Evening journal., 1888-10-20


were to manufacture the other five
months? Why he gives You the answer,
Prices would fall down There you have
the whole story. Now he knows how to
illustrate that i am talking TO sensible
business men, Bayard said You know
the effect OF an Oyer-supply of anything
in q community 1t is as il you laid in a
supply Of 1000 bushels of oats and
after the supply is in, another 100 bushels
is offered to any man that will take them
VIII not that 100 bushels affect the price
OF .he other thousandr II will affect il
more than ten per cent. ] therefore com
mend my free trade friends to the logic
Of their own arguments We have here
their admission. Nay They say avowedly
that the result Of protection is to lower
prices,
IL Directly Lowers Prices.
Il agree with Secretary Bayard that it
will lower the price, but when it lowers
the price to that extent that You will
produce in seven months what you will
consume in twelve, at once the remedy
applies itself, production Is checked. and
so it is that at least the whole thing is
governed by the home competition and
by the price that is made by that compe-
thing that stands between us and the ar
gument on the other side, and that is we
must let in foreign goods, foreign prod
ucts, in order to depress the price, in
order that we may buy things cheaper
One thing, and only one stands between
us, and that is the price that should be
paid for the wages Of the American labor
ing man. Applause do not under
take to say that everything or most
things can be made as cheaply in Amer
lea as they can abroad | do not want
them to be. Applause. The one
differentiation between Ameri.
can and foreign countries is
the price Of American labor Applause !
Oh they say We import contract labor
and bring it here and Mr. Vance grew
pathetic over the way We opened our
arms to the Italian Come TO my arms
my own macaron Why does the Italian
come here2 Why it is simply to escape
the low wages Of his own country. Ap.
plause Has any Democratic paper or
speaker claimed that wages are as high
abroad as here?I will not trouble you with
statistics, but il is printed frequently
in the Morning News that the average
rate Of all industries of the wages in
Massachusetts per week is $l0.3i and in
Great Britain it is 1886 But let me call
your attention to a single industry which
is very extraordinary In New York she
brieklayer gets $50 and in Great Britain
he gets $3.50 a week Laughter and
Applause Is 1t any wonder why
they all flock here. We have had
1 to break a treaty with China to keep
them out. Laughter Let the Irish
man who is going ID vote the Democratic
4 ticket look back on the hovel that he
left and ask him whether he is going to
4 turn his thrifty house into habitation
like that2 Let him 60 to Wales. Let
/ him 20 to the mining districts of England
and see women welding the sledge at the
forge, and wheeling the Stag up the steep
as they take it on the platform above.
Let them 20 to Germany and to other
countries that have been so long under
the free trade principle. and see the
women working in the fields, as | saw
/ them this summer. and helping to draw
a wagon along the streets with dog. 1t
/ is from all that they have fed to America,
and they have been brought here as
/ long before, since the tariff of 1861
by the prosperity that has vel
coined their labor. Applause. Now
4 the answer to this, and almost
/ the only one that was made, by
i Mr.. Bayard the other night, was that
the countries in Europe and other parts
of the world that had the highest tariff
had the lowest wages, and he referred
then to Mexico. Now happen to have
i been in Mexico, and there are very few
manufacturers there. The wages before
the railroads were built were % cents a
day. and since it entered there they ar
i
Out Of the l4 600, 600 over no. 000. 600 are
Aboriginal Indians; only 800 600 are
whites, and the other o, 500 600 are of the
mixed race they are without education
they are without intelligence, they are
without training their torrid country
is too hot TO work in, and their temper
ate country is without rivers or means OF
navigation, and thus it is that Mexico il
unable to make any progress in manu-
featuring, or anything Germany has a
high tariff, but the wages in England are
twice as high as they are in Germany
but bear in mind that Germany has been
protective country only since 1882 and
they have not yet had time to build M
their industries under the protection of d
tariff but against our statesman who holds
the second place in this land | will place
German statesman that is at least not
his inferior-in diplomacy anyhow
Laughter Prince Bismarck on the 14th
Of May. 1882, in the Reichstag when the
tariff bill was before that body, said thai
Americas prosperity was undoubtedly
due to their protective system
Prince Bismarck Speaks.
Prince Bismarck said: The success,
Of the United States in material develsp
ment is the most illustrious Of modern
times. The American Nation has not only
successfully borne and suppressed the mos
gigantic and expensive war of all history
but Immediately afterward it disbandcC
its army, found employment for its sol
diers and marines, paid off most Of it.
debt, gave labor and homes to all the un
employed of Europe as fast as they coulC
arrive within its territory, and still by
system of taxation so indirect as not TO bt
perceived, much less felt Because it il
my deliberate judgment that the pros
perity Of America is due to its system o
protective laws l urge that Germany ha.
reached that point where it is necessary
to initiate the tariff system Of the United
States
Russia, says Secretary Bayard, ''hai
the highest tariff of all and tn,
lowest wages paid, and yet we know tha'
Russia is land whose laborers a few
years ago were serfs and to-day are bu
peasants-a country lingering 200 years
behind us in the march of civilization
, and utterly unable to build up manufact
uring II dustries whether with protection
or without And said Mr. Bayard Chin,
with her wall pays 81 cents to cent