| Show WHY OUR CARRIAGES ARE DEAR A few of our readers have taken exception to oui standpoint in the great litigation between free ande and protection they labor under the impression eliat because protection is called protection il does protect anil free trade therefore does not protect hence all gold interested in the development of in derbal industry and domestic labor should rally under the ehg of protection to such we think to have re plied in every one of our arii clea on pointing out that protective tarin protects neither the nor the domestic consumers of llie manufactured article but solely the cap vrho lias invested his money in the factories or furnaces fir naces and uses the government thumbscrew thumb screw to press liis gains a high aa possible and every boly elasca profits aalok as can be this might bi objected to as a vague we have c uch a and have c irefully collated dicta and hrics to n aiato every word we have said we will here ai in that we devote so lucli attention to this dry question because it affects the material inter ansu of a farming population moat directly and it will bo one of the if nat the one principal next political contest in hi from our ot iret i rrt wj day pick a few ait arll wiil u HUH likable li ligniti niti w y on ii digs gs abeso areso deir ani ouli to inest us arll all alio who aiu happy eatough to cosm fuch means iii who would like to go n nipe atio n it 10 ui HM a lt lally lly ir jon nul vu they re n act foreign liy ft oc thirty per cent but mr D A nellt one of the firt nol A i authorities on croby ilita you ever hoir of any one any baill buill cri or by consulting ho list ot he U S co J wa none whatever whai ever chii T tho use then of protecting where there Is no ilai iger or attack why taka cino when we are whole but tho case is wore than this not only loea protection nol prefect u from foreign competition but it prevents our to o abroad and compete on foreign markets anil thus we are placed ia iho chinese wall condition of making our own carriages and ilog them ou reles but worse still the carriage annu fAc turere are obliged to uw a foreign steel in the manufacture of their a cost of eighteen cents per pound which without tho present tariff would cot but ten cents in the article of carriage cloth which is bol made in this country although protection seema to offer avery for lia manufacture at hom ethey pay yard hero for what could bo bought ff in europe at 75 ol 01 and per yard for could be purchased across the ocean for this an differ anco ii caused by the protect iTa tariff and the result of alt this ii that a carriage which il now old for f might be sold for and amount of money made by employers and employee op eyen more became the lower priced supply would ln greater esmand and quicker ret urns of the invested now who suffer by the protective barill the englich and car riago cloth used by the american carriage makers indeed not they get as much for their products as it no tariu it ia the ameti can people every buyer and woul i be buyer of a carriage who has it pay form to 50 per cent dearer for his i ides could if it were not for the incubus of protection the manufacturer hoi has hia little sly laugh at the ous folly of american Ame statesmen who in order to keep out foreign build wall around american industry which takes all the air and light from the latter |
