-K---------------------------------------------------- -
“The time will come when men ter of a century ago. The mass of the
dred
Irish
women
are
coming
over
to
Thus our labor ' suffers
ference
of
the
»either
with
building
Philadelphia Record, anti-protection or­
will find it as difficult to conceive people want now as well as then, justice
gan, has the largest circulation of any operations. Wile ill London there are work in a cotton mill at Nashua, New that this obstructive and absurd in place of swindling, freedom instead of from a'system of robbery,
pa|>er in tl e state. Mr. Blaine aud his estimated to be 25,000 bricklayers, 40,- Hampshire. An agent for the mill went
monopolies. If just and real reforms are
school treat all the^ facts as Lord Nel­ 000 bricklayers and masons in Paris and over to recruit this little army of laborers, policy could ever have prevailed as denied the refusal will only intensify the «Usguised under forms of
now find it to account for the
son did when told at Copenhagen that 10,000 bricklayeis ui Barlin, the Call- and the board of guardians of the pour they
perversity which once denied free­ irritation which will presently sweep quackery for pretended pro­
Protection and Wages.
the signal of the admiral was flying to mated nmiiner in New York is 4,000. contributed to the outfit necessary for dom of epee ch and pre**, or the
“ away a system which, whatever may be
[Daily Orrgoniau, Mas 3, 1881.j
retire from action; be put his glass to There is, says the Boston Herald, “in their voyage. The benificent laws of our infatuation which believed In said in favor of its moderate and tem­ tection of American labor.
*■»»*♦
bis b ¡nd eye-aud swore he could no» see projiori ion to the number of inhabitants, country imposes a duty averaging thirty-
porary application, is seen to have be­ The stupidity that doesn't
witchcraft
and
slavery.
”
That th« Value of capital in the two the signal. Blaine don’t wish to see and a much larger amount of w rk performed five per cent on cotton goods for the
come the means for gross abuses and •ee it, particularly on this
in New Yoik than either of the three benefit of the owners of this Nashua
cuuntrivs is sui stantiallv equalized is shelters himself behind his blind eye.
systematic robbery and oppression.
Tariff Policy.
named European capitals; and, while it mill and of others in the same business.
apparent from the fact that money can
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*
*
*
*
♦
»
coast, where the producing
now t»e hail on undoubted security
is raid that in London, Paris and Berlin These manufacturers say they must have
[Daily Oregonian. April 19.1882.]
By the uparatiou« »»f a protective ««riff’, quite a proportion of these mechanics are protection or the Manchester made goods
classes are so plainly the
(where exemption from exeessiw tax­
The English duty list comprises just
“No imposition is too great to
___ ___
ation is assured? at about as low rates in “the Government undertakes to make out
of ______
work, |__
in consequence of stagna will be thrown upon our market, fo cing
victims of it, is phonomina!
catch
stupid
people,
and
herein
fifteen
commodities.
They
are
the
fol-
j
American as in England. It used to be employment for a certain few of the peo- tiun in the bllihlinU trade, it Í8 probable them to shut up their mills and dis
hopeless.—
said that American capital coni! not t pts by taxlag all the rsst."
that the New York bricklayer w ho earns charge their well paid and contented lowing: Tobacco, tea, coffee, chocolate lies the great strength of our and perhaps
compete with British capital, ami that
«4 per day perform-, in the course of the operatives. Not for their own greater and coco*, wine (classed as one), dried ‘glorious protective systom.“" Pro­ Ihulil Oreyoaiau, l>ct. 21. /b5f. *
tection
is
a
legalized
form
of
rob
­
dividends,
but
for
tlie
sake
of
these
help
­
prot’dion was as n« < esaury for Aurrican Hard Times in
Fennsyl* '<«»> ’■ W1 rk, very < onsidsrablc more ser-
J
vice than would be required of one simi- less laborers, they ask the boon of thirty- fruit, chicory, spirits, gold and silver bery, which makes the farmer foot
< apt tai a-* for American labor. This
“Manufacturing industry is fast­
vania.
i larly engagetl on the other side of the five per cent protection. But these men plate (elaased as one,, beer, vinegar, the bills ofthe Manufacturer."
part of the argument is subsUntially
ened as a leech upon agricultural
.AtlanticTrhis would Lot ouly in part must l>e hypocrites, for they leave the playing cards, piekies, malt and spruce.
overthrown. Bui tlie doctrine t iat our
[Dally OtegonUn April 8,] .
Call
for
Tariff
Reform.
This
is
tlie
whole
list
of
commodities
on
Industry
and is gorging with the
American
laborer
to
starve
while
they
labor must be protected by duties vir­
Although Pennsylvania •ni.ivu more ..i wcount tor the immense difference in run their mills with “paupers” imported which England imposes tariff duties
iDaljBOregoniaii, Feb. 15, 1882. J
profits.”
_______
tually prohibitory, persists still It is
. •
wages, but it would also account for the
*
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•
seem to
__ 4,000 men
________
•. be able to from Europe by the aid of the poor law The first five are commodities not pro­
the stronghold of the ailvoeatesol pro­ the alleged benefits of the protective >
duced
in
England
;
the
duties
on
these
But
these
lucongiuities
of
the
system
Agricultural Statistics.
system
do In Ñew York t
what it takes 8,000
tection. An<l yet we conceive it to be t.
rL than anv other state in the union, ----------
“ guar.ians. This is protection for the
an entire fallacy—a falla y hirkijg in a it contains a greater number of unem-
[Daily Oiegonian, [February 13, 1882. ]
unem- . , men to do in
iu Berlin, a city^of
city of jess size, master and not for the man. If what the cannot, therefore, be in any sense pro are not to be removed. The steel mo­
tective.
