The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-07-13
PROTECTION ERRORS.


fhiitHttu OF bhen~fh'~s
In his speech i'm the senate "A few
days ago. senator Sherman. speak
Ing in behalf Of the political wool
s:uwcrs of ohio, said that many
.hangcs had been made IA sections of
the tariff bin looking ~ the protection
Of American industries, remarkably 20
in the cotton schedule lie hoped that
the change would prove Of great bene-
fitto the southern states. by enabling
them 10 convert their cotton into
cloth" Now there has been. as the
senator says. very material change
made in the schedule referred to. but
his effort to associate this with the
southern states il on a par with the
effort Of some of our northeastern
writer's and speakers. who claim that
the south is getting all the protection
in the proposed tariff bill, while the
rest of the country il being ignored.
The cotton schedule. "a, framed. was
framed almost distinctly in the inter-
est Of New England. The reason for
this change in the direction of pro-
lection was that during the last few
years we have been spinning in this
country cotton yarnsof high counts,or.
in other words. of a fine quality. and IL
is held that we cannot compete sue
ccssfully with the cotton spinners in
England. France and Germany in this
class of work. But these fine yarns
have been spun almost entirely in the
northeast We doubt whether there is
single mill south of Mason and Dix
Al . \, Il. E,...
work. Without exception. the cotton
mills of the south spin coarse yarns and
weave coarse class Of goods. not SO
coarse as they did "A few years ago, but
still decidedly SO when compared
with the work which the
amended tariff is intended to
protect In the manufacture
Of these coarse cotton goods we stand
pre-cminent. For more than half "A
century we have steadily exported cot
ton fabrics of this character. selling
them in China and the East Indies in
com petition with the English, and at
times selling them even in England
To tell the southern people that they
are protected in their cotton manu-
features is just as >ophi>tical a. TO i'm
form the wheat growers in the west
that the tariff protects them. and we
regret To say that in making such
statements. those making them. both
here and elsewhere. must be doing sc
for the purpose Of deception. since the
facts are too well known to assume
that there il any mistake in the prem
| isc~.
Another sslf-cvident misstatcment i
that for which Senator Frye il rcspon.
sihle. who. in the same debate. is said
! to have made the assertion that the
republican senator's were in favor Of a
| duty on wool because they did not be
lieve that "A pound Of wool would be
raised in the United States If there wa
no duty on it," senator Frye. in ma
tiers Of this kind. is always loose
talker, but we should suppose that.con
sidering the fact that within six oi
eight weeks wool will he free. and thai
an opportunity in the ne xt year or tive
will thus bc afforded Of proving beyone
the possibility Of doubt the absolute
| liz ridiculous character of the abov,
quoted assertion. he would have suffi
cient regard for his own reputation t
put some mild sort Of restraint upo
his tongue. The proposed tariff reform
bill is far from being the reform meas
ure that we wish il was but it vii
certainly have this effect--that il vii
prove to the people Of this country tina
the advocates of protection. such "A
Senator Frye and others. are either en-
tircly ignorant of the first principles O
economic science. or they have beef
for years past INDUCING in the mos
arrant sort Of wilful misstatements-
boston Herald.