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“Our system now tends to foster home monopolies rather than to protect the wages of the working man." ________ Philadelphia Hecvrd, anti-protection or ference of the weather with building dred Irish women are coming over to “Ths tlms will ooms whsn msn ter of a century ago. The mas* of the gan, has the largest circulation of any Thu« our labor suffer« pa|>er in the state. Mr. Blaine ai.i his operations. Wile in London there are work in a cotton mill at Nashua, New will find It as difficult to oonoslvs people want now a* well aa then, justice ,o »» -’•‘>.000 bricklayers, 40,- Hampshire. An agent for the mill went that this obstruotlvs and absurd in place of swindling, freedom instead of from a system of robbery, school ¡«eat all these facts as Lord Nel son did when told at ( openltugou thaï teiJSI * • iersMn‘l masons in Paris aud over to recruit thia little army of laborers, policy could aver havs prsvalled as monopolies. If just and real reforms are Protection and Wases. the signal of tbe admiral was flying to 10,000 bricklayers m Berlin, the esti aud the board of guardians of the poor thay now find It to account for ths denied the refusal will only intensify the disguised under forms of [Dsllv Oregonian, May 3, 1881.J mated number in New York is 4,000 contributed to the outfit necessary for perversity which ones denied free irritation which will presently sweep, quackery for pretendnd pro j m at'ri°n I he put bis glass to » » • • ♦ his blind eye and swore he could not see There is, says the Boston Herald, “in their voyage. The benifieent laws of our dom of speech and press, or ti»» away a system which, whatever may be , That the value of capital in the two the signal. Blaine don’t wish to see and proportion to the number of inhabitants, country imposes a duty averaging thirty- Infatuation which believed In said in favor of i'.s moderate and tem-1 tection of American'labor. countries is substantial!v equalized is shelters himself behind his blind eye. a much larger amount of work ¡»erformed five per cent on cotton goods for the witchcraft and slavery.” porarv application, is seen to bare be The stupIdityTthat'doesn't in New Aotk than either of the three benefit of the owners of this Nashua apparent from the fact that money can come tbe means for gross abuses and named Europeau capitals; and, while it mill and of others in the same business. see it, particularly on this now be had on undoubted security Tariff Policy. systematic robbery and oppression. (where exemption from excessive tax B.» the <>|>r, Bi I.,,,. , r » protwtlva tariff, is said that tn London, Paris and Berlin These manufacturers say they must have [Dally Oregontan. April 19, 1882.; coast, where*the producing ation is assured) at al>out as low rates in “th» Ouvei„meut uualertak«* to make quite a proportion of these mechanics are protection Or the Manchester made goods The English duty list comprises just American as in England. It used to tie employ meut for a certain tew of the peo out of work, in consequence of stagna will lie thrown upon our market, fo ci tig “Ns imposition is too groat to | classes are so plainly the tion lu the building trade, it is probable tin m to shut up their mills and dis fifteen commodities. They are the fol oatoh stupid people, and herein said that American capital could not ple by taxing all the rest.” that the New \ ork bricklaver who earns charge their well paid and contented lowing : Tobacco, tea, coffee, ehocidate Iles tho great strength of our victims of It, Is phenominal compete with British capital, and that $4 per day performs, in Um course of the operatives. Not for their own greater hopeless.-- 'glorious protective system.**** Pro and perhaps protection was as necessary for American Pennsyl I day s work, very » onsideruble more aer- dividends, but for the sake of these help and cocoa, wine (classed as one), drie«l tection is a legalized form of rob Detily Oregonian, Oct. 21, H81, capital as for American labor. This Hard Times in fruit, chicory, spirits, gold and silver i vice than would be required of one aimi- bery, which makes tho farmer foot part of the argument is substantially less laborers, they ask the boon of thirty- vania. : larly engaged on the other side of the five |>er cent protection. But tliese men plate (classed as cue., l>eer, vinegar, the bills of tho Manufacturer.” overthrown. But the doctrine that our (Daily Oregonian, April 8, 1885 | “ Manufacturing industry Is fast j Atlantic. This would Lot only in part must lie hypocrites, for they leave the playing cards, pickles, malt and spruce. labor must be protected by duties vir Although Pennsylvania enjoys more of account for the immense difference in American lalior -r to starve while they This is the whole list of commodities on ened as a leechlupon agricultural Call for Tariff Reform. tually prohibitory, persists still. It is Industry and Is gorging with the (Daily Oregonian. Feb. 16, 1882.] the stronghold ol the advocates of pro the alleged benefits of the protective wages, bufit would also account for the run their mills with “paupers” imported which England imposes tar ill duties first five are commodities not pro profits.” • • * « « * * teclion. Anil yet we conceive it to be system than any other state in the union, fact that 4,000 men seem to be able to from Europe by the aid of the poor law The duced in England : the duties on these But these iucongiui ties of the system, an entire fallacy—a fallacy lurking in a it contains a greater number of unem do in New York what it takes 8,000 guar ians. This is protection for the cannot, therefore, be in any sense pro Agricultural Statistics. one-sided and partial view of the ployed or underpaid workingmen than men to do in Berlin, a city of less size, master and not for the man. If what the tective. With respect to the others the are not to be removed. The steel mo- > [Daily Oteg.ului, February 13, 1882.] and 40,000 men to do in Paris, a city mill owners have to sell bears a thirty- subject. nopoly, intrenched in power, refuses to ' any other. Its coal and lumber and protective feature is obviated by the im ♦ »•»•«* '1 lie more foreign goods we take, the manufacturing interests all enjoy the certainly not three times larger than the