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Show 'for t ran.-portatinn of anthracite coal : Vtvi."ii the Fi.nn-vhT.mu mines and i X. w 1'crk by ra'l is higher than , frcUJ.t rates fur transportation by U:..t.-r from 0,. -.nv to Xew York. i ! 'I lie effect of I :..: is that the advantage ad-vantage had by G;. rman coal producers pro-ducers in lower wages enables them to undersell the output of American :v;:,es, and deprive Pennsylvania an-I an-I thracil; minors of employment. Heavy i iiiipertai ii'ii of Russian anthracite, with still lower wage costs, produces andit ional unemployment. When these American miners are deprived of uiiempV.ynient because their wages are too high to meet German and Russian competition, their purchasing power is destroyed. Thus the outlet for other American commodities is reduced. These unemployed unem-ployed become promising subjects for agitation by alien revolutionaries. This is the vicious circle of free trade. The new tariff law is criticized ; because it is so "outrageously high." i It provides no tariff whatever on coal, crude oil, manganese, and other 1 products of cheap labor abroad, and inadequate tariff rates on many other articles of American production. It provides no tariff or inadequate rates because the powerful commercial interests in-terests which profit by buying or making cheap labor products abroad, were sufficiently influential to prevent pre-vent the action helpful to American industry. At the same time they carried car-ried on a powerful propaganda against the now tariff rates on the ground that in all respects they did not meet the wishes of those who are willing to profit personally at the sacrifice of American prosperity and 1 employment.. A TARIFF OBJECT LESSON. The direct relationship between tariff rates and unemployment is illustrated il-lustrated by the announcement cf Burns Brothers, New York coal wholesalers, that they have contracted with the Hockenholver Coal company, of Germany, for the importation of large quantities of German anthracite coal to this country. There is unemployment in the anthracite an-thracite coal industry in the United States. Wages in the American mines are approximately three times those paid in the German mines. Freight |