Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-25

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| waving corn stretching TO the far horizon
edge. the farms, the thriving villages, the happ,
homes. the cities with their tall spires reaching
heavenward, occupy the lands which on thl
| map of 1867 were called the "6reat American
Desert. Where were then
I THE HAUNTs OF THE BUFFLAo
And the wild Indian are now the gardens of the
| world. hundred and twenty thousand miles
| of railroad network the continent, and every
| where are to be found the most prosperous peo
| pie of the earth. And YET during all this mar.
| yelous growth, according to JudgeThurman and
| Grover Cleveland we have been throwing Q
| thousand millions OF real dollars out of the win
| dow and doing it every year Whoever chooses
| TO believe Mr.. Thurman and Mr.. Cleveland had
better keep On dong 1t, for do not the Scriptures
| tell us that there are those whom even braying
/ in mortar Will not improve?
Yet if these principles, on the line of which as
| laid down by the President the Democrats are
fighting, be true, these results which we can see
are absurd must follow. The truth is the con-
dltlon of the United States to-day is proof posi-
tive of the sense of the protective system, for il
| Mr.. Cleyelands criticism which is the free
| trade criticism, be true this country ought to
| be ruined. Which ii is not.
! Protection is capable of direct support 1t
lowers prices and works for the interest of all.
| 1t keeps in this country its own untold riches.
All the wealth OF the world comes ont of the nat
| ural forces, subdued to the use of man. When
| stood the other day in the mill yard at South
Berwick in Maine, talking to thousand men,
l stood beside river which gave 200-horse pow
| er, the equal of 100 men working day and
| night to
MAKE BLANKETS FOR MEN AND WOMEN.
| Without the tariff that river would flow idle to
| the sea. That scene can be repeated z thousand
| times in the United States.
| The free-trader says: What is all this worth?
| Your tariff raises pr.ces. That is what you want
it for How, then, can you say it lowers prices?'
| This is Mr.. Carlisle's favorite argument, and
| though it has been often answered he seems to
| forget the answer before his next speech. 1t is
| true that tariff is put on to raise prices but
! when you once get manufactures established
| the prices go down. Why? Because the manu-
| fatturers want them TO 20 down? No; but be-
cause OF the laws OF nature. Competition forces
them down What is competition? A magic
word? a miraculous invention? No. purely
human process We all long for lower prices
But the maker can never i'll the long run sell for
| less than the cost of making and fair profit
How then shall we get lower cost of making I?
In two ways. Better methods of running bust
ness and by labor saving inventions How do
labor saving inventions come? Does some great
genius reach out in the great darkness of what
we don't know, and pull in some entire machine
for the lenefit of mankind? Not at all. All
invention Is gradual. One man does a little
another little more, until finally the perfected
machine is the reward. Y, u can predicate of
no man that he will invent machine. If you
can get thousand minds at work YOU are sure
OF IT. Let me give you an example.
The arc light has been known ior half a cen
tury. 1t was scientific toy, utterly irregular
| and useless, now it was the blaze of the sun
and now the darkness of midnight. Nobody
! thought much of it. But by and by the world
got rich enough TO want not only the chamber
lighted, but all outdoors. In a moment there
was money in the arc light, and thousand
minds were on the problem. One man reached
out little way and made one invention and
another added to 1t, another to that until finally
the arc light burns as steady as star.
Do you suppose that there was no result TO
the world from gearing on TO the competition OF
the world two million of American mechanics? &?
Why, the chances of labor-saving inventions
were doubled-ehances doubled 10 l say-the
certainty was assured. OF course l am aware
that it is the custom of Democratic orators to
say that invention, not tariff,
GIVES Us CHEAPER GOODS,
But that sets invention in motion? Mills and
factories. Nobody ever invented new mill
wheel in a land where there were no mills. No.
