Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-19

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gentlemen, Mr.. Blaine has not been oecu-
pying good position from which to view
the interests of the American working
man, farmer and consumer. Mr.. Cat-
negie's coach as il bowled along over the
hills of Scotland is not good place from
which to lock at the interests Of America.
Applause. Nor are the testal balls OF
Uluny Castle 9 very good point either.
Applause.
WAGES DO NOT DEPEND ON THE TARIFF.
If had the time I think could show
to the satisfaction of every intelligent and
candid man within the sound Of my voice,
that the wages of labor are no more affected
by the rate upon imported goods, than the
yield Of corn to the acre on your farm Is
affected by it. Applause. And one OF
the chief benefits OF the system in the esti-
nation of Mr.. Harrison, is the fact that
the people do not know how much they
are paying. When mans money Is taken
away from him without his knowledge
some malicious people call it stealing.
[Applause I will not. however, apply
that term to the process by which the Gov
ernment of the United States extracts this
enormous amount of money from the pock-
cts of the people who earn it, and puts 1t
in the public treasury or the pockets OF
some one else, but will say that it is the
most dangerous form of taxation that could
be devised.
Under direct tax law you would not
submit to it a single day, and the man
who went to Congress from any single
Congressional district in the United States,
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cast his vote in favor Of the reformation OF
such o system Of taxation would never see
the halls Of the House again. Cheers.
TARIFF DOES NOT INCREASE WAGES.
1 have said, gentlemen, that the system
of taxation is continued on the ground
| that it increases the rates OF wages OF the
American laborer. There are two or three
facts which show conclusively that this
argument is not sound. In the first place
it is a conceded fact that there is as
much difference between the rates
of wages paid in this coun-
try to lsborers engaged IN the
same occupation in different parts of the
country as there is between the difference
of the average rate Of wages paid here and
in European countries, and yet the tari1
law prevails throughout the whole United
States. [Applsuse. You will find on
exam nation Of the labor statistics
that from 50 to 80, and
in some cases even as high as 100 more
premium is paid for labor, in the same
occupation 10 Chicago than is paid in New
York or Philadelphia. If the tariff regu-
lated wages l submit that the rates OF
wages would be the same, would be uni.
form on the same occupations throughout
the United States under the same tariff.
ANOTHER FACT IS
that the greatest differences between the
rates of wages paid here and the rates paid
! in European countries is found in those oc-
cupations which nobody pretends can be
protected under the tariff laws. For in
stance there is far greater differ
epce between the rates OF wages
paid here to carpenters, plasterers,
painters, stone aud brick mssons, team
sters, railroad employees, steamboat en-
ployes, and the rate of wages paid the
same classes of workiugmen in Europe
than there is between the rates Of wages in
YOUR mills and cotton factories, and the
rate of wages paid in the same industry
in Europe. The rates of wages paid in
this country, too, in the unprotected In
dustries ore larger on the average than the
rates of wages paid in this country in the
protected lndustries, and the difference
between them in the one case and those
paid in Europe in the other case is palmer
much plsiner
WAGES INCREASE UNDER Low TARIFF.
Another fact is that since 1s46, when
the Euglish corn laws we're repealed, and
Eugland entered on free trade, the rates OF
wages have increased some so to IS
and even as high as 100 per
cent in come occupations in Eug-
land. Can we trace that increase in
this country during the same timer An
other fact is that the rate of wages in the
mechanical and manufacturing industries
of the United States increased far more
during what Ia called the free trade
psriod from 1850 TO 1850 than they have
ever since that time. l simply state these
facts without going into argument to prove
them. can produce abundant and over
whelming testimony from lsboring men,
from manufacturers, from testimony given
before investigating committees in the
House, to prove the truth of every state
ment / have made upon this subject APP
plapsel.
FOREIGN COMPETITION IMPOSSIBLE.
But they say if you reduce these duties
this country will be overwhelmed with
foreign cheap goods, and all our msnufac-
turing and mechanical industries will be
ruined. Why, gentlemen, il all the ships
in the world were employed continuously
in bringing goods from Liverpool to New
York it would take them two years to
bring rs much as Q single railroad in this
country carries IN one year.
And yet these gentlemen expect seDsi-
BILE men to believe that a reduction Of
tas alton on the people will close up all
our manufacturing establishments and COM
pel people to rely alone on foregn products
!, for the necessaries Of life. The PROPOSE
ton is too absurd and preposterous to be
argued.
HOW 1T INJURIES THE FARMER.
Mr.. Frye, of Maine. q distinguished
member of the United States Senate, o
particular friend of Mr.. Blaine, made q
speech in that body on the Odd of last JAN
usry, in which he said that he had reason
to believe, after making personal
4 investigation of this question OF labor and
prices of commodities that bacon and pork,
beef, -four butter and cheese were as cheap
in this country as they were in Europe.
That is to say the commodities
which the farmer produces and
is compelled to sell a. cheap
here ss they gre in the psuper labor coun-
tries of Europe. This is the testimony of
the Republican Senator given in the United
States Senate after personal visit to
Europe. But how is Ii with the things
the farmer is compelled TO buy? Are
they are cheap here as in Europe? No,
: You are subjected upon every one of them
If they are imported to an average tax Of
AZ lilo per cent, and on the rest the
manufacturer has the opportunity to sdd
the same percentage to his price, and in
msny cases he does it in the name Of
American labor.
Enthusiastic cheers that continued a
long while greeted Mr.. Carlisle at bis
concl usion.
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