PROTECTIONIST NEWSPAPERS IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5338, 7 May 1878, Page 3

PROTECTIONIST NEWSPAPERS IN AMERICA.

The Chairman of Committee of Ways and Means, in the American- Congress has .hit upon pniqgemousr.method, ,of .making.; the protec- 1 tippist.newspapers.recant their own doctrines. ■ As he does not see why the typefounders Of that} ,q-ountry, should not share-in the benefits of protection as;; well as other manufacturing interests,be propopes to [levy an, import.duty of 15 cents per pound on plain foreign type, and 30 cents per poupd on; job and advertising type! This is equivalent fo from 50 to 75 p® r pent .ad,|!;a(ore)ii! :; on the former,- and SO to 120 on the latter descriptions. There aro about a dozen ,type foundries in-the United States, employing 700 men ; .and these, of course, have,,just;as; strong ;a claim -on ; the fostering aaaistanco of ~the Government- as persons engaged, jin. a. oottou’ori-woollen!mill, i Beside?; are, \ye not constantly - assured that protection does" not , Increase, but reduces, the . cost, to the, consumer of-- tho article protected ? Strange !to;;say, however, - the newspapers wtiiph; are: Jaost : enamoured of the principle, pfiyolvod rare; vehemently crying out ogairist this particular application of it,'because it will; -.raise \ tho price of: type and “seriously, cripple printing interests all over the country I” There are, they say,; 20,000 printing .offices in, the. United States, employing 120,000 men ; and they ask the Government to consider of tho consumers [of type, and not those of the “ native industry” engaged iu its .production.•. Maji they are so, unpatriotic, as. to avow ijheir preference for''Scotch ,‘over American type, because the former, from Utj hardness, and durability, lasts one-third longer than tho latter, so that every. ,office would have i to; renew its “ founts ” much more frequently than .heretofore, “But this," these,discontented;and inbqnitktont jiroleetiqnists go on to say; Vis not the ‘ onjy point ,tb ; bb considore^.; - Witht the, exclusion bf ’foreign type, a monopoly of -the liusinoas,AyOulfl at oiico, follow,.and the.printer, might’’ havo lo''pay,' in' the, absence of foreign competition, any pfioo.'that, might be: .demanded for'typri.” ,Tho radical-viciousuess of tbb .prijioiplea.irivolvpci, arid the supremo,pal-, fishness of tho* pfotaotioiustsi,’, have rarely been UhistratecLmore, ferbihly than by .this-instruc-tive little'.'eplsQdo Tu the fiscal-history; uf tho f -j- i;\ v ’/