Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-18

/, tective tariff Fifty years ago Great
Britain had enormous industries,
while the United States had none.
The United States and England arc
by nature equally well fitted for
| manufacturing silk, because neither
country controls the raw product
| England had great advantage Of 2
| long start, experience and capital
England had free trade, America had
protection. The raising of the Amer
! lean silk tar4f in the sos and eos
caused the English manufacturers
! and silk workers Of Macclesfield and
other places to 20 to Paterson, N. j.,
and other parts Of the United States.
The American silk industry is now by
far the largest in the world. 1t con
sumes fifteen times more raw silk
that Great Britain.
Another illustration OF the In
1uence of the American tariff upon
an industry is afforded by the case Of
iron and steel. Formerly Great Britain
was by far the largest iron and steel
producers in the world. 1t was IN
1867 that the United States put
tariff on rails, which before that time
had not been made in this country
Under the mantle OF protection Amer
lea has since built up the largest iron
and steel industry Of the world, for
whereas sixty years ago England pro-
duced three times as much of those
commodities as the United States to-.
day the American uotput is three
times that OF Greax Britain. This
enormous change has not been brought
about either by Americas wealth in
iron ore. because England can get iron
ore from Sweden and Spain as
cheaply as you can get 1t here.
Take the tin plate industry. Before
the Mckinley tariff Great Britain had
a monopoly of that industry, while
America produced none of the COM
modify. McKinley's theory that pro-
tective tariff would cause the estab-
lishment of the industry in the United
States and that internal competition
vailing for the English article has
been justified. for, after all, the priIl-
cipal factor in cheapening prices is
production on large scale. Thera
fore the American tariff has not
harmed the consumer. but greatly
benefited him.
in England free traders try to de-
fend their policy by telling British
workers that they are the hapriest
and best paid workers in the world,
and bid them pity American workers;
who groan under protection. To kseHs
up this imposition free trade ORE AM.
cations constantly supply the prsss
with narrowing tales of the poverty
OF American and German workers
But they fail to explain why cvary
year about 100000 English workers
fee from that PARADISE Of free trade
and why there is a very large immi
grafton into Germany and the United
States. To keep lip the imposition Of
free trade tllev constantly tell th-s
working men how greatly the ron.
snmer suffers through tariffs, bit omit
to tell him that he cannot ccns" ma y
his evening meal unless he has PRO
duced something during the course ol
the day.
Owing largely to unemployment
and extremely low wages. Br.tisi, y
workers live from hand to moth 4
Very few have any tangible sIrsEert.i
while very large percentage; ~
American working men have land asd I
houses OF their own. Besides. Amer
lean working men have almost S4,00o,-
100000 in savings banks.
The aspect OF commercial and In (
6ustrial England resembles mrs.
closely that CT the states of New Yor;s 4
and Massachusetts, New York state y
alone has more money in the savings
banks than England, Ireland. Walls
and Scotland combined.
!, These are facts to think about i