With
respect
to
the
others
the
nopoly, intrenched in power, refuses to
one-i»i<led and partial view 4 the nloved
ployed or underpaid workingmen than and 40,000 men to do in Paris,a city mill owners have to sell bears a thirty-
protective
feature
is
obviated
by
the
im
­
five
per
cent
duty,
why
should
not
the
allow
revision
of
the
tariff
in
the
ready
the
any other. Its coal and lumber anti i' certainly not three times ' larger • than
-.........
subject.
article the laborer sells, that is, his la­ position of a corresponding excise duty way oi act of Congress, but proposes a •. The statistician (report of theCpaiWiis-
I lie more foreign goals we take, the manufacturing interests all enjoy the metropolis of America.
more labor We must employ al liomr advantages, such as they are, of a high
The argument of the hide-bound pro­ bor, be equally well taken care of? on the like commodities produced in the commission, which may be ready to 1 lioner of Agriculture for 1880) exhibits
British islands. Thus the English tariff report in two or four years hence, or
relative importance of a^ricullure
To the pioU clionist this may appear a tariff
i
¡culture aa
; and yet its miners are Working for tectionist hasalwayB been that the higher American industry will profit very little is
strictly and literally a tanff for rev­ may never
defenses
that
don’t ’ defend.
‘
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' '
ready The object clearly contribolor to Ollr export trad#i M iqI.
paradox; ami jet it is one of llu most starvation
i
wages and many of the mills wa es of the operatives in the cotton hy these
♦
»
«
*
enue
only.
It
creates
no
monopoly,
«
is,
first,
to
delay
action
as
long
as
possi-
certain truths ot political science We are
(
idle. The farmers have also been and woolen mills of America compared
licenses no spoliation, sanctions no prac­ ble and, Becond, to secure a report from 1 *,W8:
must pay fur our imports t*y out exports, j instructed by the advocates of protection with those of England have been due to
tice of reciprocal rapine. It is not the the commission whieh would defend the j
Mrieultumi exports
We can pay for them in no otbe* way. i that it would make I heir business piofit- the tariff; that if the tariff was taken off
... .. t2S.SH6.lji.
product of jobbers banded togetherto ( existing
eJn8nn„ system and
ana afford
anora no relief
renet to
to[ **
—
“ *^°?* ^ '
.
Protection of Wool.
< >ur exports are created by home la bur. able. But a Pennsylvania paoer says our cotton and woolen goods, wages
force
up
pnees
of
commodities
in
which
the
Congress
is
controlled
by
1
These
figures show in a most striking
(Daily Oregonion, January 12, 1882.]
The more we buy of foreigner»,, th« more i that there is hardly a farm in the county would be as low here as io England. The
they
are
personally
interested,
and
to
combined
monopolies
which
are
en-
Banner
that
our
vast
trade
with
foreign
he me labor, therefore, we must euploy where it is printed • bat would sell for fallacy of this reasoning is shown by the
“In Oregon and Washington Terri­
ab]ed by the laws to fleece and plunder 1 ,ations is the result cliieflv of the work
to create the article to pay lor a hit we more than the improvements in buildings fact that the bricklayer, who has no tory,’’ says the Salem State8manf “there compel the consumer to paj-them.
On the other hand the American tar fl the
. and what ig
more dig.
-
buy. If free trade increases oir im­ and fences would cost. To this the Ver­ tariff to protect him, maintains his
is
produced
annually
at
least
a
million
list
comprises
some
four
thousand
arti-
couragjng
fact tliat large number»
’ *
ports, it must therefore increase otr ex­ mont Watehiwnt adds: “But it does wages at a higher point relatively than
^Be people are deluded and misled by tustry in tne united states are but
ports, and by <*ons«*queiice must simu­ not tell its readers how it is that farming the operatives in protected industries pound« of wool. This sella at from 20 to cles or commodities, inore. tlian ivno ,
late the demand for home labm In falls so low, in the midst of great indue- < and so does the unprotected carpentei, 30 cents per pound, yielding to the farm­ thirds of which return practically no rev- dl(J Bbajjow sophistries put forth as ar- rifling in comparison with that of agri-
other words, every foreign purhaae tries that demand high protection in or­ plumber, plasterer, slater, blacksmith, ers annually the sum of |2,500,000. The uu.ue Ate?- iron It“levted fo/revenue' Kument8 in 8UPP°rt of Ae system by the mhure, and yet agriculture is not only
,
” hut iu t*.»!
„.„a,
necessitates the employment of doma­ der to live. Theee are things that ought etc. In Germany, a country with a high tariff on wool of the quality raised here The duties are not levied for revenue, beneficiaries of it. It is amazing tbat
chiefly for the aggrandisement of a nvone gbould believe that these bene-
P[otec«e<J> ?ut 18 ,taxle''
,uaP''
in hi«.» to «-irate that with whic. the to set men to thinking, for if neither protective tariff, wages are lower than is about 10 cents per pound, that ia ten but
mannfacturiite class at the cost of con- anvone »'‘‘»“iu oeneve mat uiese nene- wn otber industries which claim tii«:
purchase is made. We have the aivan- agriculture nor manufactures are doing in free trade England. According to million dollars. Those who, like the sumers generally Under a proper tariff tlclar‘e‘?of l^a system are insisting on it« ¡nVOr of government. Manufacturing *i-
tagr of England in variety and «»un­ well under the coddling system of the Consul Warner, ot Coloque, in lipper O regonian , advocate free trade, claim system toe object is revenue for the use '."“'"^tires Thek k^rtion'tW the 3u1stry >*? rast?neJ a* .* 1‘‘e<"P011
dance of raw materials, and in l»od. last quarter of a century, perhaps it Siliesia a workman in one of the pro- th a the tari fl’ on an article adds that of the government. Under our system |ab.
clggJg gre iuteregted in
kmltural ind.istry-and
_ ____ J___ _ is gorgmg w.ti. th.»
.BM
We nre substantially on an equality tith would la» best to Uy a more bracing tected industries earns only 47 cents a much to the price; that is, the tariff on
[profits. In our eastern states, where la­
her in th'* matter <»f cheap capital. system.”
day. »ml if a skilled laborer he gets 80 wool increases the price in Oregon ten tne object is the shutting out of eompe- maiutarilgnce o( a high »rotective tariff ,P^C ir is cheap and the market wide, manu­
Z< n.rwr« «uvnmmr
Since »he had food to import, taking
Having become accustomed to depend a day. Women earn from 24 to 30 cents cents per pound, giving to the farmers tition from abroad so that home monop- ig jQgt wjiat mjgLt be expected from that facturers
colossal fortunes
may charge what pnee thev like.
source. It is an essential part of the de- un(]pr thi« accumulate
avatam
much of it from us, and larger part 4 upon the Government, the Pennsylvania a day, and the lalxirer works from fi to 6 one million dollars annually. Absolute olies
Bjnwui, . which taxes con-
But we are told that our nianuiacturers
manufacturer« j cept
C ^ jon
OQ jj yOU are going to rob a man —
winter. The free trade, then, would take from the cannot compete on
her raw materia s also, than we, an« statesmen now tlemand that the protec- in summer and 7 to ’ 7 ! in
~ —
m
stantjy
the
greatest
industry
of the coun-.
