| Show COPPER AND COPPER TARIFFS Contrary to President Johnsons Johnson's Prediction Prediction- Protection Brought Prosperity That p peerless stump stump- stump speaker and profound falC fal seeing far C Eing statesman Thos CorwIn Mr Fillmore's secretary o othe of the treasury once In the time Ion long lone time n ago o said aill to a kinsman of ot mine In 01 order el to make a stump speech tump- tump yoi ou OtI should not understand your subject too well veli Not to understand It too well would seem m also to be lie th the I proper qualification for discussing the lit tariff question In a 1 popular ma magazine of oC the present tiny day a publication lion meant for Cor tho those e who seek eel amusement and not Instruction Statistics and their underlying and controlling principles prin prin- are troublesome to both hoth writer and reader anti and ma may entirely upset upsel the prejudices of the lie writer and destroy destroy des des- tro troy the time amusement of the careless n reader acler Those statistics that Illustrate Illustrato our oui ec economic history horn from 1783 to toto toto toto to 1907 are nrc absolutely fatal Catal to anyone anyone anyone any any- one who vimo seeks to discredit and ami destroy dotro de do- Easier Ensler stroy tro the protective c system fa far I it il Is to tn denounce the entire 5 tern tem em and char charge chargo o selfishness and even en bribery briber and amI corruption on on all its advocates I cates captains cates-captains captains of or Industry economIsts mIsts politicians an and others others ignoring Ignoring the he fact that the great bod body of voters defend It Il and vote ote for COl It year rear in and year ear out until these latter have made malle madet It t an established national policy under which we have flourished beyond an any other people on the face of or the earth from rom the earliest a ages s 's to the present I hour lour MI 11 and Miss lIss Tarbell In a 1 series of articles entitled The Time Tariff In our Times now low running through h the pa pages es of or the AmerIcan Magazine would u seem to toome come ome fUll fully up to the orthodox stump- stump speech standard utterly Ignoring both bothi principles and nUll statistics to which she ho appears to have paid palm no attention whatever For Instance she he praises Andrew Johnson for his refusal to approve ap tip- prove pro of or tho the hill bill of February Increasing t the he It duty luty u ly on copper ores oies copper opper and amid manufactures of or copper which was wa promptly pa ed by hy congress conover con- con gr gress OV over ovel I his liis veto Wells n-Wells Veto 1 Mes Ie h a c. c This veto velo Miss II Tarbell Farbell characterizes character character- izes ies as President Johnsons Johnson's most Important Im Im- contribution to the tariff In our times An And Amid she quotes from flom this mem message which she he says aS a'S was the work worl of or David A. A Wells ells as follows Its enactments enactment therefore will prove pIove detrimental to the time shipping in interests In- In of the time nation anti and at the lie same sumac time destroy the time business for ma many fly years year successively established of smelting home ores in connection with a smaller amount of the imported import ed articles This business It Is hi credibly cred crell- Ibl n sorted asserted has heretofore toron yielded the time larger share of the copper ir production pro 1110 anti and thus time the tl of the time country countr Industry which this legislation Is designed de tie- signed to encourage c Is actually less than that which will be lie destroyed h by bythe time the paol passage e of the huh bill 0 The Time enactment of if such a n law is urged as n necessary ceSary for Cot the tho relief of or certain mining interests upon Ial Lake Superior which It H Is alleged cd are aie In Ina Ina Ina a greatly depressed condition and 1101 can only be su sustained by an en enhancement en- en of the price of oC copper It If the of Lake Superior are ale In a condition of want it can not be justly mod Hill that the government should extend charity to them in Sn pl preference to those of or Us its citizens who In other portions of or if the country countr suffer In like manner mannel from lom destitution Least of or all should endeavor O to aid them be based upon a method so uncertain and amid In Indirect In- In direct as that contemplated by the bill 1111 and which moreover proposes to continue continuo the time exercise o of its benefactIons benefactions benefactions bene bene- factions through an indefinite period of years It Is Is besides reasonable to hope hOllO that positive suffering from flom fromant ant If IC it really exists will vIll prove Iove hut but temporary in a C region where agricultural agil- agil cultural labor Is so much nuch In demand an and so well vell compensated t d 0 Although providing for fOl an nn Increase of or duties s. s the proposed law lau docs does not e even come com within tho the range of protection pro lio- in the fair acceptance of or the time term It does hoes not look hook to the thC fosterIng foster foster- Ing lug of or a young and feeble reeble interest with witha vItha a view to the ultimate attainment of or strength and the tho capacity of sup self port It appears to a assume cume that th time the present inability for successful pro pro- is Inherent an and permanent and andis is more likely to Increase than to b be gra gradually overcome o yet In spite of or this It proposes b by b- the e of or orthe the law making power to sustain that Interest an and to lo Impose Impo e it it In hopeless perpetuity as a tax upon the competent com corn and beneficial industries of or time the cot country country- i m try Tariff Duties on Copper Ore Ole tutu Copper 1 81 The duties levied under the tariff of and later were sere on