five per cent duty, why should not the position of a corresponding excise duty allow revision of the tariff in the ready I article the laborer sella, that is, his la The statistician (report of the Commis more lalror we must employ at home. advantages, such as they are, of a high metropolis of America. way of act of Congress, but proposes a on the like commodities produced in the The argument of the hide-bound pro bor, be equally well taken care of? To the protectionist this may appear a tariff; and yet its miners are working for British islands. Thus the English tariff commission, whicli may be ready to sioner of Agriculture for 1880) exhibits paradox ; and yet it is one of the most starvation wages and many of the mills tectionist has always been that the higher American industry will profit very little is strictly and literally a tariff for rev report in two or four years hence, or the relative importance of agriculture as wa es of the operatives in the cotton by these defenses that don’t defend. certain truths of political science. We are idle. The farmers have also been enue only. It creates no monopoly, may never be ready. The object clearly a contributor.to our export trade, as fol *•**•»• uiust pay for our imports by out exports. instructed by ths advocates of protection and woolen mills of America compared licenses no spoliation, sanctions no prac is, first, to delay action as long as possi lows: with those of England have been due to We can pay for them in no other way. that it would make their business profit tice of reciprocal rapine. It is not the ble and, second, to secure a report from Total agricultural export. .... the tariff ; that if the tariff was taken off Our exports are created by home labor. able. But a Pennsylvania pai>er says product of jobbers banded together to | the commission which would defend the Total exports ........................................ 1727,861.1117 823.946.SM Protection of Wool* The more we buy of foreigners, the more that there iB hardly a farm in the county our cotton and woolen gools, wages force up prices of commodities in which existing system and afford no relief to would be as low here as in England. The [Daily Oregoulon, January 12, 1882. j the country. Congress is controlled by home labor, therefore, we must employ where it is printed that would sell for These figures show in a most striking they are personally interested, and to of this reasoning is shown by the are ’ en- “In Oregon and Washington Terri compel the consumer to pay them. to create the article to pay lor what we more than the improvements in buildings fallacy i the combined .... . monopolies .• a ~ which — ttt S- manner that our vast trade with foreign fact that the bricklayer, who has no On the other hand tho American tariff •** b? th® to fleece and plunder nations is the result chiefly of the work buy. if free trade increases our im- and fences would cost. To this the Ver tariff to protect him, maintains his tory,” says the Salem Slaietman, “there porta, it must therefore iwease our ex mont H'utc.Auum adds: “But it does wa' ,es at a higher point relatively than is produced annually at least a million list comprises some four thousand arti- I,be P€K?p 0and what is even more dis- cles or commodities, more than two couragmg is the fact that large numbers of the farmers. All other forms'of in ports, and by consequence must stimu not tell its readers how it is that farming the operatives in protected industries tb® P?°Ple .‘Winded and misled by dustry in the United States are but late the demand for home labor. In falls so low, in the midst of great indus and so does tbe unprotected carpentei, pounds of wool. This sells at from 20 to thirds of which return practically no rev-1 other words, every foreign purchase tries that demand high protection in or plumber, plasterer, slater, blacksmith, 30 cents per pound, yielding to the farm enue at all over the cost of collection. tbe shallow sophistries put forth as ar- trifling in comparison with that of agri •“ support of the system by the culture, and yet agriculture is not only necessitates the employment of domes der to live. These are things that ought etc. In Germany, a country with a high ers annually the sum of $2,500,000. The The duties are not levied for revenue, tic lalior to create that with which the to set men to thinking, for if neither protective tariff, wages are lower than tariff on wool of the quality raised here but chiefly for the aggramlisement of a noneflciarie. of it. It is amazing that not “protected,” but is taxed to main is about 10 cents per pound, that is ten purchase is made. We have the advan agriculture nor manufactures are doing m free trade England. According to million dollars. Those who, like the manufacturing class at the cost of con- an/op® should believe that these bene- tain other industries which claim the tage of England in variety and abun well under the coddling system of the Eonsul Warner, of Coloque, in lipper O regonian , advocate free trade, claim sumers generally. Under a projier tariff Botaf'esof the system are insisting on its favor of government. Manufacturing in dance of raw materials, and in food. last quarter of a century, perhaps it Siliesia a workman in one of the pro that the tariff on an article adds that system the object is revenue for the use »taintainance out of purely philanthro- dustry is fastened as a leech upon agri assertion that “otlves. Their assertmn hat the cultural industry and is gorging with the We are substantially on an equality with would be best to try a more bracing tected industries earns only 47 cents a much to the price; that is, the tariff on of the government. Under our system i 1 pic motives. tiie object is the shutting out of com|>e- laboring ‘•b?rInf classes are interested in the profits. In our'eastern states, where la her in the matter of cheap capital. system.” dav, and if a skilled laborer he gets 80 wool increases the price in Oregon ten of a high protective tariff bor is cheap and the market wide, manu Since she has 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 msintainance is just what might be expected from that facturers accumulate colossal fortunes much of it from us, and larger part of upon the Government, the Pennsylvania a day, and the laborer works from 6 to 6 one million dollars annually. Absolute olies may charge what price they like. | source. It is an essential part of the de- under this system, which taxes con iier raw materials also, than we, and statesmen now demand that the protec in summer and 7 to 7 in winter. The free trade, then, would take from the But we are told that our manufacturers , since her old advantage over us in capi tive principle shall be further extended. laborer in that protection country is farmers one million dollars each year." cannot compete on equal terms with C?V, ?'