Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-20
FACTS, NOT FANCIES.
SENATOR FRYE COMPARES PRO-
LECTION AND FREE TRADE.

LECTION AND FREE TRADE.
The Former Gives tho Working Man Good
Wages, Good Food, Good Clothes, and
Gives His Children Education-The Lat
ter Means Starvation.
One party favors q protective tariff
chiefly for the best interests of men who
work for wages. What is a protective
tariff Let me illustrate it so that it will
be within the comprehension of this
bright eyed boy / see sitting before me,
and in the illustration / shall be governed
by facts, not by ~fancies. Wherever |
give wages l shall give those abroad at
the highest, and those at home at the
awhile Woodstock to be the United States;
New Haven, England; and l take Eng
land because it is the best wage pay
ing country in the world outside this re-
public. / propose to build a twelve set
wooden mill here at Woodstock, United
States, and it's exact counterpart in New
Eaven, England. / here in
Woodstock, United States. Ipay men who
e%xcavate for the foundation from ST to
$1.40 a day, and the men who work inthe
quarry and set the stone, from 81. so to 50
q day; men who make the bricks, from
Sl.50 to So a day; the painters, from SO
to 80 o day; the quarters of slate, from
$1.50 to 81 a day; the masons who lay the
bricks, from So to So a day; and when
my mill is complete it has cost me $780,
DOC, 30 per cent. of the whole amount be-
ing money paid for labor. I step across
into New Haven, for the time being Eng
land, and l proceed to erect the same
mill. To the men who ~excavate | pay
from 40 to 60 cents a day; to those who
quarry the rock and lay the founda-
ton from go 10 so cents q day; to the
brick makers from 80 cents to so cents a
day. | go to Staffordshire and hire, it
may be, 100 women to make my bricks,
and pay them 81 cents a thousand; or, it
may be, ! hire some little girls, barefooted
and bareheaded, from 10 to IA years of
age, to carry the wet clay in my brick
yard on their little bare heads, from 8 to
8 cents a day. pay my masons at from
10 to So cents aday; my skaters 81 a day;
my painters from SO cents to 81 a day;
and when my mill is completed, it has
cost me $500, 600. Why this mill $780,
900 and the mill in Woodstock $500, 000g
What makes this immense difference in
cost? Remember that the mill is 90 per
cent. labor,
Remember that the trees i'll Cur forests,
the clay in our banks, the stone and slate
in Dur quarries, the coal in our mines and
the iron in the earth, are as cheap as in
Europe. What, then. makes the mill
here cost twice as much as there2 Clearly,
only that labor here is paid more than
twice as much as labor there.
o build my machinery for the mill
~. yHT1~l,4.oIr Y JT-.L.l fl-I-.L -
my machinists from $3.50 to S. o day,
and it costs me $4,000. / step over into
New Haven. England, and pay my best
machinist 81 q day. and my machinery
costs me 1856, 600. Remember that of the
machinery 80 per cent. at least is labor.
Now the mills are complete, and here
in Woodstock, the United States, I hire
my men and my women, my ~sorters, my
spinners, my weavers and my dressers.
Ipay my women from SO to $S O week,
my men from $40 to 500 a week. I get
out q case of cloth at a cost to me of lust
500. Igo over into New Haven, Eng.
land, and hire my men and my women
] pay my women from $1.9 0 to SO a week,
my men from 81 to 81 a week. get out
a like caseiof goods, and find its cost to
be just $50. Now if l can take that case
of cloth, costing $50. bring it here and
sell 1T in competition with the case which
has cost here In Woodstock 800, don't
you see / can sell it for $50, $40 less than
the cost of the case here, and still make
q profit of $40? How long, then, will my
ain in Woodstock run against such COM
petition as that7 Now the Democratic
party says, under it's doctrine of free
trade-the right to buy in the cheapest
markets and sell In the ~dearest-make all
the goods you please over there in New
Haven, England, send them freely here,
and sell them in competition with the
goods made In Woodstock. But, nv
Democratic friend, will not the mill in
Woodstock be compelled to stop2 "No."
How can 1t run? There is but one way on
the face of the earth it can, andthat is by
cutting down the wages of the men who
work on the excavations, In the quarries,
on the foundation, in the ~brickyard; OF
the plasterers, the painters, this rood-
workers, the skaters, the machinists, and
the men and women who work in the
mills, to the wages paid in New Haven,
England, and then the mill can run.
Says my friend who works in the mill,
II cannot work, Mr.. Frye, for any such
wages as those you have named" eyes
you can, for they do in Europe" 'tBui
| couldn't have meat every day, and tn,
comforts and Injuries for my family they
now enjoy" mo, you couldn't; but yol
could have meat as often as once or twice
a week. You could have soup every day
thick coffee sweetened with molasses
and a dark colored wheaton bread. Thai
is free trade diet for workingmen.'
But, Mr.. Frye, I couldn't send my
children to the schools" mo, with you
present pride you could not dress then
to your satisfaction to send them tt
school; and, indeed, you would neee
their services in the mill to help earn tn,
bread they eat and such clothing as the,
wear" "But, MIR. Frye; I could not say,
any money; could never buy a home TO
my family mo, you could not, and tn
workers there donot. Inspector Wheatly
who devoted ten years to a study of til
condition of the worlkingmen of. England
in answer toa question, said: I do no
know of one skilled artisan who owns
piece of land or the house standing o
it.'"-Senator Frye's Fourth of Jul
speech at Woodstock. Conn.
Some Pertinent Questions.
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