Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-22

1t grovels to-day at the feet of this gigantic
and ever-growing curse, hoping by the aid
OF the rum power to elect their man for
President and their man for Governor in
New York. They have never helped the
temperance cause, and if there is temper
ance man that really desires the success of
temperance principles in the United States
he is foolish or wicked man if he votes
against Harrison and Morton this year be-
cause of this plank in the Republican Ma
tlonal platform. The Republican party can
be trusted to do what is right on this great
question-its record is full OF battles fought
for good morals, for Temperance, for the
rght-tiuSt II, oh temperance man, this
| year.
But he spoke Of luxurie., and
| said the Democrats wanted to reduce
the taxation on luxuries. He said free
whisky and free tobacco were offered by
tie Republicans as the only reduction OF
| taxes, and he left the inference upon the
| minds OF MS audience that the taxes upon
whisky aud tobacco had not been touched,
| while the facts are that they have reduced
the tax npon tobacco So. .455, 617 by the
| Mills bill, doing exactly what Colonel
| IRISH said II was wrong to do and what he
| soundly beraIed the Republicans because
he said they threatened so to do. ZAP.
| plause.] | call your attention to that rs
showing again their inSincerty as show
ing that they are not Gesiroua of explaining
this matter fully aud fairly 10 the people,
| out are hoping 10 win lay appealing TO Sec
tlonal pTejadices and by appealing to the
| question of taxation as naked proposition
alone and not calling attention to the real
facts
ALL PARTIES AGAINST THE CHINESE.
Again, as partly showing their incon-
slstency in this matter, let me call your at
tention to this fact, that in this State, par
uculariy, all parties are against the China
man. All parties unite in anti-Chinese
resolutions and legislation. All parties Pc
ttlon Congress to pass anti-Chinese laws,
and the more stringent the better. What
is that but protection, pure and SIM
pie? What is that but protection
for our people and our laborers of the
strongest, boldest kind? If il is right 10
protect against the Chinaman and his labor
II Is night to protect against the English
man and his labor. If it is right, and we
ali know it is, TO protect the United States
against the immigration of this foreign,
degraded labor from China, it is right and
proper to protect the people of the United
States against foreign, degraded labor from
any source, no matter what. Applause.
This clearly proves the Republican posi-
ton, because protection cannot be confined
to one species of goods or labor or men
either 1t is wrong or it is right in principle,
and If wrong should be discarded, if right
should be followed. This Chinese question
IS shining light Of pure protection, and
as Ii is Endorsed, yes, almost claimed by the
Democrats as their special property it con-
| cluslvely establishes their insincerity upon
the tariff question, stamps them as dema-
gogical; their party platforms were sound
ing words, their professions were office
| seeking promises. ADDlauSp I
But he says that the tariff raises the
prices OF goods, and he further says that
| the tax, as he calls it. and as | call it the
tariIf has the direct effect of raising the
prices OF all articles upon which it is levied.
This is Incorrect. 1t is getting late and [
| nave not the time nor my eyes the strength
to read you the figures and statistics, or l
could show you that in every instance he is
| incorrect; that in every instance the tariff
has not raised the price as he claims, and
that IN every instance the tariff, when it
advanced the price temporarily, did not
! raise the price TO the amount of the tariff
and that speedily the price was
reduced What raises the prices of
articles in the United States upon manu-
fsctured goods is this internal system, de-
vsed N secret and executed by men who
are willing to ruin people to make money,
known as
THE SYSTEM OF TRUSTS.
That man, Republican or Democrat. who
says that the question of trusts is not an
overshadowing issue before the people of
the United States, or who seeks to belittle
II, Is an enemy to the country. Applause.
1t is these monopolistic trusts that get TO-
gether and control the production of articles
that raises the price, and not the tariff.
The tariff will have the effect of making
| competition, and competition always re-
duces prices. l am, as you all know.
! friendly to the men connected with the
railroad company, and yet if we had an op-
position IN this State, wouldn't it reduce
! prices? 1t IS because there is no competi-
| ton at the present time that they are
able to charge, apparently, their own
prices for fares and freights, although have
| nothing TO say as to their being high or
low. Wherever competition comes into play
| there prices are reduced. If YOU have
| tariff upon manufactured articles and Won
can Kill this terrible system of trusts, com
petition will take care of prices, because no
man Will oVer-burden the market when he
Is losing money; no man will attempt to
raise prices when he knows that his neigh
Dor will undersell him. Competition is
the life of trade, and competition is the
great regulator OF prices. [Applause.1
IN SPEAKING OF WAGES
He says that the law of supply and demand
regulates wages, which is true, and that
the tariff has nsught to do with it, which is
not true, for the tariff assists very largely
IN 1t for this reason. If the tariff is I'M
properly reduced naturally larger importa.
tions OF foreign manufactures are made with
the result OF less business done by Ameri-
can factories, hence less call for help and
therefore fewer employees end lower wage.
If tariff remains at the figure sufficient to
give profit to American manufactures.
business at home increases more laborers
are needed, wages are made steady and in
creased. To illustrate: if factory sells
Sl,OUO,OO0 worth of goods it must employ
more people than if ii sells only 100000.
and the tariff undoubtedly swells the sales
OF the American factory: hence it benefits
labor and capital alike. The tariff assists
IN creating and enlarging the demand;
hence II helps the employe. The law of
supply and demand is exempli6ed bv the
workings of the tariff and shows how de-
mand and supply are both created and
iostered in America by the protective sys-
tenn. 1t is something so plain that it seems
TO me that even Democratic orator or a
Democratic newspaper man ought to under
stand 1t. 1t is just as simple as any propo-
sltion IN finance can be, and scarcely needs |
more than bare statement to prove itself. |
J pelleye that the Democrats do understand
it. | believe that they are running this |
tariff question for purpose that / will |
speak of later on, and which is not ayowed |
by them They know that reduction of
the tariff means reduction of wages and |
they should admit it.
PROTECT MAN AS WELL AS LABOR.
Now, this question of protecting wages
and protecting productions leads inevitably |
to another question intimately associated |
and connected with it, and which is a higher |
and more important question, namely |
Why protect the products of labor and not |
protect the laboger--the man himself? What |
good will protection do; what will protec-
tion benefit, if you do not protect the man
himself? We legislate in favor of the loom
and in favor of labor. We legislate
against the Chinaman. That is right and
proper. Is that all we need? Is that all
the danger we have to fear? No. There
are other countries from whence is being
poured upon US a labor as degraded, as de.
basing and as destructive to the country as
is the labor of the Chinese 1t comes full
of danger to our free institutions. mistak
ing license for liberty, ready to inoculate us
with the deadly poison of impure political
creed, animated with a desire to tear down
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