The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-10-25

be infinitely better of if he had not
paid cent of it. [Applause.l These
ladies paid none of it. 1t yielded
100000 from beer. The ladies
paid none of that, and there is not a
single man who was compelled to
paw cent of it. 1t collected S41, :
600. 900 on tobacco. The ladies paid
none of that, and not a man before
me was required to contribute a cent
of it. | paid some myself, but it was
voluntary-an offering to the gov
ernment. Laughter 1t raised
from banks and bankers S5,000,000
Where is the poor man who felt it +?
1t raised s2,000,000 from cosmetics
and perfumery. | can't let you Ia
dies off this time, but there is not a
man here who doesn't know that
they are handsome enough and
sweet enough without any of it. |
have named every single internal
tax but one and | have not found
one that any man or woman was
compelled to pay. But there is one
that affects us all. We raised So
100000 on matches. That is about
one cent for every 100matches. An
ordinary family uses about 1000
matches every year and its tax on
this amounts to 20 cents. This is
all that it is compelled to pay and
yet the Democratic party talks about
heaping burdens on the poor. Zap
plause.
The Republican party thought
that even this was unnecessary and
in the Forty-tifth Congress, Demo
cratic Congress, they tried to repeal
it, but this Democratic party-the
friend of the people--opposed it. and
they were defeated. In the Forty
sixth Democratic Congress they pro-
posed again to take it off, but the
Democracy refused and took off the
tax on whisky and tobacco instead.
They knew on whom the burden
rested. Laughter and applause.
In the Forty eighth Congress anoth-
er effort was made to remove the tax
on matches and the Democrats op.
posed it. In the Senate the leader of
the Democratic party spent an hour
in speaking against it and it was de-
feated. Within tweny-four hours
the Diamond Match Company,
which was at that time the largest in
the country, raised the price of
matches. Out of the s300,000,000
required to run the Government
every year s140,000,00p is contrib
uted-a voluntary contribution made
under the benefcent policy of the
Republican party.
THE TARIFF.
We have next got the external
taxes--the tariff. To the average
Democrat the tariff is the cruelest,
the bitterest and the wickedest thing
on earth. 1t is a thief, a pirate, a
merciless plunderer of4he poor. and
in season and ont the leading Sena-
tors and Representatives of the De-
mocracy are heard aennuncing the
great State of Pennsylvania for Its f.
deity to the tariff, and denouncing
the great iron and steel interests as
robbers and thieves. The tariff
What is it? Let me explain it as |
would to lot of boys and girls. Let
us call Pittsburgh America, and
Philadelphia Europe. | wish to
build a wooden mill in Pittsburgh,
which is America, and another in
Philadelphia, which is Europe. l
take wooden mill because | know
the wages l might as well build a
furnace, a forge, sheet or rail mill,
carriage mandatory, or any OF
the works that abound in Pittsburgh
until they obscure the sun with
smoke. [Applause.]
! begin in Pittsburgh. | dig my
foundations and pay my men 81 %
per day for their work. / build my
foundation walls and pay 81 25 and
81 so for my labor. | get my brick
and pay 81 80 and 81 IS per day for
my labor For laying the brick
pay from 81 80 to 50 25 per day,
and for stating the roof I pay from
50 % to 50 IS per day. When the
building is completed the cost is
100000, 50 per cent. of which is
paid out to the men who work it
with their hands from the hole in
the ground to the slate on the roof.
OVER IN EUROPE.
Now | go over to Philadelphia,
which is Europe, and build a factory
of exactly the same size and materi-
ais. The excavation costs me for the
labor 40 and 45 cents per day the
walls, 40 and 55 cents per day; the
brick, 50 to IS cents, and perhaps, |
can get labor cheaper and lower than
that. ! saw in report to the Brit
ish Parliament that 10000 bare
footed little girls were employed car.
rying nodded brick on their heads,
getting from to 6 cents per day.
Perhaps | might have 300 or 400 of
these brought over and make the
cost even lower. Thank God that
over there, in Pittsburgh, america,
couldn't hire them Applause. |
can lay the brick for so and 70 cents
per day for the labor and slate the
roof for 80 cents and 81 90, and
when the building is completed it
has cost me $4,000 Why that
100000 and this $4,000? 1t is be-
cause of wages. The clay is as cheap
there as here, wood is as cheap.
brick is as low. In labor alone is
there difference.
| come back to Pittsburgh. | build
my machinery and pay 50 soto So
90 per day for first-class work, and
the cost is $4,000. l go to Pbila-
delphia, Europe, and pay from 1926
down to 81 80 for frst-class labor,
and the cost is 25,000. l go back
to Pittsburgh and hire my carders
and spinners and other employees. |
pay women from 60 cents to 81 co
per day, and my men from 81 90 to
81 rs. | weave piece of cloth and
the cost is s75, and 80 per cent. Of
the whole outside of the wool and
the dive stuffs / have paid to nv