Evening journal., 1888-12-22
ALL FOR THE LABORER.
The Condition of New England
Working People.
INTERESTING TARIFF DEBATE.

Cotton Workers and Coal Miners Receive
Consideration from the Senators, and
Foreign Trade and American shipping
Are introduced izto the Discussion.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The senate tool,
up the tariff bill, resuming consideration ot
the cotton manufacture schedule
Mr. Y est Inovsa TO strike out tho words
''ten cents per pound ON thread, yarns, etc,
valued at not exceeding twenty five cents
per pound, and inserting the words "35 per
cent ad valoremn He said that a super
fetal examination OF tho whole schedule
would show that Il was got up in tho interest
Of the New England manufacturers, who
could not compete in the coarser cotton fab
rics with the manufacturers in Augusta,
Ga, and who had 10 depend on the finer
cotton fabrics. He quoted from "A speech OF
Mr. Hiscock's 10 the effect that Amerisan
cotton manufacturers could export the
coarser cotton fabrics into the English col
onies and compete ehere successfully with the
English manufacturers But Mr. Hiscock
he said, had not given reason why the
| United States had lost the carrying trade.
There was no question, in his opinion, but that
! it had been lost on account of the high pro
tective tariff
Great Britain was permitted to-day TO take
products from American ports and carry
them TO the ports of South America. In this
connection Mr. Vest referred complimentary
to Mr.. w. L. Curtis recent book on the
South American countries, aud said that II
had developed TO him a now world of which
be had not dreamed The description of the
4 .I..II
romance, but was sustained by facts and
figures That republic imported manufact-
ured goods TO tho amount of 500, 900, 900 a
year Nearly the half Of them came from
Great Britain and her dependencies, whilo
the United States flag was never seen IN one
OF her ports
Mr. Hisc6ck said he would bd grathoi Il
Air, Vest would indorse the whole Of the
speech from which he had quoted. He had
then said and he now repeated with empha-
sis) that as to the cheaper fabrics manufact.
cred in this country, in the cost Of which
manual labor played an immateIial part
and with the raw material here, the United
States could compete with the world lie
had remarked in that speech (which wa,
in favor of aiding American steamship
companies) that as 10 Mexico and
Central and South America, It was those
coarser goods that they consumed, and thn
It was the duty of congress 20 build up
foreign trade with those countries He hat
been then, as he was now, ia fnvor Of payini
TO American steamship lines a just compensa
tion for carrying the mails; but that policl
had hoen resisted on tho other side of th
chamber and the English and German steam
ship lines had been allowed to destroy Anori
can commerce n practically carrying th
mails for nothing He hoped that when IN
pending measure should have become a laS
the senator from Missouri would co-operat
with him ia policy that would enable th
merchant marine Of the United States TO b
built up, and commerce to be establishes
with those countries where there was dc
mand for American products,
Mr.. Coke, ia the course OF his remarks, rea
the testimony Of Thomas ODonnell a spinne
in Fall River, Mass, taken by the Blai
committee, showing TINT for himself and hi
wife and two children he had not earne
$50 in a year; that this condition Of thing
had existed for more than six years 10 hI
knowledge; that il was not confined 20 him
but there could not be less than a thousan
operatives in Fail River In like condition
Mr. Dawes admitted that such cases di
exist, but he asked Mr. Coke which was th
better remedy-to furnish employment or Q
take it away. He quoted Mr. Carroll
Wright 10 show that the amount of deposit
in the Massachusetts savings banks wa
Sl5,0O0000, aud that % per cent of tina
amount represented the deposits Of wag
earners.
Mr. Coke turned from the cotton oper,
tives Of Massachusetts TO the miners
Pennsylvania, and quoted the testimony
Mr.. John Jarrett 10 the effect that the COZ
dition Of the coal miners numbering at lea.
$4,000, is "ptiable and miserable that the
were i'll paid ami suffered from tho true
system, under which they hal to pay Il
per cent, more than other people; and TIN
tho English coal miners were better cared f
than the American miners
Mr. Aldrich-How are the coal mines
Pennsylvania affected by protectionl
: Mr.. Coke-Have you not got protection
coal on your TARIFF
Mr.. Aldrich-No, sir; and there has n
been for a generation any duty on 0nthraci
coal. The great mass of the coal mined
Pennsylvania is anthracite
Mr.. Hawley said he did not know In Il
state Of Connecticut any such people
O'Donnell. There were everywhere son
shiftless, drinking, idle men, whl could n
get living. If the people Of New Englai
were the oppressed and degraded slaves tn
he and others had described them to be, n
! a month would pass without something Il
,, a revolution.
Mr.. Hoar also replied to Mr. Coke.
IA denied that there was any such condition
! things as that described in O'Domnells ties
III mony. The stuff which the senator fro
?, Texas talked Of and read was pure ARA
and nonsense. If he went before a Fall Riv
> or Worcester audience cf Democrats al
4 undertook TO make such a speech he wou
70 be received with a universal juifaw
The bill went over wi thout action on N
D Vests amendment.