The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-09-20

oorving2 IL not the industrial system
which makes such community OF con-
suiners for agricultural products possible
worth maintaining? Does not she fur.
nish you q market worth fostering?
Does not she give you trade and an ex-
change Of products worth your while to
guard with the most considerate care ?
And does not her condition indicate the
wisdom Of the policy we advocate? Is
not her market better for you than
foreign one? Is not New England
better customer for you, more reliable,
more easily reached, more stable, than
Old England? Is not Boston q better
consumer for the people of the United
States than London, New York than
Liverpool, Pittsburg than Manchester,
Cincinnati than Birmingham?
New England buys OF you for all her
wants; Old England takes not pound
or bushel from you except what she
must have and can not get elsewhere.
Now, let us contrast this home market
OF New England with the foreign market
Of Old England. In 1880 New England
consumed $40, ,000,0 900 pounds Of cotton,
at 1l.6l pound, which in value then
amounted to G2,605, 900, 20 per cent.
greater than the per capita value Of all
| our domestic exports to the United
Kingdom, and this was only New Eng.
lands contribution to the Southern pro.
ducers Of cotton. She sends at least
$40, 100000 to the West and Northwest
for her food supplies. She sends to the
wool. growers OF the Middle, Western
and Pacific States $4,000, 900 annually
for their fleeces. ! repeat, Is not this
market worth preserving, ay, cherishing,
and does 1t not make us long to have
New England thrift, New England en-.
terprise, and New England politics more
generally distributed throughout all
sections of the country?
You can destroy this valuable home
market by such legislation as is proposed
in this bill; you can diminish this de.
mand for iood, for cotton, for wool, for
flax and hemp produced in other sections
OF the country by following the delnsive
theories of our friends on the other side
of the House; you can diminish the
capacity OF the operatives to buy Of you
by Diminishing their wages you can
drive them from the cotton and woolen
factories to the farms; they will then
drift to the West and Northwest, not to
engage in manufacture, but in great
measure to become tillers Of the soil,
and instead Of being as they are now,
and as they will be under proper tariff
system, your consumers, they become
your competitors. They go from the
ranks OF consumers to the ranks of pro-
ducers; diminish the consumers and in
crease the producers. The foreign mar.
ket for agricultural products is one Of
the delusi0ns OF tree trade. II 1t ever
had any real substance as against a good
home market that has long since disap-
peared.
LABOR NOT ASKING FOR IT-CHEAP CLOTH
1t tis fact worthy to call to the atten.
ton Of the House that labor organiza.
ton representing million workingmen,
with it's representatives in this city
whose sole duty is to look after the in.
terests OF labor, have given no sign OF
approval to this bill. Not a petition has
come through this source asking for its
passage, or anything like it. Whatever
utterance has been made has been in
opposition and protest. Every member
on this floor has observed the activity ol
this committee of Knights of Labor in
regard to legislation affecting the inter
ests of labor, but in all their vast con
stituency, found in every State Of the
|
les, workshops and mines, no word OF
sign but of disapproval and condemna
ton has come.
The expectations OF cheaper clothes il
rot sufficient to justify the action OF the
majority. This is too.narrow for sensi
BILE issue. Nobody, so far as / have
learned, have expressed dissatisfaction
with the present price OF clothing. 1t ID
political objection; it is party slogan
! Certainly nobody is unhappy over the
cost Of clothing except those who ART
, able to pay even higher price than il
: now exacted. And besides, II this bill
should pass, and the effect would be (ai
, it inevitable must be) to destroy our do
mestic manufactures, the era Of low
! price would vanish, and the foreign
, manufacturer would compel the Ameri
can consumer to pay higher prices thar
, he has been accustomed to pay unde
: "the robber tariff" so called.
Mr.. Chairman, l present distric
. comprising some 10000 people, larg'
( majority OF the voters in the district be
r ing workingmen. have represeteS
Y them for q good many years, and hav,
4 never had a complaint from one Of then
. that their clothes were too high. Have
' you? Has any gentleman on this foo
: met with such complaint in his district
: Mr.. Morse-They did not buy them o
. me.
s Mr.. McKinley-No! Let US see;
: they had bought from the gentleman
r from Massachusetts, it would have mad
Q no difference, and there could have beer
l no complaint. Let us examine the mat
1 ter.
0 [Mr. Mckinley here produced bun
4 die containing suit of clothes, whicl
j. he opened and displayed amidst grea
e sauyhter and applause.
A Come now, will the gentleman from
, Massachusetts know his own goods
3 We recall, Mr.. Chairman, that the Chair
;, man OF the Committee on Ways an,
. Means talked about the laboring man
s who worked for ten days at a dollar
Y day and then went with his ten dol
l lars wages to buy suit of clothes. 1t i
1 the old story. 1t is found liz the work
: of Adam Smith. have heard it in thi
8 House for ten years past. 1t has serve
j. many free trader. II is the old story
|. | 7 rapaat nf tho man whn oato a dollar