»
’
th
equal terms with
consent, and not only have
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hyear.
since her old advantage over uh in capii live principle shall ba further extended. laborer in that protection country is fanners one million dollars
each
year. ” ’’
jur. ,Jhiiir benefit^ Fur^u’ munu-
those of Europe. This requires
- us to be- .
.
with it but ovuu enttiuajl
The claim that the farmers of Oregon lieve that the incalculable national
Bp
«Mreto.ne
terete,,
tai is virtually at an eml, we need not To refieva tlm prevailing distress a bill sparingly supplied with clothing and
first make
ad- ; Bbouyjll
«from
the
protec-
tai be Keen derive xre»t t.—
A.-------
j “
(>y
,,ur vajitauns <»f "jai, United States a«*«* not
int-odneetl in the slate aeuate , linen, and a while shirt ja such
fear her comjsiiitioi». Our system now
»rticlen
th public i only on rasrn ofcahioitH.
Iff «-itUm to ,♦/<
»«aniifa<‘tnrerfL-_l£SaM^I
■ duceo under our system caqCt cvuiuflP*'
U hh I m to mtster H oum : monopolies rutbgL
fin
is
too
gross
to
extorting
*1 “ hl *-*■*
t
.y
" with those of other couutri^ ami con-
all objections to Tan1
peopl ’and herein lies the great
!sei|iientlv crji’t eecur.-> a for^rn market.
.-e.—— . I, the dinner the tariff system as 1 w oppressive one to an advance (ixl^tlie market price of his of oil
MKatcT. dstexi'ito circuinsmit1^knit with sist pnnciK«,..j
w protective
___ _________
“
glorious
systetj.
Tmlril^with the oqlv i iistomers ’b ___
out «»-tenerative employiuMt through being of potatoes, peas, oeíins, common our section, inastuiitli as lhe advantages gomls As Aiiterii-iin manufacturi s are .Judging from the census returns, there r But
*». they
. • • monopolize
„ r thp
*. « tlie
J- lumie
----- virtiiatlv
• market
7 “n
not
ami
cannot
be
remunerative
a
sys
­
|*ork
ai.«l
bluck
bread.
lake our piodui is, and forces us to pay
/ .Q^^
nuP-iTloftoeirow,i." This prottositiou.
we' receive from the protection of our
are now probably three and a liilf mil- at
at hiffh nriccs.
prices, as
as the duties
duties are
are virtually
hiaher pri.es lor goods which V-
we ,3 lite Philadelphia Timet siys, “would
wool exceed the losses we suffer tem mus» be employed to enable tlie I lions of persons engaged in or concerned P«>h>l>itory, and the consequence is that
uiauuiattut vi to
i«» vai
-'III from
iroill the
LHC con-
COI1”
.
flip
AtnAriPiin farmer
ia forced
fzvvx.xxzl to
t/v
extort
• are coinpdle.l to buy. Eince the take money out of the workingman's
through the obstruction of trade and manufacturer
the American
farmer, u'lin
who is
“But at least we can let it be the enhancement of prices for the benefit sumer a bonus over the natural price of wl. ,na.I1,lJa<tures and mechanical and meet the competition ol the whole world
adoption ol free trade by Grea right hand pocket and put it into his left
the
goods
and
so
cover
his
losses
and
teiinnp
industries
in
the
United
States.,
known
that
we
are
not
so
gullible
Britain,
wages
in that Count« hand pocket, and say: ‘See what I ain
in production of grain and cotton, is not
of Eastern manufacturers. But the fact
have gone up on the w hole average mor doing to help you.’ ” And yet it des­ as to accept without protest, and is that our wool here is not protected at make a prefit. This is the protective No?' P™'wtion requires that forty-six. allowed the lienefit of the world’s com­
thau one-quarter, and in some depre-! cribes vtwy exactly the workings of the as if we were perfectly satisfied all. Wool of a quality equal to ours is system on the showing of its own advo- ?,ul ,a. ia , mlA l0Jia, °’ PeoPle shall be petition in tlie purcliaae of nianufsctore.l
taxed in order that these three millions
tn» uts Ittlly one-half. Eitwrience lure protective tariff, by which tlie Govern­ therewith, the.sophisms and the worth more in Ixmdon than our wool is cate8
By whom ia this bonus paid? By the Si'L® half should have better wages, commodities, but is obliged to pay the
comes in against theory in the matte of ment undertake« to make employment resulting Injustice and loss of the worth here. Latest I.omlou quotations
whole people, but chiefly by the working J *?’
18
°f pro ection, not the prices which protected monopolists
alleged reduilmn ot wages. But gr.nt- for a certain few of tlie people by taxing policy of protection."
to exact. Onr agricultare would
show prices ranging all the way from 12 and agricultural classes, who are sad- a' ^’ T,
’ail..!a «hat it does not im- choose
nig that wages might lie somewha re­ all the rest to enable an industry to be
be infinitely more prosperous were it
cents for the jioorest to 45 cents for the
duce. I. there would be cvmpensatioi for conducted, which it is claimed could not Shipbuilding and Protec­ beat. The average is better than the 20 died with the burdens and have none of Pro'e Ihe condition of the three millions disburdened of tiiis system and its con­
the benefits. But it is claimed that the ?nJ,a llalf’ *l,“e ‘i<iue8 “«pose heavy
il in cheaper goods, whieh workingaeo- exist without protection. It would not
to 30 cents a jiound which tlie Slatennan artisan is furnished with employment !'llri‘‘'n8 <>n all the Test. For example, sequences.
tion.
ple, aw well as otlieni, must coiUMme. be right to attribute the prevailing dis­
btiastingly
says
our
farmers
receive.
