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AKGUXNGFOU PROTEC TION. v' 4:.' m - Mm. -w mm m- mm m i mam m m m m Refuted by All the Iacts and IiOgic of History ry. "A Hornet m a recent issue ot tue inquirer paKes . . -rr I numerous statements as to the merits ol r ree- l rade as .., i j - r elusions as to the enormia ot Protection as a hscal sys tem may be satisfactory to u is mind, but to others thev are not quite conclusive. He says: 1 made great material prog ress during the past fourty vears: not on account af our Protective Tariff, but in spite ot it. He contends, in substance, that we have been en abled to pay higher wages in this country than could be paid in TT.t-i nrl n nrl Ko'oiicp nf nil f S 1 1 1 I national resources, etc., and tnat our jrroieccive . 1 i T A A ' Tariff has not increased wages These statements cannot' be sustained. It is true we have an immense country, possessed of all kind of cli- mate and soil, and with-more natural resources and wealth than any other country in -the world, but we neglected to develop this wea th and resour- utilize these natural ces until after the enactment of our Tariff in 1861. It was our Protective Tariff which induced our capitalists to develop the wealth of the nation, which erected o xv furnaces and built our factories which has thrown open Our iron and coal fields, constructed our railroads and op ened our forests, and thereby given employment to our labor, and enabled us to market our products in competition with those produced abroad. It was our Tariff laws that gave this advantage to labor and industries. our t4A Hornet" further al leges that Free-Trade makes high wages in Eng they are higher th Iand, that ire than in any other continental m-m 4- m 4. A is proof protector In order of wape workprs C5 - to make a point he overlooks a well-recognized fact,- that in England the scale of wa ges was largely influenced uy Lac nignest Kina or Jr'ro- tection, rigorously until she believed wealth, her mach enforced that her nerv .and her skilled workman could not control the markets of the world. Neithei- her man ufacturers, nor het- laborers, At 4 I . to-aay participate in this admiration of her fiscal pol- icy. As a result Af this pol icy wages are lo w and de creasing. Eighty thousand in her cotton mills at Manchester for from 30 to 35 cets per dav, while the manufactur ers are insisting upon a de crease, to enable them to compete with Germany and Belgium. Two shillings, and in favored localities two and six pence a day, are the highest wages paid to com mon men laborers, while hundreds of thousands can not g-et work at that. She is to-day supporting in her poorhouses more than 1,000, 000 people, and . how many more receive outdoor relief no man can tell. Her silk industry is almost destroyed, her cotton is suffering, her iron and steel being supplant ed bv that of countries, en- I joying a Protective Tariff. It was stated in Parliament a short time ago that agri culture was ruined, and half of the farm laborers could get no work. This being England's condition, what utter nonsense to talk about high wages there. Why is England for free trade? Simply because she consumes only about 37 per cent, of what she produces or manufactures, and is com pelled to find a market for the remaining 63 per cent, of all her productions. Amer ica consumes nearly 92 per cent, of what she produces and sends only 8 per cent, abroad. If we should sell nothing abroad, only one man out of every twelve would be thrown out of em ployment. We would not have a repetition of the mobs of London, "Sheffield, Bir mingham and Manchester. After forty years'trial out side of England, all states men have united in respect ing Free-Trade as one of the "puerile doctrines and illu sions of mankind." The modern statesmen were Pro tectionists: Thiers, Gam betta, Clemenceaux, Grant, Garfield, Bismark, Sherman, Blaine. Wherever there is universal suffrage the world over has repudiated Free Trade. When Free-Trade won in England the working people were excluded from the suffrage. Taxation in England is largely direct and oppessive upon all class es, but especially so upon laboring men. In 1883 the revenue collected amounted to $13.75 per capita, while that of the United State was 6nly$4.81. The inter est charged upon her public debt was $4.21 per capita, while that of the United States in 1885 was only 83 cents. Free-Trade repeals all custom laws, closes all custom houses and opens our ports to the same freedom of commercial intercourse as now exists among the sever al States. This means di rect taxation to raise the revenues now derived from customs duties. This reve nue must then come from taxes levied similar to the method of State taxation for State, municipal, school and other purposes. About one fourth would be borne by personal property, and the other three-fourths by real property. The farms and farmers would carry the load. Added to the local taxatiou the Federal burden would be crushing. The people would uot submit to it. ;The farners could not endure the oppression. England is the representa tive Free-Trade country. The United States the rep resentative 'Protection coun try. Sixteen billion was the sum total of our wealth in 1860, and one-half of that was wasted in the war. The wealth of England at that time was $30,000,000,000, or nearly twice that of the United States. But not withstanding ,the cost and devastation of a four year's war our wealth in 1890 was over $65,250,000,000. It increased from 1880 to 1890 49 percent. A proportionate increase from 1890 to 1900 would indicate wealth of nearly $100,000,000,000 at the begining of the twentieth century. In 1860 our manu factures amounted to $1 ,800, 000,000, while now they reach the vast amount of $9,, 372,437,283. Then we were the third manufacturing country in the world, while to-day we are the first, ex ceeding England by over one third. It is such facts that refute statements like those emanating from the pen of "A Hornet." At one time Ireland had a Protective system, under which she supported in reas onable comfort 8,000,000, of people. Her manufactures of linin, silk, wool and cot ton, Protected by Tariffs, and encouraged by subsidies, absorbed her capital, em ployed her laborers, promo ted diversity of industries and inshured prosperity. England feared her progress under this system. She ad vised, caioled and flattered Ireland into the belief that ! she could raise raw material on her fertile soil, sell it to England and buy of her the manufactured products more cheaply than she could make them. And that Free-Trade would be a blessing. Beguiled thus, Ireland consented. Her Tariff was gradually repealed horizon tally destroyed and her subsidies withdrawn. Since then Ireland has become the poorest, most distracted and harassed country on earth. She drank to the very dres . - -T- -r- . auc cup wmcn England pressed to her lips. I the ree-rade cup which "A Hornet" resorts to that last refuge of the Free Trader, that Protection does not increase wages. The fact is they have increased since 1860. Is it likeley that they would have gone on increasing from decade to decade, as they have, if we had not increased the oppor tunities of and demand for labor by introducing manu facturing industries and di versifying our employments? And how could we have suc cessfully established and maintained these industries with our vages of labor from the start higher than in Europe, if we had not ad opted the policy of Protec tion? Taking into account the fact that Protection cheapens the cost of living and the purchasing power of a dollar has increased from; l.vtn 20 ner cent, since 1860 g it is evident that wages have more than doubled since that period. To judge from the intem perate language and exag gerated statements of 44 A o Hornet," it would seem as if those engaged in industri al pursuits were robbers and outlaws. Thev are nothing: of the sort. They are a part, and no mean part, of the bus- ness of the country, and tin aer tne laws nave oeen invi ted to engage in business. mi nev are a part ot our re- sources as a nation, and to develop these resources is ac cording to the wisest states- manship the test of true statesmanship. 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