The Portland daily press., 1886-01-01
SENATOR FRYE.
Where a Market Gan Be Found for
Surplus Products.
fspoech at the Boston Merchants Banquet.l

When was boy my grandfather on my moth
ers side, good quaker elder, took me to Boston
so that might not die a fool [Laughter.l He
gave me So to spend in Boston. knowingno boys
in Boston, carefully saved my money TO spend
with the boys on my return home The next day
my grandfather came in and said, civilian, did
thee spend thy So in B0st0n?" NO sir; / saved
it ALL "Well, then, William, thee may return
me the SIS. Laughter | made up my mind
then and there that would never be a fnancier
or capitalist and yet cannot help having one
conviction about this silver question. l know
under the constitution of this great country Of
ours, it can take any amount of silver it pleases
and stamp it as dollar, and compel the people OF
this republic to take it for dollar, but, say
sir when great republic like this takes rs cents
not dollar. [Applausel If it is not coined
lie then it is almighty poor fnanciering, because
it would be just exactly easy to take 20 cents
and stamp it as dollar-but / was instructed
WHAT to talk about tonight 1t is the tariff. Oh,
whgt a magnificent toast for an after-dinner
speech! What boundless subject for mirth.
What magnificent field for new thought, for en-
tertainment, for instruction-the tariff Well the
distinguished collector Of the port OF Boston al
luded to the fact that scientists and scholars and
presidents of colleges, and even lntlmated tnat
some others i'll lower walks OF life might nold TO
the doctrine of free trade, so may not waste my
time l know that they hold TO the doctrine that
under the constitution you can find no authority to
recognize the principle OF protection TO naIn III
dustIy by legislation. know, too, that Washing
ton, and Hamilton and Jefferson, and Madison,
and Buchanan, and Clay, and Webster held TO an
entirely different doctrine, but do not cite those
great men in order to refute these men of modern
times, hut only to indicate how fallacious the IA
theirs were fpfheir construction OF the conStltu-
| ton. Laughter When Rufus Choate, for whom
all of us have a respect today, and whose opin-
| Ions must have influence III MASSACHUSETTS, made
| AN EXHAUSTIVE AND TRANSFERABLE SPEECH
not only in favor OF the right to egislate in favor
of protection but of your duty to do so, he said,
| 81 would never give up. No, sir, the power which
| this whole country, with one voice. demanded to
have inserted in the constitution, and which they
| hailed as another declaration of independence;
| the power by which are able to protect all our
children OF labor, on whatsoever fields they wipe
| the sweat from their broWs, by which, as wash
| ington foretod we may hope to bind these States
together, TO run the race of freedom, power. en-
ioyment and glory with the nations, and to afford
| the example of people, now counted by Millions
| every one of whom has work to do and gets pay
| for his work-this power must not be surrendered,
must not sleep, till the Union flag shall be hauled
| down from the last masthead. That Sight hope
| neither we nor our children to the thousandth
| thousandth generation are doomed to see.' So
| says Rufus Choate. Your collector also said that
| this people have been overwhelmed since the
| war by taxation, meaning tariff say that the
benefcence Of protective tariff is illustrated by
every hour of the history of the republic For the
| last quarter of century the people have been
| burdened by the legislation which created the
| tariff Why sir, we took 100000 of our people
out of the producing classes III that quarter of
century and them consumers and destroyers and
| the waste must be counted by millions of dollars,
| and the loss of life by hundreds of thousands of
men, and yet every year of that quarter OF CEN
| than England, France, Germany, Austria and
| Italy combined increased in population in the
| same length of time. Applause We grew in
wealth from 81 900 900, 900 to S43 900 600 900,
doubling the production in this republic in quar-
| ter OF century Burdens on the people-would
that the people for the next quarter of century
might bear burdens like those / am aware that
| we have hard times with the tariff we have peri
DDS of depression as the tides ebb and flow tariff
or no tariff. Is it the tariff which makes the de-
| preston to-day? Take. that telegram which APP
peared in the paper to-day from England and tell
mo w ms kac 10 10 III.
mltted to be Infinitely greater than Tell me
| why the English cabinet is discussing the ques-
| ton whether or not they must not have tariff,
| too? Depression here-Where one man is out of
| employment here, there are two in free trade
England. Where there is one pauper here, there
| are three in
FREE TRADE ENGLAND.