’Oregonian. December 10,1KS0. ]
and the agriculturist with a “home mar- !.n or'*8r 1 iat /IV8 pastern manu.acturiDg
4n!
Moreover, wages are not a great ele­ tress among the laborers of Pennsylvania
or .1
We semi our surplus wool to the ket.” How is the artisan protected? h,rm8 ’••“’»hllte bolstered up,the.priceof '■** Wluit doe« SrnaUtr
•
«••«•
•
ment in the cost of manufacturing. We to tlie tariff alone. But the fact that
Blaine think to-<lay about their pet
Eastern States. The route is a long,
, ,u“l.“eU8S. Hfi«11«'11«* “v theory that a protective tariff" maket a
The fact is this destructive policy is slow anti expensive one. This, in Bpite The manufacturer ¡«secured against loss B 88 ’
have not the figures of the ceiuga of liters ia ao much distress shows that the
ibbli ami henccj we draw from lb*e of I tariff alone cannot prevent it. The maiulaiued as pan of the whole scheme of a protective tariff, gives foreign wool, by being privileged to exact high ¡■rices ¡,8ei’’ 18 ' «°uL> lei I. Its effect is to make «home market’ for th* Americpa farmers’
from
the
consumer
;
but
where
is
the
’
‘
-S
“fi'l passenger on all the
1H7U. for iIluslrations on this pint. situation ia another illustration of the I of protection, which rules our laws for on the whole, an advantage over ours.
wheat, corn and pork
keeping out for-
These figures show that wages theiwere truth of tlie lines which Dr. Johnson put the lienefit of the great eastern manu- So that all the lienefit our farmers get protection for the workingman? There ra,h”ads pay in Teased rates and to keep elgrn good«? Does the American farmer
• 8^
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— a o'
~
vuipivjvcn,
are
no
customs
to
keep
out
lalior.
Coni-
"
1
n
,e
*
S
‘
‘
8
of
railroad
employees;
l
factnrers.
Conscious
tnat
the
whole
sys
­
IU.4O |s-i cent, of the value of tht pro­ into one of Goldamith’s poema:
from the protection of wool is infinites-
to increase the cost
<»st of the farmer
former ’s tools seriously believe to-day that he is
tem would fall if the false foundations simal, if it is anything. We suppose petition has unrestricted sway, and as a * ln‘rea8o
duct in the mamifacluring, mechatical, How unallof all the ills that men endure
“«»¡ huiery and at the same time to specially enriched by a protective tarill
mining and tish industries of the Uiited That |i»rt which king,or lawacaa cauae or cure, I I on whieh it stands were exposed, they that no one would imagine that wool matter of fact the mass of toilers in the i and
which promised to make for him a *h«»me
band together and refuse to eiiow it to from foreign countries would lie shipped, protected manufactures are foreigners, erect a barrier between him and the for­ market?* It looks very much as if wheat
States, the value of the materialnred
consummer to whom his surp.us
be attacked in any park We want to under free trade, in any considerable whose small pay in the great manu­ eign
was 54 19 |ier cent, of the product, vliile
products must be sold. It must be re­ rose and fell without any reference to <>ur
, ,
__ ._____ sell to Great Britain, but our tariff pro- qqantities into Oregon to compete with facturing states, as Pennsylvania and membered,
was
the remaining 21>.- .41
‘* , per cent,
__
__ 1 * lie to
or
however, that protection protective La rift', as if wages wore
Ameng the tala* cl*l rvi« ofpro-
Great Britain from selling to us. the home product when better prices Massachusetts, gives them no advan­
buiblings, machinery and so on. Í we
low without reference to a protective
ex‘ The laws Cannot compel our citizens to might be realized by shipping to Glas­ tage over the s walled pauper lalior of does not protect a tithe of all the persons tariff.”
’ call wages 20 per cent, of the whole I tectlen It ’the ceneus of
w
England. Hence the distress, strike-- employed in manufacturing and me­
value of tkie product and admit that plod** '• the preten** that our build shins at losing rates, but thev can gow or Ixmdon.
and turbulence so constantly reported. chanical industries. Its immediate bene­
wages are 40 per cent, higher herethan almost prohibitory tariff makes anti tlo force us to 8 pay enormously high
Wheat
and
the
Tariff.
True, wages are something higher, but fits are limited to the line of industry
in England, then the difierence is hit 40 work plenty ansi keope wages prices for nearly all manufactured goods,
bolstered up by it, and « hich therefore
[Daily Oregonian, N’oveml>er 4, 1886.]
,
j This is the direct and sole object of a “There is no phase of protection that will bear only nominally so. The workingman employ
per cent, of 20 per cent., or H percent, high.“
more hands than they other­
protective tariff. In other words, a pro- examination. Every part of the system la aa loses more by nigh prices than he gains
The Milling World recently said:
of the whole value.
Nothing wuld
Protection and Wages.
j tective tariff is a tax levied on iuijiorted weak as the argument for the protection of wool. by the better wages. Again, as to wages, wise might do. This is a very small ' “Th«* farmers of the United Ktatee wonld
show more convincingly that the liter- [
goods with the design to raise the price The system is throughout a short sighted game the protected employer does not pay his proportion of the three and a half mil­ to-duy be getting 20 cents a Luhln I lewf.
eats of domestic labor are not at stake
[Daily Oregouiau, August2, K882.J
—probably not more thau one mil­
| of home commodities. Protection is sei of greed, except for the great monopolist whom operatives on a philanthropic plan. He lions
here totbe extent whieh the protottion-
a.. . . ,«>
lor tlwil* wheat than |.i»ey now get were
is ruled by the market rates, and he lion all told.
