The San Francisco call., 1896-08-25
FREE TRADE is
EUROPE'S FRIEND.
Fa11acies of Democratic
Doctrines in q Strong
Light.
CALIFORNIA INJURED.
CALIFORNIA INJURED.
Where Local Industries Suffer
From Organism, Foreign
Factories Thrive.
PROTECTION THE ONLY HOPE
Strangling Effect of the Wilson Bill
Upon Home Trade as Shown
by Statistics.

AS heretofore shown in series of arti-
cles on various phases of the tariff ques-
ton, protection has always proved great
blessing to the manifold industrial inter
ests of this country, while free trade has
been in the past, as it is now, blessing to
the manufacturing nations of Europe.
1t may be shown by recurring to the
commercial reports of the wool and other
interests of the country that ever since
the Wilson bill went into effect there has
been great activity among the factories OF
Europe.
1t comes directly home to Californians
to hear the opinion of one of their own
business men on the condition of affairs in
Europe. r. ]. Techau. the well-known
proprietor of the Good Fellows Grotto in
San Francisco, has just returned from
four months tour to Europe, and he says
there is no doubt that Europeans are more
greatly pleased with free trade than with
any possible phase of American politics;
that they ignore the silver question as
having any possible bearing on their al
fairs, and hope for the continuation of
Democratic tariff that will enable them to
manufacture for the American market.
Among other things Mr.. Techau said:
The Europeans in general are running their
factories day and night turning out articles
for export, and as soon as McKinley's election
is announced they will be shipped in immense
quantities as rapidly as possible, in order to
effect.
spent a great deal of time in Copenhagen,
c arIsbad, ostend. Nuremburg Brussels, Dres
den, Berlin and stockholm, and found the
same conditions prevailing everywhere. In
Germany and Belgium particularly, where
travelled great deal, l saw miles OF factories
running all night by electric lights, and to
as to the cause OF the unusual activity, and
was told that it was due wholly to the prospect
of high tariff in America.
Mr.. Techau learned that the Wilson
tariff, while it has destroyed wages in this
country, has helped the condition of the
workers of Europe by making a great de-
mand for the multitudinous articles ex-
ported thither. Another striking sign
was that American importers were numer-
Gus. The bare possibility of Democratic
victory, however remote, pleases them,
but the chances of McKinley's success
have stimulated business in Europe as it
has not been stim ulated for years. Mr..
Techau continued as follows:
On an English railway train / found myself
in compartment with five other persons, and
four of them were the agents of American i'm
porters on their way TO Germany to buy goods
for this year, and next as we'll, in anticipation
of tariff legislation by the next Congress. All
classes in Europe, from the laborer to the m an
ufacturer, are discussing the tariff question,
and all fear the results of q Mckinley victory.
It'll al 10 NV nod
there, and when questioned concerning the
effect OF free coinage Europeans simply shrug
their shoulders and say: THAT will hurt
America alone, but high tariff will hurt
u.s." The condition of the labor1ng classes
throughout Northern Europe is first-class, by
reason of the demand for goods for export to
America.
How does the present poor condition of
labor in the United States compare with
its condition under the Mckinley law?
The best authority is Joseph Nimmo Jr.,
Commissioner Carroll d. Wright, and
like statisticians. At the end of the first
wear under the Mckinley bill Mr.. Nimmo
was able to say without fear of conLradic-
ton that there had been renewed pros
perity. Among other things he said:
The people of the State of New York have
been deeply interested by the recently pub
lished annual report of the Commissioner of
Labor. That officer shows that the net value
of the increase in the production of the whole
sale manufactures of the State since the pas
sage of the Mckinley Act has been $751; .315,-
13O; that the increased wages paid to labor in
those industries has amounted to $6, 377 ,925,
and that the increase in annual wages during
the last year has amounted to $23 II per
tendent of Banking of the State OF New York
also reports simultaneously an increase of
over $65000000 in the deposits of the saw
ings banks of the State, chiefly the deposits of
laboring people. These important statements
fully confirm all that has been hereinbefore
stated as to the benefits conferred by the Nc
Kinley Act.
But even these statements are OF small mo.
ment in comparison with the transcendently
important fact thatduring the last thirty years
of protection, agriculture in New York has en-
tered upon new life; that in all parts of the
State an almost innumerable number of man
ufacturlng industries OF every conceivable de-
scription have sprung up, the value OF the an
nual product of which amounts to hundreds
of millions OF dollars, and that these indus
tries afford employment to hundreds of thou
sands OF men, women, boys and girls, at the
same time supplying the invaluable advan-
tages of reliable and persistent markets for q
large share of the agricultural products of the
State. Besides, agriculture and manufactures
have become related and correlated in ten
thousand different ways, the two branches of
industry in many instances being inteIdepen-
dent parts of single establishment. ALI this
has resulted in q commerce which has greatly
stimulated and increased the trade and
financial interests of New York city, and of
every other city in the State. 1t has also pro-
moted tne Welfare OF every CLASS OF laporerS IN
the State, ana OF persons employed in clerical
and professional occupations.
One OF the undeniable results OF protection
under the Mckinley act is that new industries
are constantly springing up In this country
and being ansplanted to this country from
Europe. Hardly a week passes without public
intelligence of such change of location by some
important English, French or Germany indus
try. The State of New York is securing her full
share of these acquisitions But what could
be more natural or proper than that manu-
facturers should seek a location in the country
in which they find their chief market?
What has Organism to offer to compare
with such a showing as this? The free
traders are helpless in the presence of
facts, and whether it be the opinion of