Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-17
PERI HEcTlNG PROTECTION.

Two s aght Changes Suggested In the In- t sccst of Farmers and I-aborers. N Tn L senate is now engaged ia remedy Ing ke small imperfeetions of the Ding lev fill. which, as all good protection ists mssert, is one of the best tariff bills eys i drafted. It distributes it's blessings 10 Iall-farmer, laborer and manufac- tu fer. Without doubtiug the good inten- 4; hns of the makers, we wish to suggest I ne or two minor details which might eossibly help the bill to fulfill the ex. nectations of it's authors:
 Y First.-Labin s export bounty scheme 2 knight enable the farmer to get small slice of the tenefits of protection. Or course the farmel doesn't expeet-espe- M c,ally at first-to get as much of the benefits as the manufacturers have been oetting for 80 years. A protection of sbont 20 per cent-that is 10 cents per hnsbel on wheat. cents OH corn, etc. - rronld satisfy him, while it takes four t;roes as much to satig9y ordinary tariff M infants.
 Thia small export duty would not make good the farmers loss because of @;,,nort duties OH manufactured prod ucts saving nothing about past losses, Nbnt in course of time, after his industry E had felt the stimulating effects of real rrotection "What protects, the farmer Mmight muster ID courage enough to fol- ,oxy the example of Oliver Twist wbich example has grown into cus- tom with protected interests--and ask E for "more, n Possibly also he might E form political trusts or combines to de- 5 nand ssmere' and raise millions of dol lars to send Hobbies to Washington to Ebrihe congress. While protection is in Eorder export duties are the farmers oa- ly hope. With them he may hope net only to change his losses to profits, but Ealso to regain that power and position Ewhieh were once his, but which have Elonp since passed into the hands of the Fnanufacturers
 E Second It is also fitting to recognize ftbe laborer in the distribution of tariff Inrofts. Like the farmer, he now puts Fms hand into his pocket to help swell the Iprofts Of protection, practically none Eof which comes his way. It is not an Ieasy matter to equalize the benefits Ief rroteriaa ea that the workingman tsbaII get his talI share. X prohibitive I1uty on imported labor might in the Ecourse of time afford some p1oteetion Eby restricting the supply of labor, so Ithat manufacturers could carry out Etheir good intentions texpresaed when Easking for higher duties) and pay I'American wages to American work fngmen.
 At present the condition of working men in the protected industries is pitia. tbIe in the extreme The Philadelphia E4dger, good Republican paper, told Nps about May l that in the protected Zion and coal industries of Pennsylvania #h4vage rate has been reduced so low
 that 1t is scarcely sufficient to provide Ehe necessaries of decent, sanitary iv- kng It says "the lowest classes of lien cheap labor swarm in the iron and #0aldistricts of the state, U and the com
 Rtition for work is so fierce that they
 ntend, not against Che employers fer Xie highest wages, but among each
 iher for the lowCstf" As appears by
 he testimony presented to the legisla-
 ge committee, they herd in squa.
 F subjects of abject penury, and are
 eset by disease, dirt and hunger. " The
 edser thinks our immigration laws
 defective and improvident" and
 uegests that s'to properly protect
 mercan WoIkmcn congress should
 an immigration as well IS tariff
 ii This is good idea aud should
 acted upon at once. The only wonder
 that some of the good manufacturers,
 lneir anxiety to protect and raise the a& of their workingmen, did not
 Eak Of this plan before. Then, if they
 0ad have law passed which should
 aza It compulsory for them to give at
 one-helf of their protection and
 aopoly profits to their employees,
 @euon would begin to be an all
 saaa blessing. The manufacturers
 sas sllll be getting the lion $ share.
 saey would not get all
 saen these changes are made in the
 II Will undoubtedly be what the
 iolk Tribune declared it's proto-
 the Mckinley bill, to -''the
 nssand best tariff bill ever passed.
 Mey be made?-Byron " Holt.