt0n Free Press.
! Elegant extracts from the Democratic
| anthology: ''oh. 90 home and soak YOUR
/ head. Roger q. Mills. The hogs