Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-10-22
'hoosps in his kit han. And wbe a
does it come from 7 by the protection
we gave to caTpets.

u our American industries, protected
y duty of 80 per cent. advalorem.
Could Mr.. Harman ever have COM
}etsd with the low rates of Enplisb
wages, had it not been for the proteo-
ion we gave for the benefit of our own
people To-day American furniture is
made in the United States at 10 DER
,ehs.' less than they are making it in
Great Britain.
Let us look at cotton fabrics. You
ladies will remember what you paid for
yard OF muslin before the war. Under
'ur system of protection cotton fabrics
to'day are cheaper than they can be
bought in the London markets. NV
TREND, Mr.. Lea Pusey, who knows more
about the working of the tariff than all
he lawyers in the State put together.
will tell You that by this system Of pre-
lection the coarse cotton fabrics made
in America can now compste with the
worlds market.
am coming to very serious part Of
my discourse, and that is in our rels.
with England on the tariff issue,
What does England want? In 1860
she wanted to see the industries of this
Countrywide manufactures of this great
tree North, stricken out of existence.
Because of this she was the ally of the
south, SO she Is now and so she wants
now. She wishes to see America an
agricultural country, and she wants to
see our ships burned or sunk she does
M ~ 70 m hiah ha
in American ingenuity and Am sricsn
skill. England for three centuries was
the greatest protective country on the
face of the earth. More than a score
Of times she raised the duty on iron
from So 50-100 ton to $36 q ton.
In 1870 the balance of trade against
England was two hundred and eighty
four millions of dollars. l mean by
that, that Eogland had to buy 2s4-,
millions more from other nations than
she could furnish them by her exports.
In 1C years instead of being two hun.
drsd and eighty four millions of dollars.
it had grown to be five hundred and
forty-seven millions of dollars. In the
ten years from January first 1870 to
January first 1880, the balance of trade
against free trade England was four
billions and one hundred millions of
dollars-she had built twenty-five
hundred miles of railroads in ten
years.
In one year, 1878, she had OBJ
tanned from this country FIVE hundred
million dollars worth of produce. This is
free trade England. The balance of
trade in that ten years was four thou
sand millions of dollars. The total
amount of the balance of trade against
England in breadstuffs and produce in
ten years was five thousand million of
dollars. The balance Of trade for the
same ten years in the United States
was three hundred and fifty even mill
lions in our favor. In other words the
United States had sent ont of this coun-
try three hundred and forty seven mil
lions OF dollars worth of stuff more than
she brought into it (applause.) The
United States with balance of trade in
her favor, of three hundred and forty
seven million ofdollars, had paid five
hundred million of dollars OF her ma
tional debt. (applause.)
The United States during that pe-
riod built thirty six thousand miles of
railroad, the cost and equipment of
which amounted to more than double
the value of the English mercantile
navy. Yet England thinks we are not
fit to manufacture that the Yankee is
only able to dig with his shovel in the
garden. Take another illustration,
that Of the most prosperous country on
the .earth--I mean France-beautiful
France, faithful France ! The land
that every Frenchnan loves md seldom
leaves-ths land that I love because It
raised L lafayette, (applause')
For 100 years France hasnever al
lowed manufactured article as large as
your finger to come to her shores free of
duty. Through all her dynasties,
through all her downfalls-with
Bonaparte gone, with her empire
gone, with her Republic now in its
glory-France has paid to the Prussisn
Government enc thousand millions of
war debt; and is out of debt, to-day.
France in 1878, under her protective
system, sent to England two hundred
and ninety two million dollars worth Of
goods, while free trade England return
ed only sixty five million.
And now let us turn to quinine. The
Democratic party in Congress took the
duty off of quinine. There was at that
time fifteen manufacturers of quinine
in the world, four in the United States,
Messrs. Powers, Weightman Il Rose
garten & Son, Phila., Charles I. White
& Co.. and McKesson & Roffni's; three
in Great Britain, three in Germany
and Eve in France. A Democratic
Congress took the duty oil Of quinine.
Was it English Capital that petition
ID for its repeal! Powers and Weight
man, Rosegarten & Sons, the largest
chemists in Philadelphia and two New
York houses, being four out OF only
fifteen manufacturers in the world went
before the Democratic Congress and
begged them to let this duty remain on
1uinine. Druggists petitioned. They
refused so to do and quinine is higher
to-day than it was when there was a
duty of twenty or twenty-five per cent.
advalorem upon it.
Let me as better illustration in favor
of protective tariff refer to the manu-
facturs Of the Bessemer steel rails. It
is a process by which iron is made into
steel, the invention of Mr.. Bessemer Of
England; the railroad companies Of
this country to use rails OF this
description. Ia consequence of
the enormous cost of the imported
Bessemer steel rails, eleven concerns,
the Bsssemer Iron and
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