The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-02-10
TABLE, REFORM SENTIMENT.
IL n Psnstrating Into Protscsso"ss
Campo.


II u Psnssras'.s lat" 'Fo''e'''""'
Protectiouists are just beginning 70
Get their eyes open. Before election
everything looked blue TO them. unless
Harrison and Mckinley should succeed;
now, they are finding many things 10
he thankful for In the defeat OF nigh
protection. The American Manufact-
urcr of january q prophesies pros
perous year in 1893 for the iron trade.
IL expects To 'see large volume OF
bus ass in the iron and steel trade
with prices ruling low" This will suit
the country except, perhaps. few Car
neries who will be compelled to accept
smaller profits.
But the brightest CLEAN OF hope from
this blue blooded protectionist author.
ity comes from an editorial headed
.sProtection and Industrial Progress
This editorial is giving sanction TO .
letter from one of its correspondents,
who has written upon the bad effects
of protection to the glass industry.
The correspondent shows that with
bountiful supply Of gss and the best
and cheapest fuels and materials on the
earth. we are in every way behind tne
old country in the manufacture OF glass;
simply because the manufacturers nave
spent their surplus money and time In
Washington buying legislation instead
of making improvements. He thinks
that 1.-The years 1898, 1894 and 1895 will
see q steady lessening of the number OF
glass factories, but an increase in the
capitalizations Of those that remain,
and the search for profits will be not
in reckless legislation at Washington
nor in the lottery tickets OF specula'
ton, but in the best factory and admin
istration methods that the world can
produce and that capital and money
and natural advantages can command
A part Of the editorial comment upor
this letter runs as follows:
I'm these latter years in discussing
protection il has been assumed, OTTER
: ,nconsciously, that the sole mission OF
protective duties is to enable manufact
urers to pay high wages 1t does no
require very long memory to recal
: the time when the chief argument ad
n vanced for protective duties was to per
init the establishment and development
7 of specified industries, for which tn
natural facilities of our country seeme
a to offer scope. These industries ono
. established, the country and congress
a had a right to expect that they woul
be carried on in accordance with tn
= best methods obtainable, and not tina
= manufacturers should cling to ways
= manufacturing obsolete in other SCI
IA tions and depend for profit solely upo
4 protective duties. Indeed it was argue
!, that under the influence of protecti,
A duties the prices Of articles will be r
"A duced in two ways. First, by comp
- tition among manufacturers themselve
"a and second. by improved processe
s. made necessary in order to reduce II
~ labor cost of the articles manufacture
~ BY highly skilled and highly paid Ia DC
II protection does not accomplish thl
that is. IL it does not reduce cost by IL
-. proved methods of manufacture. it HI
~ failed to accomplish its mission.
. This, we take it, is Mr.. AtwateI
y, point against glass manufacturers tn
until quite recently the manufacture
in this industry have relied solely up
q protection, and have chung to old met
ID: DDS, old processes, old furnaces, 9
an fluxes. in fact, to use his expressi
language. tt the furnaces that ha
ed been improved in no essential fcatr
since The days of the Pharoahs'
;th must be Messed that the glass man
st facturers have not been the only s
an pers in this respect 1t has not be
: l many years since the iron furnaces a
it'll methods in this country were the OBJ
ell lcte ones Of nearly a century ago"
), OF course these are chestnutty tru'
to many who voted for protection
r. homes and not to home industries,
II is a satisfaction to realize that
ses same truths are beginning TO dawn
tie, on protectionists- IL th's Pro.css =
her tinues there VIII ne no Protec''o" va
of in 1896. Perhaps the country will
loff