Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-03

tional advantages of the people are more uni
versaliy enjoyed; the opportunities to gain
competence is within the reach OF every man
The American worker of to-day viii be the
capitalist or statesman of to morrow this is mo-
so IN any free trade country.
WHEN WE HAVE FRkE TRADE.
How viii we be able to pay for the cheaI
foreign goods we hear so much about? Whal
Will we exchange for the wool, fruit or lumber
or borax, or iron. or steel that we are 10 pur
chase SO eheaply in Europe? The Northern
States of this Union cannot send them sugar OF
cotton or rice, because we produce none of these
nor can we send them tobacco because little OF
none is raised in the great Northern Central OF
Western States of the Union. Grain is produced
more cheaply in India. Nothing would be left
for us 70 do but pay in money.
how loDg would our money last if we i'm
ported all that can be more cheapiy made in
Europe? Ruin would soon stare us in the face.
For there is no proposition better settled than
that q country cannot long survive whose chief
eHport Is money, or TO be exact, whose imports
exceed their exports.
When we have to go TO Australia to get our
WOOL to England 10 get our iron aud steel and
our cotton and wooden goods: to Spain TOR our
raisins, to Asia and South America for our nuts,
to Brit sh Columbia for our lumber, you will
hnd America VIII occupy the same relation to
Europe that Ireland now does to England. We
! VIII iorm splendid all to their kite.
/ CHEAP LABOR OF THE SOUTH.
/ il is true that in the Southern and Democratic
I states OF the Union labor is cheap; the labor
question would not be severely affected there.
Inc average prices OF unskilled labor in the old
southern States is only from sS to SO q month,
! while the average prices OF the same classin the
I Northern or Republican States is from Sl4 to $50
, month. The South is for free trade the North
IL ior protection, and this is the result on the
, labor market.
But the Democracy tell us what splendid
wages are paid for labor in Europe that the
huying capacity OF money is greater there than
here; that people live there more cheaply than
they do here. In a word this canvass is all
European on the one side and all american on
the other. Right orwrong let US be for America;
but we are right. Is it wise to degrade the
millions Of the American people who work for
the benefit OF the few who need no protection =?
Should we make it impossible for the polr men
Of America who toll with their hands to aspire
TO anything beyond the lines of labor and the
paths OF want? Shall there be Il class distinction
III this free land? shall labor be made dishonor-
able AID the laborer dishonored? Can this re-
public be long msintained unless the necessities
OF the poor and the wants of the many are
guarded? You cannot perpetuate liberty, make
property secure, fit the masses of men for the
high duties of their American citizenship and
. at the same time place your laboring classes on
, par with European and Asiatic labor.
1t is worse than cruelty to tell the American
who works for his bread that if he viii live as
Europeans and Cinnamon do, he can work as
cheaply. No American ought TO or will live that
way.
DEMOCRATIC REFORM.
Four years ago we were promised Cleveland
and reform. We got Cleveland. This year
we are promised tariff reform, and we get free
trade. Think of the reforms that are being
worked out in the Democratic party of San
Francisco, and by the Democrats of New York
city. The Grand Jury Of both cities have de
ciared in the most solemn manner that the cor
ruption amo g the Democratic otfice-holders OF
those cities is unparAlle ed anywhere else in the
Republic: ii is charged and not denied that
iurles are tampsred with; the decrees of Courts
sold in the market; public positions farmed out
for share of the profits That taxation is only
limited by the peoples ability IS pay; aud in a
word every right that a freeman values is tram
pied into the dust, and all for reform. These are
Democratic communities; you note the result
And now these same reformers want to give us
free trade They forget, If this IS done, there
will be nothing left
We are not compelled TO rely upon the pos
sible effect OF the Democratic tree trade policy
. on American industries to realize the result
We need but point to the present Democratic ad-
ministration as an example. The frequent as
saults and constant menace made upon the IN
dustries of the country have already frightened
capital FROM new investments and imperilled
investments already made.
EFFECT OF ME. CLEvELANDS POLICY.
To illustrate the effect of Mr.. Cleveland s
policy upon American industries quote from
the United States Treasurer's Report on Com
mcrce and Navigation of lSS7," where it appears
the combined imports and exports of the couu-
try from Is 9 TO 1887 are as follows:
1880 g. sos 593 40i 41s 2l1 302
1881 1913 O4l ,974 lSS5..... 3I9 M 0Si
,o5ll
1SS3.-....... 47 l20 316 1887 40S 502 976
It viii thus be noticed that there has been a
general decline in the business of the country
since MI. Cleveland came into Office. Note the
effect OF this same policy upon the carrying
trade of the country.
Ii must be borne in mind that the Democratic
South is not a commercial people; the Republi-
can North is, and hence the sectional attacks
upon these industries.
From page s. OF the same report appears the
f1llONing
''0niy "A per cent. of our foreign trade. meas
ured by its value is carried i'll home vessels.
while 81 per cent. is carried in foreign vessels.
Only per cent. of our foreign trade is con
Quoted in steamers bearing our national flag,
while Is per cent. of that trade, with all its
profits, and the employment OF capital aud
labor, il conducted in alien vessels. The con-
slant and repeated decline of our share of the
transportation OF the commodities exchanged be-
tween this ard foreign countries viii be seen
elsewhere, There was Il decline i'll
the value of commodities carri1 d in our own
vessels from 70 per cent in 1857 to Il per cent in
1887"
Indeed, to be exact, only seventy-nine Amer
ican vessels cleared from American ports
freighted with American products for Great
Britain during the year 1857, while 4 l93 foreign
veSse's clear from American ports, freghted
with American goods. bound 10 an English
market.
So destructive has been the Clevelanl-Demo-
cratic party upon american commerce that dur
ing the three years of his administration fewer
American vessels have been constructed than
during any OIner ike period lOr over thirty
years. And although the population and wealth
of our country has increased more than 800 per
cent during that period, ct our commerce has
been driven from the seas. Our carrying trade
is in foreign hands aud our shipping industry is
destr0yec.
The tariff laws OF The country are the same
to-day as ten years aEo, yet We canDot but no.
tice the effect OF an uiiricGdly policy on Amer
lean industries anu American commerce.
AMERICAN TONNAGE.
In proof of this let me show in detail the
yearly amount Of tonnage built in the United
States ICT the last thirty years 1t will be OBJ
served thar tGio Democratic administration
stands Slone among all of its predecessors,
democratic, Wing OF Republican, rs the great
anti-American dcadrot national administration.
The following shows ali the tonnage o. YES
sells built in the United States from Is TO 1887:
For instsnce, in 1851 the onnage built in the
United States was S7S, sos.
1858 2i6
i56 725
1861. IA 7qSl $50