The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-01
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W delIDg lO0s 81. me morning
hour vas dispensed with and the
House went into comm ties Of the
whole, Cox, Of New York, IN The
chair, On the tariff bilI.
DingIey cOntrovested the prGpo
sitlons laid down by Cox.
Hurd and others that the decline 4
American commerce was the result
OF the protective tsriff.
Hewitt (NeW York; said thst
af er listening to the eloquent
speech delivered yesterday by he
gentleman from Ohio, he bai
doubted if it was worth while for
him to take up the thread of that
great argument; but he had con-
cluded to Try to gather some stray
sheaVes of wheat from the great
field over which the gentleman had
passed his deVouring sickle. He
had been charged with iacoDsis-
tency on the tariff question; he had
no apologies to make for having
progressed out of darkness in1O
the open sunshine Of truth !;
but he would have had appel
|ogies to make, having reached
conclusions which contradicted
those he held years ago, if he should
fall here and everywhere to an
InouDce them with that frankne S
which belonged to an homes. man
and q faithful representative.
Hewitt: then took up the sufJsot
Of protection in connection z tn the
laboring classes, ard said there was
stagnstion every where in protected
Industries me testimony taken
by the Senate commit ee N labor,
was absolutely unanimous that frs,
the Wsges OF working men, III this
county, were not sufficient 70 give
them even decent supp59t To- their
famhie', AID second, there b & been
a steady degradation n the condition
OF the labor z classes during he
last tWapty yesr5. Owners of the
great coal mines of Pennsylvania,
had recently met n Philadelphia
and solemnly came to the conclu-
sion that they Nigh. keep up the
price of coal only by sUspending
work for nine days in 8 month,
keep up the price OF coal to the
workman, to the farmer, ia every
body who earned his living by the
sweat Of his brow, and then tell him
be was pT0tec:ed by the tariff
Could there be greater mockery to
Justice? Take the iron works. Lssi
year tTo-thirds Of the furnaces of
the country were in b. st; this
year nearly two thirds were closed
and wages Ofircn workers had been
reduced. lie W9s among the
unfortunate mEnufac sUrers who had
been forced to reduce his W0rkrneu.
He wss compelled to offer them *
choice between no work, or work q.
less wages than they ought to gat.
Kelly CPs): IEauk you no t rrO
foundIy most heartily, for endcrs-
ing my doctrine that production hes
so far !run consumption the
world over, thai the proportion il
which the joint production Of labor
and capitalshould be distributed, be
readiustei. "Ihe Lord de'ive ed
him into my hands" replied Hewitt
"-5e gentleman says protection has
teer U0ehla & prevent over-pro3Uc
zion. T-a5 IS the point CT hj5 re
mark. [ go further and say pro tccs
tiol creRt es Oyer-prO6Uc.I9n: that
this IS tina logical end ana c5Ec;u-
sion CT pr Ueo' ion. Y ave &
limited mzzke-, al'ed IL ~ b
tariff; what can y5g DO Win your
surplus? Nothin 5u Fie i, up IS
.I0ng IS money lasts, and then stop,
AM then these protected Working
men are left to sla,ve" He then
went en- to consider tie manner Ia
Which the condition Of laboIeTs
could be improved. Trade uai0ns,
he contsndsd, were the shield and
armor and protection Of working
men, and they were ali the prOtec-
ton he needed, but in this country
trade unions vera paFalyZed by
protection. They we're at war with
each other; under ;he protective
tariff trade unions must Oe feeble,
and must finally die. In
an over stocked market with doors
open to foreign Immigration, trade
unions wtre absolutely pOweTlses'