!’ , If - you are going to rob . - a - man v-,~- stantly the greatest industry of the coun those of Euro|>e. This requires us to be- 'J'1? co!“enE and not only have him try for their benefit. For our manu tal is virtually at an end, we need not To relieve the prevailing distress a hili sparingly supplied with clothing and The claim that the farmers of Oregon lieve that the inculeulabfe national ad- 8t‘‘f,b®d, w,th “ bu‘ ®ven enthusiastic factures there is no foreign market worth fear her competition. Our system now has been introduced in the state senate linen, and a white shirt is to lie seen derive great benefi' from * the "protec- since natious us —..... _------ - other — - ------- undersell - tends to foster home monopolies rather authorizing cities to “establish public only on rare occasions. For such articles tion” oil their w«xl it urged by our vantages of the United States are not about *t, you mustfirst make the worst , naming enough to sustain manufacturers. Hence 1 ,o W,R1t^® h®“®1; r®a?°n; . Otb®r' ‘.n ®';®ry P,art of th® «lobe- V°°<18 1>ro’ than to protect the wages of the work improvement industries, under a board of luxury he has no money to spare, and protectionists on all occasions, it is necessary to grant the American w>®® there will be trouble with him No dm-ed under our system «-an’t comoete ingman. It is admitted too, that it bears of managers, whose duty it shall be to he is frequently com|>elled to bargain for They who urge it seem to imagin manufacturer’the privilege of extorting •">position is too gross to catch stupid j with those of other countries, an«l con- hard on a people situated as we are on give employment to legal residents who old and cast off clothes. Ilia meals con that it fully answers all objections ______ to the Pacific slope. It at once restricts are in destitute circumstances, and with sist principally of vegetables, the »linner the tariff system as an oppressive one to an advance over the market price of his P®°Ple> and herein lies the great strength sequentlv can’t secure a foreign market, our trade with the only customers who out remunerative employment through being of potatoes, peas, beans, common our section, inasmuch as the advantages goods As American manufictuns are ‘ l’f ,°.ur , 8b’™us protecbye system.” Bnt they monopolize the home market not an.l cannot lai remunerative a sys- Jud8lnK fron> ‘b® c®,™«» re urns, there j at high prices, as the duties are virtually take our pioducts, and forces us to pay no fault of their own.” This proposition, I pork and black bread. we receive from the protection of our I tem mus« be employed to enable the ) ar® no'?r l'rob“bly three an.l a half mil-. prohibitory, and the consequence is that higher prices for goods which we as the Philadelphia Timet says, “would wool exceed the losses we suffer manufacture! to extort from tiie con- hon® of P®1*0118 engaged in or concerned the American farmer, who is forced to are compelled to buy. Since the take money out of the workingman’s through the obstruction of trade and sumer a bonus over the natural price of I wi.tb. «»»nufactiireB and mechanical and meet the competition of the whole work! “But at least we can let it be the enhancement of prices for the benefit* adoption of free trade by Great right hand pocket and put it into his left production of gram and cotton, is not Britain, wages in that country hand pocket, anil say : ‘See what I am known that we are not so gullible of Eastern manufacturers. But tbe fact the (roods and so cover his losses and i m,n,nK industries in the United StateB. I in allowed the benefit of - the world’s com make a profit. This is tho protective No* Potion requires that forty-six'-" ----- J *«-• —--* -* have gone up on the whole average more doing to help you.’ ” And yet it des- as to accept without protest, and is that our wool here is not protected at system petition in the purchase of manufactured on the showing of its own advo- , and balf , ,n, " ,0 , n8 .. of P®?P le aba b ® than one-quarter, and in some depart erilies very exactly the workings of the as if we were perfectly satisfied all. Wool of a quality equal to ours is ‘ taxed in order that tliese three millions commodities, but is obliged to pay the ments fully one-lialf. Experience here protective tariff, by which the Govern therewith, the sophisms and the worth more in lxindon than our wool is —i— which — itected monopolists a half pjetected monopolists By'whom is this bonus paid? By the and a?‘la b»U should have better wages, prices conies in against theory in the matter of ment undertakes to make employment resulting injustice and loss of the worth here. Latest London quotations whole people, but chiefly by the working That ^l,at is ,a the tb® theory |h?ry of °f. pro Pf?,® ection, c !°n> not the th.