The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-31

since the war represented by democrat, and
one which is filed with the laboring classes.
the question came up and was met by Mr..
Bynum squarely on its merits, and he stands
today reelected to congress, if / am correctly
informed. He has taken his position on the
tariff question ana stands on the merits of the
Mills bill. L have the pleasure, ladies' and
gentlemen, to introduce to you the Hon. Will
liam ID. Bynum, of Indiana.
Mr.. Bynum's Speech.
Mr.. Bynum, who was received with great ap-
plause, said
"If u public speaker who undertook to ad-
dress an audience was ever entitled to an apol-
ogy, certainly would be, on this occasion. A
little more than forty-eight hours ago, had
no more idea of being here than you had that
would be here. At the request of your dole
cation accompanied Mr.. Mills here, not for
the purpose of making a speech, but because
ever he commands, l do. Applause AS
you have been told reside in distant state
take some pride, however in the fact that
my ancestors came from an adjoining state to
Georgia. This is my first visit to this part of
the south, and it has been one of exceeding
pleasure, and one that will treasure for the
balance of my life. 1t is not my purpose to
discuss the tariff from q political standpoint. i
prefer to discuss it as a matter affecting the
rights and interest and welfare of all classes of
citizens There is something inviting about
the word protection. 1t is a word that is used
in many senses and always with pleasure
and gratitude. To say that the party
That qestion he denied. The tariff does not
control or regulate wages. 1t never has and
never will. The German government has a
protective tariff, France has protective tariff.
England is free trade, and pays higher wages
than either OF them. The unprotected indus
tries pay much better than the protected ones
The highest labor today is the labor on rail-
roads, and persons engaged in the manufacture
OF agricultural implements, not in wooden and
cotton manufactures. These receive the low
est wages. One reason of that is that the inn
proved machinery for those sort of factories
make 1t possible to employ children and wo-
men, while other work requires men. The la
boring people are the sufferers from protec-
tive tariff. Protection was asked and claimed
only for infant industries. Henry Clay claimed
that we only needed protection for three years.
We have been nursing these infants for
represent is not in favor of protecting the
rights of this great continent is mistake. It
IS not a question of whether we will protect
bat of how we will project"
lie went on to say that the district which
he represented i'll Indiana was largely manu-
featuring district. That it turns out tifty
million dollars worth of manufactured pro
ducts per annum, and contained ten thousand
organized wage workers. A district which
prior to 1884 had never sent q democrat repre-
sentative to congress- and he considered there
fore that he had right to speak for the labor
ing classes which had stood by him. The
present system claims to protect American
labor and furnish a home market for acricul-
tural products. To these questions he de-
sired to ask the attention of his audience. The
opposition claimed that the labor of
wage workers i'll this country
is dependent upon home protection.
half century and they are now more helpless
than ever. [Applause.] We have improved
machinery OF all sorts in America, until today
one man can do as much work, taking an
average of all the vocations, as seven men
could formerly do. We have the greatest in
ventive genius OF any people on the globe. AS
q consequence our output is greater than the
demand.
In my own city we have every kind of man
ufactory, and every one of them have increased
their output until we have a surplus and have
to seek foreign markets. In eight months we
can manufacture more than we can consume
for year. AS consequence, the factory
hands are turned out of work for four months
to starve. AT the end of year a laborer is
doing we'll if he is even. When he is out of
work he is out of money. His grocer will not
credit him. | know of man in my own city
who went out day after day and could fad
nothing TO do. At last his wife, noble woman
that She was, said: 81 know you cannot get
work. There is no demand for your work
Come take care Of the children, and / will go
to the wash tub and make living.' Ap-
plause. Our tariff is not a protective
tariff, but is q destructive one, and especially
to the farming interests of this country,
The true theory according to my idea is to
move the burden from the shoulders of the
laboring class. Applause. If you will find
the amount of labor done by each man, YOU
will find that the American manufacturer GETS
cheaper labor than any other country in the
world, England, France or Germany. A man in
Boston invented machine for stamping Shoes
He WoHld not sell the patent but put it out on
a royalty. He put the machine in all the
countries OF Europe, as we'll as America.
When his returns came in, he found that
Europe only returned IL per cent of the amount
returned in America. lie thought he was
being swindled, but upon investiga-
ton he found that the returns
were correct. Tho explanation is that with
our improved machinery we turn out much
more goods than the countries OF Europe.
We must form system of exchange. We
would not have any trade today if we did not
seek it from free trade England. We export
raw cotton to England, and it is manufac-
turad and brought back and sold to us. In the
last ten years, with the raw material right in
our midst and plenty of labor, you have
shipped to England your raw cotton and
allowed her to make up the raw material into
goods and return it to us, and have paid $162,-
O00,000 for the privilege. Let man take a
cargo of American goods to another country
and see il he can dispose of them He cannot
get money for his goods and he cannot find a
product to take in exchange upon which there
is not the highest rate of tariff. In
consequence we cannot trade with other conn
tries. The New Englanders want us to give
them one-half million dollars as a subsidy to
build up line of ships to trade with other
countries We say just remove the tariff and
we will establish trade with those countries
which will secure q 1irst-class line of ships
Take the Argentine republic. This country
he's what we need most-wool The wool IS
sent to England, where il is made up and a
commission put upon it and then sent to
America. We are trading with the Argentine
republic through England, when only for tho
tariff we could as well trade direct with them.
The manufacturers say that if we
will submit to higher protection
they will bring labor enough here to
consume the product OF every farmer in Amer
lea. We now make TWO hundred millions of
bushels OF wheat per annum, and the laborng
classes consume only thirty million bushels per
annum. The factories now produce all that is
needed for the people Of this country. What
do they propose to do with the surplusot goods
manufactured? They cannot exchange them
with other countries on account of the tariff.
In Indiana alone, we raise ten million more
bushels Of wheat than is consumed. Every
body uses tin. We collect S1G000,000 tariff
ON tin. According to tho Mills bill this tax is
taken off. The free trade man comes along
and says, "Why do you take that tariff off?
1t should have been left on. You are
running oug labor" contend
that we are saving our labor just that much.
They propose to drive out all the manufac-
turers Of agricultural implements from the
market by putting such q tariff on wool that