The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 18, 1897, Page 2

$V fn American Manufacturer On High Tariff Duties. ebinery and methods, so tbat our cbeaper labor,at considerably bigber wages, fully made up for the disad vantage at which we were put by) ' greater cost of raw material. #.t Only Unnecessary, But a Blighting Curse Upon the Nation's Industrial | Independence. The Repubiic Bureau Fenn Ave, and lith St. | Washington, Feb. 9.—The Repub- | ficans of the Ways and Means Com | deseripiion of plow pow sold, per mittee have not invited appeals for reducing tariff taxation, but have rather encouraged appeals for in | treasing it, so that very few of those manufacturers who are opposed to Livh tariff taxation have presented arguments on their side of the Question to the members of the committee. Mr. A. B Farquabar, the well &nown manufacturer of agricuitural | implements at York, Pa, is one of those who have taken the trouble to write the members of the committee ; im opposition to increased tariff tax | ation, and bis letter is perhaps the best of ite kind which the committee fas received. It is as follows: “To the Wava and Means Com mittee, House of Representatives— Honorable Gentlemen: You have, eaturally, in your public hearings of testimony and recommendations and pleas for amendments to the revenue tawa, had far more to do with those + @esirous of iacreased duties than with those in opposition. The inter est of people in quest of favors is always more intense, us wel! as more @efinite, than that of people who have simply to protest against grant ing favors to others at their expense; % ough the former may bea few and ths latter 70,000, yet your committee may easily bear much from the small sumber and nothing from tbe great Glasy as it is for all concerned only 68 individuals of the 70,000.000 to be silent, thinking that where no peculiar interest exists no peculiar exertion is called for, yet the easy course is sometimes the wrong course. Personally, I have nothing to ask of your honorable body except that you will refrain from puttiog e@bstacles in the way of my business and from strengthening the arms that are aiming a blow at my inter ests; otherwise, my cause is merely identical with that of the great mass “- of your fellow citizens. What is beet for them is best for me, and might be asked as well in their name qein mine. _ “The great practical problem be ‘fore us, as before all nations and “, people,is how to apply the force and ‘Opportunity at our command so as to derive from them the greatest net result in comforts and conveniences of life. That application of human tabor which brings the largest result in these comforts is the.one that best serves the body politic and thereby raises to the highest point the demand for labor and, hence, the teward for the laborer. Since the best paid labor is,therefore, the kind that produces most. it may easily follow that sach labor is of excep tionally low cost in proportion to product. We know that this is true in some instances. The wheat of our Western States must necessarily b3 produced at a lower labor cost than that of Egypt or India, because it eells freely in the same British mar “ket to which the cost of transporta- tion is greater. And yet our lower cost is made up of payments at the rate of a dollar a day, while their hisber cost is paid at rates not far from 10 cents a day. This is possi- ble, partly because the Western laborer furnishes labor of higher quality than tho ryot or fellab;partly because it is better directed, by improyed machinery better methods. “A similar state of facts exists in all productions that meet foreign competion on equal terms No labor in the country receives better pay than that employed on exportable goods, in direct competition with and ‘LT ithen aud there told the propri etor that the trade would allcome to us unless he improved bis methods, and, to make along story sbort, it bas all cowe to us Our works manufacture practically all of that) bap~ 20,000 a year. “Now see what must necesarily be true af our plows seil in South | | Africa side by side with those of) English uake, as I have shown they | eastly doaf cur transportation charge | our raw materials, lumber excepted, }are more costly, as any inspection of instantly | cowparative wil then prices prove; our firm must either lfor labor No other conclusion is postible, | found for waking larger subtractions from the swaller remainders. “Since cur business affords enough unless some way cau be same sum and leaving } profic to justify continuance in it, and the protits of our Euglish rivals are not ivordinate, the only possible conclusion is that there is less labor cost in ‘our plows than in theirs The fact of cheaper labor, which is demonstrated by actual observation in my