The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-07-05


collected in regard to the proportion
Of our people who have been or can Do
benefited by duties OF imports
i, has long BEN practically admit
ted by the protectionists themselves
that tariff taxes cannot be of any use
70 those who produce . surplus for cx-
port and who FOR any reason are not
exposed 10 foreign competition For
years anthracite coal and raw cotton.
for example, have been free Of duty
under republican tariff laws II Is true
tina: the protectionist legislators have
put duties on wheat. oats. dairy prod
nets. animals. etc. of which we pro-
ducc q SURPLUS. hut they practically ad-
mittcd all the while that they were do
in- this 20 fool the northern farmers
admitted il ty putting cotton and hard
coal on the free list and keeping them
there
For the same reason that anthracite
coal miners and cotton and wheat
growers cannot be projected by duties,
nearly all OF the o.0l3. col persons CLASH
fed torcthcr in the census as engaged
in agriculture. fisheries and mining
cannot be protected For the most
part they produce a surplus which
they must sell in foreign markets in
compe tition against all the world. and
but very few OF them are exposed 70
foreign competition in the home
market.
The el4.3e3 persons who were rem
dering professional services in 1890
were not protected by the tariff The
same IS true of the 1860 zoo persons
rendering domestic and personal serv
ice and the 1880, persons engaged
in trade and transportation There Is
no foreign competition in the practice
of law and medicine. or in preaching,
or in making newspapers. or in keep
! ing boarding houses and restaurants.
| or in domestic service. or in operating
railroads. or in any OF the occupations
| in the different grand divisions of in
dustry mentioned. with n very few
and numerically unimportant excep-
| tons
| We hare left. then. only the 5,Ool 900
persons employed in the manufactur-
| ing and mechanical industries who can
be tariff protected to any considerable
extent. The most numerous classes
tected. because they render services
which must necessarily be rendered in
the country. or because they produce =
surplus for export The Gil, 400 car
penters and joincrs cannot he tariff
protected because we do not import
houses. barns and other structures
reaiymadc. The same is substantially
tr.ie OF the l90. 900 other woodworlGers.
tho $50. 900 brick and stone rlasons, the
IL 600 machinists. the e~9,O0O dress
makers. the .05.O0) blacissmiths and
the 60.COO brick and tile makers The
2l3,O9O boot and shoe makers either do
custom work which cannot be done
abroad or make surplus .o- export
we have 10000 painters. glaciers and
varnishcrs who are not exposed TO com
petition. and we have smaller number:
III many other occupations. but very
large number IN the aggregate. whs
are similarly situated and whom NJ
tariff laws can benefit in any way
Upon a careful examination o. thl
is. of c.nplovmcnts under the head Q
manufacturing and mocha meal il vii
he found that not more than ,oO
ut the outside can he supposed 10 %
! benefited in any WAY by the tariff
Great numbers even Of these ere en-
rarcd in the production OF article.
which arc largely exported and soil
in competition with like articles pro
duccd in other countries There ar.
$4,000 cotton mill operatives, 1890
iron aud steel workers and $3.50
rnollers. for example. only part .
4. a \ n -
because they are IS completely indie
pendent of foreign competition as arr
the cotton growers Of the southern
states The unprotected IN these en-
plovments far outnumbcr the protect
Ell miners and others in the other in
dus;rial divisions. and we may safel,
say that the whole number II tho>.
who can possibly lc benefited by tariff
lcrislation does not exceed l.lO0.00
Asthe total number enya vel in gain
full occupations was over 2-.TJ),y)O. the
number Of the protected III our indus
.rial hive could not have been NOR
than one out Of every twenty.
In the list OF classes engaged in gain
full occupations we find INA manufacturer
and officials of manufacturing com
panies. lO3. eC5." Chiefly for the bench
OF these and the stockholders in manu-
featuring concerns was the protectiv
tariff created. Chiefly for the bcncfi
OF these the republicans for thirty
. three years prosecuted commerce. art
! fcially increased the prices Of ncces
saries and made the conditions of lii
|, harder for all the rest of the people
! And they promise to do the same agai
!. IL the opportunity is given them An
they promise 10 do IL for the benefit {
wage workers They will not have til
opportunity. The experience of pa
tial relief under the democratic tariff
= supported by the census demonstrate
that only one in twenty of the indu
= trial people can in any way be bencf
!. !. Cd by protection. will make il hardl
possible for Mckinleyism TO trump
again in is95.or for very many years
Z come. Chicago Chronicle
, 1t is agreed by all observers ar
T writer's upon industrial and CONNIE
cial subjects that iron is the baromct'
OF business When the iron business
dull there is a universal dullncs-- III
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