Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-08-18
Tariff Pictures.

New York Press.
The British house painter works under
a revenue tariff and gets Sl.49 per day.
The American house painter works
under protective tariff and gets S2.S2
per day.
Our exports of iron and steel manu-
factures to Brazil are growing rapidly.
They have nearly doubled in the fifteen
months of the reciprocity treaty, having
grown from Sr,654,69l to S3,199,650.
The comparison is with the fifteen
months Immediately preceding the
treaty.
According to DR.. Roland P. Falkner,
the statistician of the Senate Finance
Committee, the cost of living in Great
Britain is l0l.9 as compared with 1886
in the United States, and the wages, you
know, are less. How's that for free
trade?
The average daily wages of unskilled
laborers in free trade Great Britain are
SS3 In the United States. under the
operation of the robbery tax" the un-
skilled laborer gets Sl.71 per day. The
policy of the Democratic party means
the adoption of the British scale of
wages in America.
Our reciprocity treaty with Cuba had
heen in force ten months when the gov
ernment's fiscal year ended on the 3Oth
of June last Our exports to Cuba dur
ing those ten months were Sl6,O95, ,46o,
as against so ,393,27l in the correspond
ing ten months of the previous fiscal
year, and yet the Democratic platform
declares thot Mckinley reciprocity is
sham"
The Mckinley bill put higher duty
on knit goods of cotton, and large guam
titles of these goods are now made at
Amsterdam, n. Y. The Amsterdam
Savings Bank had deposits of S232,000
on the lst of January, 1891, just after
the Mckinley bill took effect. On July
l. 1892, the deposits had grown to
S3o5.35i. Amsterdam is town of
10000 inhabitants, and the cashier of
the savings bank, Mr.. Thatcher, says
the deposits are nearly all made by
working people.
Great Britain's fiscal year ends on
September 80, and consequently the last
fiscal year ended just one year after the
approval of the Mckinley bill. The total
value of Great Britain's exports to the
United States in that year was S176,-
3l5,926.70 as against S205, ,507 ,499.69 in
the previous fiscal year. AS the Senate
Finance subcommittee reported unan-
imously that wages in the United States
were high -r and the cost of living lower,
it is fair to presume that the difference
has benefited us.
Under "foreign competition" Ito wit,
the competition of American cloth in
dustries started up by the Mckinley
law the average weekly wages of
weavers in Bradford, the great wooden
manufacturing center of England, de-
creased from S3 "a in 1890 to $3.08 in
1891. That is heavy decrease for one
year. Meanwhile the Senate Finance
sub Committee, including two Demo
Gratis, unanimously reported the other
day that wages in the United States are
higher than they were before the enact
ment of the Mckinley law.
The investigation conducted by the
Senate Finance Committee showed that
the increase in the average value of
farm products Except flaxseed) from
June, 1889, to September, 1891, has been
1867 per cent. This rise in prices of
what the farmer has to sell has been
by marked decrease in
the cost of what the farmer has to buy.
Thus in October, 1899, first class
modern chilled steel plow cost the
farmer on an average Sl4.37. In Octo-
Der, 1891, the same implement only cost
him $3.50. The Mckinley law is for
the farmer as well as the mechanic.
We make the tariff picture this morn
ing by illustratinga a letter from Theodore
Justice, of Justice, Bateman & Co., the |
well known wool commission merchants |
and wool experts of Philadelphia. In
of the tariff picture pub |
lished in the Press of Monday, which
showed that the average weekly wages
in Bradford had fallen from 1924 to
S3.09 since the Mckinley bill was passed,
Mr.. Justice writes:
81 will give you fact related to me
by wooden manufacturer who,
since the passage of the Mckinley bill,
has moved his extensive plant from
England, to Bristol, Pa. This
gentleman informs me that weaver
who ran one of his best looms in Brad
ford, England, earns there to-day in
that free trade city 1925 week. The
American weaver who is running that
same loom now since it was brought to
Bristol, Pa. earns Sl3 week and works
the same number of hours. The gentle
man who owns this mill was induced to
move to America under the impression
that the Mckinley tariff law was wholly
in the interest of the manufacturers, and
he moved here to secure that advantage.
Since he has been running the mill in
America he tells me that the Mckinley
tariff bill is so largely in the interest of
The laborer that his profit per yard in
America is much less than it was in
England on the same goods, because
abor in America takes a larger share of
The margin between the cost of the raw
in the goods and their selling