Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-01-13


versity of Roche-ter, DR.. David j. Hbll-
i The Developments of lndustries Effect
on Prices-Our Natural kesourccs-Ihs
Moral Reasons
l. lam n protectionist for the following
/ reasons:
First--The policy of protection en-
ables our country to develop industries
of which other countries. il il were not
for protection. would enjoy practical
monopoly. Although not profitable in
the United States unless pro tec:ed.
these industries are important to our
pational development and independ-
ence, and should not be allowed to be-
| come extinct.
I Second-A protective tariff unoues-
tionably increases the reward of labor
| ta) by creating demand for skilled
labor, (b) by diversifying the kinds OF
labor in a country and thus differe ntiat-
ing both demand and supply, and (c)
by making for producers of every kind
q home market This increase of the
1aborer's reward is not confined TO the
! protected industries. but elevates wages
| inSvery sphere, (a) by the sympathetic
effect of high wages generally. and (b)
by withdrawing from the non-protected
industries and from agriculture n sur
and reduce wages IL they competed
AGAINST each other.
Ihird-Although a protective tariff
increases prices Immediately after its
adoption, the resulting activity and the
abundant home production under pro
lection tend constantly to reduce the
! prices of manufactured articles as in
dustry becomes better organized. As
n result the country becomes weather
both absolutely and relatively-abso-
lutely, because the aggregate of home
produced commodities is vastly in
creased; and relatively. because wages
are kept above the European level by n
high-tariff barrier to foreign competi-
| ton. Under free trade or a tariff for
revenue only, we would have to send
our gold out of the country to pay for
imported goods and To- compete with
the entire world in disposing of our
own products at home. thus lowering
our wages to the level of those paid to
the cheap labor of Europe.
Fourth-The United States is a con-
tinental nation and should adopt con-
tinental policy. Free trade is adapted
only to insular nations, and no con-
! tinental nation has adopted N free trade
! policy. We are the most continental of
all the continental peoples and have
the most diversified products nat
urally specialized nation, like Great
Britain. can always drive us out of the
market in that nations speciality in the
] long run, because it must do SO to main
/ tain its own existence. On the one
/ hand, we should not plunge our people
into so desperate a competition with a
| specialized competitor, for this could
end only in driving our people from
/ the field; and, on the other hand, we
should not permit our country to be
itself specialized by being limited To
those productions only in which it has
a natural superiority under existing
conditions The only way out of the
! dilemma is to protect those industries
which 1T is necessary to foster in order
TO secure diversified and harmonious
national development
Fifth-The deepest root of nv ad.
herence to protective policy is. how.
ever, n moral one l believe that we,
as a nation, have great material advan-
tages for the building up of free, in.
telligent and happy people such rs the
| world has not yet seen. / believe that
| these advantages are surrendered il too
| widely shared. We are divinely set as
nation to work out the political prob
| lem of mankind. As patriot | claim
that, having n manifest national destiny
to be worked out by "A historic process,
we should not part with our birthright
! As well might father of n family, Just
started in n prosperous business with a
small capital, distribute his little prop.
erty equally among the poor of his
neighborhood, depriving himself of the
means of providing for and educating
his children, as for this nation To share
with the old world every increment of
power and superiority to be found in
the new, assuming its burdens of men
delaney and debt, and receiving the
peasant as the peer of the American
citizen. The greatest anomaly in our
history is the free reception accorded
to those who have come TO our shores
TO claim rights which they were untitled
to exercise. Free tradessecures to every
other country all the advantages that
belong to this, as soon as il is adopted
by putting American labor in open COM
petition with the labor of Europe and
Asia Free immigration at least obliges
the participant in American prosperity
TO come to America. Free trade would
send him the fruit of American industry
without the tronble of crossing the
ocean. Whether it be against foreign
goods, ideas or men, would raise a
protecting barrier that would secure
this God-given continent TO the preser-
walton an development of the institu-
tions of our fathers. The article in our
political creed that most needs emphasis
is America for Americans"
DAVID J. HILL
object Lesson on the Difference Betwe.n