- choose to exact. "ir agricultare would alleged reduction of wages. But grant for a certain few of the |>eople by taxing policy of protection." show prices ranging all the way from 12 and agricultural classes, who are sad- fact. wei it ^act' The £16 fact *acf. ! is s that it does not n<)t im be infinitely more prosperous were ing that wages might be somewhat re all the rest to enable an industry to be cents for the poorest to 45 cents for the die«! with the burdens aud have none oi , prove the condition Pro.v® th® con.htion of the three millions disburdened of this system and ‘ * its 1 con- duced, there would be compensation for conducted, which it is claimed could not Shipbuilding and Protec* best. The average is better than the 20 the benefits. But it is claimed that the “d. a_ba"’ v"-P°®®..1^,V?’ sequences. it in clieaper goods, which working peo exist without protection. It would not to 30 cents a pound which the Staterman tion. artisan is furnished with employment i burdens on all tlie rest. For example, | boast ingly says our farmers receive. ple, as well as others, must consume. be right to attribute the prevailing dis in order that five Eastern manufacturing ••What doe« Senator Edmund« or Mr- (Oregonian, December 16,1B80.J Moreover, wages are not a great ele tress among the laborers of Pennsylvania We send our surplus wool to the and the agricuitm i~t with a “home hiar- firms should be bolstered up, the price of Blaine think to-day about their pet Eastern States. The route is a long, ket.” How is the artisan protected?! s'eel, of which immense quantities are theory that a protective tariff makes a ment in the cost of manufacturing. We to the tariff alone. But the fact that have not the figures of the census of there is so much distress shows that the The fact is this destructive policy is slow and expensive one. This, in spite The manufa. lurer is secured agaiust loss , used, is doubled. Its effect is to make •home market* for the American Airmer«* 1880 and hence we draw from those of tariff alone cannot prevent it. The maintained as part of the whole scheme of a protective ta-iff, giv»s foreign wool, by being pri . il.-geti to exact high prices ■ the shipper and passenger on all the wheat, corn and pork by keeping out for- 1870, for illustrations on this point. situation is another illustration of the of protection, which rules our laws for on the whole, an advantage over ours. from the consumer; but where is the > railroads pay increased rates and to keep «•ign food«? Doe« the American farmer These figures show that wages then were truth of the lines which Dr. Johnson put the benefit of the great eastern manu So that all the benefit our farmers get protection for the workingman? There down the wages of railroad employees; ! Nerloumly believe to-day that he la facturers. Conscious that the whole sys from tho protection of wool is infinites- are no customs to keep out laboi. Com- ; Io increase the cost of the farmer’s tools 1 «pedally enriched by a protective tarin* 19.40 per cent, of the value of the pro into one of Goldsmith’s jwems: has unrestricted away, and as a , ,. « . .c tem would fall if the false foundations simal, if it is anything. We suppose iietition duct in the manufacturing, mechanical, Ilojv small of all the ills that men endure matter of fact the mass of toilers in tne the j —- — —, ——— —- tiers in —o which promiecd to make for him u ‘home mining and fiBh industries pf the United That part which kings or lawscan cause or cure. on which it stands were exposed, they that no one would imagine that wool foreigners 1 erect u Barrier between him and the for- market?* It look« very much am if u heat protected manufactures are I from foreign countries would be shipped, band together and refuse to allow it to StateB. The value of the material used whose small pav in u»e the great great manu- manu- ! j ei«" conwmmer to whom liis surp.us rone and fell without any reference to our> be attacked in any part. We want to under free trade, in any considerable iaciuring was 54 19 per cent, of the product, while and l'r«l'}<*' ‘¡'»’t be sold. It must be re* re protective tariff, a« If wage« were high or facturing states, states, us as Pennsylvania P the remaining 23.41 per cent, was due to “Among the false claims of pro sell to Great Britain, but our tariff pro quantities into Oregon to compete with Massachusetts, gives them no advan- I.ne,,lbe’:eJ’ l°weY®.r’ |b»t protection low without reference to a protective does not not protect pre-.t a « tithe i.rfo of all «n the te« persons ---------* tariff." buildings, machinery and so on. If we tection It (the census of 1880) ex hibits Great Britain from selling to us. tbe home product when better prices tage over the stalled pauper lalior of does call wages 20 per cent, of the whole plodes is the pretense that our The laws cannot compel our citizens to might be realized by shipping to Glus England. Hence the distress, strike^ in manufacturing and me- - strike* e>npioye<i ••• value of the product and admit that almost prohibitory tariff makes build ships at losing rates, but they can gow or London. ano turbulence so constantly reported. 'nduBtrie. .Its mmedmte bene- Wheat and the Tariff. wages are 40 per cent, higher here than work plenty and keeps wages and do force us to pay enormously high True, wages are something higher, but At" are united to the line of industry [Dally Oregonlau, Noveuilter 4, 1886. | prices for nearly all manufactured goods. in England, then the difierence is but 40 high.”. •mly nominally so. The workingman »*>l»tered up by it and which therefore “There is no phase of protection that wiD bear This is the direct and sole object of a examination. Every part of the system is as io,es more by high prices than he gain. |s-r cent, of 20 per cent., or 8 per cent, The Milling B 'arid recently said: ‘L** protective tariff’. In other words, a pro weak as the argument for the protection of wool. of the whole value. Nothing could t’e belter wages. Again, as to wages, i wise __ might do. This is a very ,, small —s "Tbe farmers of tbe United States would Protection and Wages. tective tariff is a tax levied on imported The system is throughout a short sighted game t>v show more convincingly that the inter the . rotected employer ilpes not pay his i proportion of the three and a half mil to-day be getting 20 cents u bushel less [Daily Oregonian, August 2, 1882 J goods with the design to raise the price of greed, except for the great monopolist whom operalives on a philanthropic plan. He 1 !°“8TIP^ab|y not more than one ,“'1' ests of domestic labor are not at stake for their wheat than they now get were here to the extent which the protection is ruled by the market rates, and he | ll0.n al1 The census of 1880 is full of excellent of home commodities. Protection is set it creates and supports." taxes auvautagnuo um It is neither honest nor philosophical I it not for the protective tariff of 20 cents up as a barrier to trade. Its object is to ists claim. England lets in raw mate takes advantage to the fullest extent of | . rial. We tax all r-iw mn’eiial from reasons why tariff revision should be make goods dear. True, it professes the competition which the necessities of ( !