business, supported by similar observations in other business enjoy ing like advantage of more efiicient machinery and superintendence, must necessarily apply to all labor employed on exportable products Work on merchandise for export is especially highly paid by the day, and it is exactly this bigh paid labor that is really the cheapest sabor. What is called ‘pauper labor,’ the kind that is ill compensated, is prac tically a very dear kind. Every sagacious manufacturer having a piece of work which brings him particularly low profit on which economy in every kind of cost is particulary necessary, puts his paid workmen on just that piece Tf he dreams of sparing labor cost by doivg otherwise, he simply converts hie margin of profit into a net loss “The fact that we are exporting steel rails to Canada, Japan and elsewhere in the face of English competition, and iron to England itself—something we never could do until the approaching exhaustion of England’s iron supply—puts us less at a disadvantage for raw material; and the further fact that never in its history has the country made anything like so large an export of manufactured goods and machinery as during the last year, aided by the cheaper raw material allowed us in the Wilson bill, snow what we could do with raw material free; show, indeed, that very many, if not the majority of manufacturers, would have no use for protection if we could go to work on that basis. “Again and again I have declared distinctly and publicly that I desire no import duty on agricultural im plements. The duty was swept away in the Wilson act with my cordial approval. The harm thatsuch duties ;do to producers who can export is that they suggest and encourage retaliatory duties in the countries that buy of us. The only possible good they do is to enable manufac turers, by combination, to extort higher prices from their fellow countrymen than from foreign cus- tomers. It is with just that motive that many a man asks Government assistance in chargisg more for his goods than he sells them for iu Europe and beyond the tropics. It is just that motive that you cherish when you allow drawbacks of duty on goods exported. By that piece of legislation you declare, as plain as words can put it, that foreign customers are the ones you select ' product of American workmen, as ing than that of his beer | ing a demand for exported products | desired for a very different purpose of agricultural and mechanical Jabor. than to increase the public revenues. | 2 = eS . f- If absolute free trade were decreed It is desired because those who are! Missouri Senate Tele to-day, American needs and desires | moving for it would rather beeping would be met only by use of the the cost of the workingman’s cloth- It is de | they bave been in the past If those sired because they would rather tax) workmen should be employed a little | the lumber which goes to build his jes in making things that go direct | house than the luxuries he would be ly to the consumer and a little more | better off without. in makiog things that go abroad, to} “Itis superfluous to remind you be exchanged for the things the con | that the talk of an extra seseion is} sumer his labor would be|uvsettiing business, 1s locking up) ‘nore the Jess demanded, while its | wants, ; capital that would go at once into} | known thas the ja |application to something it can pro duce to better economical advantage | would be none the less demanded, productive enterprise if assured of! the continuance of present condi. | tions; is depriving labor of employ | junder the wing jcame up for passage | ix bigher, as it must be when we} bave to ship by way of England; if) draw uo profit or be at less expense | while its application to something it; ment by repressing enterprise, is eau produce to better economical | only welcome to those who, in one advantage would insure its being | W"y OF another, prey upon the pub | i better rather than worse paid after lic; because you know it and you see| it You know it by your reason. You see it in the backset with which reviving business, after the forward | start that followed the national elec tion, has go disastrously met. Leave the tariff alone; let business be un disturbed and enterprise assured of some degree of permanence: give us| | business had adjusted itself to the new conditions. “If I did not believe that I could carry on my manufacturing for what the public would pay freely, without Government interference to force fictitious profits, I ought to close up aud go at something fitted to my : size. Iam ready to say the like for | Security instead of a legislative earth my brother manufacturers. If they quake, and you will be surprised to are not lost to all sense of shame|see the prosperity that will follow they must blush to come whining | your