Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-08
TaUgMsN ANSWERED.
Fst-fiE> o. Ri> FREE Trade
ARiit aENT EXpo>EB.
A Telling Speech in Reply to the
transparent Demagogism OF the
Grand Old Roman

tour n the West. The answer was COM
plete, and at the same time vindicated the
soundness Of the protection policy. Mr..
Tenny said:
This is not a political campaign; it is
campaign in which America is TO decide
whether she should own herself or not
whether the price of labor should be
measured by American or European stand
ard. 1t is simply campaign which re-
lates to homes and hearts and to the
pocket, and every naan, woman and child
in this is interested And, as your Chair
man has very fittingly said, we are de-
batting the question OF dollars and cents,
and We want this debate to be honest and
truthful. When | found that | was to
speak here | was at a loss what TO
say, but | am out of the woods now. In
the papers to-day | find 4 speech of Judge
Thurman, the Democratic candidate for
Niee-President, delivered at Toledo YES
terday, which propose to answer here to-
night. He says "A tariff. my friends, is
nothing In this world but a tax levied by
the General Government upon importa-
tioDs brought into the United States for
sale, the effect of which is to raise the
price Of every commodity thus imported.
and also the price of all domestic commod-
tiles Of the same nature made within the
United States And he supposes the case
OF the price of 4 suit of clothes which in
Eng and is $l0-that a tax of sixty cents
VIII have to be paid on account of the
enormous tariff on woolen goods, which
viii be S6 tax, and, additional, the cost of
making the suit viii cost the wearer $50.
Now propose to answer Mr.. Thurman,
not by supposition, but by mashaling facts
before you.
1t viii not be decorous for me to say
that Judge Humans speech is untruth-
tui. | do not say that, but l will let the
industries of the people Of America answer
MIN Applause. This speech of Mr..
1hprman's is i'll harmony with President
Clevelands message. Let us see if duty
increases the cost of manufactured or un-
manufactured articles, and the first witness
1 summon Is woolen blankets There are
many grades of WOODEN blankets, but re-
fer 10 the five pound wooden blankets.
They cost in England 81 45 The Custom
house charge is 65 cents, transportation l5
cents and the manufacture costs 81 45, max
ing the total cost of the English blanket
80 90. Now bear in mind that we are
making just as good blankets and selling
them at So 20. Cries of "True"] Now,
if Judge Thurman is correct, we should
make the price of our American blankets
SO SO instead OF So 20. Let the blankets
answer, Judge Thurman. Great ap-
plause.
Take up the great industry of steel rails
Up 10 1872 We imported all the steel rails
used III this country. In 1867 we paid by
the ton SOC. In 1871 Congress placed
duty OF SIS per ton OH steel rails. We
then commenced to manufacture and as
our product increased the importation of
steel rails decreased, until this year we can
buy steel rails for $3l 50 per ton-S3 so
more than the duty. Now, if Judge Thur
man Is correct, the duty should be adj
Justed TO make the price of steel rails
sol 10 per ton, instead of S3l 90 Let
steel rails answer Mr.. Thurman. 1Ap-
plause.
Take another industry, files. Perhaps
the democrats never heard of files.
laughter. In 1860 we imported all our
files at from So or 81 per dozen. We now
have $50 file works In this country, en-
ploying thousands of men, and to-day you
can buy files for 50 80 per dozen that in
free-trade times cost us 81.
fake another and a new industry. soda
sAsAt ID il>Sl manufacture
of glass, and which used to cost us S24S
per ten. -Four years ago we put duty of
50 per ton on this article, and we at once
oegan TO manufacture ii. Some capitalists
went to Syracuse, where they have plant
worth a million and half of dollars. They
manufacture 10000 tons of soda ash an
nuaiiy, and at $50 per ton less than when We
had free trade. Let soda ash answer
R~.3taf Ihr1rtNap Il
AXE salt-and If the Democrats 90 on
they will need salt to preserve this state
Jnent of theirs. Laughter and applause.
There is duty of u cents on salt II
used 10 cost 60 cents bushel: now vou
can get good quality for from s to 5 cents
per bushel.
Take another industry -wooen goods.
In 1860 we had in this country but few
woolen mills; to-day we have unnumbered
looms, employing $4,000 men and women.
and consuming fifty million pounds of
wool per annum. Just before | started
from home | went to several stores to
make inquiry about the sale of yoolen
goods. One man said to me: 81 have
been on this corner thirteen wears and at
go time could you buy woolen goods as
cheap as you can to-day" The duty to-
How is it with watches? In 1857 the
Waltham watch factory failed. In 1861 a
duty OF % per cent.was placed on watches.
The Waltham Company at once COM
menced business, and to-day they produce
100 movements, 800 gold cases and 800
silver cases, and YOU are buying to-day for
Sl5 watch which twenty five years ago
you paid $50 for, and this industry carries
duty of % per cent.
Take bleached sheeting. In 1860 ii coet
90 cents yard, now it costs II cents.
Overalls, which some of YOU wear and
which have worn, used to be 81 pair,
now you can buy whole suit for the
same price.
lake the silk industry, which carries
a duty of Q per cent. Not ward
of silk was manufactured in this country
till ls47. To-day we have 400 fac
tories, making an annual profit of
S4o,Goo,00O annually and in New
York to-day YOU can buy silk for one-half
the price OF European make. Now let all
this answer to the supposed case of Mr..
Thurman. l make the assertion, and |
challenge contradiction, that commodities
in this country of every kind are from %
TO 90 per cent. cheaper than they were be-
fore the protection system went into effect.
never saw free trader who was not in
deep thought trying TO make and .
equal 5; but tonight we want to deal IN
facts.
Now. while am on this subject of pro
lection, and its i dry subject, which |
don't like any better than You do, but We
want to understand ibis matter, there was
one think that Judge Thurman did not
aildde to, but | will. Every article I'M
ported comes into competition with an
American product and brings foreign la
bor and capital into competition with
american labor and capital Now, last
year We imported S450000000 worth of
duty paying goods, which ought TO have
been manufactured here. Had they been,
there would have been less idle men and
walking delegates. The effect of import
ing these goods was to displace an equal
amount OF American goods.
In Germany, Belgium and France the
price of labor Is one-fifth what ii i
here; in England and in Australia
one-fonrih. Now We can manufacture