The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

OF everything which enters into
glass and the glass manufacturing
business, so that everything seems
to have an artificial and unstable
value. The element of quality is
left out of consideration altogether.
For example, 100 pounds of crude
material when melted into glass
yields us only 60 pounds, yet we
pay the duty on 100 pounds. But
what is more, 80 per cent. of it Is
not made abroad at all. The other
10 per cent we make also, and for
four years we have had imported
glass in our sheds which we have
offered for half the price of our
own make. We export many things
upon which there is tariff because
they are of a better quality than
the foreign makeS and this is the
real test. One of our men who was
recently abroad said that he pur-
chased our lamp chimneys in Dub
lin. If they did not cost us so
much additional on account of the
tariff we could greatly increase our
exports, The whole system is q
stigma upon our intelligence.
Under the tariff of 1883, Mr.. Nc
beth's glass manufactures We're
"protected" by duties ranging from
40 to 45 per cent. ad valorem. BY
the Mckinley tariff the "protection'
was increased to 60 per cent. ad
valorem. Nevertheless, he is op-
posed to the whole "protective" ta-
riff system and explained how it
works to the injury Of the people.
Tariff on commodities, he said, is
an important factor in organizing
all sorts of associations, trusts,
combinations and firms, which are,
by the aid of the government, en-
abled to do those things which
make trusts so odious.
There is sometimes good reason
for large aggregations, as in the
case where Il profit can be saved
by the employment of an expen-
sive and improved plant. 1t is
difficult for small factory to COM
pete nowadays with large one.
This is true of agricultural machih-
cry. A large shop gets improved
and expensive machinery adapted
to special work, and this reduces
the cost of each piece. This has
been the sole reason for any lower
ing of prices of agricultural ma
chinery, and the whole of it prac-
tically has not been nor can be pro-
tected by any tariff, as scarcely
any of it is made abroad. 1t would
have been much cheaper if no ta-
riff had existed, and that without
ever touching the wages of their
wOrkmen. These very men work
in material which costs too much
by reason Of the tariff. The paint
er who paints these machines uses
a brush which costs too much by
reason of the tariff; his paint Is
kept in a tin niibucket which costs
too much by reason of the tariff;
his paint costs nearly double by
reason Of the same tariff; every bit
Of iron costs too much, and, what
is more, every man who works
making this machinery has the
cost of his living made more by
this same tariff What is there
left in all this but to reduce the
wages of these men as opportunity
or necessity occurs. 1t is the only
squeezable part.
Then comes the farmer to foot
the bill of increased cost, while he
must sell his grain, the lowest in
the world, in a country which
raises 33 per cent. of the grain Of
the world, and must adapt itself
to the world wide market.
Mr.. Macbeth says he challenges
the most astute business man to eN-
haust the sources of increased cost.
''It is little here and more there,
which aggregates and increases
the cost"
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