Show AN al SURD III POSITION THE HIGH TARIFF STAND UNTENABLE IN ANY CASE the protection ornton orators art facts which are the ali Inov cotonio orsio ot 0 what vl liba the mckinley till ISILI in alleged allt aril to Ille tween two tiro I irem the speech of senator aldrich the tariff act of f 1691 1890 Deft defended ndell merits the comment conveyed by tho saying ol 01 shakespeare the lady doth protest tot toc much senator aldrich endeavored in it to show thattie that the tariff net act of 1800 was not only a successful embodiment ol of republican principles but also awon ft won gerful illustration of practical states manship JU As he be said in liia lit speech itt its purpose was to provide for the bertei security and tile tho greater development ol of american and lie he insisted that it had bad Il quickened the pulsation palliation ol of trade giving a now impetus to agrical ture as well as to manufacture and corn coni merco merce A part of his hii address was taken up by an effort to demonstrate lemonski ata that tile the prices of commodities are lower in this t uh year 1892 I than they were in fit 1889 1839 or 1800 1890 an ind to f furthermore more show that the popular opinion concerning the formation oi 01 coni combines bilies and trusts was delusive and that tho the manufacturers manufacture ra themselves were believers in aw law prices lie he had sent a large number of letters to the representatives senta tives of fit different classes of industry asking whether the business inn in question was controlled by it n trust and what tho the effect of such a combination had upon competition and the prices ot product now it seems to bo sufficiently evident that it if tho effect of tho M chinley law has been to reduce tho the prices of commo aties to the american consumers it ha bas failed of tho the project that its promotes prom otei oteis 6 bi intended tended to give a few illustrations of castai oil it is said tho margins of profit in ill the manufacture of tho the arciclo are al present not only about nil but in many cases cages tho the article is sold at an absolute loss buttons ono one of the manufacturers tm ers does riot not hesitate to say were never lower iu in our market than at the th present timo time of edge tools it is ia said laid they sire are lomei than th iii over ever in price the manufacturers of glisa glass admit that they have combined but this action was forced upon them thein to save themselves from froin bankruptcy the manufacturers manufacturer of galvaniz galvani zeil eill iron assort assert wo we fire n re worse off no wunder the me kinley bill than before its passage tho the representative of tho strap and hinge 11 inge association asserts that they aar ar selling goods at the cost of manuba ture lf lime me we are told by a depre senta tivo of the rockland Hoc kland makers ili sold bold 10 per cent lower ever since tl duty was increased of linseed oil fit statement is made that the prices are so BO luw luv that tor for some years past little il if any money lias has beel i mado made by its manit of locomotives ties another of senator Sein itoi baldrichs Ald richs ints asserts prices bavo been rui notis tor for a good cruy months sanitary pottery ware ili is lower than it was iu in 1691 1891 of starch w 1 anro 0 etolil o d phe present resent prices are t too law to afford any profit to the the prices of steel aal iron tube sare aro lower today than ever before in tho history of our country whilo window glass glam lias has been sold at less im prices than befaro the mckinley bill was vas pass iid A if this is tho way tho pulsations of trade are to lo 10 quickened a new impetus given to manufacture anil and commerce and the cla claims ains and expectations of tho the trainers framers of the measure ere more than realized it might well ile be asked what different results would a krotec expect to ensue front froni the he adoption of a system of tree free trade these Ili eio various great nud and prominent industries are baying chairing under the mckinley regime wo we aro are officially informed a struggling and on tile whole disastrous experience the conclusion is id forced that either tile the mckinley law lias has proved in the case of a large number of domestic industries dus tries a highly objectionable measure or that tho the statements made by t these se various manufacturers and printed as at a pait of senator Ald baldrichs richs aro arc well misleading ones confidence in the ingenuousness ss of these gentlemen is a little shaken by the statements state menta made by a number of them concerning their participation in trusts or combinations eions the representatives of nearly a hundred alle alleged 0 ed trusts were written to there some omissions omissions blich for exam example examples pleas as sugar but only one of tile the repliers pliers re had tile tho f rankness rank nesi to state elate that a combination ial had been formed by liis trade for tho purpose of putting up prices and inkin milling money with the others there was either a donial denial of any combination whatsoever or it was said baid that theirs was an ait association foamed for tile the purpose of obtaining statistics acquiring information ie ichu ti latcu latius tho of ool discharging superfluous agents agent s and clerks and till fill this with tile tho main maht object of lowering prices in fact the lowering of prices seems seema to have been tho chief object of solicitude ou on the pait of if senator baldrichs Ald richa richs correspondents this is ho bo completely in accord with tho the dictates of human nature and the experiences that one has in ili everyday business life lifa that wo tho the benator flow rhodo rhode island on oil tho the highly babii satisfactory and representative character of if tho the gentlemen from whom ile ho lias has obtained such valuable i information adorina tion bost boston oi i liewald erald ll lI |