| Show tariff and manufactures EDITOR HE STANDARD the advocates of a revenue tariff or ft free trade are severable nev never erable able to see any good i in in a protective tariff except that 1 1 it makes a few manufacturers rich they never see any benefit to the working I 1 I 1 classes tile farmers or the masses of 1 I 1 tho the people they claim that it is is a tax equal to the price of the article in foreign countries le with the duties added the groothof grow growth of our manufacturing industries during the last thirty years hasteen has been and no ono one lias has derived greater benefit from it than the work w ork 1 i me classes and the farmers it has lifts 1 built 1 up industries that have added greatly to the national wealth given new employment employ ment to labor increased the rate of wages and reduced the cost ol 01 r I 1 manufactured products to a lover lower point than ever before in the Iii history story of the country and has provided a homo home market for the perishable farm products that cannot be exported as well as tho thoe se that can be there arc are two linda kinds of tariff one a protective protect iv e tariff and the other a allow low or c re rev denue tariff A protective protect iv e tariff isono is one that that is laid specialty specially upon goods that tile people of this cou country can and do manufacture or have ltv th the facilities for manufacturing for the tile purpose of encouraging home bome industries and raising a revenue A A reven revenue tio tariff is is 0 one no that is I 1 laid indiscriminately upon roods goods that nae ff n ae made at home or abroad without any tiny regail to home industries and some GO far as to that duties should reolar be e laid only upon goods that w 0 cannot and do not produce in this country I 1 if f a tariff is laid jaw upon an article that w e can and do produce it generally generall Y encourages cou rages capitalists to put their money into fat factories tories for the manufacture of this article it if it is an article of extensive consumption production that is thus brought about baa baia a direct tendency to lower the price of the article not only in tins this country but in in foreign countries also on the other hand if we lay duties on articles that vie we can not prod produce uce in this country it does not entourage their production here and tile consumer always has to pay the price of the foreign article with the duties added A tax for revenue only therefore is is a direct tax on the consumer while a protective tariff is a means of saving the tile consumer from the tax by collecting our revenue from the importer importers it not only only 11 eaves ave s him from taxes tor for the tile s support ti stir t of 11 th xa government but it reduces the cost 0 t 01 0 the article ho be consumes to a lower price than it would bo be if there were no tariff on the tile article whence AMien vve are depending upon foreigners for our goods we have to pay whatever pric 3 they ec eo 0 fit to place upon the article when we WO depend upon our own people for production competition brings down prices so that the consumer sets gets the article at a small profit above cost the true I 1 policy for tile american people is to lay policy duties on all articles that we can and do produce in in this country and to admit free of duty all articles article s that we can not and do not produce it is better bette r for the people even to pay a bounty on certain pro products ducts like su sugar par silk and tin plate than not to have these tese ind industries established estabi 1181 led in this country when the gov I 1 eminent placed a duty of 45 per r cent c nt ad j la 14 t valorem valoree on steel rails in 1867 this country tr about 2000 tons of 1 vUe steel Trails rails at jit that time steel rails were selling tor for aton a ton and the tariff duties amounted to nearly 75 axton a ton domany bo many steel rail factories have started in this country that now the tile production is is fully rual equal to the consumption and t the be price has las gone down to about SO 30 a ton which v inch is less than half the tariff duties that at first were placed upon it the tax on disteel rails has been chan changed ni three or four times and from an ad v alfrem to a specific duty the manufacture of steel rails has biow now a capacity of over tons a year every state needs manufacturing industries dus tries of its own every factory factor started and successfully mai managed liged is a benefit to the city county and r state tate in ili which it is located and adds to the wealth of the nation aery person n employed in that factory lias has to E be fe fed 1 and clothed and all that are d dependent epen dent upon them have have their wanta wants supplied and the money obtained from the tile products sold is is circulated largely in in tile locality of the factory products made or raised in this cAu country enrich our own ceol people while those raised or produced in foreign countries enrich the tile for tas eigner igner C As another proof of the great increase of value of the manufacturing industries of this countr country yi we quote herewith from an article recently sent to the nen new york tribune under the leading in new ew york as a manufacturing cia city ty 11 it ia is well for the readers of I 1 your a paper to become familiar with these facts because the products of the I 1 manufactories manu factories ac ies in n this is ci city undoubtedly f shea cheapen n prices to consumers in utah uta I 1 in I 1 lie states and also in in foreign cou countries ries by the great increase in production due I 1 that t at has