Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-15

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this money out of its legitimate business
channels transportation was also stopped
and people were left without employ
ment. Now we have got to turn this
money back into the channelsof business,
and we propose to do it by reducing taxa
ton on the necassaries Of life. Take oil
the tax on raw material entirely, and
let it como in free, in order
that our own people may have the
privilege of making up these goods,
that our manufactures may be built up.
The manufacturers can 80 manage their
business as within eight months to make
all the goods that will be consumed IN
year. and the remaining four hsthe
operatives are locked out. The manu-
facturers can go abroad and spend
pleasant season, but the laborers can go
nowhere, nor have they accumulated the
money necessary 10 live at home.
This wrong has got to be remedled,
and we are going 10 remedy 1t by making
more markets. We must produce the
things that go into market in order to
have the markets. Labor and material
are prime factors in the control OF this
matter. Our labor is the cheapest in the
world in the manufacture OF nine out OF
ten articles. A laborer here gets more
and does more. Where he gets three
times as much as a foreign laborer
he does six times as much work. We
are the smsrtest people in the world we
excel all other nations in productive
qualities as we excel them in civilization
and advancement. We are on a higher
plane and enjoy privileges that they do
not. They have never paid for them as
we have. Our Chief Magistrate was
eight years ago only sheriff OF his
county, and four years before he WAS
an unostentatious, modest citizen. The
conditions that surround US are greater
Our people are inventive and progress
sive, and where our workman gets tve
times as much money as a foreigner he
does twelve times as much work. The
speaker illustrated by showing that IN
this country man can, with machinery,
make more door-knobs for fifteen cents
and make So per day at it, while in Ger
many an operative working ut the same
business, and by hand, can make only
forty cents per day.
CHEAP GOODS.
Great Britain sent over an expert to
examine into the manufacturing indus
tries of the United States, and he re-
ported that the people OF Rhode Island
can beat the people of England on cheap
goods. lie declared that the labor here
is cheaper than in England. We
must now reduce the cost of the material,
said Mr.. Mills. and see if we cannot have
our workingmen paid better and given
more steady employment. This Is the
aim Of the Democratic party. The
Democratic party has always been the
poor mans party. It's fundamental
principle is equal and just rights to all
Applause.
Is LABOR PROTECTED 2
But you may say, is not a protective
tariff good for the poor man Well, let
us see. Is your labor protected ? Is
there a protective tariff on labor in this
country? No; it is the manufacturer
that is protected and not the laborer. If
you can tell me how YOU can get the
money that has been paid as duty on
pig-iron out OF the manufacturer pocket
and put it into the pocket Of the poor
man, will stop my speech right here
and speak for Harrison, Morton, and free
whiskey. LGreat applause.
WOOL.
The tariff protects capital. And work
ingmen, don't you expect men to give
you anything because they are rich.
They will give you just what is the
market price for labor and no more.
You must make such laws as will aid to
create demand for the products Of
your labor, and then you will be well
paid.
Mr.. Mills then discussed the tariff on
wool and showed the people how the
money received as duty on wool is lost
in the price paid for woollen goods.
RICHMOND.
Mr. Mills said this is q great iron-man-
ufacturing city, and he would tell the
people something TO astonish them. He
said that in his bill the tariff on pig-iron
is higher than it was when the present
tariff went into effect. 1t is crawling
taritf-keeps moving up. 1t is tariff on
quantity and not on quality. Does this
look like free trade
THE PIG-TAL.
Mr.. Mills then told the audience that
it was getting late, and he would not de-
tain them longer He said that il the
people wanted poverty and wished 10 60
back to the old log-cabins of 1910, and
have a Chinese pig-tail stuck in their
hats, then they could vote for Harrison,
Morton, and free whiskey; but if they
wanted more money for labor, cheaper
goods, and better times, then vote for
Cleveland, Thurman, and tariff reform.
THANKS.
Mr.. Mills took his seat amidst loud
applause, and many Of the people
crowded around to congratulate him.
The band struck up beautiful air and
Colonel Tazewell Elicit walked 10 the
front of the stage and moved that the
thanks OF the audience be returned TO
Messrs. Mills and Wilson for their able
addresses, which were given with a
hearty good will.
Many persons fingered to greet tho
speakers, and at II o'clock the house
WAS cleared and the distinguished gentle
men we're driven TO the Westmoreland
Club, where they were entertained.
Many people in the audience last night
remarked that Mr.. Mills very much
favored Camm Patteson, Esq, Of Buck
ingham county, though the latter Is Of
rather larger size.
Personal.
Mr.. Wilson is an old pupil Of Profes-
sor Ryland and was himself professor at
Columbian University, and was the
president-elect Of the West Virginia
University just before going to Con
gress.
GOING TO PETERSBURG.
A committee of citizens consisting OF
W. b. Mcllwaine. j. Il. Rockwell, W.
M. Martin, J. NJ. Mullen, K. Il. Lassiter,
and w. 2. McCrae, of Petersburg. Va,
met the Hon. II. Q. Mills at the Ex-
change yesterday evening and succeeded
in securing his promise 10 address the
citizens of that Democratic city to-
night
MIR. Wilson is compelled to return to