. ,, ,
Its object is to it creates and supports."
ists claim. England lets in raw nate-
It
is neither honest nor philosophical it not for the protective tariff of i?l) cent«
takes advantage to the fullesi extent of
rial. We tax all raw material from reasons why tariff revision should be mag« goods dear. True, it professes
to
tell
the
working
i
lasses
that
their
in
­
the competition which the necvosities of
abroad >o “protect” one interest (r an both immediate and permanent. Of tbat its object is to favor home labor,
The Tariff on Wool-
a bushel impose«I on imported wucat by
the workingmen force among themselves. terests are all bound up with protection,
other. The comiequenee is an «¿van­ course it doe» upt discuss the question, Bul *« defeats itself, lieeause its conse-
[Daily Oregonian, June 10, 1882 1
and it is politically improdent, for the our govrrrment.“ This is saying Ttm\
The
“
home
market"
argument
is
equally
take over us in free materials, wllich but it collects and presents facta whieh S^JS^w^l^k^^
Advocating “protection,” the Dalles unsound. Though protection were aban­ reason that the agricultural class is very protection raises the price of American
all commodities which the workman, as
equalizes, if it does not exceed, any ail
much larger than tlie manufacturing and
(o the exact aunjunt of tlie tariff
vantage which «lie can have in cheaper with their relation« carry their lesson» well aa all others, must consume. In Tiine» says: “The wool growers (of doned wheal and corn and beef and pork mechanical, and that its interests are lax laid on imported whval, aud Ums
still be
eaten. The
farmer cannot
wvuiu nun
ow ouru.
, ue tarmer
. ......
h .
. . . .. ,
■ puts $9(1,00(1,000 or
„ ruu, . in the general scheme of Eastern Oregon) know fully that protec­ would
labor. We can manufacture as dimply to all who will study them. Among the the t long
a \ »,
,
n.0« identical with those
as she can. if we would avail oursilves j false claims of protection it explodesis things, the policy does not benefit our
“ t tion guarantees a good price for their lose his market. The “home market”
P’x>t<Jl’tI0nIstj’- The necessity for |KA*keta of our farme r. ehlimalBtg ilw
of all our opportunities and that without i the pretense that our almost prohibitory own laborers, for the more we buy of clip, while free trade strikes at the very argument, of which so much is made, ,
a
heat
crop
at
450,000,000
busheh.
Thia
comas to this, viz. : I’ension consumers «^’ff reform has been grow ing clearer
foreigners the more we must produce by life of the industry.”
materially reducing wages either. But
to buy the products oi agriculture ; sub- }r 8e'.era' yea,'B to all candid observers is absurd, because the price of onr wheat
as all tanff taxes, like other taxes, nust tariff makes work plenty and keeps home lalior to pav for it. Free inter­
If
this
assertion
were
true
still
it
is not affected at all by «»or.tariff uu up-
of necessity re apfwar in higher cottmo- wages high Hardly any formal answer change of commodities is tlie policy to would not prove the protective policy to sidize artisans to settle at the farm gate ; , Pa.,10na* progress, and even the pro |>orted wheat; the price of our whole
assertion. The an- stimulate home labor. It is true, of be a just and wise one. High prices for pay them for making goods at a loss, and .ÎÎ k Î. I’,a”9fae,or«‘rs have seemed to crop depends on the price of our surplus,
dities, of what avail is it to the working- is
._ needed
______ _ to that
_______
man to keep up his wages by arlitcial tagonistic relations of labor and capital course, that a protective tariff may stim­ wool make high prices for woolen goods; out of their profits thev will purchase realize that they could not much longer which is sold in the
market h »[ Liv­
forced contributions
in those
«echona
stimulants, when at the same time and i_
.1______
_ ___ whoee
-t,;— industries are ulate a certain branch of manufacture, and there are twenty persons who wear the farmer’s abundancei But the farmer ! “'T ,o
erpool iu competition with tlie surplus
by the same process the inanufactsred most strongly protected would lie a suffi- and may-even increase fora time the woolen goods to one who produces wool. gets no more for his wheat in the home i11’ confiscations from the country at wheat of all other grain grou ing coun­
market than in the foreign market, in ar.?e- l‘eu?oval of obstructions to trade
But is there
goods which he must consume are kept cient reply, but the census repott makes wages of labor in it.
Why should the twenty be taxed for the
H,ep“.lura.' pfi*0*ophy of all who gain tries. Of course, since our tariff Ln
itp ata high rate too?
»
•
• a more elaborate one though in the same any real gain iu concentrating capital benefit of the one? Oregon is boasted fact the foreign market regulates ami
wheat cannot fix the price of wliwai. in
«*
direction. The man whom the govern­ and labor in one employment by arti­ as a wool-growing State, and so it is; governs home market. American grain i ie,r f1ylnK by work, though they are Liverpool, it does not fix its price in
sells in the markets of the world on a par \er} a*,t to. n|f|'taltÇ their true interests,
” Y«»u might mm well «ny that If yoacut ment commissioned to make a report on ficial stimulants and withdrawing from
Chicago.
What does Senator Edmunds
and
yet
even
in
Oregon,
there
are
twenty
with the produce of the serfs of Russia
l
.1R a,k‘ga lz<-'> form of robbery,
«.IT a «l<»g’M tail ami rar« th«« «an>e «lay he the iron and steel industry is secretary other«? Our protective system has, be-
dlmlnlf,bes the purchasing power or Mr. Blaine think to-day a lx sit their
ha® r«*a<*«»it t<> feel highly antu«e<l enter- of ttie American Iron and Steel Asso­ vond doubt, stimulated certain manu­ persons who want cheap clothes to one and Roumania, and the American farmer , ,
who wants dear wool. Here, in a dozen cannot help himself. He has no pro-, of the wages of protected abor by ar- pet theory that a protective tariff makes
talaed ami grateful, a® to say that a tariff ciation and not likely to furnish figures factures ; but it is equally certain that it
words of one syllable, is a camplete and tection, and it is he who competes with , [mf1? y enhaneing prices, which makes a “home market” for the American
oa coal, which enables the coal combina­ that tell against the protection theory, has destroyed others. Thus it has en­
overwhelming
answer to all the elabor­ “pauper labor.” Hence, also, tliough ! le fa™Çr foot the bills of the manufac- farmers’ wheat, corn and pork by keep­
tion t«» re®tri«*t production, which redace« simply with that end in view. Iron and abled eleven mills to monopolize the
ate arguments ever made in the effort to protection cannot raise the price of a I’aSi wl-“11 robs I eter to pay laul, ing out foreign goods ? D om the Amen­
th« earning® of the miner and artificially steel are the most highly protected of all manufacture of steel rails at high prices
tum farmer seriously believe to-da}> that
put® up the price of coal, thus «welling articles in common use. In 1880 there and great profits, but it has annihilated show the alleged importance of “protect­ bushel of wheat by a single pennv, it can i h!ch restricts production and commerce
ing” the wool-grower. But even the and Joes repress and obstruct the export
tf‘erefore. 1« opposed to every he is specially enriched by a protective
the cost of the workingman*« fuel, wa« were 805 companies producing iron ore, ship building and the profits of ocean
small wool-grower himself—he who has of our agricultural produ- ts. There are rational ana enlightened system of fiscal tariff which pro mi st d to make for him a
7,971,703 tons,
‘ protection * to labor.”