taken place THE GREATER TORK AS A CITY the census bulletins that are sent out by r superintendent porter div giving I 1 ng statistics of the manufacturing ind industries t r I 1 in in the different cities of the united states contain facts and figures with which the masses of the people of this country ou ought V t to be familiar 0 new york is the largest manufacturing in city in this country the tile census reports f of 1890 1800 show that it has different industries established 25 different manufacturing establishments the capital invested in these establishments amount to there are hands employed who receive in in wages annually the mater materials lai used cost and and V the 1 value of A the products manufactured amounts to 10 the tile importance of such gigantic in Iu etries as these in in a single cief city of the united states to say bothin nothing 0 of the rest of the country must be kulify falley comprehended in order to bo be appreciated tile products manufactured in this one city 4 A b amount to very nearly as much as the tile 1 entire imports of the whole united states an examination of the reports of commerce and navigation for 1890 0 allows that our total imports for that year were only thee these startling facts show allow that the city of I 1 new york alone manufactures wi thin 1 of ae as many products as the entire imports of tile country new now york and brooklyn a are re practically one city A large proportion of the men who do bus business inces in new now yo yolk live in brooklyn hence brooklyn has built up large manufacturing industries dus tries that substantially belong to new york there aro are different industries in brooklyn establishments that have of capital invested these establishments employ hands that receive receive annually in wages the amt of material used is and the 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 I 1 1 V 1 k 0 I 1 4 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 2 I 1 ii ik I 1 I 1 value 1 of 0 tho the products manufactured is ille c the census L eu reports allow that tho the total population of new york and brooklyn us is and that these cities contain manufacturing establishments ants that tho the capital invested amounts to 11 the hands employed in these facto factories number 4 M the wages paid amount annually to the cost of materials used is and tho the value of the products amounts to tho the combined products of the factories in these two cities in 1890 was more than the total I 1 imports in ports of merchandise of all kinds during daring that year the largest amount of these imports arts to this country in in any year was in when they reached the total value of the manufactured products of the creator greater new york in 1890 was more than the value of the largest imports in any one year bince since the government was organized again the value of the manufactured products of these those two cities in in 1890 was more than our total exports and imports in any one year previous to 1872 and they were more than our total exports and ij imports in 1876 again the manufactured products of this greater new york under protection increased from 1860 to 1890 and under the tile mckinley SIc Kinley bill since 1890 they have increased at a much more rapid rate than in any two years of the tile history this shows allows that so far as the manufactured products of this tills country are conceited conce ned ined new york and brooklyn arc are really of more value to the country than all tho the goods imported from foreign countries allowing throe three persons to each one employed hig support from the wages paid and persons are dependent upon the manufacturing bubi ness of these cities for their living these cities being located on the seaboard ard where 65 percent per cent of all our im imported ora articles are landed their manufacturing fac turing industries would bo be injured by any chance in the tariff laws more than those of any other cities in the united states english manufacture rs can an land their goods in fix new now york and and brooklyn nt at a very small per of tho the cost of the articles irti clea themselves as ocean transportation on the biz big steamers is tar far less than on railroads goods can be shipped from liver liverpool poo I 1 to new york cheaper than from now york to buffalo by cars european jurers furors b by y securing laborers at less than I 1 aalf if tile prices paid for similar work here would with a low tariff eoon soon ruin t the ie manufacturing industries i es it in these two great cities and thus ill precipitate rec i pl indescribable suffering upon more than a million and a quarter of people will the democratic party at the tile nest next session of congress dare to interfere with our tariff laws and thus thas legally enforce poverty 0 v t erty and and privation among the tile peo people afe 0 ol 01 I 1 this country A startling fact connected wa with th tills subject is that new york and brooklyn n are two of the strongest democratic ti cities in the northern states and mia the employees in the these thee e very manufacturing establishments who with their families arc are depending upon tile wages they earn go deliberately to the ballot box and deposit their votes for the candidates dawson of the party who when clec elected ted will pass laws to ruin the tile business OL 0 their employers and thus deprive F thorn them at of their wages and reduce them and their families to a condition ol 01 starvation and misery this is brought about b by y political oli intrigues the tile uw of money alithe ind tho drinking sa saloons looms E P millert Sr iLLEK |