° iel*tbo w,”’king classes that their in- a bushel imposed oil imported wheat by The Tariff on Wool. Of that its object is to favor home labor. abroad *o “protect’’ one interest or an , both immediate and permanent. the workingmen force among themselves. | tere8.ts ,are •!!.bo’J.,,<^ wllb protection. our government.” This is saying that [Daily Oregonian, June 10, 1882 ] But it defeats itself, because its conse other. The consequence is an advan- course it does not discuss the question, The “home market” argument is equally | ‘ and it is politically imprudent, . -• for . the protection raises me the price <»i of /American American quences reappear in the higher prices of Advocating “ protection, ” the Dalles take over ub in free materials, which but it collects and presents facts which unsound. Though protection were aban- “ VPr>i wl“*ttt to the exaet amount of the tariff all commodities which the workman, as much larger than the manufacturing and «nrl tax laid ...................................... equalizes, if it does not exceed, any ad Time» says: “The wool growers (of doned w heat and córti and beef and pork ml,c.h '“.n?*r tba" ‘ » on imported wheat, aud thus Is are .. puts $90,000,000 or so u year into the vantage which she can have in cheaper with their relations carry their lessofis well as all others, must consume. In Eastern Oregon) know fully that protec would still be eaten. The farmer cannot mechanical, and that its interestL the long run, in the general scheme of to all who will study them. Among the lose his market. The “ home market ” “ °® ‘ “ ® “ r ®£ 1 7 ".«» 1 ‘ ienhcal with those labor. We can manufacture as cheaply |»ekete of our farme-s, estimating the as she can, if we would avail ourselves false claims of protection it explodes is things, the policy does not benefit our tion guarantees a good price for their argument, of which so much is made““' !be protectiomsta. The necessity for wheat crop nt 450,000,000 bushels. This own laborers, for the more we buy of clip, while free trade strikes at the very »„ tei* vi» ; Pension consumers t . ar,flr refo F ra b »", b ’ > e" clea,er of all our opportunities and that without the pretense that our almost prohibitory comes to this, viz.: i is absurd, because the Drice of our wheat ' • • o or 8evera to all — candid observers ■-is not affecte«! at all by our tariff on im- materially reducing wages either. Rut tariff makes work plenty and keeps foreigners the more we must produce by life of Die industry.” to buy the products of f a^rieniture agriculture • ; sub- sub- -v —---- 'J ,-r ’ear8 ----- ------- ;............... home labor to pay for it. Free inter If this assertion were true still it sidize sidlze\rtisahs gate;,*?''"« io"“Jni jrrogress, ^ "nÌ® ven the ‘h® H ............................... » price ” ” artisans to settle at the farm ’ gate ; ? national and even pro u as all tariff taxes, like other taxes, must i ported wheat; the of ■ our ........ whole .nJ I1}1*?',1»“ "r< Ti '“i® t0 crop depends on the price of our surplus, of necessity re appear in higher commo wages high. Hardly any formal answer change of commodities is the policy to would not prove the protective policy to pay n.n,., them for making goods at a loss, and i whK h is sold in the free market of Liyl dities, of what avail is it to the working is needed to that assertion. The an stimulate home labor. • It is true, of be a just and wise one. High prices for out of their profits they will purchase man to keep up his wages by artificial tagonistic relations of labor and capital course, that a protective tariff may stim wool make high prices for woolen goods; the farmer’s abundance. But the farmer ■ hope to fatten upon forced contributions . erpool in competition with the surplus stimulants, when at the same time and in those sections whose industries are ulate a certain branch of manufacture, and there are twenty persons who wear gets no more for his wheat in the home and confiscations from the country at wheat of all other grain growing coun- r by the same process the manufactured most strongly protected would be a suffi and may even increase for a time the woolen goods to one who produces wool. market than in the foreign market. In | large. Removal of obstructions to trade since our tariff on > c_nDot «/»he orice of f wheat in goods which he must consume are kept cient reply, but the census report makes wages of labor in it. But is there Why should the twenty be taxed for the fact the foreign market regulates and is the natural philosophy of all who gain any real gain in concentrating capital benefit of the one? Oregon is boasted governs home market. American grain their living by work, tnough they are Liverpool, it does not fix its price in lin nf a hierh rati* trwY? ♦ * * a more elaborate one though in the name direction. Tne man whom the govern and labor in one employment by arti as a wool-growing State, and so it is; sells in the markets of the world on a par 1 ta“.fo i Chlc*K°' ’ What does Senator Edmunds. ° robbery‘ ! or or Mr. Mr. Blaine Blaine think think to-day to-dav about about thoir thoir You might a. welt say that If you cut ment commissioned to make a report on ficial stimulants and withdrawing from and yet even in Oregon, there are twenty with the produce of the serfs of Russia < others? Our protective system has, be persons who want cheap clothes to one winch diminisneo the purchasing power off a ilog’a tall and ear* the *anie day he the iron and steel industry is secretary and Roumania, and the American farmer | j pet theory that a protective tariff tnakea >lp himself. He has no pro-1 ol “ P^ted ” lalmr by ar yond doubt, stimulated certain manu who wants dear wool. Here, in a dozen of the American Iron and Steel Asso han reason to feel highly amused, enter cannot help himself. a “home market” for tbe Amerii'aia tained and grateful, a* to *ay that a tarin ciation and not likely to furnish figures factures; but it is equally certain that it words of one syllable, is a cam pie te and tection, an< id it is he who competes with ‘ fll'i.all-v enhancing nnces whi.