tho*e Markets of the World.
We have been told, ad naus
eam, by the free traders that a
Democratic tariff would open up
to the manufacturers of this coun
try "the markets of the world.''
Now, unless'the unexpected hap
pens, we are to have a Democrat
ic tariff bill and the markets of
the world, so that it behoves our
manufacturers to look after the
"markets,'' of which we have
hea<-d so much, and the Commer
cial Oatcttv will lend its aid in the
search.
To do this we must first find
where the markets are, and then
how they have been supplied in
the past. Of course no one ex
pects, unloss it be some free trad
er of the Cleveland-Mills-Wilson
stripe, that the manufacturers of
cotton, woolen, silk, linen, iron
and steel, glass and pottery
goods, can find markets for any
part of their goods in Great
Britian Prance, Germany, Bel
gium. Holland, Austria,Hungary,
Italy or Spain, for these goods
are manufactured in all these
countries from as cheap material
and by cheaper labor than ours.
We could not by any possibility
compete with the manufacture of
these goods in their own coun
tries, for that reason. But there
is another reason why we can not.
Everyone of theso countries nam
ed, with the single .exception of
Great Britain, have customs du
ties on all these classes of goods,
in many instances higher than
those that were imposed by the
McKinley law in this country.
They are closed to us by tne high
rates of duties imposed?that is.
according to Democratic theory
?but the high taxes levied on the
people through customs and du
ties.
It :s pertinent right here to di
gress and ask of the Democratic
theorist, who declare "a tariff a
tax," and that all duties levied
on imported goods increase the
price of the home manufactured
to the full amount of the duty
levied, hew it is in these coun
tries where the highest duties
are levied, there is no increase
in the price of goods. Possibly
the rule they lay down as an ax
iaupiem of political economy is only
^ippliMbleuo the United States.
They tell us all the residents of
all these countries catf buy every
thing so much cheaper than the
consumers can buy here, because
of the "tariff tax" we levy. Yet
'? there is a high or higher "tariff
tax' in these European countries
than here. It is possible that
these Democratic statesmen and
leaders are not awaie of the ex
istance of these tariff laws in
other countries, although the
Government has tried to enlight
en their ignorance by furnishing
to each legislator a book contain
ing the tariff laws of every coun
try of the world.
It is not, then, in Kurope that
we are to find "the markets of
the world." They are closed to
us, because there is an abundant
home supply, cheaper than we
can make it. and because we are
shutout by high duties.
Let us go to Asia. In India we
find not only high duties, but dis
crimination in favor of Knglish
goods. So that door is shut. In
China we find high duties and
some classes of labor that is
paid ten cents a day and subsist
on rice and fish. Tlyjre are some
articles the Chinese do not manu
facture. but they are rapidly ac
quiring the ability to make all
classes of goods needed at home,
and Great Britain, with cheaper,
goods tnan ours, controls the
trade uf the country.
In Japan we find a^ain a high
rate of duties and cheap labor en
gaged in making many of the ar
ticles we manufacture, in the
Australian colonics, in all but
one, there are high customs du
ties and discrimination in favor
of the mother country. .So we
cannot find these "markets of
the world" in Asia. To Africa
we only send missionaries and
ruin, and have to meet the com
pel ition of Kuropo in both of
th> se articles.
So we have to return to Ameri
ca to find the ?'markets of the
world," which are to fly open to
us as did the doors of the rob
ber's cave, at this',-'open sesame'
of a Democratic tariff.
Mexico, much the wealthiest
of the American countries except
our own, has a tariff law cover
ing all classes of manufacturers.
We will have to pay the same
rites on our goods that the Brit
ish German and French, export
ers pay, and unless we can manu
facture as cheaply as these coun
tries. we cannot compete with
them. This is true of Brazil,
the Argentine Republic, Chili,
Peru, Bolivia, and all the princi
pal countries of South America.
Of course if we can manufacture
as cheaply as Kurope does, we
can .compete with I?urope on
equal termsln these markets,but
unless we do so, we cannot com
pete.
To manufacture as cheaply as
Europe does we must rdopt
European wages. Democrats
say with improved machinery,
inventions aiid intelligent labor, 1
we can produce more to the
operative in America than can
be produced in Europe. That is
no more a fact than almost every
other Democratic assertion.
There is no American invention
in machinery which reduces the
cost of production that is not at
once adopted in Europe.
The European manufacturers
are too enterprising not to adopt
every labor-saving devise. The
Commissioner of labor, in his
examination into this question,
found that in the American, the
British and the German furnace,
the production was about the
same amount of pig iron, in Ger
many was one-third, and in Great
Britain less than one-half what it
was in the United States. So
this Democratic free trader
proved this Democratic free trade
statement to be false.
??The markets of the world,"
of which the Democrats love to
tell us, are as intangible as
"castles in Spain." They may
be in the moon, or Mars, "or some
dead or sunken world, but they
are not in this world.
