Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-03

Come soon-TariH Reform Is the
Crying Necessity For All but the
Trusts.
Our protective tariff IS having an
extraordinary effect on the commerce
Of the world. In the first place. 1t has
led to reprlsals from all countries ex-
! cept England, and now the question
of protective tariff is the paramount
Issue in that kingdom. The obstacles
that foreign countries are placing ia the
way of the importation Of products of
American manufacture are having their
effect, and exports Of manufactured
goods from tie niteel States are de-
elininG. At the Sslnp time i0otStt!Is
the raw material are being exported III
greater volume, so taat our total eX-
ports have greatly Increased 0nf
WorkmeH in the protected industries
should ponder Oh these changed eoI4df-
tons alld see Whore protection is lead
Ing lhom. The evident intention Of the
great manufacturing combines f. re
ducc WAGES IL spite u their eu0rnou~;
output aHd Hrge profits though oai-
nous Of &sfeatef wage reduction. is net
the worst 70 he feared the prospect IS
that for many skilled vorhinen there
Will be much less work IAis reduced
! demand for skilled W0rllmen Ia many
lines is inmiHeut for no less au au-
thorty than Professor = Y. u North
of the censtis bureau, in an article on
the export trade OF tie United State,
in the last issUe Of Che .NuGalS Of the
American Academy of fu1itieaA and
Social Science, gives Il partial list Of
branch manufacturing plants tlat eur
trusts and combines have established
iii Europe 10 eoupete VIII the for,
eiguers on their own 9IoIII.s Hh;i., ta"
trusts escape the tariff wall Which
European countries have raised with
SO much care to keep oft American
products.
Professor North says: Il have before
me q long list of these establishments
1t indicates that more than 50,0UO0o1
OF American money is now invested IL
European plants devoted to fhp manu-.
facture of various American SH1e.l..l-
tIic apparatus, sewing machines, belt
Ing, radiators, Shoe maQ..yaery. steel
chains, machine tools. la.Sting machin
cry, boilers, pumps. Sowing engines,
mining machinery, printing machinery.
coal conveying apparatus, elevators,
matchmaking machinery, pneumatic
tools and Photographic apparatus The
Western Electric company OF Chicago
IS interested ia extensive factories in
London, Paris, Antwerp and Berlin,
not all of them carried under the name
of that company. bat all of them estab-
lished and controlled by its capital.
The General Electric company has
three or four such establishments and
has recently constructed Il huge new
factory at Rugby, in England. The
estinghOuse company has just I'm
ished at Trafford Park, III England,
one of the largest electric factories in
Europe, employing 2.ooo or 5000 men,
and it has other factories in uavre,
France, and st. Petersbur9 The Sing
er Machine company has three large
plants in Europe under its direct con
troll. The Chicago American Tool com
pany is building plant at E'razcrburg.
near Aberdeen. The Hoe printing
presses are made i'll London, as is also
linotype machinery. The Draper com
pany has recently completed its new
factory in Lancashire. to supply the
greatest cotton manufacturing district
of the world with the American fast
running Northrup loom"
There is no doubt chat this remark
able transplanting Of American facto-
ries on foreign soil is but the begin
ming of an attempt OF our gigantic
trusts and combines to control the mar
kets OF the world for their products
1t viii soon leave our skilled workrnen
but the home market to supply, with
the inevitable result OF less work and
lower wages. WITH our high protective=
tariff still keeping up the cost of living
the outlook for labor is not Ye;Jasuring5
II the proteetive tariff is driving
manufacturers abroad and thus lie
creasing the demand for labor a. home
is it not about time for reform OF the
present tariff law
Labor leaders in the protected indus
tries should Investigate this new and
significant change in the "American
system and the ordinary iaborers that
have no leaders will have results fore
ed OH their attention, for the reduction
of wages for skilled workluen vii!
surely tind its counterpart in all classes
of labor.
The reforming of the tariff to meet
these new conditions is necessary for
the stable welfare OF the workman and
OF equal Importance 70 all eonsumers
Of trust products, and the political par