The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-22

let England furnish rs our cotton and
our iron. Isn't it better to have d.
versity of Industry Suppose before
pose England, upon whom we should have mad
to depend for all our clothes and equipments,
had openly aided the South, in What kind OF
shape would we have been with all our coasts
blOckadedl One reason which contributed to
our success was that the South was not manu-
featuring country and had to depend for sup
plies TO blockade runners, while were self
contained and in many states mills were run
ming making the clothes, and the shoes, and the
arms for soldiers. Surely every sensible
man VIII say that it is better for MS T - arrange
our tariff that our factories can furh--,h us what
we need IN war or peace ana also G1Te T UuI
know that the larger per cent of your farm pro-
ducts are consumed here aud smaller per
cent. goes abroad Every manufactur-
ing town established in Iowa helps
vast circle of surrounding country.
The same principle makes the farms arms
England valuable, because their products
find a ready market at the neighboring manufac-
turing towns. Each manufacturing center built
up makes home market for the farmer Tor
many things which he can't ship to New York,
and You are emancipated from tribute to the
common carrier and are brought race TO race
with those who consume what you produce.
Upon the question OF wages, understand ME
that do not say that the laboring men OF this
country get what they should. agree that there
are many underpaid men and women In THIS
country. But 1 am perfectly clear upon this
ing-men on the face of Gods green earth Ii
this is not so, why do they come here from other
countries and stay here after they get here? You
never hear of their going back to enjoy the luc-
Tative positions these freetPaders say they
could enjoy in the lands which they have LETT.
AS long as this tremendous tide con-
tinues to set this way L want no bet
ter evidence that wages are better
here than in the lands they have
come FROM But you may ask how the enact
ment of o tariff for revenue only will make lower
wages IL the first place, its advocates say that
1t will make lower prices FOR goods what nap
pens when prices go downa Trades unions al
ways agree to reduction n wages when the
prices of articles manufactured fail. BY bring
ing down the prices OF articles the manufac-
Of those articles must close up or clip the
wages of their employees. The condition of the
laboring man is hard enough now. and will
that in levying cur du ties we shall have no re-
gard to the effect upon the wages OF the laborlng
man. friend of mine told me that just before
Lowell prints were introduced into Indiana cal
leo from England cost 37l2 cents per yard and
chickens sold for 371o cents per dozen. aud it
took eight dozen chickens TO buy calico dress.
Those were the good old times when
we did not manufacture. But, the
free traders say, we would get things
pose mans wages were cut down % per cent.
Oh! they say he would save 81 on his coat.
Well, suppose he was earning >! day, take on on
him save 81 on coat. But after they had
broken American manufactures and turned
this great market to foreign countries, how do
you know that prices wonld stay down2 They
would not IL is only competition that could
keep them down.
1875 to 1881, while they held complete control
of the machinery OF the House, in which alone
tariff legislation could originate, treat this
question: They elected Randall Speaker. and
lie formed his committees so that no tariff legis-
lation could originate. In the Senate they had
control from 1879 to 1881. What did they dO2
They put quinine on the free list, in accordance
with a pressing Democratic need through
out the country, ana they pro- pro-
commission, ana their efforts at reform stopped
there. When the Republicans got control of
Congress the Democrats began to cry for tariff
reformation. Then it was that voorhees,, one OF
their number, sarcastically asked what had him
dered them from doing this when they had con-
troY AT the first session after the Republicans
had regained control, we not only proposed, but
passed bill creating a tariff commission. At
the last session, when we came TO deal with the
matter, every Democrat, with a few exceptions,
voted for higher protection on every article pro-
duoed in his own State, and lower duties upon
every article produced in other States and on
the one article, rice, the protection amounted to
III per cent.
The speaker then recited at some length the
statements of several Democratic senators upon
the subject and concluded that, to a Democratic
statesman, Hancock was right when he said the
tariff was local issue. The Democrats believe
in u higher protection for articles produced in
their own States and lower duty upon articles
produced in other States. The Republicans, on
the other hand. believe IN an equal and eQulta,
BILE duty for the protection of American indus
tries in all States.
think that my friend Hendricks has been
guilty of legerdemain in his speeches in Iowa.
At Council Bluffs he read the platforms of Iowa,
Ohio and the Indiana platform OF last year. and
said that the Democrats of Virginia were in
accord with these three States. The OHIO plat
form demanded a tariff which should have,
among other things, regard for the wages of the
laboring men aud the protection of industry.
The Indiana platform of last year was the same,
but the Iowa Democratic platform says you
shall not have regard for any of these things,
and yet Hendricks read these three platforms
and said they agreed. l think that Hendricks
could agree with all of them, but he is the only
maniin America that could. Let tell you
what the Indiana Democrats think. Voorhees,
said in letter. dated Oct. 20, 1881, that the
national platform, which was the same as the
Iowa Democratic platform, was violent
departure upon the subject of the
tariff, and had no precedent in any Democratic
platform. That the declaration of tariff for rev.
enue only was never before made in any ma
lesQue on common sense. voorhees, says the
Democrats lost Indiana i'll $50 during the last
three weeks or the campaign, through the alb
surd position of their platform upon the tariff
question. Yes, the laboring men of Indiana
knew that q tariff for revenue only meant lower
wages, and they voted the Republican ticket.
1t is, perhaps not my province To interfere In
local issues here in Iowa, but feel that 1t is my
province and IL is becoming for me to urge upon
you all the great importance the election of q
United States Senator from Iowa and the cleo.
ton of your State ticket this fall will have in
reference TO the next presidential contest.
would have you always heed the apostolic aG-
mOnitOn, "Be We steadfast." In the coming con-
test, beg that no Republican will desert to the
tattered and diShonored Nag which has led only
TO defeat and disgrace.
At tue close of and during his remarks, the
Senator was greeted with hearty applause.
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