-h makes ’ larinurs’ wheat, corn and pork by kee*>- has destroyed others. Thus it has en overwhelming answer to all the elabor abor. ” Hence, also, though J**® f “ rm ®r bx>t ‘ be ^11» of the manufac- that tell against the protection theory, on coal, which enable* the coal combina “pauper labor.” s „ '' i ing out foreign goods? Does the Ameri ".rer.’ wbl«b. robs. , e!er to pay Paul,- can farmer seriously beliove to-day that tion to restrict production, which reduce* simply with that end in view. Iron and abled eleven mills to monopolize the ate arguments ever made in the effort to Crotection cannot cannot raise raise the the price price of of a a t which restricts production and commerce ’ ¡r*, , ¡a>ï! ® \’ï b , ,y Viat manufacture of steel rails at high prices show the alleged importance of “ protect steel are the most highly protected of all the earning* of the miner and artificially ushel of wheat by a single penny, it can J ly en,ric,.’®‘‘ hy * protective, But even the and does repress and obstruct the export and which, therefore, is opposed to every put* up the price of cogl, thus swelling articles in common use. In 1880 there and great profits, but it has annihilated ing” the wool-grower. zHtemof l»ronti.»d to make for him a ‘—-- —1 the cost of the workingman'* fuel, waa were 805 companies producing iron ore, ship building and the profits of ocean small wool-grower himself—be who has of our agricultural produ is. There are rational and enlightened syr >e question is hT® •’* H looks very ; much commerce. While one industry is stim a few sheep and whose annual clip is a and industrial science. The question is ; and they produced 7,971,703 tons, em ,?«./. 1 »• If wheat rose and fell without ------ any • protection ’ to labor.” countless points to which the frnit of our national re ploying to do the work 31,668 persons at ulated by this system another is de few hundred pounds of wool—loses more soil might be shipped if we were per now how much louver will . this -------- -J* be uohekl ? No part of the coun | reference to our protective tariff, as if a daily cost of $31.791, a few cents over pressed. That is to say, all that any in by tbe enhanced cost of clothing to him mitted to take our pay in the commodi abuse Protection that Kills. by whole *U‘Wnt Wfer®nCft I . is ’ pressed ’ ’ , it ” oA the ' . . so . $1 per day for each person, which is less terest or any class gains by protection is self and family than he gains through ties there produced. We should not be try [Daily Oregonian, October 9,1886 J uuvo-oiv *> » iv» .. k ». under „ii tarin. as an ours. We i labor all w “ • proieciive gained always at the exjiense of some the higher price for his wool; so that forced to pay the enormous ocean freights severely than the'average of workers in any un » . a It was only the other day that the great protected business in the country. The other interest or cla*s. Every wave of the actual beneficiaries of the system exacted on the wheat we do export if ves disadvantages which it creates, and coal companies met in New York and total number employed in the produc the ocean has a depression behind it. are the great wool-growers and the mo sels could carry cargoes both ways. But have no share in its compensations such “Ha is for Protecting one ell, The prosperity of the west and south nopolist manufacturers. There is no exchange is obstructed by law ; there is as they are. arbitrarily put up the price of one of the tion of pig and bar iron and steel was 1 and dauntlesaly advocate» tho phase of protection that will bear ex prime necessities of life, viz., fuel. How 140,975, who received $184,923 a day oi depends on their selling their products amination. Every part of the system is no free exchange; “protection” allows Thu» our labor nu/fern from a great principle that we all can get each, their service coming more to Great Britain. We do not take her rich by taxing each other.” 7” w_'t only a partial and indirect trade, and a were they able to do it? We answer, by $1.30 —1------------ “------‘----- “ under the head of skilled labor than that goods because our tariff prohibits them, as weak as the argument for the protec partial and indirect trade means such nyntem of robbery, itlugulml under ■'“*- securing monopoly of the home market of the miners. This is certainly a beg but force her to pay the balance in cash. tion of wool. The system is, throughout, costa for freights, insurance and ex forme of quackery for pretended I Dally Oregonian, October 30, ISK2-I through a protective tariff, and then com garly pittance for skilled labor, and Of what advantage is this to us when we a superficial and short-sighted game of change that the American farmer is protection of American labor. are obliged at once to pay out that cash greed—except for the great monopolist Mr. John Roach, the shin-builder was bining to restrict production and putting something that is without a parallel in for goods at higher prices than those at whom it creates and support*. With beaten before he begins the competition. The ntupielity that doenn't nee It, less protected industries of the country. recently liefore the tariff commission. But the progress and thrift of the coun prices artificially high. What is the re particularly on thin coant, where He favored that body of investigators, The Free Trade league of New York which we should be enabled to buy them them it is a studied and profound game sult? The coal miner’s earnings for the has issued a pamphlet which deals in a direct of the customer who takes our of greed, part of which is to make large try are ap|>eale<l to as proofs that pro the producing clUhnen are no plainly as well as an excessively “protected” has been a lieniticent policy. All year are cut down below the level of the forcible manner with the infant industry products? Another thing. Our policy classes suppose they are favored and tection is to protection, it does ■>****. not «-VW country, with his views, which the New *0 attributed ■«*>*,«• ■/UWM V—- •• Vw«v neg *T J^ aaa ssx^sss r Inal rsv« the *z*«*v* rictimn of aa it, y a in phenom English miner and the price of the work plea. In this connection it says: “In makes it distinctly to the interest of protected by a system which either doe* < ___ • • ■ look • at ths subject nnd jterhapn hopelenn.