Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-10-06

without the work. I rant to know
whether free importation brings down the
wages il, such case as that. They say,
q Protection has not raised the wages in
this country" But protection has stopped
the wages from coming down in such
way as they come down in the old coun-
country. Protection has stopped the fore
men In this country from bringing in an
article and putting it down in front of the
American workman in that way. A voice,
" That so" and applanse.)
RETALIATION.
The Chairman said Something about
wool, aad / could hardly help smiling
when bespoke OF it, because they tell US
that history repeats itself. / hear people
say, and heard people talking about it on
the ship, If we only thought it was
question of free trade and protection, we
would be dead against free trade; but it is
NOT free trade at all. 1t is only little
tariff reform" Laughterl When
Richard Golden and his peopie-and l
believe they were actuated at that time by
the very best of ne0tives-iirst began to
attack the protectienist policy of England,
l'they were not free traders at all They
/
called free traders. What did they go in
! for? At the very first start-and YOU will
read it in the history of the Golden Club,
| believe, or in the history of Cobden's
movement-they did not so in even for
takin the duty of wheat. They agitated
for fixed duty Of s per cent. quarter,
and they were to be satisfied when they
had that. They got the fixed duty of
per cent. a quarter, and then what did
do? They did not form an anti-wool tax
| league, but they formed an anti-corn tax
league. They never said a word about
manufactured articles. They didn't want to
| brighten the manufacturers away or the
workingmen and the artisans in the large
towns. They wanted them on their side,
| They did not say, A" Let the wool come in
cheap and then you can get the wooden
articles that you want a great deal
cheaper and we will never touch your
trade" bat they said, "Let the corn come
in entirely free and you will get your loaf
so much cheaper, and we will never inter-
fere with your trade We will give you
our word for that" The manufacturing
| industries helped them and subscribed at
one meeting as much as 100000 to get the
tax taken off the wheat. They took the
tax off the wheat, as these people want to
take the tax off the wool, aud what hap
pened then? Exactly what will happen
III this country. The farmer looked at it
as the dog in the manger looked in the
old times and as everybody will look at a
thing of this sort. He said you have
taken the duty off my wheat, and now |
am going to try all can to take the duty
off your manufactured articles" APP
| plause. Then Golden began to play on
another string. He used for his purposes
all the farmers and all the agricultural
laborers, and he said-just exactly as | see
in some papers here" Why should you
pay so much more for your pillow and your
pick and shovel than you would have to
do if you had foreign competition ?' They
agreed, and they struck it all off the man
ufactured articles. You have got to be
very careful, not of the man who carries
the great big sledge-hammer, but that you
don't let the man who carries the wedge
set the thin edge in. Mr.. Pettier then
took up the question of
THE CONDITION OF IRELAND,
Showing that, under protection, her indus
tries were prosperous, while under free
trade they were practically crushed out.
The English manufacturer said to the
Irish manufacturer: owe can manufact-
ure SO much cheaper than you that you
had better give up the business and let us
do it for you, while you turn your labor
anto another line" So the people
turned to agriculture, but then came in
the American and said ave can raise
wheat and corn and cattle cheaper than
you; give it up, and turn your attention
elsewhere" But where could they turn =?
Only to protected America. Applause. ]
In closing, the speaker said that free trade
was well enough as 6 theory. There was
nothing to be aid against it as a theory.
| The trouble was that there was no such
thing as putting it into practice, like lots
Of other theories.