Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-11
NIFTY In COPPER
ANOTHER INSTANCE OF "saEE TRADE
MALlGNiTY."
Logic OF Events Disproves the Protection
list Doctrines of Economy Wages Of
Copper Workers Advanced Ten Per Cent
Predictions Versus Results.

| LIST Doctrines oil EcOnomy-"hges oi
Copper Workers Advanced Ten Per Cent.
| Predictions Versus Results.
Among the announcements relating
to the revival of industrial prosperity,
says the Philadelphia Record, is the
statement Of Michigan newspapers that
copper mining in that state was never
in more prosperous condition. In con.
nrmation Of this is the further announce
ment that the great Calumet and Hccla
Copper Mining company, following the
example Of tho iron manufacturers, has
added 10 per cent to the wages OF its
$500 employees. These statements are
in cheerful contrast with the howls OF
calamity organs over tho baleful influ-
enco Of tho new tariff upon the copper
mining industry.
When, in 1888, the Mills bill proposed
TO reduce the duty ON copper in ingots
and bars from to 2 cents n pound, ter
rife shricks Of alarm arose from tho cop
per mine owners, and tho tariff organs
printed u chart in which the copper re-
gion Of Michigan was darlily shaded as
sign OF tho ruin that threatened its in
hnbitant8. Curiously enough, there was
not quite 30 much alarm two years aft
orward, when tho Mckinley tariff actu-
ally reduced the duty on copper to =
cents Il pound. When the Democrats re-
ducc II duty, it is free trade, but when
tho Republicans reduce the Same duty
still more it is quite different thing.
This is in harmony with the doctrine
that tho revision Of the tariff should be
left only to its friends. Great Republic.
IN organs that Indignantly denounced
tho reduction Of copper duties in tho
Mills bill took quite kindly to u greater
reduction in tho Mckinley act
But all former outcrics concerning the
attacks Of free trade Democracy upon
tho copper industry wcro gentle com
pared with tho bowls Of calamity that
arose when the Wilson tariff put copper
ing0tS and bars on tho FREQ list Tho
black charts Of tho copper region of
Michigan We're reproduced, and this cX-
hibtion Of FREQ trade malgnity toward
IN American industry was denounced
by tho tariff organs aS without the least
provocntim. Tho Hon. Julius Caesar
Burrows, then II representative and now
II United States senator from Michigan,
lugnbriouSly predicted that tho abroga
ton Of tho slight protective duties on
copper would make tho profitable work
ing Of the mines impossible. But tho re.
suits have again disgraccd the predic
tions Of the false prophets Of protection.
Their croakings of calamity have not
died upon the mir until, within nino
months from tho removal Of copper to
tho FREQ list, the announcement comes
was mover in more tlourishing condi-
ton This may well be believed upon
reference to tho enormous dividends OF
the copper mining companies Tho cop.
per minors, who export enormous guam
Titles of thor product, had not tho least
mood Of "protection, and the duties
wcro maintained by tho Republicans to
enable the mine owners and smelling
companies tho moro easily to dcspoil
American consumers.
Nothing is so embarrassing to the
tolchors of false doctrines of economy
IN tho hard, memorable logic Of events.
Last fall the organs and orators OF pro.
toction filled tho public car with their
dismal predictions of tho fatal effects of
tho new tariff, and with tho most recli-
less misrepresentation of its provisions,
They have scarcely been ahaShcd into 81
lcncc by tho gladstone revival of all in
dustrics in the midst of their croakingS.
Tho popular memory is proverbially
trcachcrous, but it will DO long before
the American people shall forget tho
systematic practice upon their crcdnlity
for the sake of maintaining against them
policy of tariff spoliation and iniquity.