The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-05
material and enlarge its productions and its
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ENEMIES OF LABOR.
We further subm that those are enemies Of
American labor who supplant it with the
! labor of unnaturalized foreigners when
| ever that can De obtained the cheapest, and
| who receive by law a per cent. from the con
| sumner in trust for the American labor which
makes their products, ana fraudulently with
hold more than half that trust fund from its
! owners, and who also lessen and restrict the
! amount OF labor by limiting the production and
/ markets by tariffs and trusts and that those
| are its true friends who seek to shut off
unnatural and heather competition, enlarge its
| products and markets, and to lessen for it the
| cost of the necessities of life Cotton was long
| ago placed upon the free list. Did that make
! free traders of those who voted for that
measure? Did it reduce the wages OF the opera
tives of the cotton factories close the cotton
mills? or did it destroy the plantations? On the
contrary, we have grown more cotton than
ever since that legislation, and we have ex-
ported more than ever. Our cotton mills are
more profitable to-day than any other, and our
cotton operatives have steadier work and better
wages than those who work in other mills; and
we export their finished products by the hun
dred million yards while protected wool has
stopped one-fourth of the wooden machinery
and thrown 25 per cent. of the wooden operatives
out of employment.
THE LEATHER INDUSTRY.
More than decade and half ago hides we're
placed upon the free list. Did that destroy the
leather industry in this country? On the con-
trary we lead the world in its manufacture,
save in few minor branches and with largely
increased population, our expectations of
leather have decreased and our importatiOns of
its finished products have increased What has
happened with cotton and with hides, it is conf
IDENTIFY believed and promised will happen
with free wool Our production of wool will
increase, our manufactures will revive, our
wooden operatives Will have Steadler work ana
therefore better wages, our products of wooden
goods will increase and as well our expectations
of WOODEN goods to foreign countries.
Not ten years ago quinine was placed upon
the free list against protests louder and more
vehement than are heard now about the wanton
destruction of an honorable industry. What
was the result With immensely increased pro-
ducton in this country, without one cent loss
of wages to operatives, but on the contrary to
their great gain. for now make 2,25O, 900
ounces it cannot but mean steadier work to
more employees, and the shivering con
sumner reapS the benefit, measured not by
cents but by dollars per ounce, and the only
destruction which followed in the wake of this
reduction, was of what was then the most
formidable trust in existence. Monopoly went
down, and legitimate manufactures prospered.
The minority are firmly convinced that, besides
the incalculabla advantage to the whole country
which would result from the placing of wool
upon the free list, it is easily demonstrated that
no class will suffer, but that each will reap his
share of the benefit. and considerable space
could be devoted to argument upon this point
and citation of statistics.
In conclusion the report says:
The minority, therefore, dissenting from the
report of tine majority, commend to the senate
and country the bill of the House of Represent
of taxes, based alike upon Justice and good pol
icy. IsHAh q. HARRIS.
u. B. VANCE.
D. w. VOORHEES,.
/ concur in the above report, indorsing the
house bill in respect to the articles placed upon
the free list, but desire some notifications in
the list. j. r. MCPHERSON.
SENATOR BECK's SUPPLEMENT.
Senator Beck in supplemental and indiyid-
ual report eulogizes the Mills bill, and says
hat no bet it,,ta nj in
feature of it to increase the cost of goods
to the home consumer and TO close the mar
kets of the world against imports and ex-
ports as well, except such as are clearly
agricultural and have TO be sold abroad for
any price they will bring in free open
market with foreign competition. The object
which the majority of the committee seek
to attain is the right to plumber the people,
The present surplus in the treasury, he says
is not only needless, but dangerous and cor
rupting in all its tendencies, but it must
continue to increase. unless taxation is re-
| duced Senator Beck then proceeds to
make various citations from the Presidents
annual message and letter of acceptance.
Mr. Beck says the time has come when
even the colored men in the cotton fields
owe it to themselves to ask Gen. Harrison
and his supporters what justice there is in
forcing them to pay few American man
ufacturerS AZ per cent. more for their
clothes than they cost i'll a foreign market,
aud for the farmers Of the north and west
to ask the same question. Mr.. Beck de-
clares it to be unparalleled impotence on
the part of the republicans to assert that
the Mills bill is a free trade scheme. The
Presidents message and the House bill, he
says, are both eminently conservative. He
is glad that the finance committee has gone
to the extreme of protection, restriction
and destruction.