Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-13
MANUFACTURING AND TARIFF

| "TE must buy abroad an increas-
| " ing volume of things that we
can never economically pro-
duce. We must pay for them in goods
and 1t should be our ambition to pay
for them in finished goods which rep
resent the higher achievements of
/ labor rather than in raw materials
Frank A. Vanderlip to the National
Association of Cotton Manufacturers.
Then the mills turning out those fin
ished goods must have protective rates
of duty or pay their workmen the
European and Oriental rates of wages.
The greater the development of our
manufacturing industries by the policy
of protection, the larger will be the
consumption at home of the products
of the American farm, and the greater
will be the volume of our raw ma
terials worked up at home.
Protection to native industries was
the settled policy of Great Britain up
to 1916. By that time science and in
vention had made it possible for her to
produce more cheaply than any other
nation, the policy of protection was
abandoned, and a worldwide cam
paign was entered into to discourage
the adoption by other countries of the
protective policy in order that Great
Britain might have free access to their
markets.
Germany was able to make but little
headway in manufacturing until Bis
marck placed that empire permanently
on a protective basis in 1879. The
German Zollverein, which had op-
Grated for nearly half a century, had
unified Germany. In 1865 the first
successful attack was made on the
tariff schedules of the Zollverein by
German freetraders. with the aid of
the English Golden, and poverty and
depression were the portion of Ger
many for fourteen years thereafter.
In May 1879, addressing the German
parliament, Bismarck said:
see that the countries which
protect themselves prosper, that the
clining. and that great and power
full England, that strong, com
batant. who. after Strengthening
and said: "who will contest with
me? | am ready for anyone" is
gradually going back to protective
duties and will in few years adopt
them so far as is necessary to pre-
serving at least the English mar
ket.
On July Z. 1879, bill passed the
German Reichstag which marked the
return of Germany to the protective
policy to which she has firmly adhered
since that date. In his report. made in
1884, the British consul at Dusseldorf
said:
These provinces not only now
supply their own and the require
ments of Germany with products
and manufactures which some few
years ago were imported from Eng
land or elsewhere, but export these
very products and manufactures
not only to the markets of the
world in competition with England,
but to England itself.
Bismarck prophesied we'll. From
1875 to 1886 the exports of silk manu-
factures from Germany increased SS4
per cent; wooden, 296 per cent; cot
ton. 302 per cent; glass, 264 per cent;
paper, 322 per cent; machinery, 260
per cent; all fully manufactured ar
ticles, 157 per cent. Thus was The
protective policyvindicated in Germany
as it has been in the United States,
and will be again. To-day England
Is in favor of returning to the policy
of protection and protective schedules
are now in course of preparation.