Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-08
4 NECESSITY.
PROTECTED TARIFF is ESSENTIAL FOR
THE SECURITY OF OUR INDUSTRIES
AND OUR WAGE FARMERS.

AND OUR WAGE FARMERS.
Every Government should seek to de-
velop the highest skill and industry
among all its people, and at the same
time all the natural resources of its own
territory.
The history of civilization proves that
no Nation ever has permanently tecured
these desirable results without protec-
ton; and a moments reflection will
convince us that country whose indus
tries are undeveloped never could estab.
lish them in direct competition with
older countries, whose industries are
already wealthy aad well established, for
the older and richer country could well
afford, in its own interest, to food such
newer country with goods at prices far be-
low the cost of producing such goods IN
the newer country, and so break down
and crush out all efforts Of the newer
country TO establish solid manufactures
and give varied industries to its people.
Indeed, such has ever been the policy
of Great Britain toward younger and
weaker Nations.
In debate On this subject in the Eng
lish House of Lords, Lord Goderich said :
"Other Nations know what we English
mean by free trade is nothing more nor
less than by meaGs of the great advan-
tages we enjoy to get the monopoly of
all the markets OF other Nations for our
manufactures, and to prevent them, one
and all, from ever becoming manufac-
turing Nations"
This certainly is audaciously frank,
but it is also the very concentrated
essence Of National commercial sulish-
ness, and nothing but strong protective
tariff can prevent England from forcing
this policy on US. She has tried it upon
US repeatedly, but especially in 1916
at the close of the war for the avowcd
purpose of breaking down our manufac-
lures; for Lord Brougham at that very
time in the House of Commons said: at
is well worth while to incur loss upon
the first expectations il order, by the
glut, to stifle in the cradle those manu-.
features in the United States which the
war pau iofceu INTO cAisteucei contrary
to the natural order of things What
was the result of this policy toward us2
"Our MANUFACTURES went down like
grass before the mower, and our agri-
culture and the wages Of labor speedily
followed. Financial prostration was
general and the presence of debt was
universal aud intolerable" (Greeley).
The policy OF England is further
shown by David Syme, wealthy man
utaeturer and prominent free trader, who
boldly declares;
''ln any quarter OF the globe where
competition shows itself as likely to ia-
terfere with English monopoly, immedi
ately the capital of her manufacturers
Is massed in that particular quarter, aud
goods are exported there in large guam
titles and sold at such prices that out
side competition is eiectually crushed
out. English manufacturers have been
known to export goods to distant mar
ket and sell them under cost for years,
with view of getting the market into
their own hands again, and to gain and
keep that forei9n market and step Ia for
the whole when prices revive"
How literally true this is, we know to
our bitter cost in the United States.
From these facts and statements-and
many Others could be easily added it
is clear that while Great Britain, with
all her immense wealth aud firmly -estab-
lished manufactures, adheres to sucl
policy, there is no safety for our labor
nor security for our industrial capital
without a strong and permanent protec-
tive tariff. Sucn a policy only can give
US the varied industries and multiplicity
of products which certainly are essential
to the continued prosperity OF any Nation
or people. This fact is so plain
and so true, historically, that even
the English free traders cannot
deny 1T. Thus Lord Goderich, in
the speech from which we have quoted
above, referring to the protective policy
then just adopted by France, said: "The
policy that France acts on is that of
encouraging its native manufactures;
and 1t is wise policy (for France, fol