The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-09-07
Those Markets OF the World.

F r. w VIZ C16 Va lL1lo GOuh-
try "the markets of the world
Now, unless the unexpected hap.
pens, we are TO have a Democrat
ic tariff bill and the markets OF
the world, SO that it behoves our
manufacturers to look after the
markets of which we have
heard so much, and the CONNER.
cidl Gazette will lend its aid in the
search.
To do this we must first find
where the markets are, and then
how they have been supplied in
the past. OF course no one ex.
poets, unless it be some free trad.
er of the Cleveland Wilson
stripe, that the manufacturers OF
cotton, wooden, silk, linen, iron
and steel, glass and pottery
goods, can find markets for any
part of their goods in Great
Britain France, Germany, Bel.
gum. Holland, Austria, Hungary,
Italy or Spain, for these goods
are manufactured in all these
countries from as cheap material
and by cheaper labor than ours.
We could not by any possibility
compete with the manufacture of
these goods in their own coun.
tries, for that reason. But there
is another reason why we can not.
Everyone of these countries nam.
ed, with the single exception of
Great Britain, have customs du-
ties on all these classes ofgoods,
in many instances higher than
those that were imposed by the
Mckinley law in this country.
They are closed to US by the high
rates of duties imposed-that is,
according to Democratic theory
but the high taxes levied on the
people through customs and du-
ties.
1t IS pertinent right here to di-
gress and ask of the Democratic
theorist. who declare "a tariff a
tax and that all duties levied
on imported goods increase the
price of the home manufactured
to the full amount of the duty
levied. how it is in these coun
tries where the highest duties
are levied, there is no increase
in the price of goods. Possibly
the rule they lay down as an ak.
-fem of political economy is only
able 70 the United States.
They tell US all the residents of
all these countries can buy every
thing SO much cheaper than the
consumers can buy here. because
of the tariff tax" we levy. Yet
there is a hlgh'er higher tariff
tax" in these European countries
than here. 1t is possible that
these Democratic statesmen and
leaders are not aware of the ex-
istance of these tariff laws in
other countries, although the
Government has tried to enlight-
en- their ignorance by furnishing
to each legislator a book contain
ing the tariff laws of every coun.
try of the world.
tits not, then, in Europe that
we are to find 1.-The markets of
the world" They are closed to
US, because there is an abundant
home supply, cheaper than we
can make it, and because we are
shut out by high duties.
Let US go TO Asia. In India we
find not only high duties, but dis
elimination in favor of English
goods. So that door is shut. In
China we find high duties and
some classes of labor that is
paid ten cents day and subsist
on rice and fish. There are some
articles the Chinese do not manu-
facture. but they are rapidly ac-
curing the ability to make all
classes of goods needed at home,
and Great Britain. with cheaper.
goods tnan ours. controls the
trade of the country.
In Japan we find again a high
rate Of duties and cheap labor en-
gagged in making many of the ar
ticles we manufacture. In the
Australian colonies. in all but
one, there are high customs du
ties and discrimination in favor
of the mother country. So we
cannot find these markets of