body ever improved carpet loom where there
were no looms, nor a carder where there We're
no woolens made or cottons fabricated. The
tariff starts the mills and the mills start the in
ventive power. Let me prove to you by figures
have used before, that this is not theory
The woEld i'll the days of Robert J. Walker was
| in the track of England. But it has not gone
| that way at all. This is to-day protection
word. By means of tariffs all the civilized
nations OF Europe are geared on to universal
competition. What has been the result? Here
| is one Four years before Russia had a tariff
| she bought 100000 hundredweight of British
| metal and paid So, 00,O00 therefor. Five years
| after her tariff she bought lust the same and
| paid 17l70,000 instead of 10000 O00ES3 rs a
| hundredweight instead of 81 l2% What did
| this? Universal competition made possible by
tariff In 1888 Great Britain found that her ex-
ports would have been worth S345, 900 600 more
| If she could have got the prices of 1873 for
| them. In ten years the world had saved S545-
O0O.O0O on its purchases from Great Britain
alone, and had saved them by universal COM
petition made possible by tariffs.
| But these orators, no matter how much they
may deny the free trade imputation, declare
is >upply and demaud, say they. Supply and
demand Yes, but doesn't legislation affect
supply and demand.
LISTEN FOR MOMENT.
Lit me illustrate by some figures. Suppose
this country consumes that is, its market takes
five millions of product made by 5000 men |
don't use the real figures because |
don't want to stumble over billions aud hun
dreds of billions. Suppose the market one year
fails to take one of those millions. What is the
| result? One thousand men go out of employ
| ment, or 5000 go on short time and poor wages
That is what we call .'hard times.' Suppose
the market will take six millions instead of five:
then 5000 men go to work, or the original 1000
| on long time and high wages. That means
good tines" That is all there is TO good
times and "hard times" Now, suppose by
lowering the tariff one million of British goods
| come in-and the only object of the tariff is to
| have more British goods-then there is only
| room for four millions of American products 1t
| So these men are actually asking you not to be
| content with the hard times that God gives
| you, but to go and deliberately vote yourselves
| some hard times of your own.
Tariff has nothing to do with wages Let any
| man, any working man, ask himself this plain
| question When do you get the best wages,
when two men are hunting one job, or when
| two jobs are hunting one man? When you have
| answered that question these interesting politi-
| cal economists have precious little advice TO
| give that is good for anything
Perhaps, however, there are some farmers
| here who may say that this is all wei enough
! for the working man, but we should like some
| cheap British woolens, In California
cannot even begin.
THE FARMER IS DEEPLY INTERESTED
| In having the markets of America for his fruit
| products, and he ought to have little trouble
| with this question but will answer him. How
| can you buy British woolens? When the Brit
| ish merchant comes here he does not come on
any charitable mission. he does not give his
woolens away. He only does that with Golden
| Club tracts. as to woolens he means business.
| If you haven't money in your pocket that trade
WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR MONEY?
| BY Sc ling your surplus product. To whom
| Another farmer? No: he wants to sell his. You
must sell it to the workingman here or else
| where. You must sell l. to a workingman who
| g5ts poor wages 6,000 miles off and pay freight
or to one here at home who ge good wages.
| Which do you prefer to DO? Are there two
| answe 5 to thatquestion?
But if the tariff gives us good wages why are
there strikes? My friend, the tariff makes this
| country prosperous and gives everybody white
mans chance, but it is not a patent medicine
and does not cure all the ills OF earth. Strikes
are not proofs of decadent civilization. If you
want system of labor which has no strikes.
| where there was the weetness of perpetual
| calm, you had it in the South before the war
| Mr. Reed, after discussing some other objec-
| tions to protection and showing how absurd it
| was TO designate that tax which gave the
markets of America to the American producer,
closed by word of personal exhortation to
| each voter This, said he, is personal ques-
tion. Prosperity of all means prosperity of
| each and ii the country is prosperous. it means
the same 10 the citizen. Every man needs in
| this ell. cton to look after his own interest, and
| if he Goes this he must do so in such fashion as
| to proclaim to the world, and especially to the
| free-trade wing of the democratic party, that
he viii submit to no trihiDg with the sysfem
which has made the prosperity of the United
| States the wonder of the world.
The imme nse audience remained to the close
| of the ADDRESS, and the meeting adjourned with
three rousing cheers for the national ticket and
| the orator of the evening.