Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-11-01

never YET knew q stone wall or
brick house to be imported TO this
country, and yet ! suppose it is safe
to assume that thoss who are engaged
in those industries-stone masons, car
Penters. bricklayers. painters. &c.
are not working here in this country
In composition With anybody else on
the face Of the earth. No man work.
ing as the carpenter, the plastersr, the
painter is working to produce any
thing which will be sent here to CON-
pete with our carpenter, plasterer or
painter, aud these unprotected occu-
pations, these occupations which can
not possibly have competition from
anywhere abroad are the very ones
in which the elements Of satisfaction
and harmony prevail to the greatest
extent. tAppIause.
why, gentlemen, in 1879 there
were 762 strikes in the country, and
3O4 of them. nearly one.half of them,
occurred in the great protected State
of Pennsylvania among the miners
and workers in steel ana iron and
glass and other protected industries.
There were engaged in the pro-
duction Of iron and steel in that year
year ll4.539 laborers, and this ia.
600 odd laborers had 236 strikes.
There were engaged st the same time
in what were known as the building
trades, to which ! have already al
luded. and which were not protected,
$4,000 laborers, more than three
times as many, and they had only SO
strikes. Applause. That is to say,
l14,O0O men engaged in the highly
protected industries had $50 strikes,
and CSC, 900 men engaged in the un.
protected industries had SO strikes.
[ Applause.l
81 appeal to the experience of eve.
ry gentleman within the sound of nv
voice to tell me if the greatest uneas-
iness and dissatisfaction does not ex.
ist-not among the farm laborers, not
among your carpenters, or your pain
ters, or your teamsters, but among the
men who are engaged in the mines
and the factories Of the CO lntry pro.
tscted by tariff laws. Applause.
Now, gentlemen, contend, and
the democratic party contends, that
We shall reduce the cost of produc.
ton in this country, not by reducing
the price Of labor, but by reducing
the cost of the raw material that en-.
tiers into the finished product, SO the
manufacturer with cheaper raw ma.
terial can still afford to pay the la.
borer the same wages he pays now,
or greater wages, if he desires to, and
still make some profit on his goods.
1--WE say this is not only for the
benefit Of the laboring man because
it will give him constant employment
at fair wages, but it is for the benefit
of the manufacturer himself, because
it opens to him and his products the
great markets Of the world so he can
go into them and sell his products in
competition with other goods.
They talk to US about the home
market, and yet one of my Republi.
can friends in the House made a
speech the other day, in which he said
the foreign market is a snare and
delusion.' Why, gentlemen, they have
been promising the farmers of this
country a market for their home pro-
ducts for over a hundred years, and
still we send abroad every year over
one hundred millions worth of goods
to be sold in foreign markets, simply
because these markets pay better than
those at home. No man sells goods
abroad, 5000 miles across the sea, and
in foreign markets, unless he knows
that it is a better market than his
market at home. Applause And
three-quarters of these goods are the
products Of your agricultural laborer.
Now, these great friends Of the
American laborer who seem to think
there are no laborers except those en-
gagged in particular industries, say that
You must raise the duty to such
point as to protect the home indus
tries, check importation and destroy
this foreign market. 1t requires two
million and FIVE hundred thousand
laborers every year to produce the
goods which they are able 10 send
abroad and sell in foreign markets,
and vet these gentlemen say that these
two million FIVE hundred thousand
laborers must have that market taken
away from them and 60 into some
other market. or must continue to
produce those articles aud sell them
at lower prices at home.
Gentlemen, the man who buys the
the products of your labor is the man
who pays the wages for your labor.
Two million FIVE hundred thousand
American laborers have their wages
paid every year in foreign markets,
and these gentlemen say we must
stop importations, which, of course,
means to stop expectation. No two
countries can trade together unless
they exchange their products. There
Is not money enough, national money,
in the world, gold and silver, to pay
for the exports of the United States
alone for two years. Therefore this
trade unnaf Ia narr,a1 - -, Al. =