The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-27

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ANOTHER VIEW OF THE TARIFF BILL.
Thomas p. Grasty, citizen OF Wash
ington and prominent and influential
Democrat, in recent communication
to the Rich mond Dispatch. takes to task
the Washington correspondent Of that
paper In his expression of views upon
the Wilson tariff bill. Mr.. Grasty has
given the probable effects of the meas
ure upon the South a special study and
has since the time the bill was made
public, written some strong expressions
of his views in the Manufacturers
Record. 1t will doubtless be ad-
mitted, therefore, that he is we'll
able to discuss the matter from a
political and theoretical point of OBJ.
servation. He writes in part as fol-
Iowa:
ut is admitted by your correspondent
that 1T will go hard with the miners and
mine-owners of the Virginias, unless,
as is claimed by the trainers of the bill,
the free raw material will SO stimulate
manufacturing that mine-owners will
have heavily increased demand for
their products
Now, 1 ask, where will free raw
materials stimulate Inanufacturing? If
in Virginia and the South then l should
say go ahead with tho Wilson bill Just
as 1t stands. But in the very next
paragraph your Washing ton correspond
ent practically answers my question
(though it is doubtful if many Of your
readers saw this point by showing how
free hides had stimulated the boo. and
shoe manufactures, not of Virginia, but
of New England. Did free hides bring
any boot and shoe fac tories to Virginia?
Then, if free hides did not help Vir-
ginia how are the free raw materials
provided by the Wilson bill going to
do it?
Again, let US see how the cotton fac
tories of Virginia and tho South will be
benefited by this measure, which, il is
said, gives to New England products
protection to the extent OF an average
al vaiorem duty of about forty per cent.
whlle taking away all protcctio from
the three great products Of the South,
or, rather, the three greatest next to
cotton, which needs no protection.
The giving to New England OF free
coal VIII amount at some mills 10 q
saving of from forty to fifty thousand
dollars year in fuel. Tho effect will
be that this saving will go far toward
the wiping out, if it does not do 40
entirely, of tho advantage which our
Southern cotton mills now enjoy by
reason of their proximity to tho cotton
fields. Therefore, it is evident that tho
trainers OF the Wilson bill did not have
Southern cotton mills in mind when
they told the Washington correspondent
OF the Dispatch that manufacturing
would be 30 stimulated by the bill AS to
compensate our Virginia and West Vir
ginla miners and mine-owners for
robbing Thorn OF business now amount
ing to an even So, 900, 900 year.
II might cite other cases, but these
are enough to show that the South will
be tho sufferer and pay the penalty of
this transcendal pretense of patriotism,
should 1T ever be enacted unamended."
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