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

/ INCLUDE manufacturing, Free wool does not
mean cheap wool, because as have stated, the
| trade in her own market the prices of the for
| eign wool will be advanced. This is the eX-
Peilenee OF the past, and history repeats itself.
MIR. Cleveland seems TO forget, also, that di-
| reetiy or indirectly there are 100000 of the
American people engaged in the wool and
woolen Industries, and whsn they leave these
pursuits they must do something else, and they
viii thus crowd out some other calling and rem
! der it less remuneratiye to all OF them.
NECESSITY OF REGULAR EMPLOYMENT OF LABOR.
OF necessity, an undue increase in the num-
! Der OF men engaged in any one pursuit viii re
SUIT in an over supply of labor and an under
stronger between the men who labor for their
| bread than the products OF labor. For after all
| money Will take care of itself. A hungry man
and destitute family cannot get bread except
| by work, and it is a part of wise statesmanship
to so legisate as to place within the reach of all
men an even chance 10 earn an honest liVeli-
/ mood. IL increases the mum Der of happy homes,
It decreases the number of criminals and
| pauperS, and it eleYates the moral tone of the
people Nothing is so demoralizing to the
morals of community as large number of
FRUIT INDUSTRY.
Again, referring to our own State and to the
great interest we have in protection the fruit
raiser Will tell you, ana he will tell you the
TRUTH too. that since California commenced to
make raisins and raise prunes, by reason of
our American competition, the price of the for
eign article has been lowered in American mar
kets
He will tell YOU that the foreign producers.
| before California competed with them, received
too much for their goods, and that the Califor-
mia producer has since received too little. He
will tell you that labor in California is 81 a dav
competitors in American markets), labor is but
from 20 to 40 cents day. He will tell you that
transportation to the Eastern States from France
and Spain is less by one-half what it is from
California to the same market. He will say ~
started this infant industry in America; cult
yate American soil; employ American labor
and why should not my industry be protected
as against foreign cheap labor and foreign cheap
products? In time OF war have defended
American honor, and in time of peace l have
! attempted to maintain the supremacy of Ameri-
can industries; l have paid my taxesi in America
to maintain republican institutions; | am one
of the sixty millions OF American sovereigns
this is my country; in all the past, when it has
been in danger have defended and protected
1t; now that my pursuit in life is endangered
why should not my own Government protect
me?'
What answer does the Democracy make to
this? They say, Don't you see we are for pro
lection? We protect everything except what
California produces; we favor a tariff on The
| sugar produced in Democratic States and CON
sumed here; we don't like fruit; we like hog
and hominy.'
MISTAKES OF FREE TRADERS.
The mistake the free-traders make in discus
sing the tariff question is, that every one of
them want 10 buy in cheap labor markets what
\ theF must purchase, and ssll in protective
LAarkels where there Is no competition To
illustrate, 6nd from al case in point Demo
cratic Fresno rSiSn-Erower recently stated be
was satisfied with the Democratic tariff on
raiSins, and for the reason that lumber rom
which he made his raisin boxes was placed on
the tree list. and that other articles used by him
were treated in the same way. Mark the result
Ihat rdisin-gIower pays more than double for
ms iaDor than do the men engaged in the same
business IN Malaga. The lumber man pays
prOpOrtionately for his labor. Now if raisins
were on the free list instead OF bearing tariff of
one and hall cents per pound, no raisins
could be successfully and profitably raised in
| this State; and suppose the lumber man quits
| his business, and quit he must unless he finds
market for his lumber (and this Democratic
| naisin-grower will not buy of him. he mus. do
something; so he leaves the lumber business
which does not pay and goes into the raisiu
business, also. Then comes the paper man and
the lltbographer and the nail manufacturer, all
| OF whom furnish material for The raisin-grower
They have TO quit their business because the
producer OF raisins buys his paper and nails and
| gets mis- hthographing done where they have
cheap labor. our people must all do something
aud so they so into the raisin business too, and
| thus tnSt business is overcrowded, and the
market becomes overs 'ocked. They all try to
| sell their products but they cannot do it, There
| is too much Of it, The American tailor win not
buy American raisins because the American
raisin-gTower viii not buy his clothes from
| him. He says: You to me YOU could get
| clothes made cheaper III hngland. ] am an
American citizen and don't live in England
and can't work for English wages, so will buy
| Malaga raisins, for must keep even some way
/ and thus the raisin-grower must either quit ihe
| business or decrease his expenses.
