The Forrest City times., 1892-03-18
FREE RAW MATERIAL.
should Be Accompanied by a Revenue l TnIn on Manufactures

Tarln on Manufactures
 The correspondent of the St Lcuis Republic quotes Mir. Fithian of Illinois as follows Manufacturers are. of course. all clamoring for free raw ma teriaL and some of them. l suspicion. have no convictions on the question of tariff reform that extend beyond free raw material The demand for free raw material has greatly strengthened the Democratic party in the manufac- turing centres of the East. The dan. ger is great that if we give them free raw material without reducing the du. ties on the manufactured article to revenue basis they will become very indifferent to the demands of the con- sumer for n cheaper manufactured i article. Free raw material is what the manufacturer wants. If he should once obtain it he might drift back into the Republican party and again be- come bowling proteetionist
 Mir A. B. Farquhar an implement maker to York, Pa, in answering an objection to the Home Market club said l would unhesitatingly favor repeal of the duty on all manufac. tured goods we make. Since we can and do export the duty can be of no possible service and since it tends to | provoke retaliation we find it a serious | obstacle. Mir. Farquhar said in fur ther reply to the Home Market club: We do sell goods cheaper to custom CTS in foreign countries directly and to iobbers for export than we do to the domestic trade. This l could not truthfully deny or candidly conceal. | You would like to learn the process by which the manufacturer can afford to sell the foreign buyer goods for less than he can the home customers. The reply is sim plicity itself. We receive the prices current in the mar ket in which we sell. We cannot get more, and cannot be expected to take | less If it is true as Mir. tarquhar asserts that implements made here are sold to foreign l own farmers. does it not demonstrate that our manufacturers of implements are not in need of protection? If our l manufacturers of implements are now ! competing with foreign made imple- ments under our present tariff laws. if they had free raw material they could supply our own people with imple- ments much cheaper and capture the markets of the world in the imple- ment trade But suppose this con gress. in reaching this and other re- | forms, does have to revise the lumber and metal schedules. What did the people send this large Democratic ma jority to congress for? Was it to take no step backward in the cause of tariff reform by standing still? The plac- l ing of agricultural implements on the | free list would not necessitate re- vision of the lumber and metal sched- ules
 s.The raw material from which most Of our agricultural implements are manufactured. both for the domestic and export trade, is the product of the | United States which is enhanced in value to the manufacturer by reason of the tariff duties on the imported article. With this burden to the man. ufacturer and with no advantage to him by reason Of the drawback pro- vision of the Mckinley law. which Mir. Farquhar satisfactorily explains, still our manufacturers to use Mir. Farquhars own words sell agricul- tural implements cheaper to customers in foreign countries directly and to jobbers for export than to the domestic trade.
 The people revolted against the infamies of the Mckinley bill and sent Democratic congressman here as a protest. Every Democratic candidate for congress denounced the Mckinley
 law as infamous. The people so be- lieved and still believe that it is in- famous. and that opinion will be re- tained by the people of every Demo- cratic member of congress who fails to exert his utmost efforts in favor of relief against this wrong. The indlg- nation of the people against any dis position to temporize with question of such great importance will be so great that gentlemen who now are in this congress and who do not observe the signs of the times will be left at home"