patriotic abstinence. before Congressional Committees for A. B. Farguaar, a chance to extort extra profits, like| President of the A. B Farquhar a cur for a bone, especially when Company. Limited, Manufacturers with this is associated the hypocrisy | and Exporters of Agricultural Ma of pretending that what they seek| cbinery, York, Pa thus to draw into their own pockets| Por Your Protection —Catarrh is all taken in trust for the sole|‘“cures” in liquid form to be taken benetit of the poor workingmep,even | internally, usually contain Mercury if we disbelieve all rumors and dia |°F Iodide of occirs or pares — regard) allssuspictons, ol campelen Siri a tecel, er 5 Meni atone: contributions and other forms of] paused by cold and damp weather more or less disguiséd bribery. And|It starts in the nasal passages Cold then to think that this craven fear|in _ head, if recipe —— of foreign competition, this cringing |Te844"8 3n ca see 76) Cream dependence on the work of the lobby Balm is the acknowledged cure for gee 3 these troubles and contains no mer- and on legislative Congresses, is so cury nor any injurious drug. unnecessary! But for this huge con fideuce game, but for this blighting ; curse on our industrial independence, the country could step forward at} The Big Combine Has Made Over $236,- once and become the great source of | (00,000 in Ten Years and Searles’ Mc- the world’s supply. ‘Ihe predomin- Kinley Visit is Breeding a Scandal. ance in the iron business, in spite of} New York. Feb. 10—The Sugar our carefully calculated and pezsist | Trust made $236,240,000 within the ent cfforts to leave it in British|Jast ten years. That is the revelation hands by oppressing our export! made in the testimony of President trade, has at last come tous. The Havemeyer and Treasurer Searles mines of Briton will not long repay] before the Trust Investigating Com working, while ours are practically | mittee in this eity. They said the inexhaustible. Trust sells $1,200,000 tons of refined SUGAR TRUST PROFITS. t j TO CHEER HIS LAST MOMENTS. Se the Gegeral’s Bedside. Jef¥-raon City, Mo, Feb. 11—The S$ Missouri senate paused ia its busi | ness long enough to day to let it be aliant soldier lying t the point of death at his home in Bates county is in the minds of the people of the state. The bills teking the home at St. James, dio, and the ex confederate howe at Higginosville he of state, and making them = state institutions, today and, went through -withent General Jo O Shelby opposition. bas always taken a persoual interest in the Sol diers’ home at Higgiusville, and the, passage of the bill naturally brouzht | the thought of bis illvess to the | mind of every man upon the tloor. | A motion was made that a tele- | gram be sent to the general info:m-| ing him of the passage of the bill. | Senator Mott of Sc. Louis asked | that it be withdrawn that be might introduce a resolutioa He sent to} the desk fora telegram from Miss} Anna Shelby, the general’s daugh ter, aunouncing that bis condition remained about the same, and then off-red the foliowing resolution: Whereas, the seuate bas learned with profound sorrow of the critics] illness of General Joseph O. Shelby; and, Whereas, He has commanded the respect and admiration of not only the citizeus of our state, but of the nation; therefore, be it Resolved, That we convey to him our sympathy and encouragement in this bis bour of «ffl ction, express- ing the hope that through Divine assistance he may speedily recover from his illness The resolution was unanimously adopted, and Secretary Roach of the senate wired it with a statement of the passage of the bill to cheer those by the bedside of the gallant leader. Rheumatic aches and pains are quickly con- trolled and the disease permanently cured by tfiking Lallemand’s Specific for Rheamatiem. Itis powerfuland penetrating, destroys the rheumatic acid ir the blood and_ renders the body impregnable to futare attacks. Price $1 per vial. Sold by McUl--ment & Co, it May Pass. Jefferson City, Mo, Feb 11.— soldiers’ “ “The chief object I have in ad sugar yearly, and gaye a table of Representative Williams’ anti-cigar- dressing you is to make the most| profits per pound ranging from .709 ette bill, which was ordered engross- earnest possible protest against the| cents to 1.30. This enormous profit |©4 by the house yerterday.is causing calling of an extra session in the|is ona capitalization of about $74, tobacco dealers considerable worry, spring. I hear that this proposed |000,000, but on property valuation | {°F it bids fair to become a law. extra session for the purpose of pull | of only about $10,000,000. Gov. Stephens says he will sign it ing our revenue laws to pieces is} In connection with this revelation | #24 the senate is favorably disposed usually advocated as necessary, not | the secret visit of Treasurer Searles | ®"4 thie is the bill: because some favorites of Govern |to McKinley last Friday is brewing| ‘“E¥ery person who shall sell, give ment, large campaign contributors,|the ugliect scandal of the winter.