National Republican., 1888-05-22
IN FAVOR OF PROTECTION.
The Interest of the Manufacturer and
workingman Guarded.


Hon. smedey Darlington, who repre-.
scnts the sixth district Of Pennsylvania in
Congress- made his first speech ON Tuesday
last 1t was in favor Of protection to Amer
lean manufacturers and our own working
men, and was as follows;
MIR. Chairman: The statement has been
made ON both sides OF this chamber that the
tariff Is a business question, II u business
question, II should be treated as such; that is,
In accordance with the rules which govern IN |
corporations large or small. The stockhold |
srs e9rpSatt2n rt n IN grop2T9i TO s
principle let us see how the present tariif Dill |
The ninth district of Texas. the second dis. |
trict t Of Arkansas, the fourth district Of Ten.
ncssCc, and the second district of Georgia are |
represented on the committee of ways and |
Means the committee that origin itCl this bill.
According to the census report of 1850, the
manufacturing and agricultural products for
the year 1879 IN these four congressional dis:
trictS We're S33 .00,333. The sixth district of
PcDnsylvana which have the honor to rep.
resent on this floor, according To the same
census REPORT, produced for the same year
manufacturing and agricultural products
Mr. Herbert. Does the gentleman think that
the districts he mentions nS being deficient IN
right To- say. anything as to the. amount OF
taxes they shall payg
Mr.. Darlington. oh, no; not at all. merely
represent so far as manufactures are con
| cerned.
| congressional districts paid out during 1870
| S5iG,j3G The wages paid during the same year
| in the sixth congressional district of Pcnnsyl
yHnia were Sj,5S9,i iSS.
The number of hands employed In manu-.
| faCturngin those -four districts was 3G0I. The
number employed IN the sixth district was
| lG.1O3
| Judging then. by the tests Of production,
wages and the number of hands employed,
the congressional district represent should
have FIVE times the weight in framing
| a tariff II now has; In other words, the great
interests at stake have not adequate protcc-
ticn, so far as representation Is concerned, by
| votes or speeches. The four congressional
| districts having less production, less men EN-.
| ploycd and paying out less wages, are able to
| destroy by legislation the industries in another
district, Will they do II, or rather should
| they:
Living in sections which produce compare:
lively nothing, while they are eTceilGnt i, gen
| they are hardly the best qulllitei to leglslate
upon subiects In which they have had no practi'
cal Experience and in whichthcirdiStlictsh have
Much fault is found with the New England
and middle states for building railroads in the
the same section This kind of talk does not
properly belong to the discussion of a tariff
question. The indebtedness Is incurred by
| tion on both sides. and needs no COnsidcra.
tion whatever on the floor of this House.
i western and southern people do not want
| railroads or do not want to mortgage their
| farms the remedy Is IN their own hands.
would mildly suggest less politics and more
business; more industry and more thrift would
| soon Obviatc the necessity of borrowing so
| much money of eastern capitalists
Establish manufactures, have. diversified
industries, home market for the farmer :
| products, and soon there will he surplus OF
capital in every section of our country The
west and south haye natural advantages over
the cast and north, but no nation can grow
| rich nv nUtiptfltnrp n p1pun Farmers tn Os.
per must live contiguous to large cities, and
these W III not grow unless manufacturers are
iostcrCd.
l am here to legislate for the whole Coun
try, but especially to look after the interests
of my own neople Now; I PROTECTION i3s j.
SSts viii GS'p Sc ot t. Rsaat yS'fH Tc IS 1906
men engaged in manufacturing in the sixth
, district will either be thrown out of employ
quit the business with which they are nc.
Guainted, what would you do with them
The farmers of Chester and Delaware
= not need them in the west or south for agri.
: culture; why disturb their present pro 'perous
condition If they leave their present loca'
, there 1, stagnation in every industry, and
! who will be benefited? The foreign manu-.
. lacturer, perhaps, but amsnot here TO legis
!. America. / would build an Industrial wall
around this country so high that not an article
: should come into IL that could be proiitably
|
place prices of manufactured goods on an
equitable basis
The protective policy has been in force il
this country since isiS, with fey exceptions on.
v go successful IN my section that when th
Democratic party. nominated James x. Poll
l.for President In 1854, on free trade platform
1t was necessary TO nscrbe ON It's banner
: Polk, Dallas, and the tariff of AZ, to carr
{ | Pennsylvania
T. The. history Of the protective policy from
A that time to this has been so often given oi
this floor that shall not deta!n you with ai
= account Of its triumphs.
" II Is said the manufacturer has grown toe
10 rich. deny It. | haye had SOM, experience
~ with that class. Taking everything into ac
- count, they have not received more than al
adequate recompense forthe risks involved
tSS William Penn, with his frugal and thrift
~ Quakers, coming from the farming districts o
y England, first landed at tile city of Chester
:. now Il hOurishing town in the southern POI
y tion of my district. After purchasing th
i land from the Indians they and their dc
scendants gradually ;nread over the hills am an
" by honest toll and economy for two hundre
Z years, mainly by farming, have acquired
- surplus and to-day they are the people WI
cages, county, city, and township loans.
The constant parade on this floor Of 4!
indebtness OF the west L to the east east iS ~ ootn 3ilI
10 investors, you cut off the supply Of capiti
that Is necessary to the opening up of a me-
, country, and then you are at the mercy of III
B, rests, this part of your assertion. calculate
to ntiame one section against another WI VI
nd comparatively vaueess TO the poor man, |
ne order to carry out your mad schemes of frc
w. trade IN this country you are ready to rob hn
us first of his credit, then of the fruits of his Ii
as bor, reducing him TO a level with the peasant
OF France, Russia, Germany, aud Ireland
he a. widow of a missionary to India, return
IL to her native land on the death of her hu
", band, Informed me that her three servant
'n on ,bended knee, begged her to- take the
IN with herto America. The wages she had pa
or them for years We're 3 cents per day. Destrt
en- | the protective policy, and then rs necesSal
cr consequence these cheap laborers must
I'm obtained or our manufacturing interests WI
-, | be destroyed
~ Mr.. Herbert. VIII the gentleman tell
DC whether the lady he speaks of WAS, cru
u, enough TO leave those servants behind her
Is, Mr.. Darlington. She was a missionary
ms widow, with five children, and probably wit
Iit out means of paying the passage OF those Sc
-, wants; So II she was unwilling TO undertal
e TO III ing them to this country II is not to be
dCred at. But other persons of larger mea
M will bring, people of that class here If we W
MS | open the doors.
to- Labor in this country is at present orga
as lied and Ii asserting its rights, but what Won
organization effect against labor in india al
he May the day he far distant when America
,p- laboiers will have no other aspirations than
lie bare compentoney; THe eIucatis"h oL I'M tn,
,el all these crushed out, ana that, too, under
o' name of Democracy,
Less than third of a century ago the don
M nant section of the Democratic party go
lrk ceived the bold idea Of extending the dom
r. ion of slavery overthe fertile territories of I
I'm | west 10 succeed In that enterprise IL W
necessary TO have an intmation from the 5
,ol | premc Court of the United States To aid tht
l94 IN their work \ chief justice travelled q
lu uI his way TO declare that a black man h
ter | no rights which white man was bound
respect. This opinion shocked the civiliZ
world, anu brought upon this country {
wrath of Almighty God
MIR Herbert Does NOT tlp gentleman lTt