The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1897-07-09
PERFECTING PROTECTION.


~" Hhkht Ohhnges suggested In tho In.
terest OF Farmers ana Laborers.
The senate is now engaged in remedy.
ing tho small imporfoctions of the Ding.
Icy bill, which, as all good protection.
lists assert is one Of the best tariff bills
ever drafted, 1t distributes its blessings
to all-farmer, laboror and manufao.
turer. Without doubling the good inten.
lions Of the makers, we wish to suggest
one or two minor details which might
possibly help the bill to fulfill tho OK.
pectations Of its authors;
First, --Lubin's export bounty sohomO
might enable the farmer to get u small
slice Of the benefits of projections OF
course the farmer doesn't expect--ospo.
cially at frst--to get as much Of tho
benefits as the manufacturers have been
getting for 80 years A protection OF
about 20 per cent-that Is 10 cents per
bushel on wheat, 8 cents on corn, etc. 49,
would satisfy him, while 1t takes four
times as much to satisfy ordinary tariff
infants.
This small export duty would not
mako good the farmers loss because Of
import duties on manufactured prod
uots, saying nothing about past losses
but in course Of time, after his industry
had felt tho stimulating effects Of roal
protection "what protects" tho farmer
might muster up courage enough to fol-
low the example Of Oliver Twist
which example has grown into Gus
tom with protected interosts-and ask
for "moro" Possibly also no might
form political trusts or combines to do
mand moro" and raise millions Of dol.
lars TO send lobbios to Washington to
bribo congress, Whilo protection Is IN
order export duties are the farmers ON,
ly hope. With them ho may hopo not
only to change his losses to profits but
also to regain that power and position
which were once his, but which have
long since passed into tho hands Of the
manufacturers.
Second, 1T IL also fitting to recognize
the laborer IN tho distribution Of tariff
profits. Like tho farmer, no now puts
his hand into bis pocket TO help swell tho
profits Of protection, practically none
Of which comes his way II IL not nm
easy matter to cqualizo the bonolm
of protection 80 that tho workngmm
shall get his full share A prohibitlyo
duty on imported labor might In the
course Of time afford some protection
by restricting tho supply Of labor, 50
that manufacturers could carry out
thoir good intentions depressed whom
asking for higher dutlos) and pay
American wages to American work
ingmen,
AT present tho condition Of working.
men in tho protected industries Ia pitia.
bio IN tho extreme, Tho Philadelphia
Lodgor, n good Republican paper, told
NJ about May that IN tho protected
iron and coal industries Of Pennsylvania
tho wage rate has been reduced 10 low
THAT II IN scarcely sufficient TO provide
tho nooossarioa Of decent, sanitary liy-
ing" II aaya the lowest olaasos of
alien ohoap labor swarm IN The iron and
coal districts Of tho etato and tho com.
petition for work IN 10 fierce THAT they
contend, not against tho employers for
tho highest wagoa but among oooh
other for tho lowostp "Aa appears by
tho testimony presented TO tho loRialo
two oommittoo Htw they herd IN equo
lor, SUBJECTS Of Objoot ponury aud arc
boset by diaooao dirt aud hunger Tho
Ledger thinks our immigration laws
are defective aud improyidenth and
a1ggeeta that ito properly protect
American workmen o0ngfeaa should
pass IN immigration an woll M tnnlr
BILL" rhia In n good idoa and should
bo notod upon NJ once Tho only wonder
h that some Of tho good manufacturers,
In their anxiety to protect aud raise tho
wages Of their workingmen, did not
think Of this plan before, Then, " they
should have n Inv passed. which should
mako N compulsory for them 20 give NJ
least oneshalf Of their protection aud
monopoly profits to their employees,
protection would begin to be an all
around blessing, The manufacturers
might still be getting the lions share,
but they would not get MI
Whom those ohangoa aro mndo In tho
bill, n viii undoubtedly bo whit Che
New York Tribune declared ia proto'
type, tho Mckinley bill, to be=''the
brayeat and best tariff bill ever passed, "
viii they BIO madeS=Byron W, Holt