The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-03-23

forever.
Here tonight point you to these mag
nificent achievements; point you to what
has been accomplished in these twelve
years for the workingmen, the mechanics,
the free laborers, the men who toll for
wages; and say again to you that these
achievements surpaSS all that had been
achieved in our country from the earliest
settlement of the colonies up to the year
1861, when Abraham Lincoln was inaugur-
ated President of the United States. What
claim, then, has the Democratic party to
the vote of workingman in America p
None, none whatever. The workingman
who supports the Democratic party, with
its history of forty years hostility to the
equal rights of millions of toiling men, is
not only illogical and inconsistent, but
indifferent and careless. can see how the
lawyer, the manufacturer, the banker, even
the farmer, who stands ON his fee-simple
acres, may vote the Democratic ticket, but
| cannot see how the eInancipated black
man of the South can do it, or how the
laboring white man who works for wages
can no it.
Persistent efforts are making to convince
the laboring men of New Hampshire and
to make them believe they have very hard
time of it; that they have to pay taxes,
are. indeed, almost taxed out of existence.
A document is circulated to prejudice the
laboring men against the Administration,
on account of the high rates of duties. In
my Judgment, the wise and sound policy is
to tax luxuries highly; to put the burden
oftaxation upon articles that come in COM
petition with our own, and to make free
list as large as possible. We have great
debt to pay. We shall have taxation
enough for many years. That burden, the
legacy Of the slave Democracy, will rest
upon the labor of the nation for years to
come.
1t was my privilege last summer to spend
a few weeks in England. 1 hardly heard
anything else there but complaints of our
tariff. If went to dinner party, or met
Enslishmen on ship-board or anywhere,
they had much to say about our exorbitant
rates of duties. English importers, Ger
man importers French importers, all be-
/ rate our rates of duties. These identical
documents that the Democrats are circu-
lating in New Hampshire are not paid for
lay the Democratic party, but by men who
want to take care offoreign interests rather
! than our own. [Appause.l
| I ask these men abroad what they want
cd. s. Why" they said, "we want to sell
more goods in your country had doubt
of that. They said, ''You are great
agricultural country; you ought to raise
agricultural products, and we ought to
make the manufactured articles" Well,"
said, 90 find that you bought thirty-two |
million dollars worth of wheat last year.
and only eight millions of it in the United |
States. | find that you bought millions of |
dollars of corn, and only few thousand |
dollars of it in the United States. asked |
them if they would give up their agricul
ture if we would give up our manufactur-
les, and they said their agriculture was
worth great deal more than their manu-
i'SttiSS' lhSy S1hiO iiShG W IuC punt,
for they could tell the truth on the subject
in England; their friends do not like to
tell it here. They said, 1.-THE price of
labor is too high in the United States. You
pay too much for labor. 1t has bad effect.
1t causes great many of our labOring peo-
pie to go to the United States to seek bet
ter wages; it makes those discontinued who
remain at home; they demand higher wages
and we have had to pay higher wages in
this country this year than ever BEFORE
Well,' I said, that does not hurt my
feelings a great deal. am very glad they
get good wages in the United States;
rejoice that the toiling men and women
over here are getting better wages
l saw everywhere l went, especially on
the continent, women engaged in the rough
est and hardest work. Women have to
bear heavy burdens there. I saw women
doing all kinds of hard work. You have
heard great deal said by our women's
rights people-of whom count myself one
about the right of women to work.
They have that right in the Old World to
their hearts content. Laughter and APP
plause.l
am glad that workingmen are complain
ing. I am glad the workingmen of Europe
are getting discontinued and want better
wages and are getting higher wages and
fewer hours. l thank my God that man
in the United States day can earn from
three to four dollars in ten hours work,
easier than lie could forty years ago earn
one dollar, toling from twelve to fifteen
hours. The first month l worked after l
was twenty-one years of age l went into
the woods, drove team, cut mill-logs, wood,
rose in the morning before daylight and
worked hard until after dark at night, and
received for it the magnificent sum ofsix
dollars. Each of those dollars looked as
large to me as the moon looked tonight
[Laughterl.
On the farm on which I served an ap-
premiership have seen the best men who
ever put scythe in grass working for from
fifty cents to four shillings day in the
longest days of summer. Yesterday l Wis
tied that farm. asked the men who were
there what they paid men in haying- time
last summer, and they said from two dol
lars to two and half day. This was
paid on the same ground where men work
ed forty years ago for from fifty cents to
four shillngs and took their pay in farm
products, not money. have seen some of
the brightest women go into the farm-hous-
es and work for from fifty cents to four shil-
lngs week. milking the cows, making
butter and cheese, washing, spinning, and
weaving-doing all kinds of hard work.
was told yesterday that many young women
were earning in the shops dollar day,
and that those who worked in houses were
getting from two dollars and half week
to three dollars and a half.
In 1882, i'll the great debate in the Senate
on the tariff, it was said by those who adyo-
Gated protective duties that they had raised
the price Of labor in the United States so