Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-05

passed Ia this sc0rld. Loud applause There
is another reason why American laborers
receive more wages and that is the i'm
mense area Of uncultivated territory in the
United States, the effect of which is to
free the laborers Of that dependence which
may exist in other countries where land
is very dear, that dependence upon the
manufacturing or capitalistic class for
work in this country. A man can get land
to labor upon to support himself and his
family by simply asking 1t OF the general
Government and settling upon it and re-
naming upon it given length Of time
The consequence is that with these adj
vantages no man need be a dependent upon
the good will Of any monopolist in the
world, and that gives our laboring men an
independence which is not seen elsewhere
on the globe, and enables them therefore
to demand and receive somewhat higher
wages than laborers receive elsewhere
Then there Is the fact OF esdr free institu-
tions and there is the fact of the pride that
every man in this country, be he laboring
man or not feels in the consciousness that
he is an American citizen; that he helps to
govern this country, and makes people
govern it as far as possible for his benefit
But there is another thing that is couclus-
i've on this point and shows that high
protective tariff does not increase the
wages Of the laboring men. 1t is conclus-
lively shown by the fact that laborers in
unprotected industries are as well paid as
those in the so-called protected industries.
How many laborers are there in what are
called protected industries, that is engaged
in manufacturing articles, which when they
are brought from abroad are charged with
tariff tax. and how many lsborers are
there in the United States whose interests
are in no wise protected by any such things,
and can not in the nature Of things be pro-
tected by any such meansa It has been
estimated that there are 0O00 or 900, 600
laborers. including women and children, in
the protected industries, but we will put
the figure at 1000 900. There are eight
times as many other laborers whose inter-
ests and occupations are in nowise pro-
tected by the tariff. Therefore, If the pro-
lection Is for the benefit of the laboring
men, the wages of this million engaged in
the protected industries ought to be higher
than those Of the men employed in nom
protected industries In round numbers
the laborers in the unprotected industries
receive as high wages as those in the pro-
tected industries. don't know what the
wages of farm hands are in Michigan In
my State they receive about one dollar
day, and you see in the State Of Massa-
chusetts, according to the returns Of her
own board OF industry, the average wages
Is Sl.O4 day in manufacturing industries.
So there is no difference worth talking
about between the wages the one receives
and the wages the other receives They
are both substantially the same. Looking
at the improved condition and comforts,
the constant elevation of the agricultural
hand in the State Of Ohio, it will be seen
that he receives quite as good wages as
the laborer in any protected industry in
the country.
EFFECT UPON THE FARMER.
My friends, nothing is more common
for those men appeal to everybody-than
to hear protectionist orator say that pro-
lection has benefited the farmer. How
can it be Of benefit to farmera l have
never been able to find out. Let US test it
by little experience this country has had
We had low tariff from 1916 up to the
breaking out of the war in 1861 1t was
called the Walker tariff. l remember it
very well, for was in the House of Repre-
sentatives at that time and voted for it.
From 1850 to 1860, while that tariff was in
force, the farm lands of the United States
according to the census reports. increased
in value 103 per cent Then came the high
tariff Of 1861 or 1862, whichever it was, and
from 1860 to 1870, another period of ten
years, the increase in the value of the
farms of the United States was only 40 per
cent Under the low tariff the increase in
value had been 103 per cent. in ten years.
Under the high tariff IL was only 40 per
cent But it may be said that that includes
the war period and does not make a fair
comparison 1 have here a statement Of
how 1t was in this goodly State of Michigan
From 1850 to 1860, under the low-tariff pc
riod, the value Of the farms in Michigan
increased 211 per cent. From 1880 10 1870.
under high tariff, they increased 14S'pes
cent; but that includes the time OF war
From 1879 to $780, in q time of profound
peace and under the highest tariff this
country has ever known, the value Of the
farms in Michigan increased only 25h
per cent They increased under Walkers
tariff, which has been denounced 90 much
since rs q free-trade tariff they increased
from 1850 to 1860 211 per cent, and some OF
you will remember that under the Walker
tariff we had a great war-the war with
Mexico Had values continued to increase
from 1860 to 1880 as they did under the low
tariff period-1850 to 1S60-the farm values
in Michigan would have been q, ,047, 600 600
in 1880, instead of being, as they were by
the census of $780, only $499, O00, 600 Or
take farm implements. From 1850 to 1850
the value Of farm implements had In
creased at the rate OF 101k per cent In
1880 the increase was only Al per cent. II
they had increased in the same ratio under
the high tariff as they did under the low
they would have been S23, SOC, 600 instead Of
S19, SOC, ,000 You will see by these figures that
it is quite impossible that this high tariff
can be OF advantage to the agricultural
community.
on THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Why, gentlemen, If you would Just look
over the scheme for plundering the Gov.
ernment owing to this great surplus, you
would be amazed. There Is scarcely any
thing that somebody won't ask for. They
say the Government has the money. II is
idle in the Treasury, and you might as
well give IL to us for our little scheme M
let it lie there. And so every scheme of
extravaganza, every thing in the world by
which the people can be bled and high tax
alton kept up is advocated by these men
and Congress owing in great de-
gree to this fact of surplus In the Treas
ury. Before / conclude, my friends want
to ask your attention for moment to an
other thing-what is called the Chinese
question, the question of the importation
Of Chinese into this country. What wish
to say upon this subject can not better be
expressed than what said to my own oon-
stituents In Cincinnati in 1870, I'VE years
before the Legislature of California memo
rialized the Congress on the subject of
Chinese emigration. will ask my friend.
Mr.. Cultivate, to read it, as find that -,
voice is breaking down. [A1s .,,,h.sts
read the extract IS followsI: 81 do
.'o 10. 'ninA sN large Chinese immigra-
s. 70 this country is desirable I
do not think it would be desirable acoui.
sition- On the contrary, / think it would
De serious, disturbing element In race,
civilization, habits, education and religion
the Chinese are widely different from our
people, so different as to form a very strik-
ing contrast The European immigrants
are OF the same race, religion and civiiiza-
ton as ourselves, and while thew add i'm
mensely to the power and wealth of the
Republic they do not seriously disturb the
substantial homogeneity Of our white popu-
iation- Their immigration, therefore, bene-