Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-11-18
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paign some noteworthy speeches ON tariff
reform IN various parts of the country we're
neyl cied in New York, Tho musr Iiuger-
fiil of thess, and certaibly most r,Iua,h-
abla speech, was made by the Hon. William
l.. Scott, member Of Congress, at Erie, Pa,
on October 3Nth, Here is an extract, which
is as startling as It no doubt Is true:
| "Weheara great deal about the protection
| OF the wage worker, and am In favor Of
| protecting the wnge worker. But may il not
be that we are protecting the manufact urer
more than the wage worker2 cannot give
a better illustration Of this than by referring
to anineidentin connection with Mr. Jarrett.
That gentleman said he was Welshman,
and that he had come over to this country
and immediately became an American citi-
zen as soon as the laws OF the country
| would permit. About the same time that Mr..
| Jarrett came over there was another snbjeet
OF the Queen of Great Britain arrived In
this country and In this state. He fnnliy
located In Pittsburp, hut he never fnvo up
| his allegiance to the Queen, and ono Of hfs
| proudest boasts To-day is that hh Is not an
American citizen, but subject of the Queen
| of England, But he went Into the ihnnu-
| iacture OF iron and steel In ritthburg, and
| know positively from statements made by
reputable genti~men that, although lie did
| not own the entire works, no drew ont Of
that establishment during q period Of 800
/ ANNi9 pun hlubhhNiAB W pJsutU pt-i ilIYspT
| 81 500 Ap0 In 1ns year. He Is now hui ding
| q castle.ahroRd, aud he expects to return to
his raiiYa country aftsr he has feathered
| his rSst under the protection of this govern
| ment, aud die, suppose, % British subject" !"
need hardly say that Mr.. Scott Is enc OF
the most prominent citizens Of the state of
Pennsylvania. He is perhaps the greatest
| employer OF labor in that state, aud is a
man whose standlngin the country is of the
best. Therefore bis assertions may be
| trusted. Let us analyze this monsirous
fact OF single man having an income OF
$4,000 day for 800 days, or 81 ,6U0, 900 a
year. believe man has perfect right
| and 1t Is even to his credit to strive 20 have
| an income Of 5000 day or, for that mat
ter, of SIC, 1000. But whom such oyerwhelm-
Ing incomes as these are the creations OF
| class legislation and are at the expense of
| the people they become obnoxious and
| dangerous.
OF course, the income OF manufacturer
| Of iron and steel in Pittsburg can only be
derived from the two p's, viz, "patents and
| protection" Both are tyrants that have
/ fools for subjects. AS l don't wish to be
| elassed as Watt Tyler" beg to say that
| do not advocate the use of Inventions or
| patents gratis. But consider as danger
Gus the present patent laws, which, when
| their patents are successful, make mush-
rooms the possessors of millions of dollars
| III tno couEso VI leW years. buI sup
/ pose In the case OF Mr.. Scott's fortunate
Englishman, whose profits are 90, GOO day,
theswindling duty on iron and steel II mainly
| responsible. What Mr.. Scott wanted. to
| show was simply the difference between
| master and MAI, and how much more this
| ere'lt tirtE protection robbery favori the
| jlllltn9sit~ umnli,uctGrprs thar 1t does the
| wage '-arhHTs.
