The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-01

NhNU w. wa NptAHNNS "1ta hSAAN ~
manufacturing the same articles, and at the
same time create competition at home, which re
duces the price of articles. The idea of the
Democrats, that you must buy of England be-
cause you can buy cheaper is a fallacy. 1t is
not true. If we had free trade it would wipe out
our manufactures, and then we would he com
PEELED to buy from England. England
would then put the price up to suit
herself, and you would have to pay it.
Our country to day is one of the great manufact-
uring countries of the world. Not only that,
but it is the best market in the world. We
manufactured last year, five tin es the amount
of products that England sold to the balance of
the civilized world, outside of her own territory,
SO that to day, by developing our industries by a
tariff, not for revenue alone, but a tariff for pro
lection to American industry and labor, we have
developed a genius and intelligence, in refer
ence to these things. which enables
us to compete with the world,
in a few years if this tariff system is allowed to
stand. I now desire to call your attention to
one or two other things. Prior to 1860 you never
manufactured a steel spring in tho United
States. You could not manufacture the trim
ming of a carriage, and there never was a com
piete carriage with steel springs
protective tariff was established. But now,
the State of Ohio manufactures more
complete carriages and sells them in tho United
States than England and France combined man
~ufaeture in the same length of time. That in
oustry has grown up under n protective tariff.
How is it here in Indiana2 In 1888 you had i'll
Indiana II, 442 manufacturing establishments,
and the capital. invested was nearly 1913, 900, 600
a little more than $50, 500, 000-and the census
shows that you manufactured $3.50. 600, 900 worth
of manufactured products ard sold them. Let US
see what the result is. $3.50, 900, 900 came into In
diana for WHAT For manufactured products,
two years ago, and the money was left in your
State. Suppose these products had been manu-
featured in England and you needed $3.50, 900. 900
worth of such articles in your own State, what
would have become of your money! 1t would
have gone into the pockets of the people of Great
Britain anu left this country. But, instead of
that you sold $1G0, GOO. 900 worth of manufactured
articles and the money went into the pockets of
your own people for the further development of
the resources of this grand and rich State. Let
as go a little further than that. How many la
borers do you suppose are employed in manu-
features in this State2 Seventy-eight thousand
people are engaged in manufacturing here in
Indiana; 5000 nor -producers Of agricultural
products who have to be fed and clothed. The
farmer sells his products to these Iaborers,
and the products of the manufaet-
urers are sold to- the farmer and merchants,
so that the manufacturers in your State do not
only develop wealth and bring money into your
State, but they bring you d market at your home
for the food produced on the farms, and give
the farmer a better price than be ever had under
Democratic rule. IA voice: That is So" and
cheers To illustrate further, let NE take the
county in which this beautiful city is located
Marion county. Your city has had a marvellous
g~rowth-grown IN its wealth, grown in
its population, grown in its commerce,
grown in its influence, grown in every
respect. What is tho cause Of It'll Why, exam
inc your manufacturing establishments. What
do they produce7 The capital invested is 81,
779.000, and the value Of Your manufactured
products in this county amount to 81, 03l.0 900
per annum, which will increase hereafter
brought here and laid down for the products
that come from labor made out of raw material.
First, raw material iron, or whatever 1t
may be-lahor brings iron from the
bowels Of the earth, and you manufacture
it here. Manufactures develop your coal fields,
and in q thousand ways bring money to your
homes, and give a market to your farmers for
their products. How many people do you sup
pose you have employed in this county in manu-
factures2 You have g.743. Now, if you turn
those 5000 people loose with nothing to DO, what
condition would your county be inf My fellow
countrymen, in order for the country to be great
produce. l will call your attention to the man
~ufaeture Of watches. In 1914 we commenced the
manufacture of watches in this country. Under
the tariff of 1916 that industry went down as
did every other industry, but under the protect
tive tariff of 1861 what IS the RESULT To-day
you havefnine watch factories running on full
time in the United States. You have more than
three thousand people employed IN the manu-
facture of watches in the United States. This
watch l now hold in my hand was bought a few
days ago in Elgin. IL. The same watch, pre-
cisely the same pattern, cost in 1850 500, manu-
featured in an English factory. 1t costs to-day
SlUlE the CulteQ 0VAIeS ldpptduSeI l, anu yedN are
told we must buy from England because she can
manufacture cheaper. When we did not manu-
facture that kind of a watch they sold to MS for
just what they chose to charge. How much do
you suppose is the actual cost of the raw ma
teriaI in that watch2 Why 50 will buy every
thing in it. 1t will buy the silver and machinery.
I mean the raw material in its crude shape. l
put the cost at So, but the truth
is that the cost is less than that 1t sells for
ten dollars. The balance is labor. But to-day
we are told that England, kind old England,
would sell us this watch cheaper than we can
make it Why did she not do i'll She had a
chance. She sold it for $50 and made $5 ON every
watch-$2 above the raw material and the labor
that she employed. Size hardly paid anything
for the labor. But say the profit on that watch
to-day is not over a dollar, perhaps not that
much, the balance of it Is for labor and goes into
for that purpose. We find, therefore, that by
encouraging manufacturing in this country we
do not only bay the article cheaper than Eng
gland sold to US, but also employ labor, and pay
that labor decent wages. To-day we pay the
laeorer in this country for making rails, manu-
featuring wagons, carriages, and everything
manufactured, twice the amount they pay
laborers in England, or paid him
when they got these enormous profits.
They, to-day, in England. have pauperiAm
among their people until one in every fifteen in
the rural districts dies a pauper, and in London,
the richest city in the world, thsir own statistics
show that one seventh of the whole population
are paupers. We do not propose to have that in
this country. The Republican party, when Demo
Gratis say buy where you can buy cheapest, says
this: Before the American people shall be pau
pers. before the laboring man shall be reduced
to want and perjury, and before he shah be
driven like herds into the poor-horses, if it was
even trle that we paid more for our goods,
l would rather do it and dignity and
elevate labor, and give every man good food,
good clothing. good housing, good education for
his chilc~en. than to see them pauperized as in
England. Applause.
Now then, my fellow-citizens they say that
We cannot manufacture as cheaply as they can
in England. That is not true. We can manu-
facture just rs cheaply as they can there. pro
vided we will do one h~eartless. one inhuman act
What is that Make paupers out Of our labor
ers, without houses or homes; without a chance
to educate their children. That is the differ
enee, ana that Ia all Our iron under the soil
- - I.nt n aneilHan iE-nna kndrn