The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-07

4IA1A1N IA 4 NyA11AC IN " LILY 1A4lS
Outraged the people Of the Southern States in
their efforts to establish a tradeocracy in
this country.
In 1872 the Democratic party, in the lower
house of Congress- reduced the tariff of this
4 country 10 per cent on all manufactured goods
1 in the schedule. Scarcely did the telegraph
click the news to England when that country
/ placed the same amount on the price of manu-
featured goods coming to this country. The re-
/ duction of that tariff had material effect in
4 bringing about the panic of 1873 The Repub-
lican party getting controlin 1875 put back the
TO per cent. the Democrats had taken off
FoRGETFULNEss OF woRKINGMEN
i Workingmen of the present day forget, in
many instances, what this protective tariff has
done for them. They feel aggrieyed, and justly
SO. at being compelled to compete with the Chi
nese labor of this country; they feel aggrieved,
and justly too, at being compelled to compete
with convict labor Let me make comparison
OF even the present imports of dead or manu-
featured labor, which, even under our present
tariff, is yearly depriving them of labor which
| justly belongs to them. In 1880 we I'M
ported $500, 900, 600 worth of nanufac-
| tured goods, which manufactured goods accord
ing to statlsticians, have 80 per cent of labor IN
4 them. Now, say that all these manufactured
/ goods have 70 per cent. of labor in them, in or
4 der to be on the right side, the workingman
4 viii see that even under our tariff, which the
Democrats claim is too high, we imported in
that year $425, 600 worth of labor, which
would give million Of workmen the hand
| some sum of 1925 each more than there was
employed in this country in 1880, or would
| have added to the wages of every workman
4 IN the United States at that time the sum of
$ll0. Here is the product of million men i'm
ported into this country in one year-dead
labor, which consumes not cents worth of
1 xu1,,o oh 80 fbnaa aud ana.
| third times more than the entire number of
Chinese in our country and two hundred and
/ fifty times more than the entire convict labor
IN America-for there are only AL 600 convicts
1 IN the United States employed in manual labor,
I and BOO, 900 Chinese.
/ HOW LABOR MAKES VALUE.
Some workingmen complain that it is the en-
ployer and not the toiler that is protected. Let
us see Iron in the mines of Lake Superior is
worth sixty five cents a ton. When carted to
the rolling mills and converted into the steel
rails $40 ton. Not a particle of foreign ma
terial is in this ton of steel rails but the original
! sixty five cents worth of ore The balance is
labor, that digs it in the mines, labor that
carries it to the surface, that carts it to the yes
sci; it is labor that builds the vessel rigs the
vessel, mans the vessel, that carries it to its
port; where the ore is unloaded by labor and
carried to the mills that are built by labor
which includes the work of the architect,
4 the brieklayer, the carpenter, the blacksmith
and so forth. There the ore is handled and
melted by labor all of which tends to create the
value of the ton of rails with the interest in the
money of the employers. AS with iron rails so it
| is with all the products Of the Industries. A
j pound of leather on the cows back is worth
about three cents, Manufactured into pair of
boots it is worth as much money as you put
| labor into it pound of wool on the Sleeps
| back is worth about ten cents, but work it into
6roadcloth and it is worth almost as many
/ dollars, for you have put labor into it.
Now am authorized to say that some Of the
/ largest manufacturers in the Northwest, if the
| American workmen will work for the same
wages as the European workman, will ask for
| no protective tariff and take their chances in
competition with European industries.
THE TWO PARTIES AND THE ISSUE.
These are some of the issues that the voters Of
this country will have to decide this fall In
reaching conclusion man should be governed
by the interest of his family and the Nation, and
arrive at conclusion from calm and intelli-
] gent judgment. Much better be an American
citizen than be member of a political party,
and more creditable to be a patriot than parti-
san. You have the history of the two
parties before you, and have
/ party when in power and my reason for its ae-
tions. The Democrats placed in nomination
to-day man totally unknown as a statesman,
and untried as diplomat placing him upon a
/ that any man can sit on top Of the fence and eat
grass on both sides of it. ortwenty four years
this Democratic party has been like a Chinese
god, squatting on the highway, blocking up the
progress of American civilization. 1t denounced
Republican acts and promises until Repub-
lican promises became principles that the.
world had to recognize as necessary for civilizar
ton. 1t opposed the abolition of slavery; it OBJ
/ posed the enfranchisment of the colored man; it
denounced the issue of American money, and to-
Eday reasserts its fealty to the money Of the Shy
/ locks, while it most vehemently protests against
the American principle of protection that has
given thirty billions of wealth to this Nation in
| twenty-fo years. On the other hand, Won
have the Republican party that took charge of
the government when its treasury was impover-
4 ished and depleted when the Nations
industries were ruined by Democratic free.
! trade, and when, in the interest Of
! that same free trade eleven Democratic States
made war on the Union. This party created a
/ finance, created an army. created industries,
preserved the Union, freed the slave, paid its
debts, reduced the interest on the public debt
from 10 to II per cent. under Democratic rule to
3 per cent under Republican rule.
That party the Republican party, has nom
statesman lift him up to the mountain
tops of diplomacy; who sits enthroned
| like Jove, the god of lightning
and whose magnetism is attracting friends
and foes. 1t has given us platform from
which waves the American flag, and on its
proud folds is inscribed Protection to the
American workman, protection to the American
4 farmer, protection to the American
capitalist protection to the American citizen,
whether IN the black belt of Alabama OF in the
4 down trodden plains Of ireland or Germany .
i [Great applause.
Associated with James G. Blaine is man who
is abused by the Democracy because no loved
his country above his party with eagle
i eye and swarthv countenance, like an angel OF
4 destruction, swept Democratic treason from
i Donaldson to Vicksburg, and from Vicksburg to
4 Atlanta. He is tho Cincinnatus of American
4 craftsmanship. the peer of any American states
man the idol near the heart of the Union solderY