Show STEEL RAILS AND THE TARIFF apel rails can call ile be made here as cheaply as in any other country the price here is regularly regu 0 Lirly about 37 the price al road is about 20 the duty of 17 per to ton is added to the price of each ton on the ahenry that this 17 per ton or as iauch thereof as the steel rail tru trusi can exact is to be paid to Anie american rican workmen the report of labor commissioner wright lit for asui gays fays the entire direct cost cort labor and materials of producing a ton of deteel rails was as 1159 for tile united states t for great britain anil and for tile continent of europe the report also says that the purely libor labor cost is less in this country connary than in great britain or in 1 europe drope as follows 1 k I ap S to per ton in this country and to a ton in great Dri britain tain A duty of 17 per ton to equalize wal wages es which are lower for each ton produced in amei america ica than in britain is called protection to Anie american rican labor the improvements in ill the process of making deteel the most important bein being I 1 that discovered by sir henry bassemer Rss semer an englishman L have caused the price of steel rails to fall front from a ton many years ago to ao 30 a ton today to day the price in the united states has been kept at from 12 to 30 36 above the foreign price take the following ton tWi years for exa example year price in fit price in Differ eee england U US S 1871 ia 91 i ag 2 ga US 93 30 3 SO 1 la 13 4 es 8 ka ii 17 6 r 44 51 59 15 a 0 32 44 12 7 23 29 42 4 2 13 10 8 a 15 42 10 16 0 27 17 48 21 1880 34 07 33 31 1 32 12 1 10 1 28 18 2 31 57 11 1 I 1 I 1 blittle A little over a year ago igo 0 the trust broke one odthe of alie in members embers speculated loaded up and sold under the trust price in ili a few wee weeks steel rails were selling as low and lower here than anywhere else in the world then tile the trust reorganized and the prices went up ill again almost to the old figures 0 13 but one firm stayed out ho ho thit tile trust can call not lot exact tile full pound of blesh the whole W 17 on oil cach ton and has to be content a beggarly 8 or 10 on oil each cael ton for tile present the 10 to 17 extra on each ton of oft teul steel rails and correspondingly for other kinds of iron i ii i the reason and the only reason why cache ache valley lias has not hall had everal leveral l railroads rail roads long ere this several railroads wo uld have materially ad advanced vancel thu the price of anery farni farm in tile the valley and of every building lot in each town or village thi i is 3 one of the losses the ta tari fYon steel rails rail las has inflicted on this valley |