Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-31

and otherwise cared for, and yet these people call wool after all this labor and expense
 r-r-r.r-aw material. Tremendous applsuse.)
 The Mills bill says let the manufacturers obtain free wool and then they can compete in the markets of the world.
 MT. Phelps, prominent cotton manufac- turer, of Massachusetts, says that the worlds market is great free trade show dance: The more people know and think abo0f them the less will they like the world mar ket, and the better will the home market
 am opposed therefore to free wool be- cause it would be no lasting benefit to the country.
 Take salt, the product of which is 1, ,500.- 900 pounds, and only 1,4oo, 900 of which t imported. Two-thirds of it is produced here. The present duty is eight cents g pound.
 asked General Merwin of our city, who is a great pork packer, the other day how much salt he used in barrel of pork. He said about two and half or three pounds per barrel. 'tHow many barrels of pork does family eat in years" "Oh, not more than one" "WeI, suppose you destroyed the tariff, what would be the effect on the price7" i'The price would go up" he said unhesitatingly; "just as soon as the produe. rion here has been stopped the syndicate having control of the industry would force the price up."
 It would act the same way as the price oi coffee did when few years ago the tariff was taken off that. Did the price go downa No for then Brazil put an export duty on it and the only difference is that the money goes into the treasury of Brazil
 One more thing about salt, by the way. Ol all that comes from abroad great part comes from the Mediterranean. There was 20, 00( pounds imported from that district to this city recently and the trouble with it is that it is produced by convict labor. Is there z man here whose soul would not revolt from the idea9 (Applause.)
 Mr. Sperry then gave some of his practical observations seen in Syracuse soon after the duty was removed on salt some time age when he found the mills. which formerly em ployed many men, idle and the men roaming around looking for work, while many were so reduced that they were willing to work for bFeadi
 He commented on the injustice which threw this body of men. many of whom owned homes in the city, out of work, and then oblige them to pay their share in the increased amount of taxes. Then he said that the grocer was willing to furnish salt to family for year for 50 or 75 eentsi The effect of the tariff was at first to make the price lower, but eventually it rose.
 ''Now, when l see a measure proposed which will drive my fellow-workingmen out of employment, I will fight it as long as God gives me life and strength" (Applause.)
 When this occurs, though, and the unem- ployed goes forth to look for work. tell me how does it effect the employeda When ls- bor is in the streets it is bound to get work, so it dihplaces better paid help, and seeks for support in our carriage manufactories, etc. Not down to Ssrgesnt's, however, for he has got his labor already down to $7 per week. (Applause.)
 Take borax. It has duty of three cents 6 pound and costs but six and half. Where ia the robberya Where is the tariff added to the cost of the artielei
 Take earthen ware. There is product oi $9 900, 900, the sole fruit of protection, em- ploying ten thousand men. If the Mills bill would but put up the tariff one notch higher these men would not have to go about look ing for work as they will have to do under the new bill.
 Glass also needs higher protection.
 Then if you admit cotton ties the price will rise just as it does whenever the British get control of our market, and the same thing is true of iron and steel.
 Do you want wages reduced to the Belgium (Cries of t'No, noi'D
 Then vote against this Mills bill. Even | made that the tariff is not high enough or steel rails, and yet this bill would make il lower.
 Of the articles on the free list Canada has a large number in return for our indebted ness for the kind way she has used our vessels and ships. Canada expects to be benefited by the Mills bills to the extent of s1s0, ,000, 900.
 Do you remember when Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Edmonds was in this city, I had the honor to stand on this platform and say a few words in behalf of poor Irelanda Do you remember that he said that the repeal of the corn laws was the beginning of the downfall of Irelandl That he said that free trade had almost destroyed every manufao- tory in !relandl We can easily see the posi- ton of the English on this question by read ing Lord Ssckville Vests recent letter. TGroans and misses.
 Mr. Sperry then took practical example of the tariff working in the carriage indus try, in which this city is largely interested. and upon which the Mills bill has reduced the tariff IA per cent. He then showed that there is difference of $S5o in the cost of making vehicle and one in Germany or Italy. At this point he read letter from O. P. Kimball, consul at Stuttgart, Germany, an old carriage man and a prominent mem Der of the Carriage makers association of this country, an old Democrat and appoint ed by the present administration. It fcl- lows:
 'You know am e Democrat, never voted any three years years ago was ready to subscribe be to the doctrine of free trade for revenue and stood on Maine. I always felt it would be sufIicient pro ieetio1; ; but ,oda;S what l ,S want .r to do nov aEs off that nfepna duty which is fnoWn as the n ternal revenue tax, if you wish to reduce the sur ha old vi Tliz cHof1o through the workshops, investigating the condf- lion of the le6oring classes It has convinced me proach to it would be to bring bankruptcy and ruin 70 our own country have never in the past 10 years felt blue for the outlook have been since the which is now on tse taps. for it seems to me that free traders of the north and the old brgaier zen s-als of the south would place this country entirely
 have been through all the large carriage factories of Berlin Milan, Paris and all larger cities of the md found thsrs-whsti Here we are pay, ng sSo: ss5 for ,n large large eessrriags 1aying s94, $50. All other parts of carriage done It proportionately low prices. They don't pay lnythins approaching it woud be ruin to the large carriage business in this country, and while we se no reason or necessity of degrading American abor; and free trade in this country would be dis strous to the large majority.
 The speaker next proceeded to show that he members of the ways and means commit ee were influenced by party motives when hey framed certain portions of the bill as the ,art relating to wooden screws, etc. He also poke at some length on tin plate and said hat there are capitalists in this country Vaiting to put their money into the manufac- ure of the product as soon as there is enough to enable them to compete success ully.
 We have excellent tin mines in Dakota that nly need development, and If worked they would be worth more than gold mines. Let IS make our own tin and keep ST, ,000, 900 in his country, which now goes abroad. Let us evelop our own resources and give employ nent to our own people. England herself imports vast quantity of tin from Aus ralia.
 MT. Sperry next treated his audience to ome caustic remarks upon the surplus, and emarked by way of Introduction that it is lwsys better to have the balance on the ight side of the ledger. He showed at some sngth many of the prominent fallacies in re- ard to the Democratic idea of reducing the xisting state of affairs.
 When you reduce ths duty you increase nportation, and these goods are imported nat should be manufactured by our laborers. Take the manufacture of files. A reduc- on of forty per cent. must close our manu- Tn 12o0 ont of fha 61a1 roa5n s-