Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-01-18
SENATOR'S SPEAK,
BUSINESS PROSPECTS AS SEEN eY
REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS.

Obstacles to lie Faced by the American
Producer and Manufacturer-No Indui-
Sen"e In Luxuries For the Lsborer.
american Goods Must BE Displaced.
ThcFe can be no reasonable doubt
what tho effect Of the new tariff law
, will be upon both the production and
the purchasing power of the American
people. While there may be tempo
rary revival Of business and an apparent
increase of production, tho level will
soon be reached, and then the evil eff
fects of the legislation will become APP
parent The American producer is to
face the problem of free wool and free
lumber and tremendous cut ON agri-
cultural products and manufactured
goods of almost every description. II
will not take long for the American
sheep raiser TO discover that he cannot
compete with the climatic advantages
and cheap labor of Australia and South
America, and wool growing in the
United States will practically cease.
The men engaged in the lumber bust
ness will transfer their capital rs Cana.
da, and that country will get the bene-
| fit of free lumber. Our farmers and
manufacturers will be compelled to en-
| gage IN sharper competition than ever
before with the Dominion Of Canada
and the countries of Europe and Asia.
Reduced duties on foreign goods will
inevitably result in increased importa-
lions and lessening of the product Of
American mills and American work
shops As consequence wages will be
reduced in the endeavor TO compete with
foreign cheap labor, and the purchasing
capacity of our people will be CORE
spondingly curtailed.
The workingman who has been TO
ceiving 80 per day and indulging in
some of the luxuries of life will on 81. 80
per day be able to only buy the COM
monest necessaries for his family, and
thus merchant and manufacturer both
will feel the effects of reduced wages in
the inability of the masses to purchase
as heretofore.
1t seems TO me that this will be the
inevitable result, and that all classes Of
our people, whether connected with pro-
tected or nonprotected industries, will
be made TO suffer through the enact
ment of this act of ''perfidy" and dis
honor. 1t cannot result otherwise than
detrimentally 10 American interests,
and in due time the Wilson German
bill will be overthrown by the aroused
indignation and awakened conscience of
hn N.,t g.
j. H. GALLINGER,
United States Senator From New Hamp-
shire
The theory of the tariff reformers and
of the free traders, whose views are
but partially carried out in the Viii. !
on-Gorman tariff BILL is that American |
production must be decreased. The bar |
on robbers and manufacturers who have |
been putting their hands in the pockets |
of the people must be stricken down,
which means that the production Of |
American manufactures must he de-
creased by the admission through lower
duties of foreign goods.
The many millions Of dollars worth
of such goods in the custom house are
awaiting such lower rates. 1t may be,
under the ruling of Secretary Carlisle
In the construction of this bill, that
such goods will have to be re-exported
and reimported in order TO secure the
lower rate, but to whatever extent
these lower duties permit Of larger i'm,
portations TO the same extent will Amer
lean production be displaced. Two bod
les cannot occupy the same space at the
same time. Every foreign product will
displace an equivalent American prod.
uct, and the foreign wage Garner will
to that extent displace the American
wage Garner. To the same extent will
the purchasing power Of the American
people be decreased; to that extent will
our general welfare and our power Of
purchasing be decreased.
1t remains 10 be seen how much our
foreign markets will be enlarged by
this bill The theory of the free trader
that we can be admitted TO the foreign
market by lower duties can only be
realized by an absolutely English free
trade policy, and not by the half and
half bill which has been enacted More.
over, the theory is delusion
ANTHONY HIGGINs,
United States Senator From Delaware
Business Under Democracy.
The loss of trade in the United State.