New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-06-21
A MUCH SURPRISED BRITON
He IS Thunderstruck BY What He Dis
covered in America. #
Some Plain Talk about the Tariff, aud it'
Effect on Industry.

! A number of editors from Great Brit
ain have been taking in the Worlds Fair +
and looking over the United States for
q few weeks. Among these editors is
Mr.. Lascelles Carr, editor Of .sThe West
ern Mail Of Bardiff, Wales. Mr.. Carr.
has been writing letters to his wife, tell
ing her Of some of the wonderful dis
coveries which he has made the United
States. and she has had the letters pub
lished in the paper>of which Mr.. Carr is
editor. In order that the readers Of The
Tribune may fully understand the posi-
ton which Mr.. Carr occupies upon the
question Of Protection, will permit
him to state that position in his own
words. He says:
I am as you know, a convinced free
trader. Protection is to me an economic
heresy, the fraud and folly Of which are
capable Of mathematical demonstration
demonstration as abso]ntclv convincing
as that by wl,icl, the solution Of a prob
| lem in Euclid is arrived at.
! Thus it will be seen, Mr.. Carr comes
among us prejudiced in favor Of free
trade, believing that the Free Trade
theory can be demonstrated as clearly as
ga problem in Euclid" One would ex-
pect to find a man thus filled with pre-
conceived notions against Protection,
very difficult to reach by any arguments
which might be named in favor Of Pro-
lection. Yet, after reading number of
his letters, it is refreshing to find one
Englishman who has come among us
with his eyes and ears open, and who
also seems to have brought with him a
sensible head.
After visiting New-York and Phila-
delphia, he writes: @-.s.
Throughout the length the breadth Of
this vast continent, one is almost daily
brought face to face with solid, indis-
putable facts that secm1o give the lie
| to the soundest and most universally ac-
cepted axioms=of political economy. Let
me give you just one example. Under
the shadow Of a stringent protective
tariff the manufacture Of paper was COM
menced in the United States. Paper is
sill subject to heavy import duty.
According to our theories, that ought to
enhance it's price to the consumer In this
country. AS a matter Of fact, the New
York newspaper proprietors buy their
:snews" at a less price than that at which
it could be supplied to them in London;
and some of the paper mills in New
Jersey are actually exporting paper to
the old country. Unless it can be shown
that this paper industry would have
grown up without the aid ola protective
tariff, it is tutile-nay, it is an impertin-
ence- for an outsider to say that the
Americans have acted unwisely in taxing
themselves for a few years in order to
| establish in their midst great industry
giving occpation to a great quantity of
highly paid labor. And it seems to me
that this set of facts and the arguments
based on it apply to many of the other
industries which are assuming such colos-:
sal proportions throughout the length
and breadth of the land.
Mr.. Carr is clearly right. The readers
| of the Tribune will bear me witness that
/ have been calling the attention of free
traders t., their exact condition Of things
week in and week out, for the last three
years. Precisely what Mr.. Carr discovers
has taken place in the .spaper industry 3
has occurred in all the great manufacture
! ing industries Of this nation. We have
Invariably cheapened the products Of
our manufactures for the consumers of
| Cnt @OulLtu& OtdIeS.& 1GSWOulu. no uOuDC,
lsurprise this English editor to find, upon
a careful examination, that there is hard
" a single industry among the hundreds
built up in the United6 States by Protec.
ton which has not resulted precisely as
has the particular industry which has
been brought to his notice. have FREE
quently in public debate and in news
paper articles, called upon advocates Of
.sfree trade" to name a single instance
in the entire United States where, after.
the industry had become establ lishcd We
have not reduced the price Of the goods.
They have utterly failed 70 give q single
instance; and yet they are constantly
telling Us that~uch a tariff is sstax''ss
and enhances the price eof the goods. This
English Free Trader has the sense and
honesty to tell US that these sssolid, in IN