The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-12-23

protest against it. The Hon. Alex Rice, o
Massachusetts, said III the House: 1.-THE
manufacturer asks no additional protection.
He has learned among other things that tn,
greatest evil next to a ruinous competition
from foreign sources isan excessive protec
ton which stimulates like ruinous and ir
responsible competition at home" Congress
sional Globe, 1S59-'60, page 1867.
Mr.. Sherman, of Ohio, said: when Mr.,
Stanton says the manufacturers are urging
and pressing this bill he says what he must
turers have asked over and over again to be
lei alone Ibid 2053. Mr.. Morrill, himself
has since said that the tariff of 1861 was not
asked for and but colby welcomed by manu-
facturers. Congressional Globe, lSG9-'70,
page 1895. Senator r. NJ. I. Hunter, of
| Virginia, then chairman of the Senate finance
committee, said: ''Have any of the mann
facturers come here to complain or ask for
new duties? Is it not notorious that if we
were to leave it to the manufacturers of New
England themselves, to the manufactures Of
hardware, textile fabrics, &c, there would
be a large majority against any change? Do
We tot know that the wooden manufacture
dates its revival from the tariff of 1857, which
altered the duties on wool?' The history of
American industry shows that during no other
period has there been a more healthy and
rapid development of our manufacturing in
dustry than during the fifteen years Of low
tariff from 1886 to 1861, nor a more healthy
and harmonious growth of agriculture and all
the other great industries of the country.
The reductions and changes contained in
the proposed bill are noted, and the chair
man doubts not that fuller debate ON some
of the schedules will result in their change.
How the bill affects the farmer the report
says:
Of the staple agricultural products, includ
ing meats and provisions, we are such large
exporters, and must continue to be such large
exporters, that any duties upon them are use
less for protection and fruitless for revenue,
and generally can only be imposed for the
purpose Of deluding the farmers into the be
lief that they are receiving some considera
ton and benefit under the tariff. although the
prices of their products are fixed in the worlds
market in competition with like products pro-
duced by the cheapest labor of the world.
For the producers of our great export staples
which have fully supplied the home market
and must overflow and seek large purchasers
the only effect of protective tariff
is to take away from them from one fourth to
exchange their surplus in the open market,
should they venture to buy in the market
where they are obliged to sell, or to compel
them to give like portion of the avails of
their labor, when turned into money, by in
creasing the cost of what they buy in the home
market. Recognizing that the American far
mer has been through many years the patient
victim of the protective system; that he has |
been induced to support it under the delusive |
promise that by immense present sacrifices |
he was buying for himself home market, /
and that this promised home market is farther |
rom him today than ever before, We have |
,imed to secure for him such relaxation of |
BURDENS as will permit him toenjoy more ofthe !
ruits of his own hard and faithful labor. To /
he farmers of the country we have given I'M
sxed agricultural implements and binding
wine and untaxed cotton ties, for the add
ional reason in the latter case that cotton is
he largest export crop of the country, sold
broad in competition with the cheap labor
# India and of Egypt, believing that it was
efficient for the private axgatherer to fol-
ow the farmer in the markets of his own
ountry and not to pursue him into all the
markets of the world. As cotton bagging
an be used but once, we have thought it but
lst to extend the drawback system to such
tagging made of jute butts when used upon
ur exported cotton, privilege which the
Exporter of wheat can already now enjoy,
ouped with the further advantage that the
anne bags may be used for successive expor-
alton of grain.