The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-04-03
Mr.. FRYE ON TIE TARIFF.
The senate From Maine Quote Facts and
iSuTes Against Free Trade.


which made Tuesday night most uuc IN
fort Ible one to stir out Of doors, nearly
enough PEOPLE to ill the large large au
ditoriUm of tie BrGoklyn Academy of
Music went there to hear Senator Frye
make a speech on The Tariff. The
meeting was held under the auspices of
the Brooklyn Republican League. The
following is a summary OF his address:
There are some people who place the
Constitution athwart the path of all pro-
greSs for this Republic. | have seen a
rebel who said when he left the MON
that the Constitution sustained him.
Again ami again has it been opposed to
the best interests of the Republic. Some
say it is nppost d to the Tariff. | will not
dis ass that. f rough for me that some
of the wisest pltriots the country has
ever had have been firm supporters both
of the Tariff and the Constitution. Many
college theorists sustain Free Trade
GOO and cultivated men many of them
are, bat they are color blind as to 'cts.
These theorists have Just one trouble
the"rie" to death with stubborn facts
three times day and they will retail
! them. Many of our imp ,rters are free
traders. Is would seem that the hand
ling of foreign goods causes them to dis
seminate foreign ideas.
But the great foe to protection is the
| Democratic party. because the bead and
body and shoulders of the Democratic
| party Ton fifty years has been in the
South slavery is dead. bit the poison
! of slavery still works. 5, long as the
/ convictions it put its platform a Free
| Trade p'duk. But when it beg IN to grow
| ii mid it asked for IA tariff for revenue
only: i'll the next platform it wanted a
| IA tariff alone for revenue, and in the next
a tariff for revenue exclusively. The
| Democratic party has proved itself the
Free Trade party by its course in Con-
/ gresS. Whenever it has been in power 1t
/ has disturbed business all over the coui =
/ try by tnkeling the t,ritf. Morrison is
at the head of the Ways and Means Com
mittee in the ilou5t and wants to revise
| the tariff again. Bat he won't. We
| have a Republic III Senate, and four com
mittees from the Knights of Labor have
served solemn warning upon the Demo
| 1 -.
want free ship bill. Again the Knights
| of Labor wsrned them applause in
| case of a WAL what should we do for
ships if our shipvards had been destroyed
| by admitting f rslish ships free. aud
/ we had to depend on her for ships?
/ Protection does not mean protection
for capital. Capital can very we'll take
care of itself. 1t can hide i'll the savings
! banks, or even the stocking if need be.
| But capital is tmid. 1t must be encour-
| aged to leave the bank AID the stocking
and go into the bowels OF the earth, the
| factory ami the machine shop, to mn
| and women, and pay them good wages
| that they may properly educate their
/ children. Bone aud snew aud muscle
need protection. II cant hide: it can
starve. II can t shift at will from place tn
| plhNt - iO'hl bhhibhi. 'ih
| labor, that's my doctrine. APPLAUSE !
! Contrast the cost OF manufacture in Eng
land and America. What makes the
| difference? Bone aud muscle are cheap in
! England. Bone aud muscle are deal
here; b IL e they are pr ctel. Blu;
what wouId become OF our b lie and
muscle if the goods that are made ST
| much cheaper IN England we've allowed
/ ~ no 4. h..r. wit H. ant II
have to bc sl>tai ned on bread and p,ta-
toes instead OF meat. and the children
would have t. work III the mills Instead
Of going TO school. But when the Eng
lishman steps into our Custom House he
/ educate our children.
But protection is met y it'll the ohinc-
ton that with the added cost ct living
| here our wOrkmen with their higher
waves are no better off than the Eng
iIShmau with his lower wages The
!acts have been ascertained Carroll ID.
| Wright has made an inveS' Igation and
r,pnrtet. The New York Tribnne, with
that energy which charActe rs it 'p
plau~, J., sent Il 'bert Pc ter. f'rmel
! Tariff , commissioner 10 Investigate, aud
told him to spare heather pains nor tx.
/ psuSS- hC I'f'tft pau 10 -1t ms ~ pa
The Uuited States Consul have imvesti.
gated and reported.
Senator Frye then read lot "f figures
CLEANED hom these repnr ss"Aln. the
great disparity between WAGES III Eng
land and America in variois bra c-,s OF
tIade, interminglcd with facts .xhi it.
ing the wretched condition of 4 lar ,e
proportion of the working people tn It
Among other things lac said that + ee
Trade England % coo 0CO, had ! 900 600
paupers. while the United States, With
IS, goo 600, has only 81 000. panpers. lie
cited other facts and figures, sh wing
the 5 il greater d sparity that exis ed te
tween wages in the continent of Europe
and America and the conditions OF the
", rking classes. lie showed al o that
the II, c, ssitieS of lite are cheaper here
than in Eur pc. Ie quoteh figures
showing that manufactured materials
had gown cheaper under protective
tanis il stead of dearer, thus proving that
the duty was not added to the cost. And
wages were still kept up. Wolsted goods
! Were } ~: CO It che ipsr TIM formerly.
! He read the Tariff and Internal Revenue
returns showing that the larger portion
Of the tuAcS were aid on Injuries. and
Dot NJ c"s,,i' eS, except the so 600, 600 for
Sug.r I is tax LIE said, was susf ..ined
by free trade Democr IS, British free
trade, he said, had starved Ireland.