St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-24
He Makes Light of Some of
Mr.. Bayard's Timely
Warnings.
Incidentally He Refers to His
Coaching Tour With Car
negie.
Political Horse Play That
Shows Blaine in His True
Light.

Mr.. Chairman: | beg to bring to
your attention and to the notice of the
audience a statement made by Mr..
Bayard in speech two weeks ago.
quote his exact words, He said: 81
want you TO think of the progress of the
United States since these tariff laws
were made and what the conse-
Quences are. Various inventions
have come into play since the tariff
reached its present proportions.
Here are some figures that l believe to
be reliable; they come from a high au-
thority, Edward Atkinson, of MasSa-
cbuSettS, who is our leading StatiStician
and an upright and honorable man.
From 1870 to 1887 the population of the
United States increased So per cent;
but in the same time the dairy products
of the United States-the cheese, the
butter, the milk and all that is created
by the dairy-increased IS per cent. In
these seventeen years the products of
cotton increased liz per cent; the con-
sumption of wool increased 100 per
cent; the production of pig iron i'll
creased 2S5 per cent; the con-
struction of railroads increased
DOB per cent. What has been
the result of all the population
increasing in so small proportion to all
these vast forces which are needful to
mems use? 1t proves to you that the
country is making more than the people
OF the country need or can consume"
In reply to Mr.. Bayard my first re-
mark is that it is a great deal better for
a people to have more than they can
consume than to have less than they can
consume. Mr.. Bayard seems to think
that
IT Is AN EVIL OMEN
if the wealth of the country increases
more rapidly than its population.
Pray, how early in our history would
he apply his principle that
wealth must develop only as the
population develops? do not, L con-
fess, quite comprehend Mr.. Bayard's
drift, for my own understanding has
been that, according to the simple rules
of political economy, where a nation is
increasing in population more rapidly
than in property, there must soon be
suffering; but where the acquisition of
property OutrunS the ratio of increase
in population, it means that q nation is
growing powerful, wealthy and great.
AS Mr.. Bayard has Endorsed Mr.. Atkin-
son as statistician and an economist,
| beg leave to use Mr.. AtkinSOn's figures
and to tell Mr.. Bayard where a large
proportion of the increase of wealth in
the United States has gone under the
protective tariff. Mr.. Atkinson stated
in July last that since 1865 the
wages of fOremen, overSeers and
other specially skilled WOrkmen have
advanced los per cent; that the wages
of average mechanicS-carpente ma
chinists and the like-have had an adj
vance of 80 per cent; that factory oper-
atives. and others of like grades of skill
in the mechanic arts, have advanced rs
per cent, and the
WAGES OF COMMON LABORERS
66 per cent. You will please observe
that these are not advances of the wage
rates of some foreign country, but over
the wages paid i'll our own country a
quarter of Il century ago, and that these
advances flow directly from the protect
i've tariff. Mr.. Bayard will see, then. from
the authority he Endorses that this large
increase of wealth has not gone merely
to enrich men already wealthy, but
that it has gone to larger degree than
was ever before known in the history of
this or any other country. into the
pockets of the wOrkingmen. If | had
been searching for witnesses by whom
the value of. the tariff to the working
men of the country could be established
beyond doubt, | would have summoned
Mr.. Bayard and Nh. Atkinson to the
stand. Mr.. Bayard further gives public
warning that it we do not take care we
shall produce in this country as much
in seven months as we shall need in
twelve months. Well, that is the last
thing that should alarm the American
people. That fact shows above all
things our power TO shorten the hours
of labor. And now let me turn to an
other topic. While [ was in Indiana |
had the pleasure. | had the honor, of
frequent notices on the stump from his
eXcellency David B. Hill. The princi-
pal sabject he appeared to have come
West to lay before the people of Indiana
was that had driven on Mr..
CARNEGIE'S COACH
when in Scotland; that l had returned
home on an English steamer, and had
imported thirty-three trunks. ''all full
of clothing," as his excelleEcy averred.
If he had taken the pains to inquire of
Mr.. Carnegie he might have learned the
cost OF his coach and the color of his
horses. and have been thus better pre-
pared for his Indiana campaign. If he
had asked me about the trunks | would
freely have given him list of all the
pocket handkerchiefS, stockings and
cravats that [ had imported, and
would gladly have Informed his
excellency, by way of giving him an OBJ
ject lesson on the tariff, that articles of
that kind are about the same price i'll
London as in New York. As have no
doubt that he desires to do me exact
I hnx Tt.r Al,a.. Il
his eXcellency that he miStoOk the char
acter of the steamer | returned in, mas
much as she belongs to a CON-
pany of American stockholders;
and | would have further Informed him
that he overstated the number of
trunks, which was in all twenty-five, in
stead of thiTty-three, that these trunks
belonged to six persons, instead of all
belonging to me, and that the other
packages were made up of steamer rugs,
steamer chairs, umbrella covers, and hat
boxes and one case, | think. containing
photographs. Among these photographs
were several
VIEWS OF THE ENGLISH Ass.
which / had brought with me for an
agricultural friend for the purpose of
comparison with the American species.
/ would have cheerfully given the gov
ernor set, if | had known he was so
curious about my affairs, so that upon
his next tour among the county fairs he
might have exhibited the specimen and
illustrated how admir- aj'y the II liSl
ass and the American ass drivei in pairs.
l was thoroughly impressed during the
governors tour of Indiana with his
lofty appreciation of national iesues.
and of the valuable aid he must be rem
deying the cause of President Cleve-
land. lie does not grovel III the dust
nor spend his time in petty and pitiful
comprehensive view of public affairs,
so as to embrace the sideway amuse-
ments of Republicans who go abroad,
and also an inventory of their baggage