The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-09-06


Not 3 dollar In the treasury not 4 cent.
You came 10 New York and undertook 10
place upon the market q, 30, 000 At - per
cent interest, and Gould not do II, selling
the bonds Of this country Ut As cents on
the dollar. Not gun In the arsenals not
= ship on the sea all sent South. Nothing
but rebellion, treason. bankruptcy and
democratic party, and she had been In
power Dyears The republican party has
had control OF this country for y
years. and when we transferred
the government 10 your hands
we presented you with the grandest
nation beneath the sun. At peace with
itself and the world the nation whose
greenhack dollar had 100 cents la Il. do
you know that the greenback dollar. born
out Of the necessities Of the republic, pro
tected by the loyalty OF the republican
party, travels with the circuit OF the sun
today and finds discount nowhere II Ii
A. good IN Hong Kong rs In Washington,
M good In Frankfort on the Main, the
money centre OF Europe Il know for |
as good In London as In New York, In
Berlin as In Chicago. Your bonds bear
Ing interest at the rate OF four per cent
arg selling to-day at 2,bS cents above par
Add % cents and Is below par, aud IL
makes the dollar OF the bond worth to-day
In the money markets OF this country s2K
cents more than II was In 1860 The diff
| ference, my democratic brethren, Is be-
tween coming in and going out.
Now, there are several ways TO get lid
of the surplus. ! will mention one or
two. One Ia TO take IL right or wrong
that Is the New York way. Another Is to
take Off the internal revenue tax from
tobacco, which Is $50, 900. 900; take of from
the spirits which enter into arts, manu-
features and medicines $1,000, 900 more,
which makes $40, 1000, 600; take of from
sugar SIS, 000, 900 more, and you have EOS.
900, 900, having then touched only three
industries. will tell you something else
we might do; We might give a pension
TO an old soldier now and then. II would
not hurt us any but, oh, how II would
make the birds sing to him In the evening
OF life. We might give bread, raiment
and shelter TO the widows and orphans of
would not impoverish, but, oh, how II
would enrich them and I'LL the horizon OF
their lives with a new song and new hopes
We might build a fort now and then along
our 10000 miles OF seacoast, so that our
maritime towns and cities could not
be captured by foreign invaders.
We might open up our inland
that the products Of the West could be
brought TO the markets by rival transpor-
tation on water and land alike. We might
rebuild our navy and create a new mer-
chant marine, 40 that the commerce OF
this mighty people might be carried TO the
markets OF the world not In English,
French and German bottoms. but Ia
American bottoms. built out of our lum-
Der and our own steel and by the genius
and skill of our workmen.
Take the great industry OF steel rails.
Up to 1879 we imported all the steel rails
used In this country. In 1867 we paid by
the ton sos In 1871 Congress placed a du-
ty of S2S per ton on steel rails. We then
commenced to manufacture, and KS our
product increased the importation OF steel
rails decreased until this year We can buy
than the duty. Now, If Judge Thurman
Is correct, the duty should be adjusted to
make the price OF steel rails $3.50 per
ton, instead OF $3.50. Let steel rails an
ever Mr.. Thurman.
Take another industry, files. In 1870
we imported all our files at from " to "
per dozen. We now have $50 file works
in this country, employing thousands OF
men, and to-day you can buy files for S2.60
per dozen that In free trade times cost us
Take another and new industry. soda
ash, that Ia largely used ia the manufact-
ure Of glass and which used TO cost us
t24s per ton. -Four years ago we put q
duty OF IS per ton on this article and we at
once began to manufacture 1t. Some
New York capitalists went TO Syracuse
where they have plant worth million
and half Of dollars. They manufacture
l75,000 tons of soda ash annually and at
e20 per ton less than when we had free
trade. Let soda ash answer brother Thur
man.
Take another industry -woollen goods
and invite the laboring men Of Surfing
ton and Vermont to think OF this. In
1860 we had In this country but few wool
len mills today we have unnumbered
looms, employing 5000 men and women
and consuming b0,000,000 pounds OF wool
per annum. Just before / started from
home went into several stores to make
inquiry about the sale Of wooden goods.
One man said to me II have been on this
corner 10 years, and at no time could you
buy woollen goods az cheap al you can TO-
Day" The duty To day on woollen goods
Is So per cent.
Now, let all this answer to the supposed
case Of Mr.. Thurman. make the ASSET
ton. and | challenge contradiction, that
In this country OF every
kind are from % to 80 per cent cheaper
than they were before the protection sys-.
tenn went into effect. There was one
thing that Judge Thurman did not Allnde
10, but ! will. Every article imported
comes into competition with an American
product and brings foreign labor and cap
ital into competition with American labor
and capital Now, last year we imported
t450 ,OO0, 600 worth OF dnty-paying goods
which ought to have been manufactured
here. Had they been, thsre would have
been less idle men and walking delegates.
The effect Of importing these goods was
10 displAce an equal amount Of American
goods In Germany, Belgium and France
Lhe price OF labor Ii one-fifth what II Is
here In England one-half and In Aus
tralia one-fourth. Now, we can manufac-
ture these things just ~ cheap. II you
make the price OF labor AZ cheap, and,
men of Vermont, remember this: You can
make these goods as cheap only as you
make labor as cheap.
might stand here till the sun rises and