■ — and
—w — they
— produced
______ — -»-•-»
r~i em- commerce.
_________ While
‘- one
.... industry
__ • is stirn-
few sheep and whose annual clip is a countless points to which t[ie fruit of our ?nd lnou8«rtal science. The question is “Lome market?” It looks very much
,
ploying to do the work 31,668 persons at ulated by this system another is de- a
1'1n“c'I' ,'ong?r *»’> U»s national as if wheat rose and fell without any
Protection that Kills.
a daily cost of «31,791, a few cents over pressed. That is to say, all that any in- few hundred pounds of wool—loses more soil might be Shipped if we were per- '
' -, P*1,1.0
foun reference to our protective tariff,'as
*1 r
per
is less terestorany c I« bs gains by protection
is by the enhanced cost of clothing to him­ mitted to take our pay in tlie commodi-
[Dally lireanulan, October», taw 1
(1
_. day lor each
___!_ peñón,
__ which
" -k* --
__ *
self and family than he gains through
18 Pre88ed by it. on the whole so wages were high or low without reference
It was <mlv I lie other day that thagreat than the average ol workers in any un- gained always at the expense of some the higher price for his wool; so that ties there produced. We should not be '
to a protective tariff.
___ „_______
____ in __
_____ The other
. mt! .-..mosnies met in New Yotk and protected
business
the ...
country.
"**— interest - or claM. "Every wave of the actual beneficiaries of the system forced to pay the enormous ocean freights’’ hî JÏÏSSÎX * a 8 ours ; . e labor under all
*
*
*
*
«
«
*
exacted on the wheat we do export if ves- j saGVantages. which it creates, and
total number employed in the uroduc the ocean has a depression behind it
. ‘.
it.
V ' ~
-------------
no 8^are ,n lta compensions such
arbitrarily put up the price of one of the m,,, oj pig apd '_________________________
bar iron and steel was The
The prosperity
prosperity of
of the
the west
west and
and south are the great wool-grower« and the mo­ seis could carry cargoes both ways. But ! aa
r , . ;
“He letor Protecting one
prime nvcv.Hiti.-B of lite, vis ,'luel. Hoe 14(19,5, who receive.) «184,923 a day or depends on their selling their products nopolist manufacturers. There iff no exchange is obstructed by law ; there is a tneyare, y
alt,
jihase of. protection that will bear ex
A
and ctnuntiessly advocates the
were they able to do it? WeajteWer, bjr 71.!» each, their service coming more to Great Britain. We do not take tier amination. Every part of the system is no free exchange; “protection” allows
T,""‘ ol"
’‘“O'ere from a great principle that we all can get
securing mopqpoly <»f tlte hum.; 1U»rk«l u,n>>" 0,8 •*•«’ ?[•*"■«’»* lai°.r Jl,an ,that f<x,Ml8 be«aa8e °"r tariff prohibits them, as weak as the argument for the protec­ only a partial ami indirect trade, and a
rich'by taxing each other.”
partial and indirect trade means such :
.
.^1.»
i.2 "a
the miners. Tilts is certainly a beg- but force her to pay the balance in cash,
through a pro c-nve tanff, ami then ciM*- ■ gaHy pittance for skilled lalsir, ami Of what advantage is this to us when, we tion of wool. The system is, throughout, costs for freights, insurance and ex­ form» of quackery for pretended
s
uperficial
apd
*b«t-Sighted
game
of
■1 Mlr Oregonian, October 30, fs«i |.
bitting to h'stru-r prxduetioR kitrt Ti®tiH*f iltli*ethiiig that is without It parallel in are'obliged at once to piy out that cflsh greeil—except for -the great monopolist change that the American farmer is protection of American lalior.
prices artifli'ially high. What is
re- lete protected .industries of the epfintrv. far goals st lHgher price? than those at whom it creates and support», with beaten before he begins the competition. The stupidity that doesn't nee it. I . Mr. John Ranch, the sliin-lmilder was
But the progress and thrift of the coun­
suit ? The coal ffiitter i e«riiim,s-T<> iln* U The Free Trade League of New York which we should be enabled to buy them them it is a studjed and profound irame
recently before-the- tariff erimnlission.
year an* ent down belt Ar tlte tevt-1'of the'bis issued a pamphlet which deals in a direct of tlie customer who takes our of greed, part of which is to make large try- are appealed to as proofs that pro­ particularly on thin count., where He floored that body of- investigators,
English miiii'r mid tWe'prlix- the w»rk forcible mannt-T with the infant mdnstry products? Another thing. Our policy classes siipfiose they- are favored and tection has been a beniticent policy. All theimduriuttchiMrt are no plainly as well aS an exceffliively “protected1?
■ngman'afuel is imireaAed. Where does ■•■pl«*- In this connectlofi It says: “In ¡makes it distinctly to tlie interest of protected by a system which either doee is attributed to protection. It does not the rictimn of It, in phenominat, country, with hip views, which tlie New
occur to those who look at the subject
“the priUtM-lion" ot tltr " rforkingmaii' «he first place <>nr infant iiidustries are a ! Great Britain to encourage dtrectdeal- not
protect them at all, or actually rob« only-in a superficial way tbat this prog­ and perhapx hopelesn.—Daily Ore­ 'York llorpf has »«fiuirably condensed
con« in in this ease? You might us well century old In the second the compiler ing with other agricultural countries, them.
and analyzed.