Instead of giving our manu
facturers of Europe. They make
our manufacturers complete, for
the home market, with those of
countries where the wages and
living of the operatives do not
compare in any way with the
wages and living of the American
operative.
They are forcing the American
to the European level of wages.
?Conim<*rcial Gazette.
The Sew Tariff Law.
With the tick of the clock that
marked the last instant of time
that belonged to Monday, Aug.
27. the McKmley law died, and
the tariff of the Trusts became
the law of the land.
For thirty-four years the
cation has been under a protect
i\ e tariff. The last Democratic
effort in that line was the tariff
law of 1S57, amendatory of the
Walker tariff of 184B, and which
brought rum to the country.
The old order changeth. The
new order begins. The Gorman
bill, the Senate bill, the Tariff
of the Trusts?they are all names
for the same bill.?begins its
work.
The Mclvinley law was con
structed on a principle. That
was. that the duty on any foreign
articles of the same kind as
articles manufactured and pro
duced in the United States, should
measure, as nearly as might be.
the difference in the labor cost of
producing it here, and of pro
ducing it abroad.
The McKinley bill was thus
based on the idea of maintaining
a higher wage-scale in the United
States than that which obtains
abroad. It adopted the belief
that the better wages a man re
ceived. the better would be his
condition, and the better it would
be for his country. It went upon
the sound principle that the more
a man gets the more he will buy,
and that this increases domestic
manufactures and domestic trade,
to the benefit of all.
The Gorman bill takes the op
posite theory. It goes, in most
of its schedules, upon the theory
that the cheaper things are, the
more we shall flourish. Its
fundamental error is in not rec
ognizing the fact that cheap
goods mean cheap production;
cheap production mean low
wages, and low wages means a
curtailment in the purchasing
power of the people.
The low tariff advocates assume
that the lower wage-scale, which
they admit must follow, will be
compensated by its greater pur
chasing power, due to the cheap
ening of certain manufactured
goods.
This would be correct, if everv
item of expense were chea]
in*$roportion. But this
the case. Thfire are eeve;
the leadiug items of famil;
pense which will not be
in any degree. They are :"' ?j
House rents.
The cost of bread, flour, etc.
The price of meat3 and vege
tables.
The cost of fuel and lights.
Taxes, state, county and munic
ipal.
These affect all producing
classes, whether engaged in
manufacturing, or mining, or
commerce, or personal service,
or farming.
There is in the new law noth
ing that will benefit the Ameri
can farmer. Lower duties on
our imports will not cause Europe j
to consume one bushel more of!
grain, one pound more of meat !
or butter. But, by injuring 'the
purchasing power of the masses
of our own people, this billjatoill
injure the home market of the
Xmerican farmer. He will find
the saving: in the few things that
will be cheaper to be more than
offset by the diminution in pur
chasing power of the great
masses of the American people, j
who are his best customers?for j
nine-tenths of the products of
our farms are now consumed at
home, while only one tenth is ex
perted. Hence the farmer re
ceives no benefit.?Toledo Blade.
Wbile in Chicugo Mr. Charles L.
Kahler, a prominent shot- merohaut ol
Des Moines, Iowa. had quite a sarious
time of it He took suou a severe oold
that he couid hardily talk or navigate,
but the prompt use of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy cured him of his oold so
quickly that others at the hotel who had
bad colds followed his exrmple and half
a dozen persons ordered it from the
nearest drur> store They were profuse
in their thanks to Mr. Kahler for telling
tnem bow to cure a bad cold so qaiekiy.
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Haymaker, Clarksburg, T. L. Bond and
Bro., Salem. 43-lm.
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At the Holmes Shoe Co. you
can buy men's russet and light
shoes worth $3.00 for $2.25. both
in bals and Congress. 40-tf.
b?** doctors, but
V TUil Hs^?12^ Without relief. We
? KTTU p^n< UflWl Kerrlne for one
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sociation grows with each suc
ceeding year, not oniy among the
veterans themselves, but among
all patriotic citizens of the re
public.
The encampment this year at
Pittsburg, from present indica
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reunion since the war. Thous
ands of veterans from all parts
of the country will be present,
and Pittsburg will surpass her
self in showing them her hospi
tality.
The Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company will sell excursion
tickets from all ticket stations on
its line east of the Ohio River,
for all trains September tith to
10th. valid for return passage on
all trains until September 25th,
inclusive, at one fare for the
round trip.
For more detailed information
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I sell and deliver along the B.
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wagon for $62.50; 3^ inch for
$65 ; and 3i inch for $67.50 com
plete; 3 inch Studebaker 60.00;
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When sold on as much as 12
months time I add $2.50 to the
selling price of above wagons.
I also have a good line of Spring
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different styles and prices. The
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Full term in all departments
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Children to be Bound.
SEVERAL bright, healthy children
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