Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-31

MT. Sperry's allotted time was now nearly
 up.
 said he to the Democratic side. 70, how
 wish had an hour longer, MT. Sargent. l
 would like to touch upon thousand things,
 to tell how instead of 90 per cent. of foreign
 dry goods, we have in our stores 92 per cent. of American goods to-day tapplause7, and
 they say the tariff robs us. Uaughter) "You have put article after article on the free list and now, if your bill passes, no man can tell anything about the tariff and we shall, as in 42, have men walking the streets out of work and crying 'Breadl bread When Buchanan went out there wasn't dol lar in the treasury. You plucked quill after quill and feather after feather from our proud bird and yet Burning again to the Democratic side) you sweet scented flowers or Democracy are looking on complscently in state of "innocuous desuetude," as the British tion devours the American eagle" Great spplause.)
 When Mr. Sperry finished his speaking the thunders of applause fairly shook the walls of the theater for several minutes. When the applause subsided MT. Sargent stepped forward and began the finishing Of the debate.
 MT. Sargent Concludes. "I find MT. Sperry and myself argue the question from an entirely different stand \ talk the farther we are apart. have argued from the idea of cheaper and better living, he from higher cost of living; that what ever is imported helps labor, he, that it is 8 loss to the laborer.
 We cannot import anything without labor. Every dollars worth must be paid for by the l handiwork of our laborers, by products of soil, of our shops and of our laborers. In the article of tin, of whick MT. Sperry | hV a tune every year through 8 higher tariff we could employ more men, but raising the price of tin plate would be SO disastrous to I our industries that it would prove curse in ] the end to laboreIs- Mir. Sperry is unfor- ! tunate in his statistics about the subject of borax which he enters into so extensively. The price of borax in London and New York in '83 was four and one-half cents. About that time it was discovered in California. Spectators got it and tariff was placed upon it, raising tho price to nine cents. The duties paid amounted to $500, 1000. The scheme of 8 speculative corner broke down and the price is now four and one-half cents. The Mills bill would place it on the free list where it was before 83, and ought to be. As to the matter of wool The price dropped after the tariff act of 46. In '66 and '67 the duty was largely increased. In '6s, instead of the sheep industry improving it went down, and in twenty years the amount of wool decreased 25 per cent As to carriages. MT. Sperry says $1 ,0O0 carriage in the United States is sold for $400 in Berlin. I don't believe it. (Great ap- plause.) If carriages are made so cheap in foreign countries, why do we supply the whole demand of South America and the Indies, and even Australia to some extent. Some stories are too false or absurd to re- quire denial.
 MT. Sperry talked about a file shop in- danger of shutting down here in New Haven. It employs one man and two boys. (Great laughter.) There are American files in every hardware store in Australia, despite the fact of England's cheap labor.
 Sugar and rice are both reduced in tbe Mills bill. All tariff bills are necessarily compromises. Mr. Sperry says if we reduce the tariff we will flood the country with for. eign importations, and whatever is sent here from other countries must be paid for by our labor. It is not true that when we tax an article there is tendency to raise the price. 1t is only shown on one article, wool, and the reason is the great demand for woolen goods. Yet the increase of wool hasn't kept pace with the increase of population. Quinine had high tax. It waa taken of, and it's manufacturers said they were going to fail right of. But they didn't. Business in the article was greatly increased and the price lessened one-half.
 It is true the tariff of the Mills bill is simi-
 lar to that of 46. But the 46 tariff was the uOsb IAVOE8Dl0 one 10 manufacturers ana workmen that we have he'd. It had every thing to make up between the high cost here and the low cost in England. It made the
 living expenses of workingmen less, gave
 them more luxuries and better employment than any bill be have ever had. (Great ap- plause)
 began business in 1850. From then to
 1860 made the largest percentage ever
 have since or ever expect to make. I hope
 to see such times again, but hardly think I shall.
 The Mills bill, as that of '46, is not free
 trade tariff measure Both give more pro
 tection than labor can get out of any bill,
 and all tariffs that go beyond the mere pro
 lection of labor put the surplus into the
 manufacturers' pockets. The copper syndi-
 cate have divided enormous profits as re-
 suit of the high tariff. Copper, which was
 31s cents in the United Stales before the tar
 if was raised, is now 16 cents. Iron mills,
 furnaces, ore beds, all verge into monopolies
 under high tariff. The excessive duty on
 manufactured goods does the workman no
 good, the manufacturer all.
 A few years ago hides were put on the free
 list. A large amount was then annually i'm
 ported. Hides are now as dear as ever but
 our exports run into the millions Expsri-
 ence finds that when we reduce the tariff on
 raw materials the exports increase.
 The India rubber shoe business has been
 thrown into great prosperity by free raw ma
 terial. You will find that as you reduce the
 cost of raw material, that has almost no
 labor in it, you give employment to larger
 number of men in working it to the finished
 product.
 When England put duty on American iron in 1870 to protect her manufacturers, 1t
 wasn't year before loads of petitions came in to have the duty repealed"
 Here the chairman for the Democratic side Morris F. Tyler, announced that the time had expired. A storm of applause greeted Mr. Sargent's final words and the great de-
 bate was over. Both gentlemen were hearti- ly congratulated as they retired from tho stage on their success and the success of the 0eaasiou