The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-07-30

tectlve, because the object of it is to
protect the home manufacturer.
@. How does it protect him?
A. BY enabling him to get
higher price for his blankets than he
could get without it.
@. How does it enable him to get
this higher price?
A. BY protecting him against
foreign competition. If an English
blanket is worth 81, it is made to
pay duty of 30 cents. This in
creases the price to $3.50, and ena-
bles the home manufacturer to exact
$1.50 for his blankets
Q. You certainly do not mean to
say that the protective tariff compels
man to pay $3.50 for a one dollar
blanket?
A. Yes.
@ And is it the object of "a pro-
tective tariff TO make goods higher
than they would be without it2
A. 1t is.
WHO GETS IT?
@. Who gets the extra so cents
on the blanket?
A. If it is foreign blanket, the
government gets the extra so cents;
| if it is a Massachusetts blanket, the
Massachusetts manufacturer gets il.
@. Then every time citizen buys
blanket for 81 so, he gets only one
dollars worth of blanket, and gives
the other half dollar for protection
to home manufacturer?
A. Yes.
Q. But is it fair for the govern
ment of force a blanket buyer in
Missouri to pay tribute like this to
blanket manufacturer in Massa-
chusetts?
A. 1t is not. 1t is very unfair.
@. Does tariff on all protected
articles operate in this way?
A. 1t does
Q. But are not protective duties
levied chiefly on luxuries used by
the rich?
A. No. They are levied chiefly
on the necessaries of life consumed
by the masses.
@. Then they must have the eff
feet of increasing the prices of these
necessaries?
A. They do have that effect.
G. Please name few articles of
common use that are protected in
in this way.
A. Sugar, salt, rice, fish, lumber,
wooden goods of all kinds, cotton
goods of all kinds, window glass and
all glassware, table ware, tools, pa
per, soap, tin plate, leather goods,
wooden goods, hardware, needles,
thread, and so on.
Q. What is the average duty ON
these articles?
A. About so per cent.
q. Do you mean to say that if
Missouri farmer buys $3.50 worth of
sugar, salt, rice, clothing, tools, hard
ware and other such necessaries, in
the course of year, one third of
this money is for protection?
A. Yes.
riGil DOILAho a lean.
Q. Then protection costs him $50
year?
A. IL does.
G Does the government levy du-
ties on goods made in this country?
A. No-only on imported goods.
@. Can't he avoid the blanket
duty, then, by buying an American
blanket?
A. No, for the American manu-
facturer asks so cents more for his
blanket than he would ask If there
were no duty, and The purchaser is
hound to pay it.
THREE TO ONE.
G. Are there any duties that are
both revenue and protective at the
same time?
A. Yes. Nearly all duties under
our present tariff are both revenue
and protective, because they do not
prohibit the Importation of foreign
goods entirely, and therefore, yield
both revenue to the government and
protection to home manufacturers
but as rule, three times as much
to the manufacturers as to the gov
eminent.
@. How is this?
A. The government gets the duty
only on the foreign goods imported,
while the home manufacturers get it
on all the protected goods they make,
which is five or six times as much.
PROTECTION Is Ajax ON WHEAT.
@. What foreign country buys
most of our farm produce?
A. Great Britain.
@. Does it levy import duties on
i it?
A. 1t does not. 1t admits our
hreadstutfs and meats and provisions
free of duty, and buys very largely
of them
Q. You say or protective tariff
forces us to pay $3.50 for what we
can buy abroad for $I00f
A. Yes.
@. Then, man might buy
abroad for $500, articles that would
at home cost him $3.50.
A. Yes.
Q. Now, suppose a Missouri
farmer takes this crop Of wheat, 500
bushels, to Liverpool, sells it for
$500, aud lays ont the money in ar
ticles Of necessity which are cheaper
there than here, and brings them to
this country-wouId he be allowed
to bring them in free # duty?
A. No.
@. What! Not If he brought
them on the same vessel with him
self?
A. No. He would have to pay
the duty.
G. But they are his own goods,
bought with the proceeds of his own
Missouri wheat, raised by the sweat
of his own brow. Indeed, they are