The morning call., 1893-04-16
AN OLD QUESTION.

The Herald Of Trade pays THE CALL the
doubtful compliment of assuming that 1t
would discuss tariff issues without refer
ences to arguments that have done effective
service in Other hands. The trouble is that
the tariff is not new question. 1t is based
upon the same lines of policy as when An
drew Jackson declared a protective policy
essential to the establishment of manufac-
turing industries in this country. Our con-
temporary seems under the impression that
because industries have prOspered under a
protective policy that policy should now be
changed. Advocates of protection, how
ever, do not accept this conclusion. II
seems to them that a policy which has
worked so we'll since 1868 might continue to
produce good results. We confess to little
surprise to see so intelligent paper as the
Herald Of Trade urge the fact of good
results as a reason why the policy that has
produced good results should be dscon-
tinned. Infant industries have grown up
under protection, but with their growth
exceptional conditions have developed
American Industries are based on a stand
ard of wages somewhat more than 80 per
cent higher than prevail in Europe. The
consequence involved in the readjust-
ment of duties on non-protective basis is
that in proportion to the reduction in duties
there must inevitably be a reduction in the
standard of wages. Two and two will con-
tinue to make four. If American manu-
facturers have to compete oil even terms
with goods made by manufacturers whose
labor Is so per cent cheaper. then our Amer
ican manufacturers will either establish
corresponding rates or go out Of business.
rrhnca col m nd If
have play for their Imagination in compar-
ing the reception given yesterday at New
York to descendant of Columbus with the
greeting of the illustrous navigator him.
self. 1t is the comparison of America and
Europe now-an age of almost medieval
gloom with an age OF dazzling advancement,
far from exhausted in it's progress. The
navigator had poor treatment in his day,
but his was the fate of most of the great
minds OF the time. The Duke of Veragua
may come to the conclusion that the energy
so abundantly manifest in the country his
ancestor discovered would be helpful to
Spain, and he may also wonder why it is
absent
FijaDs who have been imported for the
purpose Of adding Iuster to the exposition in
the Lake City are being tortured in the
habiliments becoming TO civilization. They
were taken to the Golden Gate Park yes
terday in costumes as various as the slop-
shops could provide, no two alike, and all
about as comfortable on the pelts of their
dusky wearers as clothes on an anthropoid
family. The shoes are particularly distress
ing to feet hardened sufficiently 10 dance
and run on sharp coral They shuttle along
manfully, however, and will welcome shoes
when they sight blizzard of hail or snow.
Some very pretty specimens of architect
nre are going up and also down in Chicago.
near the Fair grounds. These structures
are built for the occasion on collapsible
principles as II they we've Intended to be
carried away when the guests depart The
misfortune is that some of them NAV
double up ineonyenienily while the guests
are inside. There is also the extra danger
OF fire In the ratle-tTap creations put up in
n hurry. The Chicago bTicklayer is putting
in his round of hours with tremendous
energy at this moment. and it is pity he
should sometimes 90 back to his foundations
when he should be putting on tho roof.
One huge hotel the other day gave a wobble
Df its own accord, aud went into a chaos of
bricks, but most considerably it postponed
action until ffty-three workmen had de-
parted. aud even tie proprietor and arehi-
teet were dealt withfmercifnlly. Naturally
the Chicago papers do not like illusions TO
building shams. IL is The one city where
all tie building laws are complied with, all
the streets are clean and well swept, and
all is done to make the visitor feel he ought
TO have been born there.
One of the American Duehesses has put
her august head Into NET, and may have
some worry TO get out. Mrs. Blair, who be-
came the Duchess of Sutherland. has been
cited to appear before tho Probate Judge In