New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-05-25
THE TARIFF GOOD FOR ALL.
It Enriches the Whole Country and is not
Intended for the Benefit Of Few
What We need is not Fewer Industries, but
More Industries.

week, a gentleman named Campbell,
asks the Hon. r. G.. Horn of Michigan
two questions as follows:
/. Where is the justice in compelling
the 100000 inhabitants Of the United
States to pay an abnormally high price
for their goods in order to protect Cor
rather enrich) the people engaged in
manufacturing who constitute only a
small per cent of our population?
2. What right has the Government to
compel me by the tariff law to buy my
goods from an American when can buy
them from foreigner for less? Why
does not the Government protect me as
we'll as the manufacturers?
To these questions which constitute
the low tariff mans chief stock in argu-
ment, Mr.. Horn very clearly replies by
saying:
1t would most surely be unjust and
wrong to frame the laws so as to compel
G4,000,OO0 people to pay AN exorbitant
price for goods for the purpose of max
ING few men rich who manufacture
such goods. do not suppose there is a
man in the world who will deny that
proposition. The fact that Campbell
could ask such question shows that he
has never informed himself even CON
corning the elementary principles of a
Protective tariff.
His question assumes, if tariff is lev
led on any class Of goods and their
manufacture is thereby secured in the
United States. that such law will re-
suit in increasing the,price Of such goods:
He should know that what he is claim
ing to be true is not fact at all. Every
Protectionist will tell him that in the
case of manufactured goods, without ex-
ception, we always cheaper such goods
for the people who consume them in the
United States by making them here. 1
defy Mr. Campbell, or any one else, to
name an instance where such has not been
the result. Understand me, challenge
them to name an instance where the pro-
duction of a large quantity of any kind
Of goods here in the United States has
not resulted in lowering the price of those
goods so that the 64,OOO,0OO people in
the United States could purchase them a
great deal cheaper than they ever had
previous to building up the industry in
this country,
Mr., Campbell's question assumes that
a tariff is levied for the purpose Of pro-
tecting and making rich few manufac-
turerS. That is not true. The main
purpose in levying duty is to enable
our manufacturers to pay better wages
to the men employed in making goods
in the United States, far better wages
than are paid anywhere else in theworld.
They are doing this.
| also challenge contradiction of anoth-
Ell statement. Several millions ofpeople
in the United States are laboring in the
production of protected goods. These
people get never less than seventy per
cent more than the same kind of labor
gets in the Old World. In many cases
they are getting twice as much, three
times as much, and in some instances
four times as much, as is paid for the
same kind of work elsewhere on the face
of the earth. The tariff is levied to pro-
tect this enormous army Of working peo-
pie, and not for the purpose of benefit
ing the few. This fact has been stated
over again, and proved in thousand in
stances within the last thirty years. Is
it not true? Why, then, should this cor
respondent so frame his question as to
take for granted one Of the most bare
faced misstatements that the Free Ira
ders of the country have been repeating
during the years. gone by?
Under our form of civilization people
who labor with their hands forliving get
better wages than are paid in the manu-
featuring centres of the Old World
Hence our laboring people are able to
live on a higher plane. They are ena-
bled to consume more of the necessities
of life and to enjoy very much more OF
the comforts of life than the same classes
of people on the other side of the ocean
The protective system recognizes this
fact; and our laws are so shaped as to
enable our people to maintain this high
standard of labor, and at the same time
to manufacture in this country. Oul
markets are by far the best markets on
the face Of the earth. That is simplyso.
because the mass of our people get these
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