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

Europe and send it to America free
to compete with American goods.
But what will become of our mills
Ah, but they say you run your mills
There is only one way in which the
mills could be run. Professors in
college may theorize until they are
insane but there is only one way to
do it and that is to cut down the
wages of your men, the masons and
the brick layers and the carders,
spinners and Others employed in
running a mill. OF course it can be
done. [Applause.l But say our
friends, the workmen, ''if you do
that, Mr.. Frye, | can have no beef
NO, but you can have soup four
times week and black bread" The
Democratic doctrine is that soup
and black bread is good enough for
working-men. They say, But /
couldn't send my children to
school" But you could put them
to work in the factories as they do
in Europe. 'But my wife couldn't
go TO church" No, sir; she could mt
dress as other people dress, but that
makes no difference. How do you
like that The Republicans say /:
1--WE are going to run the mills. We
are going to keep the smoke over
Pittsburgh. We are not going to
cut down wages 1t holds to the
doctrine that the man who works
with his hands is entitled to live as
well as the rich loafers who stand
around and do nothing. 1t believes
that the better man is paid for his
work the better citizen he is. 1t be-
lieves that he should have his share
of the comforts and luxuries of life
and enough to lay up something for
a rainy day, or put in piece OF
land and build a house and then he
has stronger interest in good gov
ernment. 1t holds that every man
should have the fullest possible OPP
portunity to give his children a good
education. The Republican party
wants your wife to 90 to church.
Why? To make better man of you.
The Republican party says to the
European manufacturer: Make all
the cloth you please and bring all
over you can. But it costs US $780,
100000 every year to run our Gov
ernment, pretty heavy sum. Ev-
cry time you send US a piece of
cloth worth $50 you can step up to
the Treasurer and pay him s25 to
help him out of it. Now, don't you
see we have got him? Now their
cloth costs just as much as our
cloth and we have got them just
where we want them. Applause. ]
That is protective tariff and that
is all protective tariff is.
HOW THE TARIFF Ia ,'ERs PRICES.
The Democrats say that the tariff
makes our clothes dearer than they
would be otherwise. The very op-
posite is true, and | can prove it.
Mr.. Archibald, the Consul General
of England at New York, recently
made report to his home Govern
ment on the American tariff He
said that it had so stimulated the
manufacture of carpet that the price
had fallen 10 per cent. and it had
caused reduction of % per cent. in
the price of dry goods. The English
Government thought enough of the
report to publish it.
In 1860 there were deposits OF
good potter's clay in the bosom OF
the earth in every State in the I'm
ion, and every man and woman used
pottery. Where did they get it ?
From the foreign manufacturers. In
1860 there were 1000 men working
in the potteries of the United States.
The Republican party put duty OF
60 per cent. on pottery. What was
the result? Why, last year there
were potteries in every State of the
Union except one, and that was
Florida. There were 1900 men
employed in them, and the capital
invested is s13,000,000. To-day you
can buy pottery in Pittsburgh 30
per cent. lower than in 1860, and
the wages of the workmen have gone
up 40 per cent.
EFFECT ON OTHER INDUSTRIES.
In 1860, 1000 men and women
were engaged in the silk industry
working at starvation wages. The
Republican party put heavy duty
on silk, and last year there were "a,
600 men and women in the silk fac
tories of the country, and the invest
ed capital has increased from 81
100000 in 1860 to $4,000, 900 today,
How is it about prices? You can
buy silk in Pittsburgh to-day at
from 25 to so per cent. below 1860
and wages have gone up 25 per cent
| The manufacture of worsted goods
has improved under the influence OF
the protective tariff until last year
2S,000 men were employed and S32,
100000 of capital invested. The
same goods can be bought to-day at
40 per cent. less than they cost in
1860, and the wages of the opera
tives have gone up in proportion.
Over in indianapolis the other day
| was shown through large tile
factory. There is only 35 per cent.
duty on tile. Ten years ago, when
they built new court house at In
dianapolis, they paved it with Eng
lish tile at 81 20 per square foot.
This year they got some more work
done by the home factory and they
got it done for so cents and it was
of far better quality than the Eng
lish tile. The factory employees a
number of English potters who say
that their wages at indianapolis are
120 per cent. higher than they were
in the old country. Now how does
the tariff operate?
When we bought our worsted
goods abroad England set the prj
ces. There was no competition. The
protective tariff was put on, mill:
were built, the inventive genius o
the people was called into play and
down went the prices of wooler
goods and up went the price of la
Dor. [Good.] And yet the Democ
racy say it places the burdens al
on the poor man. They say that the
Republican party favors the rich