The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-01-10

. .r.,nes.ee Statesman tniighf"ns the
w.mb.rs of = Boston High isrin

s..ee Statesman Eniighfens the
u.mh.rs of = Boston High isr'n
C-o~d
.,,,,r.s,ion Of trade, which calls itself
~. Home Market club, held il annual
dinner i'm Boston recently. A. the or
,.,ization j. composed Of men who be-
Iieve In getting rich through class Leg
;slation enacted by congress-. there was
a iarre attendance. unseltishness not
being a prominent characteristic OF tue
aovn-east Yankee. There was the
usual Qualification Of the Mckinney
policy OF robbing sixty-five million
consumers in order To enrich few
manufacturers. and some old-fashloned
denunciation of those who want lower
taxes on imports. as traitors 10 Amer
lean industry" The calamity walters
walled. the jingocs howled defiance to
the world and everybody was happy in
the good old protection style
Among the high tariff orators who
told the Bay state Mckinleyi'es what
great and wise and good men they all
were, was Hon. Henry Clay Evans, OF
Tennessee His speech was not re-
markable except for his assertion that
the south would in the future support
a high tariff policy, and his claim that
the infant iron and cotton industries
Of Tennessee. Alabama and other
southern states, had been built up by
protection. Coming down to partic-
ulars he told how the output OF iron
had increased from 1870 To l>92, when
sowing to the destructive policies then
inauguratcd the iron industries were
forced to suspend"
Mr.. Evans mistake as TO change In
tariff policy in 1892 is the kind o.
blunder which no truthful projections
lists might make OF course 1t l. onl,
natural that the defenders OF an IN
Jus, and oppressive system OF taxation
should try to conceal the facts of IL
working. But lsgs is too recent 70
any one to forget that not only tina
year, but the next, and eight month
of the next. were all protection periods
No new policy was adopted until lat
in 1894. and then, instead Of iron fur
naces going out and mills suspending
rs they had done under Mckinleyisu
the furnace fires were lighted and tn
mills started running again Surel
il was not necessary that republican
high tariff Statesman" should com
all the way from Tennessee TO distor
the plainest facts of history. The
have some gifted liars in Massacht
sets. and the Home Market club shout
patronize its home fabricators-
Mr.. Evans is equally mistaken in r.
gard to the causes OF the growth q
manufacturing in the south The res
reason why iron and steel productio
has been found profitable in Alaoam
and Tennessee, in spite of the comp
tition of the long established indu
tries Of Ohio. Pennsylvania and III
nois. is the existence in the forms
states Of immense deposits of iron or
coal and limestone. the raw materia
for iron manufactures When To the
natural resources were joined capt.;
and skilled workers the iron industr
grew rapidly. thus contradicting II
protection claim that new INDUSTRY
cannot succeed in competition Wi
those of older growth The progre
Of iron making in the south prov
that IL is natural advantages and Il
high tariffs. which develop industry
The United States under the Wilse
tariff is now producing pig iron at q
rate Of over 1I.0oo.0oO tons yearly,
far greater amount than under hit
protection. This OF itself should co
vince the south that return to hi;
duties would not benefit its iron pr
ducers. while the great bulk OF I
people would be injured by rcstor
tion Of onerous taxes on the GOO
they consume. Protection to the me
south is an old hnmbug
WHIpDES GRAEAs.