Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-04
IttFEC1 UF THE TARIFF
kaoW the Trusts Aim to Control
the Worlds Markets.,
COMPETING ON EUROPEAN GROUND

Less Work and Lower Wage. tn
| Come Soon-TariG 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 reprisals 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 in the
way of the importation Of products of
American manufacture are having their
effect, and exports Of manufactured
goods from the United States are de-
Ginning. AT the same time foodstuffs
the raw material are being exported in
greater volume, so that our total ex-
ports have greatly increased Our
Workmen in the protected industries
should ponder on these changed condi-
tlons and see where protection is lead
ing them. The evident intention of the
great manufacturing combines to re-
duco wage" iii spite of their enormous
OUT an large profits though omi-
no1.S ef greater wage reduction, is not
the NsefSt ~ be feared-the prospect is
tx -. is..Hy Skilled workntrn there
VIII 5e=flat.l loss work. This reduced
dp:'..a. = "k!i!cd workmcn in MANY
lines Il ill':.iuent. for no less an au-
tho: ii ;ases.sor $. y. d. North
OF t.t & nst.S G:re:u, in an article on
the e',Sfrt 'rc.,,c of the United States
IN the last issue Of the "AnnaS of the
American Academy of Political and
Social Science, gives a partial list OF
branch manufacturing plants that our
trusts and combines have established
In Europe to compete with the for
elgners on their own ground This the
trusts escape the tariff wall which
European countries have raised with
so much care to keep out American
products
Professor North says: Il have before
me long list of these establishments
1t indicates that more than $4,000, 900
of American money is now invested in
European plants devoted to the manu-
facture of various American special
ties including all descriptions of cleo
tric apparatus, sewing machines, belt
Ing, radiators, shoe machinery. steel
chains, machine tools. hoiStng machn-
cry, boilers, pumps, blowing engines
mining machinery. printing machinery.
coal conveying apparatus. elevators,
matchmaking machinery. pneumatic
tools and Photographic apparatus The
Western Electric company of Chicago
is Interested i'll extensive factories in
London, Paris. Antwerp and Berlin.
not all of them carried under the name
of that company, but all of them estab-
liShed and controlled by its capital.
The General Electric company has
1hree or four such establishments and
has recently constructed Il huge new
factory at Rugby, i'll England The
Westinghouse company has just fin
ished ut Trafford Park. in England,
one of the largest electric actories in
Europe. employing 2OG0 or 5000 men,
and it has other factories in Havre,
France. and st. Petersburg The Sing
er Machine company has three large
plants in Europe under its direct con-
troll. The Chicago American Tool com
pany is building Il plant at Frazerburg
near Aberdeen. The Hoe printing
presses are made in 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 that 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 will soon leave our skilled workmen
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 reassuring.
If the protective tariff is driving
manufacturers abroad and thus de-
creasing the demand for labor at 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 laborers that
have no leaders will have results fore
ed on their attention, for the reduction
of wages for skilled workmen will
surely find it's 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 to all consumers
OF trust products and the political par
ty that stands in the way will be swept
aside by its own deluded followers, now
they are beginning to see the disaster
that is approaching.
"A Whole Session of Congress Wasted.
A horse can be led to water, but can
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