The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-10-27

products in competition with other nations
| who get these raw materials free of duty.
Among these raw materials are soda ash,
copper ore, iron ore, scrap iron, lire clays,
lasting and serge, combing and carpet
woods, lutte ramie and the like in the pro-
duction of which no American interest Is
concerned except to have them freed from
duty in order that the manufactured prod
ucts may be produced at cost so low as to
enable us to sell them abroad. Applause. ]
IL is the working man who has the deepest
| interest in securing those notifications OF
| the tariff He wants the area of employment
enlarged the demsnd for labor increased
He knows that the rate of wages depends
upon demand and supply. He understands
that he is and will be well paid when bust
ness is active. He knows or ought to know
that it is not the tariff which determines the
rate of his wages, but the net value of the
product of his labor. If the tariff takes
any portion of that net value by imposing
tax on the raw material which enters into
that product, the tax must come out of his
wages, for il can come from no other source.
Either portion of that productisSold abroad
or il is not. If il is sold abroad, then the
precise amount paid in taxes or raw mate
rial ought to have been added to his wages,
and if no portion is sold abroad by reason
of these taxes on the raw material, then the
field for employment is narrowed and his
wages of labor are not fixed by the tariff,
but by free trade. whether We like it or not
The wages of labor in every country are
determined by the amount which can be
produced and carried in the largest field of
industry in that country"
Mr.. Hewitt quoted cOpiouSly from the
speeches and votes in Congress of Hayes,
Sherman, Garfield, and General Arthur, to
show that they had not been in favor of inn
posing duties only on articles which come
into competition with American products.
He exposed a trick of the Tribune, which
published a portion OF one Of Garfields
speeches, emitting the following, which Car
field said in the same speech:
II freely admit that revenue Is the prlma-
ry object of taxation. do not affirm that
all the provisions of the existing tariff are
wise and just. In many respects they are
badly adjusted and need amendment"
Mr. Hewitt quoted the following from the
same speech by Garfield:
During my term of service in this House
/ have resisted the effort TO increase the rate
of duty when / thought an increase in the
rate of duty would be dangerous to the sta
bility of our manufacturing interests, and
by doing so have been thought unfriendly
to the policy of protecting American indus
try. When the necessity of the revenues
and the safety of our manufactures warrant
ed, L have favored a reduction of rates, and
these reductions have aided to preserve the
stability of the system"
Garfield then recites a conversation with
Horace Greeley, in which that great man"
said to him: MY criticism of you is that you
are not sufficiently high protective in your
views" Mr.. Hewitt added: eve can see now
why the Tribune did not republish this GER
tificate from Horace Greeley. 1t seems that
Garfield was not OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to meet
the views of the late Democratic candidate
for President" Laughter.
Mr.. Hewitt declared that the real issue
before the people is the third term Jap
plausel, and that General Grant is too great
a man to be trusted with power.