Bismarck weekly tribune., 1888-09-14
FACTS, NOT FANCIEs.
SENATOR FRYE COMPARES PRO-
TEcTloN AND FREE TRADE

Oe Wlthn the comprehension OF this
bright eyed boy l see sitting before me.
and in the illustration I shall be governed
by facts. not by fancies. Wherever
give wages shall give those abroad ct
the highest, and those at home at the
lowest. Now If you please consider for
awhile Woodstock to be the United States;
New Haven. England; and take Eng
land because it Is the best wage pay
ing country in the world outside this re.
public. l propose to build twelve set
woolen mill here at Woodstock. United
States. and it's exact counterpart in New
Haven, England. commence here in
Woodstock, United States. Ipay men who
excavate for the foundation from 81 to
$1.4O day, and the men who work in the
quarry and set the stone, from 81. so to ee
day; men who make the bricks, from
$3.50 to So day; the painters, from %
to So day; the quarters of slate, from
$1.50 to So day; the masons who lay the
bricks, from So to $3 a day; and when
my mill is complete it has cost me $780,
600, 80 per cent. of the whole amount be-
ing money paid for labor. step across
into New Haven, for the time being Eng
land. and proceed to erect the same
mill To the men who excavate pay
from 45 to 60 cents day; to those who
quarry the rock and lay the founda-
tion from go to 80 cents day; to the
brick makers from 80 cents to 80 cents
day. | 60 to Staffordshire and hire, 1t
may be. 100 women to make my bricks,
and pay them "a cents thousand; or, 1t
may be, l hire some little girls, barefooted
and bareheaded, from 10 to IA years Of
age, to carry the wet clay in my brick
yard on their little bare heads, from to
= cents day. pay my masons at from
70 to So cents day; my skaters 81 day;
my painters from 80 cents to 81 day;
and when my mill is completed, it has
cost me 100000 Why this mill $780,.
600 and the mill in Woodstock S4O0, ,OOOY
What makes this immense difference in
cost2 Remember that the mill is 80 per
cent. labor,
Remember that the trees in our forests,
the clay in our banks, the stone and slate
i'll our quarries. the coal in our mines and
the iron in the earth, are as cheap as in
Europe. What, then. makes the mill
here cost twice as much as there? Clearly,
only that labor here is paid more than
twice as much as labor there.
now build my machinery for the mill
in Woodstock, the United States. pay
my machinists from $3.50 to SIS day,
and it costs me 5000. Istep over into
New Haven, England, and I pay my best
machinist So day, and my machinery
costs me $4,000. Remember that of the
machinery 30 per cent. at least is labor.
Now the mills are complete. and mere
in Woodstock, the United States, hire
my men and my women, my sorters, my
spinners, my weavers and my dressers.
pay my women from So to SO week,
my men from $40 to $50 week. get
out case of cloth at cost to me of just
500. go over into New Haven, Eng
land, and hire my men and my women.
my men from "a to 81 a week get out
be just $50 Now if can take that case
of cloth. costing $50, bring 1t here and
sell it in competition With the case which
has cost here in Woodstock 800, don't
you ses can sell it for $50, $40 less than
the cost of the case here. and still make
profit of $40? How long. then. will my
mill In Woodstock run against such COM
petition as that? Now the Democratic
party says. under its doctrine of free
trade-the right to bur in tine cheapest
markets and sell in the dearast-make all
the goods you please Ever there in New
Haven, England, sen6 them freely here,
and sell them in competition with the
goods made in Woodstock. But, my
Democratic friend, will net the mill in
Woodstock be compelled IT, stop? "No. "
How can it run? There is but one way on
the face of the earth it can and that is by
cutting down the wages or'the men who
work on the excavations, in the qllarries,
on the foundation, in the brickyald of
the plasterers, the painters, the wood
workers, the skaters, the machinists, and
the men and women who work in the
mills, to the wages paid in New Haven,
England, and then the mill can run.
Says my friend who works in the mill:
II cannot work, Mr.. Frye, for any such
wages Us those you have named" 'Yes
you can, for they do in Europe" But
couldn't have meat every day, and the
comforts and luxuries for my family they
now enjoy" ''No. you couldn't: but you
could have meat as often as once or twice
week. You could have soup every day,
thick coffee sweetened with molasses
and dark colored wheaton bread. That
is free trade diet for workingmen. %
But, Mr.. Frye, couldn't send my
children to the schools" 'No, with your
present pride you could not dress them
to your satisfaction to send them to
school; and, indeed. you would need
their services in the mill to help earn the
bread they eat and such clothing as they
wear" But. Mr.. Frye. could not save
any money: could never buy home foE
my family" ''No. you could not. and the
workers there do not. Inspector Wheatly,
who devoted ten years to a study Of the
condition of the workingmen Of England,
in answer to question. said: L do not
I knoyv IF ono skif1od o,ticou xv1,o o,une a
It. Senator Frye's Fourth of July
speech at Woodstock. Conn.
solnc Pertinent Questions.
If the tariff on wool-36 per CENTS
robbery. as the Democrats claim, what
ic flla aiff ca,onr-,1.l,;al is 90 nor