The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-02-08
FREE TRADE RESULTS.

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now coming 10 hand from England in
dictate, more and more every week. how
interested. aud how excited even, the
British manufacturers are becoming over
the prospects Of securing their lions
share Of our manufacturing industries.
When the Wilson tariff was first made
public, it was considered advisable To
muzzle the British bulldog, and it was
evidently prearranged that the barking
should be done behind the kennel, at any
rate where it would not attract the eye
of the American eagle. But the anxiety.
the desire, the eagerness, TO snatch our
business from us proved too much for
their discretion, and we learn from one
paper, about the wooden trade. that the
prospect of an increased business with
the States is, however, very hopeful"
Again. further: should it (the new
bill pass in its proposed form, it will
make a great difference in the export of
the lower classes of woolens, upon which
the specific or weight duty weighs so
heavily. This will be a crucial point in
the discussion q the bill. Nothing can
be fairer thar an al valorem duty, but
the difficulty .lways exists that there
are unprinciI ed people who invariably
underdeclare alues, and those who make
honest declarations are made to suffer
for the faults OF others"
This will be cheering news to our WOOL
en- manufacturers, particularly as the fact
il recognized abroad THAT there are In
principled people who invariably under
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best news till the last. and that is what the
Bradford England correspondent writes
to The Textile Manufacturer, which is
published in Manchester. This bold
Bradford man throws aside all pretenses
and hypocrisy. He initiates the straight
forward policy Of Cousin Ben Folsom
when he on July a, 1898, congratulated
the cutlery manufacturers of Sheffield
that they would again secure control of
the American markets, a policy that it
appears has peer also adopted by Mr..
Meeker, the American consul at Brad
ford. The conclusion at which the Brad
ford expert in the English worsted trade
arrives is that the proposed Wilson tar
i'll measure will give to the manufactur-
ers of Bradford far easier access than
tutN have ever udu " d Iidl e TtDIt-
senting a population of 10000, 900 PEG
Pile"
Further Analysing what free wool
really means 10 the American manufac-
turer, this English expert says, How,
under such circumstances, can the free
wool clause hurt the Bradford manufac.
turer!" This expert opinion is remarka.
bly, interesting reading and would en-.
Tighten the majority of the ways and
means committee if they are really capa-
BILE of comprehending the actual intrica.
cies Of the business of manufacturing
wooden goods. In the hope that some OF
these tariff thinkers. destroyers of Amer
can farming industries, murderers oi
American manufacturing industries and
strangers of American labor may be able
TO see beyond the length of their noses
and may be able TO grasp the actual coz
ditions Of some subject that exists be
yond the country hamlets. whence they
emanate, we reproduce this Bradford
correspondents remarks in full as pub
lished in The Textile Manufacturer:
There is no doubt that the slight in
fusion Of buOyancy into this market has
been the result, to partial extent. of the
publication of the new tariff proposals
in America. \ good many opinions have
been expressed and some figures given
as to the favorable character of that tar
if from the point Of view of Bradford
wool stap!ers and manufacturers. But
agood many opinions and a good many
valuable figures nave been kept back be-
cause Bradford men fear that capital
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publicans. Some even say that such
statements might prevent the bill from
passing. There is no adequate ground
for this fear, which is entertained chiefly
in fair trade quarters. In the first place
Mr.. Meeker, the American consul, tell:
me that there is not the slightest doubt
the bill will pass, and in the second
place every man who reads his newspa
per thoroughly knows that Mr.. McKin
ley and other Republicans have doset
the American public ad nauseum witt
forebodings as to the injury the new tar
IL will inf1ict on American manufactur
ers and the benefit it will confer on Eng
lish manufacturers.
What is more, the committee IN way
and means which drafted the bill tool
evidence for weeks, and among it is
MAS Of evidence a to how the tariff
would affect the worsted trade. The fac
isthe American farmers and the ordinar,
American consumer have begun to By
that protection raises the price Of com
modities and only confers benefits on tn
manufacturers of the east I'm states, VIII,
ne bound by no human Law to share thos'
benefits with anybody. In short, thedee]
sst desire in America for an amelioratet
tariff will not be baked by the repetition
Il the-stale story that that tariff vii
benefit q few English towns. So ! shall
Aave my say.
To exeInplify what the tariff will meal
70 Bradford trade, / will just in a sen
tance show how it viii, affect worstet
0natinQs. which form half of the Brad