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They are the reductions uponmanulacures, made
in large manufacturing establishments, carried
on BY machinery, and owned by capitalists, now
realizing from twenty to forty per cent. on their
capital. These are the reductions, sir; and re-
peat II before the Senate, before the United States
and before the world, thai the great effect Of this
reduction will be 10 reduce the enormous and un-
just profits Of large capitalists from twenty to for
~ per cent. down TO the ordinary rate-Ihe mod
erate profit Of eight ten per cent; and do not
cOnscIenuously believe that the money price Of
labor will be reduced half as much as the money
price of the commodities consumed by the labor
er. My sincere conviction is that the operation
of this bill will not only be favorable TO the great
masses of the manufacturing laborers who con-
stlIute nineteen-rwcnticths of the people of the
United States, but that the laborcrs in those large
factories will actually receive more for their la
Dor than they do at this moment, taking into ac-
count the price of those articles which they me-
cessarily consume. | was obliged To the Senator
from Massachusetts for some liue evidence in
favor of the democratic character of this bill, in
certain resolutions passed in Boston in the year
1920, drawn up, believe, by the honorable mem
Der himself, and supported and sustained by him
has resulted in the establishment of the protec-
tive system. The duties, then, under the act of
1916, was about twenty per cent. or twenty-five
per cent. onthe greatness of manufactures made
out of cotton, wool, and iron, and all the other
duties were corresponding. Theproposition then
was TO enhance the duties in about the degree of
enhancement which took place under the tariff
of 1924; and il was in opposition to this that a
meeting of the merchants of Boston, in which
the honorable Senator from Massachusetts bore a
distinguished part, passed certain resolutions,
some of which | now rccoect. One of them
distinctly remember, and il affirmed that the eff
feet OF this protecting law upon the manufactures
of the country would rebound to the benefit of
great capitalists, and TO that of the labor of the
country. This was great political proposition.
Mr.. Webster. Does the Senator happen 10
have those resolutions in his desk | have no re-
collection of that.
Mr.. McDuiiie. am sorry to say thatI have
not gotta copy of the resolutions, but believe a
copy can be obtained.
MIR. Westcott here laid on the desk of the Sem
ator from South Carolina file of the "Globe,' -
which was supposed to contain the resolution re-
terred to.
Mr.. Webster. | do not wishtoroublethege gem
deman now, at convenience, perhaps, he may be
able to furnish the resolutions,
Mr.. MDullie proceeded. This, sir, was one of
the resolutions. Another was in answer to the
allegations that the establishment of these facto-
ries would give an increased market to the farm
er. Oneof these resolutions were inthese words,
as far as can recollect.
"They cannot perceive how the farming in
tercst can be beneftted by a law which increases
the price of everything they have to buy, and d-
minishes thoprice of evcrythingthey have tosell."
Now, sir, quote this resolution simply with
the view, and for no other purpose, than to an
swer avery confident interogatory of the Sena-
tor-where is the democratic lcatureof this mea-
sure! Now, Mr.. President, with regard to an
other matter-that the tax upon the raw material
used by the manufacturer is blow at the labor
of the country. Why, sir, this is a small mat
ter-a matter magnitied by peculiar circumstan-
ces into a consequence which does not belong to
ii. What is the provision of this bill! That all
those commodities to which suppose the reso-
luton Of the Senator from Delaware refers shall
be subjected to the duty of five per cent. don't
know a single duty on those articles which now
come in free above five per cent. Five per cent.
is but a small element in the cost of the pro-
ductiOn of these articles. Is that to break down
manufacturers and mechanics! 1t appears TO me,
therefore, Mr.. President, that this five per cent.
duty is very small matter. | should have been
almost as willing to have left it out of the bill, as
to putt in. As it is there, however, must re-
pei the idea that it is an unjust discrimination a.
gainst manufacturers. Why, sir, the protecting
oil thot of
sumo these raw materials is about twenty-five or
thirty per cent. 1t appears to me, therefore, that
1t would be unjust to allow the idea to go out TO
the country that law Of this character, provi-
ding for the great mass Of peoplc-providing
that the industrious people of the United States
shall have the privilege of exchanging the pro.
ducts of their labor in those markets where they
can get most for them-a law unquestionably ia,
vorable to nineteen-twentieths of the people o.
the United States, including majority, vas
majority, of the whole Union-the entire valley
Of the Mississippi, the west, the southwest, the
south and the middle States.
SAY it would be unjust that law of this char
acter should be represented as hostile to the in
terests and wishes of the great masses of the peo
pie. Why, sir, believe that in New York anC
| IeHllSy SyNdnld lnCTG are ten nOneSt lafllGIS WIG
suffer by this enormous tax for every single la
borer in the coal mines or iron manufacturer who
is beneftted by it. And yet we are told that it il
a law against the labor of the country! Why
Mr.. President, ask what becomes of the ten mil
lions of farmers, and their sons and daughters
who labor! What becomes of them in compa
rison of some three hundred thousand laborers
possibly, in the manufactures of the Unite
States! Here is anarlstocracy of laborers-thre
hundred thousand constituting the whole labor G
the country, and making all the rest tributary t
them! And because We, in mere justice, restor
to the great masses, who have no means of actin
in concert, those rights of which they have bee
deprived by the concerted operation of manufac
t urers, we are to be denounced as attempting t
pass an aristocratic bill, which strikes at the abo
of the country! repel and repudiate such a