Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

per cent Canadian duty IN order 70 enter the
Dominion Of Canada. and CANADA imposes the
same duty upon England because England
permits all her colonies to make their own
tariffs, and Canada and America make no i
difference between English and American
or German goods. land now mark the
and the result. which no Repub-
hcan dare deny. The American exporter
takes his goods with duty OF 70 to % per cent
and completes with English manufacturers In
IN English colony under the English market Of
that colony and We sold ~, O00 000 last year OF
manufactured goods Of the United States in the
the Republicans assert tgreat applausel, and
yet those gentlemen who export these goods
elamor for more proteo ton"
They say that pig iron for instance. Is 50
per cent labor II made into steel rails and they
say that Abr2m Hewitt, testified to it before
committee of Congress-. Mark the absurdity
that whom the steel rail manufacturers mako
the assertion you are to take iron in the earth,
the cost OF mining it, the cost OF coal and coke
in reducing it the cost Of machinery that ID
used and all the successive and intermediate pro
cesses until it becomes steel that makes 90 per
cent OF cost in the manufacture Of these rails.
Why suppose the tailor demands protection on
my coat! In estimating the amount of protoc-
ton that he ought TO have on that coat
ought we to go back and estimate the price OF
sheep upon whose back grew the WOOL the
price OF shearing the wool, the price of cleaning
the WOOL the price OF weaving the cloth,
ana thon say to the tailor It has cost 90
per cent. OF the value Of the cloth and We will
protect you upon that basis! Doesn't it
reach the tailor . finished productf
Didn't he pay for all the cost before that timer
What living man would dare dispute that prop
osition and yet the majority OF the Finance
Committee OF the Senate reduced the tarih duty
on steel rails from sl7 to e15.6S and. gentlemen,
when told them in the Senate, I said to Mr..
Allison in the debate that 400 represented tho
cost OF changing pi, iron into steel rails. o.
yes, he said, but you must go back and take
the cost OF making that iron until it reaches tho
stages of pig IRON ITSELF"
IF it is the tariff makes the difference Gin
wages) that tariff ought to descend in its benef-
cent effects like the rain from Heaven upon tho
just and unjust alike. It ought to be alike but
it is kept low at place only because 1t is not
tho tarif that increases the price of labor in
this country. Why, my friends, tho tarin
does it why Is it that Russia, which IN the
highest protected country in the world, has
the poorest paid labor; Why 10 il that
Germany, with very high tarif, pays
less than half tho wages that il paid in FREQ
trade England; why is it that France pays
less than one-half what is paid in ENGLAND,
Chinese we'll there is almost nothing psid to
any industry? It Is not the tariff. It is de-
mano and supply. Go to one OF our Terrific
Hies wish Mr.. Mckinley would go there;
NO WOOdO uuO CWlC6 As MUCH p8lQ 1OH l3OOHY
. poor cook $50 q month. . housemaid go
month and on with all the different pun
suits that are carried on by American people
in these districts. Does the tarlh affect it!"
why, my friends, have been up in West
Virginia addressing the people Of the Kanawhs
valley, and up there they produce salt. Mr..
Mckinley says look at salt, only worth 20 cents
barrel OF 260 pounds and the barrels thrown
In; what Is the matter with that? Invent up
there and they told me that one operator had
bought two years ago every salt spring in that
valley and stopped all but one OF them, and
thus you have salt trust. Why, few years
ago when steel rails were making enor-
nous fortunes IN . single day they formed .
trust and they bought up the Vulcan iron and
steel works VI St. Louis and paid them 30
much year not to make q single ton OF steel
rails, just chean. clear profit il they would
not interfere with the monopoly, and to-day
there is not one single article OF the neces.
sar1eS OF Ii fe or luxuries that is not subject "a
combination or trust. No wonder they do moi
want foreign goods. No wonder they say wa
are the English party. We went just laws; We
want equal laws. We don't want law that
drains Missouri to enrich Rhode Island and
Massachusetts,. We don't intend to star d It
as tell these gentlemen now, ana a. told
them in the senate"