The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-30

| Our tariff-protected lumbermen export
| ed to foreign countries last year over
! S40OCO,0OO worth of lumber They shipped
| S5,S59,650 worth across the Atlantic to
! Great Britain, $1,745,S93 to Germany,
| s5,776, AL to the rest of Europe, and $780,
$50 into Canada itself, which they pretend
so greatly to fear; and these last figures
| are for boards, deals, planks and joists
! alone, the very products on which the 81
| duty is levied for alleged necessary pro-
| lection! Our aggregate lumber exports
reached s31,774,241 in 1899 and SAL, S45, 642 for
| the fiscal year ended June 80, 1901. This
! lumber was exported to Europe, Asia,
| Africa, South America and the islands
| of the sea, and successfully met foreign
competition in every cline What
| farce that the greatest lumber develop
ment or the globe should be protected
with tariff duties which serve no purpose
except to encourage a combine to extort
| extra prices from builders of American
homes?
Take the iron and steel infant" at
the time of the adoption of the United
States constitution and before the enact
! ment of the first American tariff, England
had enacted something like twenty-nlne
protective tariffs for the protection of
British iron from American colonial COM
petition Today, long after the American
iron and steel industry has passed that
of Great Britain in the commercial race
and after the American industry has
been organized into a billion-doilar trust
which defies the competition of Christen-
DOM it is protected by the Dingley law
with over 200 distinct tariff duties from
the same British competition which 100
| years ago sought protection from Amer
| lea. The iron and steel exports of the
United States in 1899 were 1898, ZIG, O31 and
| in 1900 reached the enormous total of
| 21,913,54S, which went into every COM
| petitive market on the globe and beat
| all competition in it's local stronghoIds.
| Last year We put over $2O00,000 worth
| of builders hardware into Great Brit
| Australia, and $1,0G0 coo in Germany, the
| home markets of our leading foreign COM
! petitors. With iron and steel exports OF
| over $120,000O00, the imports were only
| $4,000, 900, on which the protective duties
| averaged 81 per cent for the protection of
the greatest trust known to the history
| of man.
A third ancient protected infant. dating
from the spinning wheel of the early COL
| onists, and the cotton gin of Elhu Bur-
| rift, is the cotton industry, which was
an established fact in New England be-
| fore the adoption Of the constitution.
| After a century of protection of this in
fant' it takes 24O Dingley protective du-
| ties to keep the nursing alive. On $39,
| 100000 worth of cotton goods imported
| last year. the duties or tariff taxes were
| $22, 100000, being at the average rate of
SIS per cent ad valorem AS only about
! Is per cent of the total value of the
| the cotton industry in proportion to work
| done and results accomplished Is cheap
| err if anything, to the New England man
| ufacturer, than to his English compel
| itor, this protection of So per cent can
| hardly be charged to the account of
| American labor. The only remaining
| ground is that American cotton manu-
| facture is "an infantile industry after
| Of nd h ie
ment nursing exports to China alone as
high as 200,000,000 yards of cotton cloth,
per annum, and beats the strongest COM
petition of Europe in the fight for the
cotton trade of the Orient American
cotton cloth, made of American cotton
by American labor and machinery, goes
into every clime-2O, 100000 yards for the
year ending June so, 1901, going to Cuba,
100000 to South America, 15OOO,OO0 to
Central America and British Honduras,
and over 100000 yards to Great Britain
itself. On what ground can protection
be maintained for such an Industry at
the high average Of SO per cent ad
valorem?
No people have been imposed upon so
long by government parasites as TIE
American people by the se-called pro-
tected infants 1t is no wonder tt at
even Republicans of the party standing
! of former Senator w. D. Washburn, OF
Minnesota and Congressman Babcock, of
Wisconsin, are getting impatient at the
| existence Of this long and deeply estab-
! 1ished farce and fraud. When President
| Roosevelt raised his voice the other day
in declaration of the principle that I'M
necessary tariff protection should go, he
sounded the doom of the protective tariff
and the death knell of the hoary in
| fants;'' for if they no longer have the
| strong hand of the government admins
| tration raised to ward off a righteous
| public wrath their future will be short
| and their end certain
| England wants more troops. But the
| old ones are not yet paid We have one
! Advantage surplus in the treasury.
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