The first step taken i'll all eases of this kind is
4 to 4DWIr the wages % the r1eu who work. The.
laboTer is the first sufferer; and so the wages Of
| The laborer are lowered to European prices
Now this is fair Illustration, because the
same rule fits every case and illustrates every
| industry. But if we add 20 this illustration the
| further fact that the moment the American lum-
berman and the nsil manufacturer ana the pa
| per maker and the lithographer ana the tailor
are driven out of their business al home BY rea-
| son of foreign competition, the prices of the
| European products imported into America will
| be Immediately increased, because America is
| no longer in the market and ceases to be a com
| pettor.
ENGLAND FOR FREE TRADE.
| For over century there has been two lines of
| policy followed by the two great English speak
| ing people. England has been for free trade:
| America for protection. England is an insular
| people with no large producing capacity, except
| for manu- ACQUIRING. Amer ca is continental
nation lying between the two great oceans and
covering an area greater than all of Euro3e
During the whole period of our national ex-
| istence. England mas endeavored 10 gain COM
| mercIal supremacy over our country She has
| succeeded in driving our commerce from the
| seas. To our eternal shame, and to the shame
| OF the present Democratic administration. En-
gland transports to-day more than five times as
much OF our own American products TO foreign
markets as we do. che now seeks through the
influence of the Democratic administration to
| open upon equal terms American markets for
| Englands products. Is not this true? Note
what every English newspaper tells you. Every
one Of them supports Cleveland and tie Demo-
cratic party; Within month the london
! Times has called the Democratic party the free
| trade party of America. and the London Times
kFOws
What England wants most, we want least.
| T z every dollar given By America to llngland's
| ill-paid labor is dollar taken from our own
| laboring classes. Thus this contest, though to
i be fought out in Americl, is between American
labor on the one side and foreign cheap labor
1.-THE other.
| No patriotic citizen can hesitate upon which
side OF the conflict he is 10 stand. The English
Golden Club, New York City, and the Solid
| South form the rank and file of the Cleveland
| Democratic party. Is this not true? If not let
me ask, where are the forces which are sustain
I ing Cleveland and the Mills bill to-day? Look
at the facts-the leaders of the Democratic
party, Mr.. Mills, Mr.. Carlisle Mr.. Bayard Sena-
| tors Beck and Vance, and mauy others are
| members of the Golden Club, which is an Eng
lish and foreign association whose sole object Is
| to advance the principles of free trade which.
| if successful, would benefit gland and destroy
| America.
| NO PRODUCT OF THE SOUTH tut on THE FREE
LIST.
1t is a strange thing that the Nfills-C Cleveland
tariff bill does not change the tariff ON any i'm
portant Southern product. lake sugar; ; one
fourth OF all the tariff of this nation is now col
| lected from that single article. Sugar is a ne
cesslLy 10 tue EOOT As 10 the rlcn. sugar is pro-
duced in the South and consumed largely in the
| North. Indeed, President Cleveland does not
| seem TO note, nor does he even mention the
S56,G0) 600 that were collected in 1857 from this
/ single article Of sugar. He sees no danger 10
| onr increasing supply from this source but he
| does find in raisins and wool. beans figs, olive
| oil. lumber, borax, salt, quicksilver mustard
| and other articles produced in California, a
great danger to the surplus
We note further there has bee no change
| upon the tariff in rice. 1t is now 100 per cent
| That peculiar political economist from Texas,
! Mr.. VI lis, and that other one who was never
west of Buffalo, see no danger iI this The De-
| mocracy are bound to have surplus. even II
they have to quit paying the natioual debt to do
| 1t IN fact, IL we had bought our national bon S
| rs the law directs, there would have been no
| surplus in the treasury. Within a week Senator
| Beck has Introduced a bin TO repeal the sinking
| fnnd law, 50 we may quit paying our debt and
| thus increase the surplus.
SURPLUS AND EVIDENCE OF THRIFr
| My friends, a surplus with Il nation, as with
an individual is an evidence of thrift. In Cal
itornia it is Grated by the SS0O 900 of capital
| invested IN manufacturing in oar growing city
! OF San Francisco and in Sacramento by the
| s6,oOOOO0 so invested; by the 50 900 mechanics
who go daily to their work in the two cities and
/ who receive for their labor from 81 so to 81 a
/ day. We see it in the 10000 acres of vineyard
that have sprung forth like magic, and which
add beauty and wealth to all paris of this great
state, covering its dry hill with luxuriant ver-
| dure and giving additional opportunities for
labor and safer opportunities for investment of