The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-22
OUR TARIFF.
VERY DlSPLEASlNG TO ENGLISH
MANUFACTURERS.

Wr~~tjfHS OhGnS.
They Openly Complain That We Are
Taking Their Markets from Them.
Hope Expressed That the Democrats
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. @. Bowen, of
Denver, who has just returned from a
four months sojourn abroad, and who
made a 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
ume of clippings is pregnant with facts.
1t tells the whole tariff story.
Bitter Feeling Among Manufacturers.
81 paid" he said, "close attention to
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 the tariff that has
caused it. Englishmen interested in
manufacturing deeply resent the recent
changes in our 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-
riment of Great Britain"
They Want Democratic Success.
The anxiety for the destruction of our
tariff system by the English is shown in
a clipping from the London Times,
which says: "Englishmen can feel little
sympathy for either of the parties en-
gagged in this ignoble struggle, but un-
doubtedly our interests as trading
community must make us wish success
to the Democrats, who now for the first
time go to the polls as the avowed cham
pions of free trade"
Our Reciprocity Damaging British Com
merce.
In regard to the new tariff giving us
power over foreign countries, The Col
iery Guardian, very influential Eng
ish industrial journal, printed long ar
ticle on July 90.
"The protective policy" it says,
(which the Republican party in the
United States has so successfully main
tanned in spite of the determined at
tempts of the Democrats to put an end
to it, has permitted so great an extern
sion of their iron and allied industries
that that country has taken the place
hitherto held by Great Britain as being
the largest producer of pig iron and also
of Bessemer steel in the world. The
production has in fact overtopped the
capacity of their own country to con-
sumo it, and the consequence now is
that it has become necessary to find
markets in other countries.
''Their effort is to obtain the monop-
oily 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 free,
whereas the goods of other nations have
to pay 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
had one prominent example of this new
ly inaugurated policy of the United
States in the case CT its treaty with
that large and interesting market, Brazil,
which placed us at a great disadvantage
in our trade with that country. The
hardship of that treatment to our manu-
facturers cannot be denied, for whatever
development there has been in the in
dustries and commerce Of that country
has been in great part brought about by
English aid; British capital has been
found to construct the railways and
other public works, and private under
takings have been extensively assisted
out of English pockets.
"If therefore any nation had right
to have its goods received in Brazil on
the most favorable terms it was the
British and not the United States, which
has done nothing to foster the develop
ment Of the country, and till the new
treaty was signed charged heavy duties
on all Brazilian products imported to
its shores. whereas for years we have
levied moor at any rate very small-du-
ties. The people of the United States
are now therefore reaping where we
have sown, and our government, which
has been appealed to by the chambers of
commerce and various trading bodies,
appears to be unable to obtain for us
better treatment.
another instance of this new policy
is their treaty with Cuba and Porto
Rico. 1t will be almost impossible for
our producers to compete against those
Of the United States in the Spanish West
India islands, and the hardware manu-
facturers of the midlands, in endeavor-
ing to get our foreign Office to move in
this matter, have represented that their
business with those islands-which is
not at all inconsiderable-will be prac-
tically annihilated. Their cast iron pots
and stoves have to pay duty of A per
cent. on their invoice values, their rod
irons A per cent, iron chains So per
cent, shovels 30 to rs per cent, anchors
60 per cent, iron nails 65 per cent. and
plowshares 40 per cent, whereas such
goods received from the United States
will be received duty free; then galvan-
lied iron tiles sent from Great Britain
have to pay lis per cent. ASlty, tin plates
81 per cent, wrought iron tubes 80 per
cent, lead tubes and sheets 80 per cent,
similar articles from the States paying
only half the duty formerly levied.
when it is considered that steel rails
imported from England have to pay a
duty equal to 70 per cent. of their value,
while American steel rails pay no duty
at all, it will be seen that there is small
chance for British manufacturers. 1t
will be well for our government to be
on the alert to checkmate the new moves
which the United States government is
making in South America"
That is the way the English view what
protection and reciprocity have done for
the United States.
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