The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-03-16

| in answer to remarks of Mr.. Coke of Texas. in
| which the latter spoke of protection as ''whole-
| sale robbery and as a word that should be eX-
| plunged from our vocabulary Mr.. Frye opened
| at once upon the question of wages and the con-
| dtion of laborers as contrasted between the
| United States and Europe. citing facts obtained
| from the most reliable authorities in both coun-
| tries. After presenting unrefutable statistics
| he made the following
STARTLING AND SIGNIFICANT INQUIRIES.
| Let me ask the Senator from Texas why is it
| that II 100000 men and women have left Eu-
| rope, nearly all of them laborcrs. and have
| sought our shores? Why is it that not 100000
| of them have ever returned TO Europe; Why
is it that last year 100 900 laborcrS from Europe
came to our country? Why is it that 10000
came from England, the highest wages paying
country in Europe: Why is il that YOU cannot
go into cotton-mil or woolen-miI in America
| to-day, and not find on the payroll scores of
| English mule-spinnerS and card >tripper> and
| dyers; and why is it that they never 90 home.
| but the moment they lay aside from their high
wages enough, they send for their brothers,
their fathers. their wives and their children to
come out too?
Sir, Europe has 312, 900 900 inhabitants. Mass
achusetts has 100000. Europe has 1S4 times
as many inhabitants as Massachusetts, Both
| are laboring communities. both engaged prlnci-
pally in manufactures. Why is ii that i'll MaSsa-
chusetts the laborers have S23l 900 600 Of money
in the sayings-banks, onc-seVenth as much as
the whole 312 100000 in Europe in their savings
banks postal and other. Why is it that in the
North alone-leaying out the South only be
cause she has few if any Savngs-banks- why is
it in the States excluding the South having a
population of about thirty millions or thirty-tive
millions, they have S200,000,0O0 more in the
| savngs-banks than they have in all Europe
with its 3l2,000.000 of people:
1T will not do" said Mr.. Frye, lin this nine
teenth century. when most men. thank God,
can read and write, to tell the American people
that the wages in Europe are as high as the
wages in America" Mr.. Frye then asserted
that free trade and tariff for revenue are one
and the same; and passed to notice the uphold
ers and defenders of free trade.
WHO ARE THE ADVOCATES or FREE TRADE:
The only prominent champions Of free trade
to-day in he world are England and the Dem
ocratic party of the United States. Amazing
cO-partnershp, For centuries England was the
most earnest. vigorous and determined cham
pion Of protection the world ever saw. enforced
the EXTREMIST doctrines by all the powers of war
and all the powers of diplomacy. She destroyed
the growing commerce of Ireland by one blow
of her navigation laws rcprcsSed her cattle rails
ing. her wool growing. her manufactures. and
made her the waste of to-day. She attempted the
same role in America; forbade the expectation
Of her products to any country other than her
own; forced all of the carrying trad" into Eng
lish bottoms: repreSScd all manufactures of
fabrics, and provided by law ''that none Of the
American colonies should manufacture IRON OF
any kind: that 10 smith should make boil. .
spike. or nail bar or rod iron: that no mill or
other engine for rolling iron or furnace for
making steel should be pcrmttcd: finally drove
us to revolution and lost the brightest jewel
from her dladem lhls SPIRIT OF repression Ill
the interests OF protecuoi c"llroiitt nrl con-
duet With all OF her colonies. Nor did England
contne this policy to them alone, but by every
art and device known to war and peace she
protected and encouraged her manufactures,
strengthened and extended her commerce at
IN" expense o1 every nation Sh' couIq tf1ghtrn
or cauole. by fraud, diplomacy amt war hN
repression, protect!on ana prohIbiIl"n rr>"ftrd
,;,,oto ,yii,h na,, ,,p,,,.,,d Eoi +
herself ..mistreS> of the seas" and manufacturer
for the world Then with an accumulated
capital no other country possessed. with skilled
artisans kept at home bv laws forbiddin@ emil
grafton, with machinery far in advance of any
other nation with merchant marine capable
of doing the carving trade for the universe
with the KEY to the whole situation in her own
hands as sh, thought. England suddenly dis
covered the charms of free trade" opened her
ports and demanded reciproclty Was this
new light? Had She found herself in the wrong
during all these wears of wonderful growth and
to do works meet for reDcntancc to repair the
wrongs inflicted upon other nations Of the earth
did She determine upon this new policy: BY
no manner of means she only counted her
self able. with the advantage She possessed. to
compete with the world successfully TO herself
to hold her own markets and gain theirs. Wen
NAV she to-day. with her Golden Club. and With
every device of which she is so cunning ma
nipulator Join with the Democratic party in
cfuSaue against our INDUSTRIES WIN htf over
tar Of ~ h ,r' " t ]
thirJ nf hnr |i,1'l. ;iIn iti t;ni,
",,a;t ho, ,,,o,,, foat i, ,i,+ ~ a'i,,
- a,'o,, IN h", nIil ~ ,tI ,il r
Xix v,au ,i,1- sha nho,,,in,, i f.na ti,i }. i;
~; pnnti; Am hor ~, =, ,,iilIi,,, ~ ,,',l
NJ ',dinoad nj 70 aa,,,,iih h, i,,,.iaY,
uo,,I no thn ,.rou(n;mIr ,ln,,. mf H.. ,,.a.t IN
,Jn"tri.i oorna, '''''- = ~ -
''' @'i
lHE DEMoCRAllC PARTY.
Now, Mr.. President. as to this other cham
pion of free tradc"-thc Democratic party
How does IT happeno that this party of capital
at the South and labor at the North should
champion such cause? 1t claims surprising
love for the poor man. deadly hatred for the
rich; it rolls over its tongue as a sweet morSeI
''bloated bondholders." national bank rob
bers." corrupt and corruping corporationS.' :
In season and out of season it procIaims its de-
voton to ''the poor, downtrodden pcople:" and
vet. singulary enough, its savage animosity
TO ''protection' and its intense love for .frec
trade" We're born of its answering devotion to
slavery, its fixed determination to keen drrrad-
ed labor still in its DEGRADATION. TO maintain M
paid toll still unpaid. For the North it only de-
farmers whose sole business in IifG should he
the sowing of seed and the reaping of harycsts
TO sllpplv the slaves of the south with chran