He appeared in four
ress is not the result of protection, hut gonian, October 21, 1881.
sav Altai M yon cut off a .¡fog's tail ami »«these statistics acknowledges that our Tlie prosperity we now enioy is the re-
cliaracters; but it was in his character
sunt the aaimt tfay lw hua reaa-tlt. to fee I ..superior skill places the world at utils salt chiefly of exporting the surplus of
has been gained in spite of it. The
as farmer tbat he most enjoyed the bles­
“We tax the raw material* of the sings of protection. As a farmer lie en­
highly amit-f.l, eiiierfuimkl Kiel grate- tadvaiitage with uh Tltirtlly, ottr coal <’<«r crops. What would lie the effect “Why should ouf industries here wealth of nature is here and all our
ful, as to any that a tariff ott coal, which and irbu are generally situated so close upon that proe|>eritv if Great Britain be taxed to creatd an Fnduatry at errors of industrial jiolicy cannot prevent woolen manufacturing induetry In joyed ¡laying taxes to siqqiort himself sb
enables toe coal ....mbii.atloti to restrict together that the former cun easily be should levy such duty on American Mttsburg?”
its development. We have had slavery, a way that protects nobody. It a ship builder, minufacturer and iron
prodmttfon, which rc.ltieea lite cart any- ' »¡irked with fhe latter. Fourthly, »Itile 1 breadstntls as Would make it profitable
droughts and pestilence, a great civil - keeps out foreign wool* that we master; but after all it is to lie feared
of the tniurr, i mid to aitili. tally |Hit
_ iit. lb* iron am) coal of EnrO|a* are fat down ’
develop the agricultural resources of
war, and we know not how many other , need to mix with our native fleeces ‘that he
____________________
_______
enjoys himself as a protection-
The Tin-plate Tax.
the price <4 c.Mtl, ilun
■'
sueili'ig itiB oo
* « h liefow the snrface ours are almost titsm ’ Australia and the railway system of Rtts-
moral and physical evils, Y et see how and by restricting the variety of ist simply' because as a ship-builder,
(Hail, Oregonian, January 2S, 1883.)
•ii Uw w<«AingiM«Mt’n iurl, watt uf«rw|MV it. Fifthly, our iron and coal supplies si*? Our largest customer will not
the country has prospered ! Is its pros fabrics which can be made here, manufacturer and iron master he takes
There ia an industry frere that is very perity due to these evils? Has it not! limits the demand for American more money out of other people's pock-
tion”‘.o L4M'r. ..-
t •
__
are ___ in-close
_____ ,____
prmtiiuity
_______
to _ the
*_____
market
——. . |T ' always
- -<-« pay
<__________
tier balance ____
in cash,
, , nor is it
o.-„Lt_
------
.
------------
--------------
■.*
•
‘
1
-
...
She
much
interested
in
tih-plate.
It
wants
A mvrtifig of oprntttvvR in {hr texiijt* Sitthly, rticy are adjacent, (u the great “»r interest that she should do so.
prospered in spile of them and of all the Wool."
¡pts than his own, At least when the
imb*tri«*M «4 Pen m«y I van in last apring -food |tr’«lncing center of the Unite« I wants our products and we want hers. -tin-plate to be as chbap as j»oesible, so other evils it has ever known? So, too,
characters united in his person are
ir.tin« d u vctui>m io CongrvM*, in whiHi Stilt*» which is relied upon to «npply ' But the protectionist sit« as toll gatherer that sometliinir may be mode out of the it has prospered in spite of “protection.” Partisan Viewsof the Tariff, divided, it is the foniier that pay-sand
ihey sal«!: ‘‘It H no longer neivexarv to hall the food eaten by the iron workers . at' the gate, and for his own prut? pro-
No folly of our own can as yet overcome
[Daily Oresonlan, July 7, 1888.1
grumbles and the ship-builder and tl>e
........ i*>
. find
it.. I. puuper labor.
1 '
S«.— of
„-.i Europe.
. . k.
-- i — * ' any pro liibits «X.
‘C A exchange
—— - . 6. A ... A. A - of products.
... .a A
ri-our riirojs.
VTe
Therefore, witluait
the
Of canning business. Therefore the pro- our great natural advantages. But here,
*
•
si.«,/«
•
•
Iron master who receives them and
jiosition
to
double
the
duty
on
this
lection
at
all
it
it
shown
our
iron
mas
­
have ith'-rein our iron ami coal mines,
course we are obliged to submit as we of
indeed, is an almost incomprehensible
A writer who presents the suhfect on J*™1 to enjoy the transfer; and tlie
'
ra'mnxx»» wrin ia nnlv a fatewxx»»» xlzxxxa
workinc-hw 75 tents a day. and skilled ters could afford tp pay one hundred ¡ter the agricultural states have small ,tower article is not a pleasing one. Portland’s folly It is admitted that our people
faTmer who is only a fanner does not
operatives iu our cotton anti woolen sent more wages to their workmen than in the national Congress. But at least lioard of trade and Astoria’s chamber of would trade freely with foreign nations rational instead of on partisan grounds, perceive the blessings of protection so
commerce
have
protested
Similar
pro
­
mills working for lees than 89 cents |ter they do before foHugn com miili hi would we can let.it be known that we are not
if they were allowed. Their interest after showing that the annual value of clearly as the fanner who is also a pro­
Jav." The pauper labor of Italy ia tak affect them.” But the protectionists tlo so gullible as to accept without protest, tests have been addressed to Congress would lead them to it. Recognizing this tlie wool products of the country for the tected manufacturer. Still there is a
from
other
quarters.
