Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-28
HARRISON TALKS TO OHIOANs.
The dsencraEs Address 20 q Large Dele
CATION on the Tariff Question.

Gen. Harrfson's visitors yesterday were rom
HANCOCK and Allen Counties, OHIO. and numbered
several hundred They brought six bands with
them Fifty T1ppecanoe veterans accompA MED
tue delegations company OF boys, In zouave
Uniform, neadrd the column TO University PARK.
The weather was cold and chilly. Gen. Harrison
mounted the pl-tform amidst hearty cheers. and
In the course OF bis speech said:
1T Is said by some OF our opponents that pro-
tective tariff has no influence upon wages; that
labor In the United States has nothing to fear
from the competition from pauper labor; that In
Tue contest between pauper labor ana hlgh-prlceo
labor pauper labor was always driven Out. DO
such staten hts as these fal In line with expert
ence OF these worAingmen who are to be reformed7
NO; not at all"
CHEAP COATS AND Low WAGES.
"If that Is true then why the legislative precau-
lions we have wisely taken against The coming Of
pauper labor TO our shores? II Is because you
know, every one OF you, that In a contest between
two rival establishments here, or between the Two
rival countries, that that shop or that country
that pays the l6west wages and so produces most
cheaply, Can command the market. Ii the pro-
ducts OF foreign mills that pay low wages are ad-
InitJed here without discriminating duties, you
know there Is only one way 10 meet such competi-
tion, aud that Is by reducing wages In our mills
gestion that you can wear cheaper clothing when
Tree access Is given 10 the products OF f0rel- u
WOO en- mills. And yet they mention also that now
In some OF our own cities the men, and especially
the women, who are manufacturing the garments
we wear are not geLting adequate wages, and that
among some OF them there Is suffering. Do they
hope that when the coat Is made cheaper the
wages OF the man or woman who makes 1t will be
Increased?
'THE POWER OF YOUR LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
to secure Increased wages is greatest when there
Is a large demand Ior the product you are making
at fair prices You do not strike for better wages
on falling market. When the mills are running
iull llLne, when there Is lull demand at good
prices Tor the product OF your Toll, and when
warehouses are empty, then your organization
any OF you ever See one Of tue organized efforts
Tor letter wages succeed when the mill was run
nlny on hali Time, and there Was small demand at
failing prices In the market the product? [Ap-
piduSel Inc protective system works with your
LABOR organization 10 secure and maintain Just
conpenss uon for labor. Whenever IT becomes
True mere, as II Is In some other countries, that
the workinsm man spends to-day what he Will earn
tomorrow, tnen your labor organizations will lose
your power. Then the workman becomes in
very TACT a part OF the machine he operates. He
can't leave IL, for he has eaten to-day bread that
Ne Is 10 earn tO-mOrrOw. But when he eats to-day
bread that he earned last week or last year, then
ne may successfully resist any unfair eXactionS.
tApplause.] i do not say that we nave here an
IDEAL condition. do not deny that in connection
win some OF our employments the conditions OF
lile are hard. But the PRACTICAL question is this:
Is not the condition OF our working people, on the
average, comparatively q great deal beLter than
that UI any otner country? lApplause.] II IL Is,
tnen you VIII carefully scan all these suggestions
before you consent that the work or foreign work.
men shall supply our market, now supplied by the
prOuuctS OF tue hands OF American wOrkmen."
Among Gen. Harrison'S callers in tue afternoon
We're number OF prominent citizens or Booming
ton, Ill, who brou, ht Invitation urging tue Cen
erai 10 attend tner big rally TO be held Uclober 20
cllnalions, that Gen. Harrison will leave the STATE
curing the campaign.