THE WOOLLEN DUTIES OF AMERICA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 11759, 13 April 1888, Page 2

THE WOOLLEN DUTIES OF AMERICA.

' Our New Zealand Protectionists must be praying that their f ellow- workers in the States may bo successful io main* raining the duties on wool, and -thai preventing New Zealand growers from finding a profitable market in America! The New York Jlerald, in a lending artiole, has the following on the woollen duticß:— "Bnt this is not all. Tha great American wool-grower is not only 1 a common swindler in bis attitude to< wards tbe mass of hia countrymen, the poor, and people of em&U and limited means. 1 He is a fraud' in bis relations to the workmen who gain their preohrii-' ous living in the Woollen factories., Theroia mole labour in tho manufaoiur'S of the rich man's 'goods than in the 'coarser und cheeper goods worn by tb,e y> ,tnafs of the people. The hypooritioa) IpcetQuce of the waul and other Proteotioniats is that they desire by high . duties to proteot tho American working man employed in manufacturing,' ' If they were, sincere in .this they would " lay the - heaviest -duties 'on, tjja. highest olsss goods, because the mak L / ing of these involves the use of the* most labour, and in these goods labour bears the greatest proportion to cqst 6f material. But, as has been shown hi the examples above, throughout this sobedale adapted by tbe - republioa'ns' they have oarefnl'y put, the - highest duties on the ooaraer gq^da, in whiSi tho labour' is used-"; That is. to. say, they have'skillfully and heavily disoriiaip'a'ted ,' r against (he working-men employed m ' the American woollen faotories. . This republican , revision of the, wool and . woollen tariff, made by ProtectioDitss, and adopted by tbe Protectionists. of thq . Ways and Means, deliberately strikes at severed now prosperous Amerioaa in» dustries by depriving them of their free raw material — free under the existing • tariff ; then just as deliberately robs the masses of the .people, while it shields the wealthy; classes, and/finally dig. oriminates heavily against the labour employed in American wool factories. And this is oalled ' protection to Am an • flan industry.' It is in faofca prodigious soheme of . robbery under the ! oolbur'of' <: ' taxation, without the least exonse, be:;: _ ; oause the chief requirement now )s to ' decrease the ta^ea aud thus get rid of tbe surplus."