The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-15
PROTECTION NEEDED
DESTRUCTION WOULD ovERTAk
OUR INDUSTRIES WITHOUT 1T.


OUR INDUSTRIES WITHOUT 1T.
Tariffs Necessary to Foster Infant Indus
tries and to Maintain Them when Full
Grown as well-significant Quotation
from Engiishmsn.
Every government should seek to de
velop the highest skill and industr'
among all its people, and at the SAINT
time all the natural resources Of its OWL
territory.
The history of civilization proves that
no nation ever has permanently Sc
cured these desirable results without
protection; and q moments reflection
will convince us that country whose
industries are undeveloped never could
establish them in direct competition
with older countries, whose industries
are already wealthy and well estab-
hshed, for the older and richer country
could well afford, in its own interests,
to food such newer country with goods
at prices far below 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
fish house of lords, Lord Goderich said
|. "Other nations know that what W,
\ English mean by free trade is nothing
n more nor less than by means Of thu
great advantages we enjoy to get tn
| monopoly of all the markets of othe
N nations for our manufacturers and t.
4 prevent them, one and all, from ever be
coming manufacturing nations"
This certainly is audaciously frank
! but it is also the very concentrated es
\ sence of national commercial selfishnesa
Y and nothing but strong protectiv
j tariff can prevent England from forcinI
u this policy on us. She has tried it upo
X us repeatedly, but especially in 1916 a
7 the close of the war for the avowed pun
pose of breaking down our manufae
y lures, for Lord Brougham at that yer
p time in the house of commons said: ~
, is well worth while to incur q loss upo
i the first expectations i'll order, by til
k glut, to stitle in the cradle those man,
\ features in the United States which I'll
!, war had forced into existence col
I trary to the natural order of things
y What was the result of this polio
H. toward us? "Our manufactures wei
n down like grass before the mower, an
our agriculture and the wages of labt
NJ speedily followed. Financial prostr
10 ton was general and the presence
IA debt was universal and intolerable
A. said Greeley.
Us The policy of England is furth
n shown by David Syme, q wealthy man
IIc facturer and prominent free trader, wi
ve boldly declares:
i "In any quarter of the globe whe
'he competition shows itself MS likely to j
,t. terfere with English monopoly, INN
|it diately the capital of her manufacture
T. is massed in that particular quartz
bia and goods are exported there in lar
MI quantities and sold at such prices til
outside competition is effectual
crushed out English manufacture
|, have been known to export goods to
T. - distant market and sell them under CO
I'm for years, with view of getting
md market into their own hands again q
Eh igs to gain and keep that foreign mari
I gs and step in for the whole when pri'
81 revive" How literally true this is
ike know to our bitter cost in the Unit
1of States.
~ From these facts and statements
hryl many others could be easily added
D is clear that while Great Britain, with
Hho her immense wealth and firmly est
|, i lished manufactures, adheres to sucl
,rry policy there is no safety for our la
Two nor security for our industrial cap
Pr, without strong and permanent prot'
nli i've tariff Such policy only can 6
pills us the varied Industries and multiple
$ys- of products which certainly are est
~ tial to the continued prosperity or
md nation or people. This fact ID SO pl
and and so true, historically, that even
English free traders cannot deny
i G.n Thus Lord Goderich, in the speech fl
which we have quoted above, refer
to the protective policy then just ad
ed by France, said 1.-THE policy
bwn France acts on is that of encourat
ht its native manufactures; and it is q '
M ms policy (for France), for If she were
bms ly to admit our manufactures it w
and speedily reduce her to an agricult
Fing nation, and therefore poor nation
h IN all nations must be that depend eA
'hen. sively upon agriculture"
that There are no historical facts I
e1 nt clearly established than these three:
Wit. First-Every nation that has depel
who exclusively or nearly so upon agr
tho ture for the support and maintenan'
49, its people has been poor nation.
n ss Second-The nation that has hat
At.lgreatest variety of we'll developed /
chen. Industries has been the wealthiest
49,, Dot strongest nation.
was Third-Without a protective tai
D. is impossible for any new nation
tablish and maintain variety of il
tries in competition with matte
la of which they are already rich and fl
! two established.
Dbins, Consequently the necessity as we
tnat the wisdom of adhering to prote
' tawn policy in the United States must b
aeted, parent.--D. q. Hartman.
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