The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-24

mali he Hiaue lle siSHiiiSa4t
that the tariff was already beginning to
work.
Here is the text of the circular
V. 6; : 6 Y !, King s,, CO.
sos, 51i, 5is, SIS and 81 West St,
New York, N. Y, U. S. A..
NEW YORK CITY, July q. 1897.
Owing TO a tariff having been placed on
Vance the price Of Kniekerbocker Plaster
fifteen cents a barrel and seventy-ilVe
cents q ton IN bags.
past and hoping for a continuanc OF
your patronage, we are,
yours VeF \. ec Z. I {. v. KING CO.
This was not the first intimation that
1.-THE News had received thai the tariff
was spreading prosperity ''in our midst.
The Business Manager of this paper, hav-
ing occasion to order stereotype metal
last week, received on "Wednesday a polite
note from the Nassau Smelling and Re-
fining Company of New York, informing
him that the metal had been shipped to
fill his order, and that the price would
be just 20 per rent higher than what was
charged for previous consignnnents. I'VE
are sorry says the courteous manager
of this concern, ITO inform you that we
are COMPELLED TO charge you this adj
vance for the same metal as you received
before, as all raw material advanced Is
per cent. on account of the higher duty
which has been imposed on lead. tin n
anthony; this will make linotype, steree-
type, and, in fact, all manufactured goods
much higher
We capitalize the word compelled
above. because we desire to direct atten-
ton to it, for reasons which will pres
emily appear.
In notifications such as these, and no
doubt the mails are crowded with similar
missives, we see how the great order of
commercial and industrial hogs are taking
advantage of prevailing conditions to
gorge themselves at the Republican
trough. There is not the slightest occa-
sion for the increases in price thus indi-
Gated. They are an imposition on the
public, n the premature greed which
they display affords the proof, if proof
were wanted. that the present tariff is
simply wholesale robbery of the American
people, not to gain revenue for the Gov
ernment, but to put dishonest profits in
the pockets of grasping Spectators.
The use of the word compelled" by
both of the concerns mentioned above
will certainly make the reader laugh,
knowing as he does that the tariff is not
ever yet a law, and is not to take effect
until the first day of August. Where the
compulsion comes in. it takes a tariff
pampered extortionist to say.
The moral certainty is that both of
these companies. as well as thousands
like them. viii not be compelled. by the,
tariff to elevate their prices for at least
q year to come, for beyond all reasonable
doubt they ave stocked UP with all the
materials upon which the duty is adj
vanced for fully a years needs. They
have brought in their material at the low
rates of the Wilson Act, and they are
going to take advantage of the Dingley
rates to make an outrageous and UNI
warranted profit out of the consumers.
One of the concerns ever d~efiantly adj
vances prices twenty per cent. while adj
hitting that the advance in duties is
only ffteen nor cent
This is protection with a vengeance.
The builder who sends US the circular
quoted, employs daily from twenty-five
- . hundred men, What profit or ad-
vantage do they get out Of protection"
which increases the tariff on rock plaster?
ssThe Jersey City News employs week in
and week out, from years end to years
end, about fifty people. reporters, print
ers. pressmen, engineers and the like;
what profit do these people receive, what
profit does the capital embarked in The
News receive from a tariff which in
creases the price of linotype and stereo-
tyne metal, and which will presently in
crease the prices of paper, ink, type and
every other material used in its business?
It viii be the experience Of every man,
wealthy or poor. big or little, in the
course Of the next month or two. to run
up against prices Increased on account
of the tariff" 1t may be for rock plaster
or stereotype metal. or 1t may be for
neekties and shoes. No matter what the
article, the experience will be met. Let
each man. as he comes face to face with
the fact, say to himself, Now hi do
get in return for this added drain on my
incomeg' Are the wages Of my work
Increased? Are the profits of my BUSH
lness increased? We fancy that for one
who can answer Yes, there VIII be five
hundred who must utter an emphatic
~Nois And this is just what "protection"
means: That five hundred men get no
more pay. but pay far more price in or
der that one man may reap an increased
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