How are you going to get rid of this depression?
| The patient is sick, and we are doctors Now, the
| first doctor who appears, without the slightest
knowledge of his patient or the disease says free
| trade. know the merchants of Boston do not say
| free trade. They know better, but there are
learned theorists who say free trade. All, brother,
free trade is an uncertainty. 1t is no use to talk
about the free trade. So we mustraiSe $500, 000,-
900 every year to pay our expenses It is all folly
resource except direct taxation, and every man
here knows that the party that resorted to direct
taxation would go out of power in less than four
years from the time they enacted it into law but
more practical men say free raw MATERIAL" and
today the whole talk in Congress is free raw
say what raw material is? Is it wool? Ask the
farmer who houses feeds, washes and shears the
sheep if he thinks that wool is raw material.
Is WOODEN yarn a raw material? Where are you
| going to stop? The man who makes cutlery will
say that bar iron is raw material; the bar iron
man will say that pig iron is raw material; the
pig iron man will say that iron in the mines is a
raw material, and the man in the mines will say
you're a fool Again, England has absolutely free
raw material. Is she any better on for it? And
not only that, but she has wages not much over
one-half your wages. France has free raw mate
rial, and she has wages still less than English
wages. What is more, suppose that the great
est suffering manufacture today of this republic is
that Of common n cotton goods The common cot
free raw material in every yard of these goods.
[Applausel But my friends there are some doc
tors who urge reduction. [Laughter.l That,
though, is of course mistake, but | submit the
truth lies not here; applause If it is not, how
says revise. The Democrats have always cried
out 'revise" and they cry out now .revise'' but
every merchant in New England knows better
than to do this. Your own Robert Schenck was
chairman of committee of revision when a bill
was sent into it. That bill went into the House,
has right to speak on every clause for five min
uteS. On every amendment he has a right to
speak and nibble at bill, SO that when that bill
had been returned its owner could not recognize
his own baby. Poor Robert Schenck stood there
and saw his bill go to pieces, and said: "Il not
stand to see my bill nibbed to death by grasshop
pers." Mr.. Dawes is familiar with tariff revision
committee and had the honor to be one of the
senators on that committee. and did all l could
to assist Mr.. Dawes bill but it was cut to death
by the senators. Mr.. Dawer came to me and said.
For heaven and earth, look at my tariff BILL"
daughter. + He was unable to recognize his own
bill, and proposed that his first bill should be
adopted instead of that as amended, and that was
piause.j Now, if we.could get 10 men from this
assembly to consider atariH bill we should be able
6Sop t1a a s s sSyG
continued applause.l But says the doctor, you
are troubled with surplus of industries and
surplus OF goods and no market. Now. don't
know but what we have surplus, but am dis
posed to doubt that. And why? l will take cot
palniiest days, when ali the cotton manufacturing
in this country doomed, you never exported $13,-
100000 worth in any one year. Your average for
worth. A surplus? Why, England last year export
ed ,0000o0,000 yards of common piece goods
am not going to argue that matter. But, suppose
you have surplus, what are you going to do?
Why you are going to seek a market, are you not?
Where? Where are you going to sell your goods?
To England? She had 700 900, 900 yards more
Of cotton cloth than she wanted at home, and
like proportion OF every other product of the ioom
You can't go there. Where are you going? to
France, to sell your surplus?
TARIFF HITS YOU IN THE FACE
the moment you go to France. VIII you go to
Germany? Another tariff hits you in the face;
and both the countries have a surplus. VIII you
go to Australia? tariff. Canada? A tariff To
Russia? tariff To Spain? A tariff You can
not go to any of these countries. You must go, if
anywhere, to some non-manufacturing country.
Now, where will you find it? Now, let me show
you where you will find it, and enough of it, Mex
leo exports and imports $57, 100000. British
Honduras imports 81, 333, 900. Guatemala imports
$8,0oo00o annually; Honduras $3,oo0,0o0; San
salvador, 81 5oo,000; Nicaragua, $3,000,00O;
Costa RIGA, $11 SOC, 900; the Antilles S3osooo,
600; Colombia, $3S0O0,000; Venezuela, $780,
100000: Guineas $3O0o0,ooo; Brazil, $685.
100000; Paraguay, $8,ooo,oOo; Uruguay, $4O,-
100000; the Argentine Confederation, 100000
Chilli, S74, 100000. Here are 100000 of peo-
pie with exports and imports amounting to one
and one third billions, and the United States of
America lying right side by side them; sympa-
thizing with US, many of them in forms Of govern
ment and all Of them in contiguity with the United
mess. Great Britain did the bulk of that business
with these countries. These countries are lying
right open TO US ready for a market and why does
France, Great Britain and Germany control it and
not we? Why? Because they determined to con-
troll it. They knew the truth of that well settled
doctrine that trade would surely follow every
where wherever the flag Of the republic or the