Show A lift of Ill II llory fory republican protection prote cllon ila alnis it short and ami history bl tory here it ii in a 1 few words mord nod thu facts and dates here given may be verl fled by any I 1 mail who has it nc cess to documents i themselves will riot not deny these focus fix and dates dales though they will s RI hurdly homily agrio to tile the conclusions clu that hint mut must be drawn front from them by fair minded bjerk when the 10 ck called morrill tariff wu w m pa aad lu in 1601 the tariff then in fierce wm WIM extremely low lit ii pit fid the alie lowest lovi it sinco 1811 anti and the country lidd had not lint it ii id a really high prot etive tariff for in irnine any years speculation in tin nn way connected with wit the tariff has paralyzed bl business diles to in IS isa 7 and the morrill tariff was vins atil opted avowedly ly to increase a d dwindling endling re revenue it in creased duties s but bill mr morrill himself has bas that it was not asked for aal was ivas coldly welcomed by the era senator jolin john ahrman Shi nian decaires dec lires rs that lint the anti fact frers wished to ho he let alone that was the first advance of duties after 1857 but it fill did riot not maik a return to pc protective it e t feeling ce I 1 i n g and I 1 IN mr I 1 morrill N I 1 r r I 1 I 1 I 1 d de cc ihna h A t i it t was the intention of tho the net act to restore the duties of mill now the tariff of 1840 was in tile tho a revenue tariff when the country got well into the civil war large revenues became nu essAry and in july 1862 nn an I 1 revenue bill taxing domestic dome filic 4 vi was as passed in tho the same month a new tariff bill vas paused passed I 1 its ts an author theirs declared I 1 that lint it indrea ed duties only in fit order that highly taxed domestic products s might not ila ha e 0 to cozy compete peto vi i etli th low taxed or 1 I it ty free I 1 imported tit products product thus the first dose of republican protection was rag merely to make up tip to domestic for tile I 1 ho taxes exacted liy by the internal re revenue in some soine instances instance however bo wever duties were himli enough to to do A great kleal deal more than this thia other tariff act were ed in ii anil and 1864 in each caste cn ie it nas declared tor for the put pose of offsetting nofri cating the alie erl effects acts of elio internal revenue taxes nut mit the framers of the bill viere gentil genuine ne republican tn proter zionists and aind in many thoy they permitted tho the luana fact ui era who were to profit by tile measure to say gay just what certain duties aboul I bo be ahe 1110 bill was pilled in haste by tile berato this practically closes clocea the skeri perles ezi of war tariffs and the tariff as it was after tile the net act of IM I 1 lias has been keel t alie ike basis ba sis of nil subsequent tariffs with it few con conspicuous ix capt ions and many t trifling ri tig variations variation the alie average rate ate of 1 duties I tit acs ics on dutiable boods in iva was s rather more than 47 per cent when tho the war was over congress began to take oft off the internal revenue taxes and by 1872 rill all dom domestic tic products save have spirituous nuil and malt liquors liquor tobacco matches patent medicines nod a few minor articles avre made tux tree it must be tiered that the excuse for republican protection to domestic manufactures in lures was tho fact that licy here ere taxed forthe for the purpose of raisins internal revenue when t alie ie latter taxes removed of course afe high protective tive r d duties D lies should logically have been rent removed oved but they were not manufacturers fattened by republic A protection demanded that it bo be continued continue dl and continued it was ivas in fact duties in special cases increased from time to time little tho the cry of protection to infant industries ans 4 as raced ra red all and the vi ot king nitin was likewise wise put forward as tin nn excuse for continued republican publican lle protection in pile of a gron groi ing sentiment against tho the evil system the interested inheres ard manufacturers have been able to mal maintain duties ditties on oil most articles and nil now dow we vio havo have the mckinley tariff a avowed lv passed as it 11 radical measure of if 1 mero mere incident eiery dory alan ula its onn oin protection there lives in in new york an irishman who sometimes goes over to his hii nati e isle and who learns U thing or two at each visit upon one of these visits lie he found that ono one man in the region where tile visitor found himself was VM paid considerable more pet per week than his fellows got gol wily why do they pay you moro than these ellee other man get ho be asked the labor laborer er because He cause lint worth more was tile the answer ive been to alej aca and learned how to work any onu one ho lisows american working men and abroad call understand this e are alie cleverest har handiest hardiest diest people on earth it is not boasting boastin in to say this it is ia simple truth not only is this true but it is also true if that I 1 at intelligent fareh iners ners coming coining to anjella cot catch our ways and learn how bow to do elmost alio of two live days iri in one olle A man aniio who lias has studied the italia A is ll 11 lys that m ched lien these men first ome to ameisen they at aie c slow and nil awkward but they presently learn how to and develop into excellent workmen this teizi I 1 is ni as true of killed skilled as of unskilled workmen the Ila liin mechanic I 1 is accustomed to lighter tools than we use na in Anic rica ind and lie he billitis himself at a until lie learns tile tho ways of our people but buo it if lie lias has the lie stuff staff in fit lint be gets to doing tin an linet ican instead of an italian days work A contractor who bad built railroad i nil over the woi wco id said tid that the cost pet per mile mik was no more in illinois nt at 1 per day fur labor than in british india at nine econs cents ii a day fur or labor lib cir tile talk about foreign pauper labor and the danger of its competition is A humbug wo need beell not fear it because it is labor the laborer to be fen fenard ed I 1 is alio fellow who can do a bi ager days work ork than the american laborer and he gaii yet to be born in ill brizill Bri arili till li indian india A man who is not dot more thin than fairly well oil off will haven leavo a dozen servants in fit his hunse house each at ridiculously low bages but they will ill not dot dothe 10 tile of two wide awake women mith american Americ Ame to training and their wages taken title gether amount to more than pay to three such women where american workmen tire lire paid more than foi foreign workingmen it is because they tire worth moru more anil and not because of prot protection eLtion if you hire ten skilled worl vork i lukken of american birth or training to do a piece of 0 work and pity pay them saw per day the cost of doing that work will be thinly flo dol dollars larsa a day it you alro three times ni As many unskilled untrained inefficient men nt at one third the wages pay the same amount in tho the aggregate ant and get no more woi weilt it done hut but are there no foreign workingmen ns as i Okill skillful rul anil efficient t worl work ingmen in a few trades there aro are r for or elguera elgrie rs who can do things that our people cannot jo do or can do but poorly poor lynnd and those men aro are often us as well paid us as american world ii men in other trades there tham etc aie skilled foreigners whose hours are ahoi than tho those thock ck ot of workingmen in america or ii ho he uso use 14 leax j labor savin machinery and i therefore get less le ss work done As ft a rulo rule however tho the days labor ot of lilt in american is woi tit anoro than tho the days labor of A foreigner who liaa has not learned our ways anti for or that benson the tb tha american aro are higher tho the best beat protection of Anic labor lies iles in fil the eci goerky ergy skill intelligence and persistency ot of the amer ican laborer E cry his own protection Is it a good cry |