Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1888-10-14

be reduced from $17 per ton TO $11, but
who will this hurt =, no one but tle
manufacturer. Steel rails can be made
in this country for $25 a ton, whereas the
English rail costs $21 ton as it lies out
side New York harbor before the duty
is paid. Now the fact that the tariff il
reduced will not compel men like Mr..
Carnegie to close up their furnaces, and
although his income will be reduced
from IS 900 dayto 81, 500 day it is not
likely that he will close up his workshops
and lose that $1,000. Let us look at
THE LUMBER BUSINESS,
Which the Republicans say will be ruined
if duty OF from 81 to 50 thousand is
removed. Why, fifteen years ago, dul.
ing the building excitement around San
Jose, rough lumber made in the United
States could be bought for $16 a thou
sand and rustic lumber for 500. Wages
were higher then than they are now, and
yet the lumbermen made big profits, at
least they looked contented and happy.
Do you think that with the present prices
of from $27 to $40 Thousand feet a de-
duction of 81 or 81 a thousand on the tariff
will ruin them? No, certainly not.
Now let us take up wool, which the Mills
bill proposes to admit free. Are YOU
aware of the fact that there is not a
wooden mill on the Pacific Coast that is
making any money. That is 80, how.
ever, and the reason is because the
proprietors have to pay ten cents q
pound for unwashed wool that cannot be
obtained in this country, and the tariff
tax thus prevents them from competing
on basis with England who can 90 into
the markets of the world, buy her wool
and import it free. With the tariff re-
moved the factories would be infused with
another life, new ones would spring into
existence, more labor would be wanted
and as result wages would be higher.
And that brings us to the question Of how
will the wages of the laborer be affected
by the Mills bill. 1 deny that they will
be affected in any other way but to be
increased; for, as have shown you, the
factories will not close when the bill il
passed and labor will of course be neces
sary, and in this country it ha,
its own forms of protection. TIL,
manufacturer does not give his
employees higher wages as hi
profits increase, neither does he curtai
them when bad time comes. The fac
is that he has no power over the re
Enumeration at all for the law of supply
and demand regulates the price paid t.
the wage-worker, and when the Repub
Leans rant about how they must protect
American labor, you may rely
on it that they are only dodg
ing the issue of the campaign. 1
is well known fact that the wages
of the laboring class in free trade Eng.
land are far in advance Of highly-pro.
tected Germany and other similar Eu
ropean nations. Are the blessings thai
we now enjoy to be attributed to this
great protective system? Did it give Ut
our millions of acres of fertile soil, oul
gold fields, our coal deposits and othe
sources of wealth; if all our ben
efts accrued from high tariff
some one might go into the heart o
the Sahara or among the Hottentots ant
tax then right and left and 80 form an
other mighty nation"
Mrs. Foltz concluded her address b,
pretty word-picture Of the new phase
of prosperity that would settle over thu
country when it is ho longer hamperet
by exorbitant tariff restrictions, and re
sumed her seat amid thunders OF ap
plause.
Captain Mackey called for rising vot'
of thanks to Mrs. Foltz for her brillian
effort, and this was given willingly
Three cheers for Cleveland and Thurman
and the Democratic ticket brought tn,
proceedings to close.