Show 1 I I 1 DIVIDE DIVIDENDS ENDS MUST ur CC PROTECT 1 1 Below thres cut CIA L g 1 alio hon F li ain cr ican f of aplin 29 0 m inake ply in an article entitled tho lam t oi of our industrial pans oncas to a ado of cf thowald the wild arid ancl reckless statements statement OJITO fro recent recently 3 pr erfil T in the antrican ant ADi rican economist critiC ibl tho reform climbs proposed bill antei bot ing many Itty of the abo gloomy e ta and disposing dispo siu iu in detail of it few of the I 1 mr anderson continues wo we like to inquire if t tto 1 1 0 is ib any an proportion whatever of tru truth tilt this lament of the t ic manufacturers ers become of tho the assertion so ion aj A 1170 c claimer clai mec throughout that a 1 in ct ivo ive tariff was vias a tax only in tho the ine ion that very soon natural compe ion amons among domestic producers would r arc uca prices so that tho the consumer ob b tain lis his goods cheaper pt fit home tf t lie he could from abroad surely thi lam am plea pica must bo be withdrawn and aballi abai jl uwe if wo are arc to consider tho the pro pusi dj ns as now made that under tho the of tho the proposed bill avery 1 l n of activity is to beco bacomo no III al d and its furnished competitor with every possible abw anco for tho the manifest eti mra 14 21 0 of vi tho the proposition anade cral can illy incan that consumers in ili this country count ro now paying to manufacturers manufacture rs inora fan I 1 an they would pay if tile tho proposed tart ff ill to become a law there is ono one proposition about ni ach cb all writers to tho economist sopi to agree they are all going goin to cut 1 I wn their heir t wages iva cs from fret a 25 to 00 per cent I 1 div iv must bo be protected though 6 the heavens fall tho the reduction redaction if ar ac be necessary can bo be ground out of tile active whether it be truo true or not that 0 atine me of these bloating bleating calves that have foille better part of a century drawn ti and support from tho the protection auw have so EO long on adhered a a to 0 obsolete an ax s 1 trava gaut methods of the tinie time of their usefulness has exl led and that they should shut down aia an ago go out ont of existence c they ara r 0 ocio i 10 uso use to any one wo will not at I 1 re en quire but of ono one proposition vol ra certain end and that hat is mgt none of alete industries will bo be ablo able to take tho the I 1 lun dreith part of a cent from the anga wag j of di any of their operatives they cat lot reduce wages because they have bayo 11 bui er advanced wages tho the rate of tile tho wige earner in this country is in no wao r dependent upon tho the existence or no joftes is terice of protective protect ivo industries lh I 1 is higher hero here than abroad bac because use ill p for production in tho the un ell baates aro are greater than elsewhere e cause canso the individual power of prod c tion fion is greater hero here than elsewhere efad and because the opportunities for self advancement van cement aro better here bore than in other lands wo we raise over 0 of agricultural products tiow r lands wo we build miles of 1 id every e e ry year and open up vast are rich and fertile fields wo W build co cc I 1 acir rs cities ail and 11 i wo we manufacture nine tenths of the u 1 ing of our people we construct ingenious machinery endless in variety of form and application of useful usefulness nw wo we have given to tile the world the best application of the telegraph the clec electric light tho the telephone and the heiing setting machi machine no in these great fields of agricultural product mechanical purs pursuit uit and useful invention tho the united states leads the world and yet in all these put pursuits suits we pay good wages to our workmen and tire are able to do it because t tho he product that comes from their hands handa is greater in a given time than the product in similar fields celda of employment abroad the unprotected it n occupations in tho the united states afford today employment to nine tenths of our workmen for this reason we assert with entire confidence that the industrial pensioners of this country will not succeed in their threatened reduction of the wages of their operatives because they can always find abundant employment in occupations that are riot not protected wo we do not however believe that any of the melancholy forebodings foreshaw owed by tho the economist havo have substantial foundation in fact while as before suggested some few forms of production may anay have leavo to be discontinued in the united states and no one should regret their discontinuance 16 any moro than one should regret the abandonment of a futile effort to raise coffee or ten tea in lands unsuited for such production as tar far as the great wass mass of our textile and metal industries dus aus tries aro are concerned we aro are antis satisfied fiel I 1 that the only effect of the enactment of the proposed propose bill cat cai these industries would bo be to compel those engaged in thern them to gebort to more careful and economical hol methods method of production which would in a short timo enable them to rival and outdo tho the producers of if other lauds lands |