— Imitn Ore- 5 ork 14’or Id has admirably eondenw*, occur to those who ingman’s fuel is increased. Where does the firtt place our infant industries are a Great Britain to encourage direct deal not protect them at all, or actually rotis rxnlv ' and analyzed. He ap|>eared in * only ir» in a a annarni-iiil sufierflcial uzuv way iinAt that t.ntfl this IjFikff- prog “the protection” of the workingman century old In the second the compiler ing with other agricultural countries them. October 1881. character*; but it was in hie chrfa(.t'i ress is not tbe result of protection, ‘ but • ♦- come in in this case? You might as well of these statistics acknowledges that our The prosperity we now enjoy is the re a* farmer that lie most enjoyed »’ ,e bles has been gained in spite of it. Tbe say that if you cut off a dog’s tail and su|>erior skill places the world at a dis sult chiefly of exporting the surplus ----- '----- of ‘ “We tax the raw materiale “Why should our Industries hero wealth of nature is here and all our ----- of -- the ----- sings of protection. As afarrierbeee’, ears the same day he has reason to feel advantage with us Thirdly, our coal our crops. What would be the effect be taxed to create an industry at errors of industrial policy cannot prevent w®o<"n manufacturing industry In joyed paying taxes to 8upport himself highly amused, entertained and grate and iron are generally situated so dose upon that prosperity if Great Britain Pittsburg?” its development. We have had slavery, * way that protects nobody. It a master; ship-builder, r,*r ^¡ *„ i e « ‘Z but .iter minufadr allT ful, as to say that a tariff on coal, which together that the former can easily be should levy such duty on American droughts and pestilence, a great civil hoops out foreign wools that wo enables the coal combination to restrict worked with the latter. Fourthly, while breadstuff's as would make it profitable war, and we know not now many other n«ed to mix with our nativo fleeces that he enjoys himsell HH The Tin-plate Tax. a “shhGuilder' production, which reduces the earnings the iron and coal of Europ^are far down to develop the agricultural resources of moral and physical evils. Yet lee how snd by restrioting tho varloty of .st simply because [Dally Oregonian, January 20, 1883.} of the miner, and to artificially put up below the surface ours are almost upon Australia and the railway system of Rus the country has prospered I Is its pro* fabrics which oan bo mads hero, manufacturer ami iron master he takes There is an industry here that is very perity due to these evils? Has it not limito tho domand for American more money out of other people’* nock the price of coal, thus swelling the cost it. Fifthly, our iron and coal supplies sia? Our largest customer will not of the workingman's fuel, was ‘‘protec are in close proximity to the market. ■ always pay her balance in cash, not is it much interested in tin-plate. It wants prospered in spile of them and of al) the Wool.” eta than hi. own. Al least wheHhe tion” to labor. Sixthly, they are adjacent to the great our interest that she should do so. She tin-plate to be as cheap as possible, so other evils it has ever known? .So, too, P.rtl.an View« of the Tariff, divided,” iS"lu iXr ‘?h.T A meeting of operatives in the textile food producing center of the United wants our products and we want hers. it has prospered in spite ol “protection.” H IB ill« former that pay« and . (folly orexontm., J.Uy 7. .883.1 grumbles industries of Pennsylvania last spring States, which is relied upon to supply But the protectionist sits as toll gatherer that something may be made out of the No folly of our own can as yet overcome grumbles and and the the ahip-builX ship-builder ‘¡Ed and the the framed a petition to Congress, in which half the food eaten by the iron workers , at the gate, and for his own profit pro canning business. Therefore the pro our great natural advantages. But here, iron niaater master >bo who receive» receives them and . .. . .*!_*** lron they said : “It is no longer necessary to of Europe. Therefore, without any pro hibits the exchange of products. Of position to double the duty on this indeed, is an aimoHt incomprehensible A writer who present* the subject on to enjoy the transfer; and the scour Europe to find pauper labor. We tection at all it is shown our iron mas course we are obliged to submit as we of article is not a j»leasing one. Portland's folly It is admitteil that our people rational instead of on partisan ground*, ,ar,n«t who i* only a farmer docs not * il.A UÎ •* ‘"‘Ilici <1(7« B UO* have it here in our iron and coal mines, ters could afford to pay one hundred per the agricultural states have small power board of trade and Astoria’s chamber of would trade freely witli foreign nations i.’LuTi'J® .I® blesBln b,e8sin 8* of protection so after showing that the annual value of ,.|„ u,u ,«* working for 75 cents a day, and skilled cent more wages to their workmen than in the national Congress. But at least commerce have protested Similar pro if they were allowed. Their interest the ___ wuai ....... ... nearly as tbe farmer rvh., _ ..... products of the cccntw for the ter toÌ man uî Jm X' W&nU operatives in our cotton and woolen thev do before foreign competition would we can let it be known that we are not tests have been addressed to Congress wonld lead them to it. Recognizing this from other quarters. Many newspapers mills working for less than 80 cents per affect them.” But the protectionists do so gullible as to accept without protest fact, in steps the man who wants to ol> day.” The pauper labor of Italy is tak not care for demonstrations. When the aud as if we were perfectly satisfied have joined in the effort to prevent the struct trade that he may get high prices, increase of the duty. Il s«-ems the ways ing tbe place of the Irish in railroad next presiilential campaign conies on therewith, the sophisms and the result and induces the government to take his building and road work, the Poles and they will have their threats to working ing injustice and loss of the policy of i an<l means committee have been induced part. The time will come when men to advance the rate by a statemen t from Hungarians swarm in the coal fields men posted up in their furnaces, factories protection. will find it as difficult to conceive that -- ------ -- -rge multiple of that stun. , Pittsburg to the effect that if Congress this obstructive and absurd policy could this industry in a way that protects no , According to the testimony collected by and inills, just as they did in 1880, and .»