Daily Republican., 1880-10-16

the audience that he was an ont and
out free trader, and he received more
cheers for that than he did for any
thing he said in favor Of protection to
American industries and American
labor. The present tariff system gas
all wrong. It operated injuriously and
Disseminated against others In . SINH
liar business. This Dissatisfaction no
referred to rs Just what American man
ufaCturers needed, just what they want
cd. But what did Mr.. Bayard want.
He anted the question Of 3 tariff left
TO commission Of gentlemen who un-
dsrstand the question that they might
introduce some equitable system by
which the manufactures Of this country
could enter the markets Of the world.
We suppose this is fully understood.
We know 1t is by intelligent manu-.
facturers and laborers. He drew a Pic
ture OF the sad revulsion that must en-
sue when this country was fully sup
Piled with all the manufactured articles
1t needed. Then stagnation and ruin
had to come. He would have this
remedied and provided against by hav-
ing the markets Of the world thrown
open to American manufactures, that
where there was one mandatory now
there might be five, and where there
we're two men who had labor now,
under his plan there would be ten. Is
not this the rankeet free trade doctrine
What is to hinder American manu-
factursrs now from entering into the
markets Of the world and competing
with England, France and other nations
for tradsi Nothing whatever except
that American manufacturers under
cur tariff regulations are enabled to pay |
living wages TO their employees, and
consequently connot manufacture goods
as cheaply as they are manufactured
in other countries at paupsr rates Of
wages.
Mr.. Bayard's speech was 3 poor pa
naoes for the latoring men Of Whining
ton, though many Of that class were
present at the meeting and Justify
cheered his free trade sentiments,
which If allowed to prevail would place
the industries and we'll paid mechanics
and laborers of Wilmington on level
with the poorly paid and pauper labor
Of Europe. In view Of the great in
roads the tariff question was making
into the ranks Of the intelligent work
ingmen Of the country, We had expected
that Mr.. Bayard would have advanced
some argument in favor Of the preaent
system of protection which Is giving
the workingmen Of America plenty Of
labor and good living wages. His tariff
views though always we'll understood
will fall like wet blanket upon the
and manufacturers Of his
own city. His position on the ship
ping interests Of the country was the
same as on the tariff question. He Is
in favor of free trade and
free ships. Tho workirgmen Of Will
mingtou need look for no help from
Mr.. Bsyard. His plan is to assist them
by throwing open the markets of the
wsrld TO them, thing which they al
ready possess. Equity" is the word
Mr.. Bayard uses. That means that the
manu- factures and the labor of all
countries shall be arranged on the
same basis, that the same laws shall
apply to each, that a railroad car
shall be built as cheap in the car works
Of the Jackson and Sharp Company as
Ia the workshops Of London that a
ship shall be built for az little money
In the Harlan & Hollinsworth ship
yards as on the Thames or the Mersey
at psuper labor prices. There can be
no other equity than that. II this equi.
ty that Mr.. Bayard recommends, be-
comes an international law, then fare
well TO the supremacy Of American
and protection to Ameri-
can labor.