|®W@Y Or otherwise dispose of any perhaps, need to have their profite| He is paid $75,000 a year. Politics, cigarettes or cigarette wrappers to enhanced at the public expense, but|except as the Sugar Trust ia inter | #2 ore shall be deemed guilty because, forsooth, the country needs| ested. is not in his line, yet it ie of a misdemeanor, and, upon convie- more revenue. The country would charged that he not only demanded tion thereof shall be punished by a and bold up as worthy of praise| not need more revenue if it would judiciously spend what it has If its law-givers would cut down the list of pensioners to those who have an honest claim, and thereby make that list a true roll of honor; if they would frown on public building and river aud harbor demande; if they would abstain from waste of public money in useless military defenses and naval armaments, the revenue vow provided would more than suf fice them. “But entirely apart from these considerations, the association of increased revenues with such av overloading of the tariff as you are asked to make, and are supposed to contemplate, is a shame and a swin dle, and you know it. You have no certainty—in fact, no good reason for believing—that an increase of } protective duties will bring more revenues. The country’s income di- minished greatly under the McKinley act, and was actually considerably jless during the last year that act was in operation than it has been | since duties were reduced. You are foreign labor; wages running high, | for favor, while home customers are | perfectly certain, on the other hand, although the price of the product is jentitled only to be fleeced. j that revenues weuld be considerably low, and proving really cheaper | “You wish to aid the American | increased by a slightly higher inter. because directed Usain anaes workingman. So do I. But, observ-/ nal tax on beer and tobacco, with | power. “Some years ago I visited a large icultural implement factory and. at the invitation of Owner, a member of Parliament found plow handies and beams pro duced in that factory at » labor cost of.more than $1, while similar work cost'us but 10 cents at our ia York, owing to our supe el gi factory | rior ma-! ing. as I do, that he never before received so large a proportion of } on.and that all possible in conclude that wh larger export busines r not be an increase of importa dewand for money on both can earnings as he has under recent leg | ong, | no sides | law in a week. SS unchanged, without creat- jmoderate duties on tea and coffee. | Ta fact, a higher rate on beer alone 1 hich the consumer would be iasensible of —would quite counter- balance the deficit in the Treasury. If you sincerely wanted more reve- jnue, you would recommend such a measure as this at once and your recommendation could be made into “The extra session is evidently that McKinley stop the present in vestigation, but also asked for the appointment of Col. J. J. MeCook as Attorney General. People of all parties are asking, What did McKin- ley say to him? It is an ugly scandal even before McKinley has taken his oath. The investigation will be con tinued Friday, when the question may be bluntly put to Mr. Searles. The Rubber Trust and the Wall Pa per Trust will also be on the rack that day The Wail Paper Trust has $38,000,000 capital. District Attorney Olcott has ask ed for the evidence taker, and will try to prosecute the members of all trusts. While this is being done bere the lobby at Albany is laugh- ing at Lerow and the investigators. Anticipating an adverse report and eweeping legislation they already bave agents on the ground sounding members and preparing their way for wholesale bribery They insist that the Republicans are in honor bound to protect them, but are ready to buy proteciion again. | “ PS: aes Spanish Generais Leaye. | fine of not less than $20 nor more than $200, or by imprisonmeat in the county jail not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.” INSIDIOUS DISEASE. tarrh Cure cure Known to the ernity, disease, rat treata intern blood and Lrtaces of the = : Oving the foundass ing the pa up the constity in doing its wy, so much tanh at they offer : aay case tf Send tor list of caine - Cuevey & Co, Sold by druggist 956, its curative powers, Hundred Dollars tor tails tu ials Po € PRE Bates County Ban BUTLER, MO. Successor to> Bates! Co. Na tronal Bank, Established in 187¢. Paid up capital $125,009 A general banking busmess trang. acted. F. J. TYGARD, : President, HON. J. B. 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