Evening journal., 1894-05-17
COSTLY AND PAINFUL.

We are ready to grant the worst the
protectionists may say concerning the
effects Of the tariff doubt or dlsas er on
business They cannot score the DELAYS
or the dalliss Of Members Of Congress
too severely; we admit all they say.
We will say worse than they will admit
concerning the protective tariff and the
blight upon all 10 touches or upon all who
touch it Referring to this subject, one
Of 1.-THE most ardent protectlonist papers
says:
10 is the prevailing impression among
bankers and business men, not including
manufacturers directly affected by
changes Of duty, that almost an decl-
sion by Congress will bring speedy relief
and increase In the volume Of business.
10 would be wise to accept this opinion
with great caution The manufacturers
themselves are very much in doubt about
it, and little as they can anticipate what
conditions may exist Ia the future, in
cline quite generally 10 the belief that
more establishments are now IN operation
than can contiuus 90 operate after
Democratic tariff has gone into effect
Unfortunately for the country, and
especially for the wage earners, the ques
tion eau only be settled by g most costly
and painful experiment
fit is "cestly and painful expert
ment' TO reduce the tariff and stop what
a majority Of the people believe to be a
public robbery, what must IL cost not 60
correct the tariff, not TO make the ex-
pertinent Of eelf-support for Industries
which are as old as the country
What is IL costing this country 10 pay
tariff something less than $i3 a ton On
steel rails, when Major Bent aud Tom
Johnson declare that they can make them
30 sell at FREQ trade pricssl What must
% cos. TO buy collars and cuffs under a
IS per cent tariff when a 20 per cent.
tariff would pay almost double the
difference, 80 any, in wages, between the
Imported aad domestic manufactured
But. no matter how costly and pain
ful" this experiment Of self support t9
the millionaire rail makers or Gun
mskers may be. It would bs beneficial to
Che country. There Is nothing 20 prove
that &c would not b. beneficial 20 them.
Experience teaches that 10 would not be
hurtful. We heard the same STUFF and
nonsense about the quinine, the silk and
the leather industry The reduction Of
the tariff on goat skins has benefited
the morocco trade here. The morocc,
men would not object TO few nor,
free raw msterials
The slave owners urged the same OBJ
iections. they pursued the same course
o. compromise aud delay a at these pro.
tectors OF white industrial slaves 81,
pursuing now. Slavery was not modi
led, the slaves were no. gradual,
emsueipatsi and paid Tor. a war wa
Incurred sni The slaves we've freed Tn
slave owners waited too long. the,
fought against the sentiment as th
p-otectionists are fighting against th
seuae Of the people Instead Of savini
what they could they riaked everything
they had aud lost.
The cases are parallel As the slav
protectors urged that the negroes wer
better Oh so the Industry protectors ar
urging that the American workineme
are better cd FOR tho wosk they give.
Work IS not a blessing. We wan
liberty. Men are tramping fhrougLou
the country demanding work. Tb
, slaves Of the South were never out q
work; they never trapped to beg or 70
, or seize traias.
q Proteciiorism is WORSE than slavery
prolnising the woris gmen what il Is n,
fl able to give an then letting thel
suffer
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