Many
newspapers
ing the place of the Irish in railroad not care for demonstrations. When the and as if we were perfectly satisfied
fact, in steps th.- man who wants to ob- census year 1880 was «41,033,045, and satisfaction in the old familiar fallacies
laiilding anti ro.i l work, the Poles anti next presidential cetu|iaig:i comes on therewith, the sophisms ami the result­ have joined in the effort to prevent the etrnct trade that lie may get high prices, that tlie value of our exports of domes­ of M t . Roach. He is a protectionist, as
Hungarians s t arm in the coal field« they will have tbeir threats to working ing injustice and loss of the policy of increase of the duty. It seems the ways and induces the government to take his tic wooleus during the last fiscal year he frankly avers, no matter it as a farmer
and means committee have been induced part. The tiine will come when men was only «300,000, says with equal truth he has to pay a dollar to secure as an
According to tlie testimony collected by ; men posted up in their furnaces, factories jwotection.
to advance the rate by a statement from will find it as difficult to conceive that and farce: “We tax the raw material of iron masters large multiple of that sum.
the Pennsylvania -tale Bureau of Statis­ and mills, just as they did in 1880, ami
Pittsburg to the effect that if Congress this obstructive and absurd jxi/icy could this industry in a way that protects no­ “I believe in protection,” he reuvarks,
tics, whom- vhiel is s protectiowist, from not until the people who labor turn their
*• Bat these men must be hypocrites for will sufficiently protect the tin-plate in­ ever have prevailed as they now find it body. It keeps out foreign wools that “not for a single industry, but for one
the lipa of English luiners, the condition thinking to some accounf, stop striking
dustry
“it will provide a livelihood for a to account for the perversity which once we need to mix with our native fleeces, and all, because I believe in the princi­
of the miner i- worn« in Pennsylvania and redress their grievance» by voting tbny leave the American laborer o starve
But why denied freedom of speech and press, or and by restricting the variety of fabrics ple of protection.” This is refreshing,
than in Great Britain
The British will they make a positive advance whlla they ran their mills with ‘paupers* large number of people.”
miner works less itours io the tlay.biii toward independence an<t better circum­ Imparted tram Europe. This Is protec­ Bhouid our industry here be taxed to the infatuation which believed in witch­ which can lie made here, it limits the since most persons who come before the
tion for the master and not for the man.” create an industry at Pittsburg? Is it craft and slavery.
demand far American wool. It raises tariff commission believe very much in
.
more .lays in the year; he dm*« nqt get stances.
fair? The Chicago Tina» states the care
the price of the manufactured article the protection “for a single industry’.’
as high wages in money, but he does not
for
us
when
it
says
:
“
If
it
will
not
pay
jay nigh rent, bis fuel is very <4ieap;: ■“Th* laborer* In unprotected in­ Current Talk on the Tariff
‘‘The nikHH of the people want Justice and in common with the ingenious sys­ and possess none at all of the general
to
make
tin-nlates
without
protection,
it
tem of reduplicated duties, of which it is philanthrophy which makes Mr. Roach’s
iit.r is he swindled by company stores. dustries In this country receive
Question.
is because men can do better at some­ instead of «wlndHng, freedom instead of a part, it prevents the competition of liberality include not only his own in­
1 he English miner gels house, garden, higher wages relatively than the
thing else and for no other reason that it monopolio«.”
American woolens iu the markets of the dustries but all the interests with the
’Dally Oregonian, March 31, ISO ]
ami .-t.at for 25 cents a month *ml the operatives In protected Indus­
is possible to assign. It is much the
world. For our surplus product, we representatives of which he can log-roll.
•
•••••»
com ¡any pays the taxes on tire house, tries."
better way to let men do the things at
A Live Question.
have no outlet, and yet for our own con­ He is for protecting “one and ¿11,”
lie gets medical aliendame and medi­
It ia growing clearer every day that winch they can make a living without
sumption we cannot supply the finest and dauntlessly advocates the great
cine at the same rate alien heeded. The Wages in Europe and
[Daily Oregonian, May 14, 1884.)
the American laborer will never be ade­ taxing their neighbors. To take them
kind of cloth. Hemmed in on every principle that we can all get ricti by tax­
While it is true as a general fact that the
»«««*««
quately protected until the pauper la­ from doing those things and set them at
side by tlie restrictions which they have ing eachother, and by putting up prices
America.
average of wages in the United States is
Less than a hundred capitalists en- contrived far our own protection, the case on each other all round the wealth of the
things at which they cannot earn a liv­
higher than in Great Britain, ami the
[Daily Oregonian,December 11,1886.]
borers of the old world, as well aa the ing without the help of taxes paid by
gaged in the Bessamer steel ring make of the woolen manufacturer is an excel­ nation will be largely increased. The
condition of the working elaaa, as a
The wages of bricklayer« and mssons product of his toil, 1« kept out of the their neighbors, is the same thing essen­
whole, Is letter, it is not true in those
two or three hundred per cent profit on lent illustration of how little import farmers of the country consider that
country. Not all the high tariff speeches
very mining districts ami industries we in London are «1.50 per day, in Paris tbat could be collected from the pages of tially as taking them from useful em­ their money invested, but they pay their duties can help in the promotion of i they pay for this amusement, being the
trade.” The market both for wool and only protected class. They will be re­
tax ouraelves so heavily to ■ rotect. «1.40, in Berlin «1.2S, and in New York the Congressional Record would give ployments and rettiug them at carrying
John I.. Butler, chief assistant of the «4 per day. In all four places, for a ampler demonstration of this truth than buckets of water from Lake Michigan to workmen only the average wages, whieh woolens is in a condition that illustrates lieved to hear from Farmer Roach that
Lake
Superior.
”
A
far
greater
industry
provide a bare subsistence. The same is once more
......
,___________
the ________
sufficiently
familiar fact this impression is all wrong, and that
Pennsylvania Bureau of Industrial Sta­ period varying from two to four months a five-line paragraph among the press
tistics, in a ree» nt speech declared that of each year, Very little, if any, wanes dispatches from Ireland ihe other day. will be taxed by the increase of the dutv true in other protected industries. The that periods of depression will follow Farmer Roach greatly enjoys putting his
on
tin-plate
than
can
possibly
be
created
tariff
question
can
no
more
l>e
smothered
periods
of
activity
and
«¡»eculative I hand into his pocket on Itehalf of Hhip-
all tariffs are injurious to lalior, and the are earned, in consequence of the inter- From Limerick, we are told, three hun- by it.
,
than could the slavery question a quar- prices.
builder Roach and Ironmaster Roach.
“Our system now tends to foster
home monopolies rather tharv to
protect the wages of the working­
man.“
TT
ÎFÎ
n „«¡no ¡ “