* >n protection,” he remarks, I will sufficiently protect the tin-plate in body. It keeps out foreign wools that the Pennsylvania State Bureau of Statis not until the people who labor turn their ever have prevailed as they now find it "o‘for a .ingle industry, but for one •• lint the*« man m«*t b* hypocrite* for dustry “ it will provide a livelihood for a we need to mix with our native fleeces tics, whose chief is a protectionist, from thinking to some account, stop striking to account lor the perversity which once all, because I believe in the princi Bat why denied freedom of speech and press, or ami by restricting the variety of fabric* and the lips of English miners, the condition and redress their grievances by voting they l»»>» th« American l«bor»rio «tarve large number of people.” ple of protection.” This is refreshing, of the miner is worse in Pennsylvania will they make a positive advance white they ran th*lr mill* with ‘paaper*’ I should our industry here be taxed to the infatuation which (relieved in witch wluoh can be made here, it limits the sin«» most persona who come Indore the demand for American wool. It raises than in Great Britain. The British toward independence and better circum lm|H»rt«d from Kamp«. Thl* la protec create an industry at I’ittsbnrg? Is it craft and slavery. commission believe very much in tion for the master «nd not for the man.” i fair’’ Tbe Chicago Timet states the case the price of the manufactured article tanu miner works less hours in the day, but the protection “for a single industry” for us when it says: “If it will not pay | and in common with the ingenious sys and possess none at all of the general more days in the year; he does not get stances. mwae tiu-plate* witboat p,I,,,,, protection, , »* it “The ma** of the people want Jaetlee tem of reduplicated duties, of which it is Current Talk on the Tariff to make as high wages in money, but he does not which makes Mr. Roach’s is because men can do better at some- ) leelead <»F *wln<lllng, freedom laatead • ( a part, it prevent* the competition of pnuanthrophy P»y high rent, his fuel is very cheap; I ■"The laborers In unprotected In liberality include not only hie own in Question. I thing else and for no other reason that it ! lonopolle*.“ American woolens in the markets of the dustries but all the interests with the nor is he swindled by company stores. dustries In this country receive Ifolty Oregonian. M«rrh 81, 1883 [ i is possible to assign. It i* much the ! world. For our surplus product, we The English miner get« house, garden higher wages relatively than the we represenu representatives of which he can log-roll, i (»etter way to let men do the things at i have outlet, and yet lor for our our own own con- con- He He la for for protecting "one and all ” A Live Question. xml coal for 25 cents a month ami the operatives in protected indus- —.v P no which they can make a living without ' ktad U O “ <tote Ca i? Ot *"^'7 ***• and is danntlsesly advocates the great It is growing clearer every »lay that I hall y Oregonian, May 14, IBM. company pavs the taxes on the house. trles.” . I taxing their neighliore. To take them He gets medical attendance and medi •»•n principle th « ‘ we can all get rich by tax the American laborer will never lie ade side by the restrictions which they have ing each other, and by putting up prices cine at the same rate when needed. The Wage« In Europe and quately protected until the pauper la , from doing those things and set them at Ix*ss than a hundred capitalists i things at which they cannot earn a liv-1 contrived for our own protection, the case " hile it is true as a general fact that the America. borers of the old world, as well as tbe , I ing without the help of taxes paid by gage») in the Besaamer steel ring make of the woolen manufacturer is an excel on each other all round the wealth of tho average of wages in the United States is nation will 1« largely increased. The [folly Oregonian. Dei-ember It. 188‘Ll neighbors, is same thing easen-1 ( wo o, three hundred per cent profit on their neiglilnra, the tiling ei lent illustration of how little import farmers of the country consider that product of his toil, i* k*pt out of the higher than in Great Britain, and the ' tially as taking them from useful em- .. . ___ , . . , . ,, __ .. , duties can help in the promotion of The wages of bricklayers and maaons cotxntry. Not all tbe high tariff speeches . ploymenta and setting them at carrying lhe,r mon®^ condition of the working class, as a they pay for this amusement, being the b“‘ lb®T W trade. The market both for wool and only protects«! class. They will 1« re •hole, is better, it is not true in those in London are $159 per »lay. in Paris that could be collected from buckets of water from Lake Michigan to workmen only the av< rage wages, which woolens is in a condition that illustrates lieved to hear from Farmer Roach that v«ry mining districts and industries we $1.40, in Berlin $1.25, and in New 5 ork the Congressional Record Lake Superior.” A far greater industry provi»ie a bare subsistence. ___________ The same is once more the sufficiently familiar fact thia impression is all wrong, and that ourselves so heavily to protect. <4 per dav. In all four places, for a ampler demonstration of tbi will lie taxed by the increase of the duty true in other protected industries. Tbs that periods of depression will follow Farmer Roach ¿ohn L. Butler, chief assistant of the period I ;h greatly greatly eniovs enjoy* tMiltin. putting hi. his varying from two to four month, a five-line paragraph among the press on tin-plat** than can j»os*il>ly 1« » reatsd tariff question can no more lie smothered in«i perioii« ot «tapression periods of activity and spacnlative hand into his pocket on behalf ol dispatches from Ireland the other day. Pennsylvania Bureau of Industrial Sta- 1 by it. ofeach year, very little, if “ J* than could the slavery qu«ati«m a quar From Limerick, we ar* told, three bun- PrH!*' J builder Roach and Ironmaster R<>acb. •>sti< s, in a recent speech declared that < earned, in conrequsn. e of tbe inter “I tariff* are injurious te labor, and the are : ä ss œ s