The daily gazette., 1882-01-12

sional license to few wealthy combi~
nations TO extort from American
farmers and laborers large percentage
of their earnings was such protection
as the wolf gave the lamb. Another
evidence was our commercial degreda-
tion as shown in the loss of our
carrying trade, thus compelling us to
pay foreigners $3.50, 900, 900 year for
acting as our carryers, brokers and
insurance agents in our commercial
relations together with the almost
total disappearance of our 60, 000 sail
ors of 1880.
EVILS OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM.
That the present system had cut
down sales Of American manufactures
| at home and abroad was shown III the
high prices curtailing sales at home aud
the meagre exports of our manufac-
lures That it had swindled the
American agrieulturist was manifest
in its compelling a W a-week laborer
to pay $6 tor coat worth only $3 and
purchaseable elsewhere ia the world at
that sum. That it had cost the people
five times more than 1t had produced
to the Treasury was shown i'll connec-
tion with the passage Of the bill OF 1872
making reduction of 10 per cent. ON
certain GLASSES of manufactures, when
the statement was made by MIR.
Burchard that the reduction upon
those six classes only lessened the
reveuus not quite $40, 900, but
lightened taxation S54, 900, 900. This
10 per cent. protection taken off IN 1872
was restored by the Senator from
Vermont and his allies in 1875 on the
pretenGe of making an increase, but
the returns of 1877 show, instead Of an
increase, a loss of $29, 600, ,OC0 of reve-
nue.. That it has fostered smuggling,
enriched dishonest officials aud bank
rupted honest merchants was shown in
the investigation in 1874 into the
moiety system. This was the system
of which the Senator from Vermont
was 80 proud, and against the con-
tinuance of which he (Mr. Becky pros
tested.
WHAT FREE TRADE Dad FOR ENs~
LAND. .....
Replying further to points made in
the speech of Mr.. Morrill,, Mr.. Beck
argued that our manufacturers should
no longer be content with home
monopoly, but shonld exert themselves
in foreign markets. Under free trade
England had attained her commercial
supremacy the wages of her laborers
and the wealth of her people had in-
creased beyond all precedent. as
disproving the statement that the
wages of the English laborer were
comparatively low (thus atfording a
basis for cheap production), he quoted
from speeches by Mr.. Bright, Mr..
Gladstone and others giving specific
instances of an increase. In addition
the necessaries OF Lille had been reduced
from 33 to 80 per cent. and the popaA
latiou had increased from 20, 900, 900
/ in 1841 to 80, 900, 900 in 1881. English
4 exports had increased 450 per cent.
> since 1910, and the annual savings of
her working classes from e24, 5000
in 1S40 10 976, 500, 900 in 1880.
t FOOD FOR REFLECTION.
Among other considerations Mr.. Beck
suggested the following: That the fail
ure of our harvests or war between
nations who are our ocean carriers, thus
2 cutting off the means of getting our ex-
ports TO market while causing the ruin
of many OF our people, would have the
8 effect of breaking up our miserable pro.
: tective system as it did in England; that
), the protected manufacturer could mol
Y fairly claim credit for cheapenlng the
price OF bis goods because some protec-
n ted articles cost the consumer less now
a than when the tariff was imposed ,as thii
| -, innnpnuaA ma aahtpaTu Y,f
like goods were made by machinery il
other countries at rate 5O per cent
q cheaper than that al which the Amerl-
70 can was willing to sell them. The sue
j. cess of the infant Southern cotton indus
tries demonstrated that the only prOtec
" ton such industries require TO compete
It with old and established ones was prox
t unity to the raw material and lht
l. market for the product. Georgia in thi
direction was more successfully compel.
ing with New England than would tht
= :. latter in free trade contest in the cot
- ton product with Great Britain; and hi
If would cheerfully vote to exempt al
"a cotton machinery from tax by way Q
encouraging home competing industry
y aud he would also make the iron cotton
In Tie tree. He would do this in compen
10 sation to the cotton planters Tor the you
= 900, 900 of which they were robbed b.
rs the unjust CO ton tax Of 1865 66, and
make them even with the New Englan
of manufacturer, who had for fifteen year
a had the benefit Of The war tariff.
10 SILVER CERTIFICATES AND INTERNA
IA TAXATION.
10
After advocating tariff for reyenu
- framed SO as TO be readily understoc
~ and adjusted upon adyalGrem principle
eS as far as practicable, MIR. Beck closed b
10 critlcising with some severity the recon
u nomiAa ono the ST cretary OF the Ire
't- ufy for the Withdrawn Of silver certii
Gates and the placing of the currenC
ed in the hands OF tile national banks.
s. incidentally referred 10 what he eallt
al the absurdity OF an effort to abolish /
tie ternal taxation, in view of the Presel
- wants of the Treasury.
IN The speech OF Mr.. Beck was atte
lively listened to throughout by lar
in audience. He spoke Tor nearly thr
ed hours.