Tnnre S,In empl 'Yed III tie city AZ Pitts-
)urg IN the census year oF 1880 IN tbe iron
snd steel notwithstanding business the iol-
| nwlng hands:
| Males above 16 years old 1889
Youths and boys usder 16 years old. 1893
Females. ....................... 10
These wage earners received during that
year which was one Of great prosperity,
$S,072,110 IN wages. We may divide the
| earnings of these hands as follows:
A,6S9 males, at $3.50 per day, for
1908 boys, at so cents per day, for
obu ahys'', ..,....... lb9,450
Ton women, at 8 per day, for 800
days. ..................... 5000
lotal. ..-............,...... ."SS, ~ ,3lO
My calculation makes the total only
S42 200 more than the actual sum paid. Let
US see what the tariff does for thti protected
manufacturer and protected man. In 1880
the total amount OF capital invested in
Pittsburg In the iron and steel trade was
s25, l90, 900 Suppose this fortunate English-
mon OWLS one-tlfth Of this capital, or. say,
$4,000, 900, and he makes 81 500, ,000 profit
per annum, his Investment yields him ex-
actly 80 per cent profit. or course he may
only have had 81, 900 600 or 81, ,000, 600 MS an
original Investment. This Engllshfnan's
investment, owing to our villainous protec-
tive system, gives him $4,000 a day profit,
which Is equal TO about the aggregate daily
eRTniDgs OF 2,780 men at $3.50 u day for
each man. And $l.80 Is fully the average
wages of men working In the Pittsburg iron
and steel works, Or, II the worklngman
who cries for protection wishes to sec this
inequality put before him In another form,
let us cali 10 hours labor by master and
man the equivalent for days wages. The
protected English millionaire In Pittsburg
receives every 13 seconds the full days
wages OF workingman, and every minute
during the 10 hours his profit is nearly the
days wages of Ave workmen.
From time immamorial ahject and igno-
rant multitudes have adored tyrauts, and
the greatest grievances OF the English rule
In India have been the abolition of the
"suttee," that Is, the voluntary burning of
the Hindu widow on her husbands pyre,
and the voluntary sacrifice of human life
unangneaEh the wheels of the car of Jug
Rernlut. Millions TO this day believe
tyranny superior form Of government.
Therefore why should we wonder at q null
titnde of people in Pennsylvania upholding
system which gives the master the same
profit In ID seconds that the man has to
work SO, 600 seconds for?
As tntond to revert again to Mr.. Scott's
remarkable speech, / will only remind Mr.,
Scott now that the Englishman who by the
aid OF our swindllng tariff has an income
Of $5 GOO day, and not only spurns Ameri-
can citizenshipFbut Is building a castle In
his native land, is quite like Englishmen In
general. My friend Mr.. Burton, who was
deputy surveyor of this port when held
An office In the custom-house, most graph
ichlly depicted an Engllshman's character
One morning In 1879 met Mr.. Burton at
the door of the custom-house, and he
seemed to be In great hurry. He told me
he was going to funeral. l somewhat
irreverently remarked that going to n
funeral was pastime that hardly ever In
dulge in, simply because the respect one
shows to the dead cannot possibly be- an.
preelated by the person most concerned.
Upon which Burton replied: ''Thls is an
exception; it is an Englishman's funeral. /
always make 1t rule to go to an English
mans funeral. Don't you see2 As long as
he is alive and out of England you can do
nothing With him. a He will not become
citizen; he refuses to assimilate. Nothing
is as good as in England. lie will growl
and grumble aud even find fault with
canvas hack duck, simply because 1t is not
English. Therefore, when an Englishman
dies here make 1t a point TO see him safely
under ground and Iknow theru is one less"
Nov, my friend Burton's remarks may be
little unehatitabie, but there ia u good
deal OF truth In them. Under these circum-
stances MIR. Scott cannot wonder that LIS
Eneli4hman, who gets S5GG1 day profit
out of the American swlfdling tarir, should
refuse to become citizen ind build castle
In his own country. Nor Is Mr.. Jarrett's
boast thar he, a Welshman, became ut once
an American citizen, worthy of monu-
ment. Who ever heard OF Welshman,
once ont of his barren mountains, going
back to them again ? Proviienes, who
watches over the destiny Of this great
country, has so ordained 1t that the Irish,
Welsh and Germans should, when they
come here, at once become citizens. Oply
see how wisely and proyidentially this is
arranged. What would bacome, for In
stance, of such II city as New York; Where
could we got aldermen, mayors, congress-
men, chief officers of the departments. il,
uniiappily, the Idsh, Germans and Welsh
should refuse to become citizens2 As the
philosopher LeibniiZ has it: .'All Is for the
best in tnis hest Of worlds" ]. s. MooRE.
New YoRK, November 1eth, 1886.
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