Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-06-19
PERFEcTING PRoTEcT,on.
Two Slight Changes Suggested T,
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W lOM T l Two Slight Changes Suggested n
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 The senate is now engaged in ras ing the small imporfections of t5a 41ea5. x. E leysbill, which, as all good protsdta g.as' istesassert, is one of the best tariff I.sa' h',, eyer drafted. It distributes its blao.; t.'a to- all--farmer, laborer and manre -.4ss fpTer, Without doubting the good ir4s Sl@'' lions of the makers, we wish to snga.a. n one or two minor details which m;se' esss'' possibly help the bill to fulffII tba saS s peotationa of it's authors: r
 Birst.-Lubin s export baai.tv sesa. might enable the farmer to get 2 sn,a's' .,s' slice of the benefits of proteetio- ''@'s es course the farmer doesn't expeot--a.no N cially at 1rst-to get as much os F. benefits as the manufacturers hava b,ag M getting for 30 years. 4 protect;on 'sa aa about 20 per oent-that is 10 can+r ' bushel on wheat, 5 cents on corn. aso 1 would satisfy him, whilo it taEes so- times as much to satiG0y ordinary tas;s infants.
 This small export duty wo,.y, make good the farmers loss hg ! not import duties on manufaety -apse of ucts, saying nothing abeee Aeu prod. but in course of time oep past losses, had felt the stimu.Nt effects 55ai laqasaly of r'1 protection .'wha. vJteets, atbe fsrnsa rs.l 1as hlsne t, aiusseR dp Outrage enough to fol. 5st,ob 4o~ . -ample of Oliver Twist. Snio9 ss1 4amp1e has grown into eus. eopa e i" .th pTotected interests-and as, aoi e9 more Possibly also he might | Jfm political trusts or combines to da. { mand more" and raise millions of dol larsf to send Hobbies to Washington fo br]6e congress. While protection. is in l 9fderexpor duties are the fafmerfs on. [ ly hope. With them he may hope not only to change his losses to profits, bnt also to regain that power and position which were once his, but which have long since passed into the hands of tbe manufacturers
 Second. Ut is also fitting toreoopnize { the laborer in the distribution of tariff profits. Like the farmer, he now nuts his hand into his pocket to help swell tho profits of rroteefiC.s. E*ac.ically none of which comes his way. It is not an easy matter to equalize the benefits of protection so that tho workingman shall get his full share A prohibitive duty on imported labor might in tho course of time afford some protection by restricting the supply of labor, so that manufacturers could carry cut their good intentions Depressed when asking for higher duties) and pay American wages to American work ingmen "
 At present. the condition of working men i'll the protected industries is pitia- ble in tho extreme The Phiiadelphia Ledger, good Republican paper, told us about May that in the protected iron and coal industries of Pennsylvania the wage rate has been reduced so low
 that 1t is scarcely sufficient to provide the necessaries Of decent, sanitary liv- ing. 1t says the lowest classes of alien cheap labor swarm in the iron and coal districts of the state, and the con- petition for work IS so fierce that tbey contend, not against 5be employers for the highest wages, but among each other for the Iowest?'' "As appears by the testimony presented to the legisla- tive committee, # < they herd in squa. Tor, subjects of abjeet penury, and are, besot by disease, dirt and hunger The Ledger thinks our immigration laws arc defective and improvident" and suggests that Ito properly protect American woTkmen congress should pass an immigration as well as a tariff bill. This is a good idea and should be acted upon at once. The only wonder is that some of the good manufacturers, in their anxiety to protect and raise tho wages of their workingmen, did not think of this plan before. Then, if they should have a law passed which should make 1t compulsory for them to give at least one-half of their protection and monopoly profits to their employees, protection would begin 10 be an all around blessing. The manufacturers might still be getting the lions sharo, but they would not get all
 When these changes are made in the bill, it will undoubtedly be what the New York Tribune declared it's proto- type, the Mckinley bill, to be- the brayest and best tariff bill ever passed. Will they be made?-Byron ". Holt