copper or ore 1869 to 1883 3 ets per her lb Jh lb 1884 to 1890 2 21 2 2 1 ct 1891 to 1St 1891 2 1 ct ci ct an and 1895 to date It has beet beer I made free Cree on cOlP copper In pigs bars or plates not rolled roiled 1859 1869 to 1883 1883 It was 5 j per lb 1884 to 1890 4 1891 1591 to 1894 1 11 t I 1 anti and from lom to date it Il has hns been heen free Crep and thus thu In accordance with tho limo dictum of Cun Carey over o ift fifty lifty years ago ngo the theone theono theono ono one and only road to free trade was and ami Is Is through h protection This doctrine doe doe- trine Is further supported an and proven by 11 the tho tariff 1897 which contains the tho largest cst free list eVl ever r In Included Included In- In eluded In a United States tariff Thus Thins of or the time Imports for the time fiscal year eal 1906 12 the time dutiable were while the dut free duty free were 54 iS Under protection the copper Industry industry Indus indus- h try has become come so o great gleat and ami powerful that time the American n pro product dominates the time markets of the thc world and fears not the time weaker forel foreign n product In Inthe Inthe Inthe the meantime tho the manufactures of copper have ha been an and amid arc are protected htmL but even 11 these duties ditties have been re red red re- re d In answer el to the false e predictions of oC if the thc scheming and alid self-seeking self David Da In- vid id J A. A Wells and ancI his ImIs ignorant dupe I Andrew Johnson imson characterized by Miss as the time most niost Important contribution to the time tariff in our times It will only be necessary to cite a few facts regarding the history of or the copper industry since the time date lof of Johnsons Johnson's luminous veto me message ae so much lauded 11 by iy Miss lIss Tarbell as fo follows I I Copper OCI 1 of or lie Hie Slut States Slates In 1869 It was l 00 tons of which Lake Superior furnished tons ton and the remaining part of the time country countr but hut G i 61 11 tons while hilt in 1905 tho ho product was was tons ton 0 of which Lake Superior furnished 10 SO tons Montana tons tuns and anti Arizona Arlona I 1 tons tour In addition New h co California Utah Colorado yom Wyom- ing Nevada Idaho South Dakota and anda n C few of or the Ea Eastern lIn and So Southern states made contributions So It has now become a C national sustaining self Industry tr and not in inthe inthe inthe the words of Johnson and amid Wells Well cBs on ono one imposing In ui hopI hopeless s perpetuity a tax upon the till competent an and beneficent beneficent benefi benefi- cent industries of or tho country but butIl Il itself elf under the tIme sustaining e e of protection one omme of or the great com om eum- and amid beneficent t I Industries nil ri not Hot only of or this land and bUt buc ft f f tin tim entire we world ri d In iii 1905 tho ilmo tot total J o nf of TK Ime world wu ius 7 1252 i I MI- MI MIot ot it t I 11 lie ic United Stas St as ns s at I. I ur UI ii 11 J. J t MS and anil the I oat lest il of the world tOB tons Evon n as us early I as 1896 with a t production ll of I S tons wo o hind had outstripped l the tho outside world worl with It Its t i i o ton tomis Value Value- of or the tilL Topper Omit Output lItt flU In Tn I 1905 I the limo j n lh Ih lbs of Am American ui-ican ui copper w wre 1 re w worth rth In New Neu NewYork York t I 6 Ami 1 this hiTs great product shod shed its Ito benign n not only upon this country countr but hut upon man- man J generally the con consumption of or orthe the time metal being so 50 o widespread and o so o great that a serious diminution of or ortho tho the American output would be a calamity cal- cal amity felt Celt In ever el every quarter of or the globe Iob A As iSs to It Oilier Ollie Interests I But nul the development o or of this In- In In-I In Is only tYl typical of time the won- won IC results o of over 01 fOlt forty years Oars of or prot Iron cO coal ll coke coli leather hoots boots and shoes wool and above and beyond all others otherl 1 culture tell tho ho same sante won wonderful erful HOI tory ory a n development dc that has hns outgrown outgrown out out- grown rown the capacity of railroads as to tol l cloe rolling rollinA stock terminal fa facilities fn- fn a- a duties and their lr now up-lo- up date to ate man man- And with this development comes alFO aIo th the growing emancipation of th time tho farmer who too long has haM been furnishing to the world cheap food to his own pauperization and enslave- enslave ment nent And now we may turn to Undo Slim Sam and Ills UN nut Duty at It This fills Hour To keep his weather eyo open when he lie will realize that the time storm center of or the earth earthm Is IC Japan a storm center military naval na Industrial fi financial tl- tl commercial and amI trading anti and andIn In all nil of these respects so aggressive know until the final is lS to now no up let-up ind triumphant end nd I Is readied In Iii view of ot this situation we wo must not hot only be powerful upon the time ocean but we must see that no quacks s or 01 schemers are arc permitted lo to tamper tamper tam tani- per with that economic policy that has lias made us rich and anti powerful beyond be he- yond youth time thc wildest dreams of or mankind And nd especially let Jet no man nian be he permitted permit permit- ted with his traitorous hands by an any treat treaty to make mak a foreign n power the time custodian of oC our right to tn collect such taxes external and anti Internal Internal internal Inter Inter- nal as may to us seem jU just t. t rf right ht and expedient In Tn other words let Uncle Sam Sammi am say to all such schemers Hands off the tariff asto Us Its schedules sched ched- ules as to new ner favored ored nation clauses and anti surrenders HENRY CAREY CAnEY BAIRD Philadelphia Feb 13 I 1907 Oi |
