Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-05-31
THIRD EDITION.
XViII,am Dean Makes q speech.


At The textile workers meeting at
Industrial Hall, Philadelphia held last,
SATURDAY. evening, Mr. William Dean,
of Newark, Del, made the following
speech;
NV Fellow. Textile Workers: l went
into wooden mill at the age of years,
and have never had the harness OH
since, and expect to die with it on. II
am not going to make you speech, but
will give you my experience. As a
wooden manufacturer for fifty.oneI
years, there never was time when
business was 80 bad as 1t has been the
past three years. If this thing called
protection for you is q psnacea for 81
your ills, why doesn't it cure them? IL
fails to have the effect it has been said
it would have. The men engaged in
wooden manufacture have said: Pro-
tect the American workingman; but
they take good care to get good share
into their own pockets.
But the skies are Frightening. We
are going to have better times. There
is one thing necessary to be done for
America to make herself the greatest
manufacturing country in the world.
What Is it? Just learn to think. If
You learn to think you learn to act in
diligently. You ought to be the lead :
ers, and If your representatives don't
do as you want, turn them out.
want to say to you that L am nc
longer q woollen manufacturer. They
have protected me so that L am nj
longer q wooden manufacturer, but
simply a shoddy manufacturer. Why?
Because there is no duty on your old
clothes when you have thrown them off
/ can buy them rs cheaply as any old
clothes in the world, and make them uI
into good clothes for you.
1 want free wool. As an American |
am the equal 10 any Johnny Bull or
Frenchman. | have been among them
and see what they can do. | can manu-
facture yarn and other goods andpay the
present price of labor and do it cheaper
than they can. Now, l want you 10
assist me in getting free wool. Mr..
Hewitt told yeu that there were 800,
600 900 paid in duties on wooden goods.
Why not pay that to you people here
and keep you all employed. We do not
raise all the various kinds OF wool In
this country, nor can you make cloth
equal to those made abroad out of any
of the wool raised here. Why not lei
us have these foreign woods, not only t.
clothe the American people but u
make wooden goods for the people of the
world? Why was 1t that the cotton
manufacturers exported last year q
per cent. more goods than they ever did
before2
They go to England to be sold there
in competition with the cheapest cotton
goods male In that country. Then they
are sent to India and other countries
abroad where we ought TO send then
direct. Why don't VT? Because we
have protected American ships unit
they no longer exist. This is what pro
lection is doing for America. We have
had q big dose of it, and have been tax
ing it for many years. There has no
twenty FIVE years that dared open theil
mouths against the policy of the Pro
tectiouists. II they had they would
have been boy cetted. Laughter
RENE m Der reading in Philadelphia
paper few years ago OF Philadelphia
manufacturer addressing a meeting Of
textile workers just like this, excep
that they had the wool over their eye
1t was stated that three thousand EN-
ployes marched there to the music [
the band, and that every one was 8 Re.
publican and o Professionals l saiI
then that If that we're 30 the men wer
nothing more nor less than slaves al tn
mercy OF he man who en- p Dyed then
That man has been bowling protection
for years, and at the same time he i
doing ali he can to get wool in here a
cheap as he can in order thai he Cal
make cheap carpets.
There's another lnan who wanted 10
per cent, more put on worstec good:
and yet, If he can get worsted good
into this country in partly manufac
tured state-in the grease, as they teri
it--aId can pull the wool over the eye
of the customs officers and make tLei
believe it 10 burlap, they have it free
duty imposed on the mauufac ured a
ticle, aud then open their mills an
finish the work which had been startt
abroad by tie pauper labor they Ia
about. They are the kind of men vi
are bowling for protection for the wor
ingman.
1t does my heart good to look
these good, honest faces before me
night-workmenw who have thrown
the yoke and are learning 10 think.
you keep on thinking you will not
afraid to vote against the kind Of IN
whom Mr.. Hewitt has been talki
about to night. There is one thing
dhh bhAb 10 bhehu hllO l. an
cate free wool 1 advocate bringi
down the duty on wooden goods to
point where we can give it to I
farmers, who constitute three fouri
of our consuming population. ] do
believe any one in ten of you who {
here to night is dressed Ia anythi
but shoddy. Nine -tenths of the Anne
can people cannot afford to buy al
thing better.
MIR. Dean paused in his address
say that he would be glad to ansV
any questions which the audience mil
desire to put to him. In respunst
the invitation gentleman on the at
asked why it was that "all these L
in the city interested in the import tat
OF worsted goods in the grease pay
wages than any other ola.s of empl
ers?"
BECAUSE" Mr.. Dean replied, ga
they have been cheating the Cove
ment for while the habit grow
them, and they find it equally pr,
able to cheat the workingman. We
naturally avaricious, and they ar,
FISH that get N our lie, whether
the Government, the wOrkingma
anything else"
In closing Mr.. Dean presented
parison of the various branches of s
cultural interests of PennsylvRni
show that while other enterprises
enjoyed gradual increase there
been steady decline in wool grow
The sheep raiser, he claimed, had
wiped out ny protection. He adj
his hearers to press on in the good
they had inaugurated under such p
ising!auspices, aud above all to loo
their own interests hereafter when