The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-09-14


ket Of 000,000,000 ofpeople. Applause.
"All you want to enable you to compete
with and beat the English manufacturer
wherever goods are bought and sold is to get
your raw materials as cheaply as he does.
Have not heard you boast, my friends, that
American machinery was the best in the
worldP"
"Have not heard you boast that Ameri-
can merchants and manufacturers were the
shrewdest and most energetic on the face of
the earth? Have | not heard you affirm
again and again that American workmen
were the most intelligent and the most pro-
ductlve workmen under the sun? Applause
aud cries of"1hat is fact"l
WHY NOT GIVE THEM ROOM?
well, if all that is true, why should the
American manufacturer, the American mer-
chant, and the American workman be COM
PEELED to Contine his energies to supplying
the wants of the United States alone when a
thousand millions of other people stand ready
to buy your products?
What stands in the way? 1t is our absurd
tariff on raw materials. No community in
America knows the truth fthis more thor
oughly than the people of Newark.
lou make here every year millions ofdol-
lars worth of leather goods. Well, in 1872
we put hides on the free list. Our Repubi-
can friends went into Mysteries
They yelled, There won't be beef an
imal in America in five years They now
howl, If you make wool free the bleat of the
lamb will no longer be heard in our land.
"Well, what was the result of making hides
free ? 1t is this: Between 1872 and 1880 the
amount of capital invested in the manufac.
ture of leather and leather goods increased by
100000, while the production of these
goods was $7G,0000O0 more than in 1872.
Not only did we supply our own markets,
but in 1880 We exported ten million dollars
worth of leather and leather goods. Not
only did free hides enable the American man
ufucturer to control the home market, but it
enabled him to export largely, thus giving
employment to hundreds-yes, thousands
more men" Applause and THAT'S gos-
pei. "
"Yes, know it is gospel, and l know if
any party should propose to restore the duty
on hides it would kill itself forever, as far as
New Jersey is concerned. Is not that gospel,
too ?" Applause and shouts from all parts
of the room :"9es, that is cold fact"
EXPERIENCE A GOOD TEACHER.
"Now, my friends, you see that free hides
did not destroy the beef industry in this
country. On the contrary there was never
oO RlO"ln vi thG DuSluCSS VI CdlllC
raising as has been from 1875 TO the present
time.
but my friend, Major Butterworth, says
Take the tariff off OF wool and you will kill
the sheep-growing business of the country
Can our Republican friend learn nothing
from experience ? I'll wager that there is
not pair of fOreign-made shoes worn here
to day.
"Why does not the American wool manu-
facturer shut out his foreign competitor as
thoroughly as does the leather manufacturer :
1t is becausehe has 10 pay an unnaturally high
price for his raw material.
"Why is that? 1t is because the American
shoe manufacturer gets his leather as cheap
as the foreign shoe manufacturer. There are,
however, hundreds of suitso clothes here to-
day made from foreign cloths.
"Give him free wool and instead of our inn
porting $44,000,000 worth of wooden cloth
we will make it here. This would give en-
ployment to $4,000 people, and counting five
persons to family, this would mean that
our wooden manufacturing industry would
feed 400,000,000 more mouths than it now
does
81 tell you, my friends, the Republican
party is taking the bread out of the mouths
of the poor. Great and prolonged ap-
plause.
EFFECT OF FREE RAW SILK.
eve gave you free raw silk, and in few
years the silk manufacturing business of your
State has grown from nothing to about $40
100000 year.
"My friend from Ohio would tax that raw
silk and let Lyons make the silks which | see
worn in profuson to-day by the ladies who
have done my friend Major Butterworlh and
nvoalf tha honor m Has Fra
raw silk benefited the city ofNewark?
A voice from the audience YES, indeed ~
well, it seems TO me that the results of
free hides and free silks should encourage us
TO carry the theory of free raw materials lit
tie further, don't it to your"
at is not question between free trade and
protection. come before you, my friends,
soemnly pledged to my own honor to speak
the truth and nothing but the truth, and
assure you that the Mills bill will in reality
give more, and better and more stable pro-
lection to the manufacturers and workmen
of this country than they now have.
"What is the result of the prosperity built
up under the Republican system of tariffs and
trusts and monopolies? Do you think a
system righteous that allows one man to roll
up fortune of $780, 100000 in twenty years ?
"Do you agree with Mr. Blaine that trusts
are private affairs and have no place in pres
idential campaign? My friend Mr.. Butter
worth pronounces himself the foe of trusts.
believe he thinks he s.
"Yet lie says to you: Trusts, l admit, are
bad things, and they are fostered by the tar
i'll, but you must endure the trusts rather
than touch in any way that sacred Republi-
can creation, the war tariff
"The Chinese Government has rejected the
treaty that aimed to exclude Chinese labor.
am told they did it because they were as.
sured that Harrison would be elected and
that they could drive better bargain with
him than they were able to do with Cleve-
land.
SHOT AT CARNEGIE.
"My Fl iends and fellow workmen, for we
are all laborers together on Uncle Sans great
farm, let me give you two pictures of the
labor question.
"First look at Andrew Carnegie living
like prince in Cluny Castle and taking the
great head of the Republican party Mr.
Blaine, on royal progress through England
and Scotland.
"Mr. Carnegie is man who got more, far
more, than his just dividend out of the great
corporation to which we all belong.
Look at the other pcture-Carnegie's
men at Plttsburg on strike because they did
not get their fair dividend, and Carnegie's
works polced by protection detectives to
whom he paid IS day each. Would he pay
his men the little advance they wanted
"Ob, no. He wanted money to entertain
his Republican friend Blaine in England, aud
he preferred to pay hired detectives So day
each to force his men, who had served him
faithfully year in and year out, to work for
whatever wages he was willing to grant.
"There is Republican protection to labor.
Are you not sick of it," Tremendous cheer
ing.
Mr.. Butterworth followed with twenty
minutes speech in which he contradicted in
general terms General Breckenridge argu-
ments in relation to hides, raw silk and wool.
Better Than Etiquette.
We have heard ola lady of rare beauty
who said, upon certain occasion,
that the only real, dsinterested compliment
she ever received was from coal HEAVIER,
who asked permission to light his piDe in the