Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-10-22

ton and that would bring your iro1
lsixty-ive dollarsa ton. You say, "WhJ
I have q right to bay iron as eheaply a
II ean.o No man has right to stol
competition. Where is the imported
steel and iron madei In England, in Bel
GUM, In Norway and l presume II
Austria. What does the McCullou8f
Iron Company pay to their menY There
is not laborer who works in that shoI
who does not get dollar a day at leas1
and am putting it very low.
In this industry they have whai
they call pudding and pudlers. What
wages does puddler receiver From
four dollars and twenty five cents to
four dollars and fifty cents a ton. In
England and Belgium, what are the
wages The highest wages paid In
Great Britain for pudding iron is eight
shillings ton. A shilling is twenty
three cents and that amounts to little
less than two dollars, this is the high
est price paid for pudding in Grea'
Britain to day. What does the labol'
ing man get there Ifyou know any,
thing of English history you mus'
know that in England skilled artisan
receives much more in proportion than
the laboring man. The laboring man
In England is the one who is oppressed,
not the skilled artisan and mschanlc.
The laboring man receives to-day
only 4s csnts q day in Great Britain.
Take the duty Of 35 dollars of ol
sheet iron and let it in free. The
puddlsr instead of receiving four and a
half dollars ton will get less than two
dollars, the laborers will get onlylforty
eight cents q day. Tne manufacturer
will have to do one Of two things, either
close his gates and 80 away or put down
his wages for pudding to eight shillingf
ton and forty-eight cents day fol
the laborers.
Let us take another industry in Will
mlngton, Hilles & Jones, mschinists;
and while it may be said that they are
not directly interested in the tariff, yet
no man can doubt but that their bust
ness will be effected by a low tariff
II the interests of the cotton nanufac,
turers are effected by repeal Of the
taaiff, or by lowering it, the interest OF
HiIles & Jones will also be effected, be-
cause they are boiler makers and their
boilers will not be in such demand.
You will thus perceive that while the
repeal of the tariff does not affee. them
directly, yet, If the industrial estsb-
lishmsnts Of Wilmington close they are
directly effected.
ElAnothsr industry in our midst is the
Diamond State Rolling mill which af
fords employment TO hundreds Of men.
1t is engaged in the manufacture Of bar
iron the duty upon which is twenty
dollars per ton and soils in the markets
of New York for fifty five dollors per
ton. One dollar per day is the lowest
wages paid in that establishment while
the skilled labor commands from four
teen to eighteen dollars a week. Take
the duty off Of bar iron, making it
worth in the market but thirty five dol
lars ton, and you at once strike o
blow at this industry the same result
follows as have described in the case
of the Mccullough Company. There
can be no sophistry in the presentation
of these facts there is nothing in their
history that a child cannot understand.
A sudden rise in the value OF bar
iron took place the last of 1879 and in
January Of this year and it suddenly
rose to three and quarter cents per
pound and as soon as the English man
ufseturers discovered this rise in the
market, they ballasted with bar iron
every ship that crossed the ocean, and
hired every packet they could secure.
to bring IL to our shores. They stored
every bonded warehouse in New York
and Boston with bar iron and crippled
our own manufacturers.
In other words the English manufac-
turer could afford to pay duty OF
twenty dollars per ton the very moment
iron went up to 3 cents and half q
pound. A great deal Of that iron is
still in this country and it is going to stay
here as a specimen of The fruits Of q
Tariff for Revenue only.
There is another industry in our
midst, which employs at least one
thousand men. 1t is tbs great moroc-
90 industry. In referring to it, I shall
1uote some of the remarks made by my
friend Mr.. Postles, the candidate for
State Senator, not long ago. Against
him personally, surely have nothing
20 say, but would like to remind him
hat what he said in January, 1878,
when he was q member Of the Morocco
Exchange, and what he
,aid at the Logan House, cannot possi-
bly, agree. I will read you what the
candidate said in few minutes. For
The present let me speak OF the great
industry. find by an estimate given
me by Mr.. Jones, only yesterday, that
Laboring men in morocco manufactures
are paid from eight to nine dollars per
week fnishers from twelve to tour
teen dollars Shavers, from $l5 to $lS;
The duty on morocco is about rs per
cent. ad valorem. The largest impor-
tation comes from France, where the
wages are at least one third less than
they are in England. The average
price paid the Frenchman is one and a
half francs a day, or thirty cents.
Take the duty of of morocco and how
can the American manufacturers COM
pete with those of Germany and France ?
The discussions for the Democrats of
this question have been so vague and
uncertain that it has been indeed diff
cult to ascertain whether they are free
traders, advocates Of tariff for revenue
only, or protectionists. No man has
vet been able to ascertain from the
speeches they have made in this house,
;he precise position in which they have
professed to Stand.
Tl. ~, 4 an vapad ~ Fairlv dfoouuu