How Protection Hurts The Protected

An import iliity oi ton per oen t. m gold isleviedon foreign hides, to ; in othoi i to secure to the American farmer a higher price foi i . or a steadier :.,yir it inay bo that Proteotion is supposed or intended to do. Whut is the result ? The result is just üiis : The hides of grass aud stall-fed cattle are sof t, long-fibrea, and pliable; t ! i i-y are suitable for hai ness, belting fortín: "uppers" of boots and shees. Thi of the half wild, prairie-roaming oattle of tho Soutn American pampas are lined, and stift'; thé mitable for tJie solee of boots and ■ There is not one case in fiftyin which the ome can be substituted for the' other; and it is eatimated by good authority, thut I from 9S to '.it per oent. ofall the heoilocl sole-leather produced in the l States is made from the South Ami rici o bido. Itisvery evident that the tariff on solé lei thei oannot wil, even in the sense of the Proteotionists, be a proteotion to upper leathers. The high price wltieh, owing (o the tariff, boot and shoo manufacturar bas to pay for liis sole-leather, does net affect 'm: prico which he pays for his uppers, exoi pi. that, in all probability, havinb ín immore for the one, he Wlll havo (O try to get tu n!,,r ,,,, „,n,-, cheaper. indeed, it is a fact that the manufacturera are ineesgantly compelled to eheapen and beat down the ])i-ico of tho domesiio upper leather, in order to compénsate for the lased cogt of the ünported Boles; and wli.it they oannot get out of tho farnv r on the price of his hid try to ge-t out of the donuntie laborer, bij reduciría his It is very olear that tho tariff on 11 hides 'lúes not benefit the domestie farmer, by giving him a botter price for his domestic hidus, butthat itaotually has a tendenoy lo reduce fcheir price. It i.s vi rv olear that tho tariff on foreign hides does not benefit the labor employed in making boots and shoes ; but that," on the eo,ntrary, it actually tends to lower tho wuges earned in that trade. But, say the Proteotionists, it gives the farmer the domestic markei The only objection to that is, that it is not true. Before tho ten per cent. tariff was put upon foreign hides, we were large exporten of boots and sbo.s. For the soles of these buots and Bhoes weusodimported hides; tor the uppers, domestic hides. The tariff on the foreign soles Baalt s onr boots and shoes oost so high that we e.m't export any longer. Por th" si , ■ don't export, we ■ ireign soles, it is trui'; but do we use domestio uppers 'r Nol these boots and shoes that wc u nufacture and to export are nu longer made; tin tic oppers whicli the farmer would have sold for the purpose, if the foi soles could have come in duty fri moin unsold, or have to be sold at a price than they otherwise would. The domestic farmer bas actually lost the market for all that portion of hiatfcides which formerly whs manufaotured into boots and shoos f or export. The taanei bas lost the profit on the corrosponding ut of sole-leather; the boo( slioo manufacturar has lost the profit on manufacturing the boots; the tanner Doys and the St. Crispina have lost the wugos they would luive earned ; the merchant hiis lost his Cümmis-.iim on the cx)ort trado ; the ship-owner has lost hú ii; and the whole country has lo.st ;ho advantage of th! goods nrhinh the i might li:ive brought back, ii slie :oukl have had an ontward freighi ;ii[l tl"; ( bod and ahoemakers, icross the bordi r, come in, buy our i . import foreign hidcs free of dut f, eopy our bool umi ghoe luachinery, the róduct of the marvelou skill ot' Amerioan mechanica, take our place aa exportirs of boots and shoee, earn all piofitt. hat we hare disearded, and laugh in tur faces fox being Protectionigl fools. Lnd :ill for wlin! r All in order that the Lmerican farmer may be fooled oting for their Prottiotionist friends, in he belÍL-f that Protection will give thotu tter prioea fr their hides! And whj o the Proteotionista want tlig farmera' of i í Solely in order to keep up the in'amous cual, iron, and steel laiiti', 1 whioh the people are annually defraude! i uiitoiu miuions I -