Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-09
PRESIDENT A. K. MILLER of the Ne

PRESIDENT A. K. MILLER of the New
four persons holding such positions, to
criticise the Wilson bill. In the March
number of the North American Review,
he argues logically against the Measure
and shows wherein it would harm the in
dustries of Louisiana. "It is bad sur
gerry" he says, ''to perform a dangerous
operation on a patient still weak and
just recovering from a serious illness.
Yet this is what the Wilson bill pro-
poses to do. Her business and manu-
features could not stand the shock. It
is difficult to see how the many Alabama
and Tennessee iron furnaces which we're
closed last year by the depression in the
iron industry can hope to reopen for
years to come, in the face of the iron
schedule, which will make the manu-
facture of iron ever less profitable; or
how the sawmills of the southwest will
begin work again if the western markets
are closed to them by the lumber sche-
dule, which turns these markets over to
the Canadian lumbermen. But without
going to other sections, and combining
ourselves strictly TO Louisiana, whose
industrial condition we know, and abou
which we are able to speak authorita-
lively, we can say that it would be diff
cult to exaggerate the disaster that the
passage of the Wilson bill would bring
to Louisiana and New Orleans. Louisi-
n has confined itself largely to a few
industries. Its sugar crop gives employ
ment to at least two-ffths of it's popula-
ton. Next Importance is it's lumber in
dustry; the latter is engaged largely in
the manufacture Of cypress lumber, the
greater portion Of which goes to the
north and west. It is the opinion of
millmen that the lumber. schedule. which
would open the country to free Canadian
lumber, would, on account of the high
freight rates O prevailing, completely
shut out the. Louisiana mills. A num-
Der OF them are already closed. They
will scarcely be reopened under the
Wilson bill" President Miller speaks
advisedly, and his statements are those
of n who has long been prominently
connected with the industrial develop
ment of Louisiana. He is interested in
the advancement and progression of
these industries, not their retrogression.
His arguments are applicable in each
section, where industries are disregard
ed by the tariff provisions of the Wilson
measure. The prosperity of a country in
wolves, necessarily, the prosperity of the
different localities, where people are con-
cerned sin different Industries. A tar
1T measure must look to the
greatest prosperity in localities, must
protect by one schedule the in
dustries of n section, and by another
schedule the Industries of another. It is
impossible to impose a uniform tariff.
The conditions of the country do not
permit Of it. The Mckinley measure
has in view the prosperity of every Sec
ton and of all classes of industries.
Where their was raw material, a protec-
tective tariff induced it's refining and
manufacturing. It was creative of new
industries, and protective of those al
ready established. 1t is is difficult to
see what industries the Wilson bill will
create-aside from the soup kitchen. It's
whole tendency is toward q closing of
factories, and opening of the market of
the United States to foreign producers,
and a buying by the people of the United
States away from home.
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