The daily gazette., 1882-11-01
WILLIAM DEANS TALK.
HE TELLS THE NGMEN
ABOUT THE TARIFF.
RoUsING EIGHTH WARD MEETING.
The Newark Manufacturer INDUCES In
Some Plain Language Easily Understood
Other Remarks.

| the corner OF Ninth and Lombard streets
last night, and over 900 persons were con-
gregated there to listen to the Hon. William
Dean of Newark, on the subject of the tariff
and John Nicholson AMI j. Frank Ball
Esqs., on the State and National issues.
The City Cornct Band made o short street
parade through the ward before the meeting,
which was organized at y O'Clock by select
ing Walter Grow to preside. The other
officers were: George Hepburn, George S.
N. Corton, William p. Norton and
Samuel Cam, vice presidents; A. j. Vernon
and William Cloud, secretaries.
After music by the band the chairman in
troduccd Hon. William Dean of Newark,
who was received with burst of applause.
Mr.. Dean at once got himself into the good
graces OF his audience, and for All hour and
a half entertained them with figures Tor
thought and reflection, and at the same time
amused them with bright and sarcastic r, :
marks. He was recalled two or three times
when tndeayoring TO sit down, his hearcl
seeming 10th to let him stop. He was fire.
| qucutly cheered and greeted with shouts
whenever good point was scored.
lie began by saying that he was like the
majority of those present-a workimgmlan
He started, like Mr.. Hastings, very low
down, and both he and that gentleman were
self-made, with the exception that the
| speaker was only halfnnishcd, there not
being enough stuff In the cloth. come, he
said, to talk facts, not free trade. They
have that on the other side of the water.
Those who advocate the tariff say they do 1t
| for the workngmen. | want to see If 1t
really Ia for the workingmen or for tho party
who employ them. The tariff has been in
force since 1867. II we take statistics as
furnished by Mr.. Arrnitt, appointed
| by the Government to collect census
| figures in Philadelphia IN 1870, VIC find that
every workingman who lived in that city
received during that year all average income
OF S+i6, while in 1880 the average was only
| $313.25 apicce-a reduction of 20 per cent.
| And that was the result under Republican
tariff If the tariff is for your benefit answer
| me why the workingmen of Philadelphia
| got less in 1880 than in 1870. If IL Is for
your benefit, why the great reduction2 Let
lis 60 further and take figures presented by
a good Republican, and not by me. We
are told that in 1870 the employers of Phila-
delplia made - per cent. on their outfit and
| in 1850 received 81 per cent. on the capital
invested. Why should those men-the
| hoYlers for protection-line their pockets at
your expense! II that is protection I don't
see It. Perhaps you may see it, Take the
| figures and consider them at your homes.
| The agriculturists, those who raise the
| the stuff to feed you, are satisfied with a
| living and per cent, tut the men who are
| protected are the woollen manufacturers,
| the blooded fellows like me. / am like Mr..
| Hastings, great man. We have both got
ten out of your ranks. He tells you what
he will do, but in truth he hardly knows
what he will do himself. / heard Mr.
Hastings in Newark the other night-sat
| close to him and took in all he said. In
few days he repudiated what he had said.
The speaker then alluded to the proposed
tax ON fertilizers, which would raise the
price of provisions. " 1t is not," he said,
"what money you get, but the purchasing
power of that money. In regard to the tariff,
you have it in your hands to make
change, but you won't get it by voting for
Mr.. Hastings"
He referred to the kaolin works at Hook
essin, where the men only got SIPS day
for POO days in the year. The money in
vested there will amount to about $1,000,
and they had q soft thing of it. Last year
they made only $50, 900 on the amount in
vested, while the workmen had SIS 900 di-
vidcd among them. The workmen got 81
to the GIN mployers' 50, and yet the latter are
asking for further protection In the way of
higher tariff.
We want no special privileges and no
classes in America He told OF his visit to
Europe, where he visited among the work
ing classes, and had good meals and com
Portable lodgings. They received smaller
wages, but they only pay half as much for
their houses, their fuel and their clothing.
They don't make as many hours as you do,
or work as hard. You arc really getting
less and work moro in proportion than "the
pauper labor OF Europe" He then said the
goods which cost $1.50 In England to make
could be made here for 81 80 which was not
much different. The tariff on rags, used In
making shoddy, amounted to 800 per cent.
here. In England the manufacturers can
go into the markets of the world and buy
the same thing for one cent pound, while
the duty here was twelve cents n pound.
The panic of 1873, under Republican
tariff, was spoken of, when the Wilmington
shops were all working for protective inter
est while the poor farmers were doing the
best they could and selling their products
in foreign countries for whatever they could
obtain. The panic came. Why did not the
tariff protect the workingmen then! 1twas
meant for workingmcn's protection; not
for men like Mr.. Hastings, and how that
they had got it what did they think of it
He meant to say that the tariff that was TO
help the workingman was show of false
colors he meant that suit worth $15 cost
S25. The difference of $40 was
but q tax-nothing more. You pay it, he
said, without grumbling, because it issugar-
coated. If you were called to pay that
amount to the taX-gathercrs you would COM
plain. And SO would /. But it is tax
and nothing else. Mr. Hastings letter to
the Grangers was read and severely and sar- |
castically criticized. The writer of 1t, he |
added, has so much protection now that he |
is afraid that II he refuses to vote for the tax
on fertilizers some protection will be taken |
from him. Yes he is in favor of protecting |
YOU. lie is protected and will take S. and |
give you so cents.
The speaker then placed himself in the |
position of farmer and showed how pro-
lection worked against that class. In agri- |
culture there were 6,000,000 persons en-
ployed in this country, aud only 10000 |
In the shops. The latter got all the pro-
tecton. don't want to pull your wages |
down, however. Get all you can. Mr.. |
Hastings and others ask for protection for
you, while 1t is for themselves all the time. |
Who is feeding Mr.. Hastings now but the |
farmer9
You may ask, Mr.. Dean continued, what |
am going to give in place of the tariff l |
have nothing, but l will join hands with |
you for anything for the good OF the Amer
lean people. The tariff is not the thing for
you al all. The employers and |
not you are the ones who are |
protected. Several monopolies created |
by the tariff were referred to, notably that |
OF corset mandatory in Connecticut, |
where the sewing women made but 1919
cents n dozen, while the employers were s'pro- |
tectcd' to the tune of 81 to So per dozen for |
the corsets. And that is in protected |
America What would their wages lie IL |
they were not "protectcd %