Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27

It is conclusively shown by the fact that
laborers in unprotected industries are as well
tries; Now how many laborers are there in
what are called the projected industries? That
ing articles which, when they are brought
from abroad, are charged with u tariff
tax, and how many laborers are there in the
country engaged in industries which are in no
wise protected by such II tariff tax and cannot
in the nature Of things, be protected by any
such thing? Why, my friends, it has been estf-
mated some place-l think the highest estimate
have seen placed upon the laborers in these
protected industries is at between 100000 and
90O,UU0 men, women and children. But | will
put it at a million and say there are a million
of them. while there are eight times as many
other laborers whose industries and occupa-
tions are i'll no wise protected by the tariff and
therefore, if protection is for the benefit of the
glaboring men. the wages of this million of men
engaged i'll the protected industries ought to be
Higher than the Wages of Men Employed
in Unprotected Industries,
And yet such is not the fact. In round num-
bers the laborers In unprotected industries
ceive as high wages as those in the protected,
farm hands are here in Michigan. In my owlS
state they are about u Il day for farm hands,
and you see that in the state of Massachusetts
according to the returns of our own beard, they
are S1;O4 in these manufacturing industries. So
that there is practically no difference whatever
worth talking about between the wages that one
receives and the wages that the other receives;
take comforts and cost Of living and all that
into account, the agricultural hand in the state
borers in the protected industries of the coun-
try.
My friends nothing is more common-for
these men appeal to everybody-than to hear
the Proteetiontst orator say that the tariff is a
consider the subject in the light of expert
ence. We had low tarifffrom ls46 up to tue
breaking out of the war. 1t was called the
Walker tariff, or the tariff of 1886 l remember
it very WELL for was In the house of represen-
tatives at the Time and voted for it. Now from
IL IN q % md fhnrn nfnrp
have to take these years-from 1850 to 1860
while that tariff was in force farm lands in the
United states, according to the census report,
increased in value 103 per cent. Then came the
high tariff of 1861 or 1862, whichever it
years, the increase in the value of farm land in
the United States was only 40 per cent.
Under the Low Tariff it Had Been 1O3
Per Cent. Increase of Value
in ten years. Under this high tariff it was only
30 per cent. But it may be said that includes
the period of war; and it doesn't make fair
comparison. grant the force of that to some
extent, but the war ended in 1865 and we
can compare the next ten years, from 1870 to
1880, and by these same census reports it ap-
from 1870 to $780, the value of the farming lands
of the whole United States has increased hut
nine per cent. Under the highest protective
tariff that ever was inflicted upon this country
they have increased but nine per cent, while
under the low tariff of 1886 in ten years, from
1850 TO 1860, period of profound peace, they IN
creased in value 103 per cent [applausel, more
than ten times as fast as they have increased
now.
have somewhere here a, statement Of how it
was in this goodly state of Michigan. Yes, here
it is producing memorandum). From 1850 to
1850, under the low tariff PERIOD the value of
farming land IN Michigan increased ell per
cent. From 1860 to 1870, under high protective
tariff, it has increased l4S per cent, but that in
cludes the time of the war. But from 1870 to
1880 during period of profound peace and un-
der the highest tariff this country has ever
known the value of farming land In the state
of Michigan has increased only twenty five and
a third per cent.
1t Increased Under the Walker Tariff,
Which has been denounced since as a free trade
tariff. In ten years under the tariff it has in
creased at the rate of 2l1 per cent, while now
under ten years of profound peace, it has in
creased but twenty-five and a third and you
must remember that under the Walker tariff we
had great war, the Mexican war, and do not
tinUed TO Increase from 1860 to 1880, they did
during the low tariff period from 1850 to 1860
farm values in Michigan would have been in
1880 one bilI.on and forty y-seven million dolIars
that is, one thousand and forty million
dollars instead @ & Of being , as they were by the
nine million dollars. And go, too, take farm
implements They increased in value from
1850 to 1850 at the rate of one hundred and one
and oEe-fourth per cent: ana in 1880 only
forty -one and sixty one -hundredths per cent
the high tariff period that they did under the
low, they you'd have been 600 instead of
81, 100000. You see, then, by these figures that
it is quite impossible that this high tariff can
be of advantage TO the agricultural communi
ty; quite impossible.
close. 1t is time that was giving way to other
| gentlemen who are to follow me in order to give
| ions 1 want to call your attention, though, to
one thing. have spoken about this.
| Surplus Revenue that Lies Uselessly In the
Vaults of the Treasury.
| Now, want to read to you what Senator John
Sherman says upon that subject only SO late as
| the 5th day of last month in speech before
| the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati. AS
you remember he was for four years, during
Now, nobody will charge John Sherman with
d being democrat td am qnitte qit sure sure aushter
wanting to destroy American industry, but here
is what Jt I'm says:
| to-day on the matter of the great surplus of
money in the United States treasury. That
affects you materially. We would rather have
| 1t than deficiency. The government of the
United States has this surplus now, and it seems
as though some people were trying to get rid of
it, do not intend to allude to politics. Every
man of sense knows that the government
Should not Collect any More Money
than is absolutely necessary to carry on the
business with economy: Congress ought this
year to devise some mode to dispose of this sur
plus; yet, as l said before, it is better to have
this surplus than deficiency"
ernment sbouId not Collect more MONEY from
the people than is necessary to carry on the
government economically I adm1inistered mi and
which is lying uselessly in the treasury and is
increasing from year to year is a great injury TO
the effect, among other things. besides its pc
cuniary effect of damaging the prosperity of
GOV Allen of Ohio once said in his foreible
way, speaking when he was excited, that you
might as well try to keepa
Powder House in He'll as to Have an
Honest Government
with surplus in the treasury" [Great ap-
plause and laughter.l Well, that was pretty
strong statement of the case, but 1t was not ex-
travagant after all Why, gentlemen, II you
ing the government, owing TO this great surplus
that Is there, you would be amazed. There Is
t6ev saw hy ' the Government MO has MONEY
which is lying idly in the treasury, and you
might as well give it to us tor our little scheme
as to have it lying there" and so every scheme
of extravaganza, every thing in the world by
which the people can be bled and high taxes
kept up is advocated by these men and grows
in great degree out of this fact Of surplus in
the treasury.
MY friends, before / conclude, want to ask
your attention for moment to another ques-
ton, to what is called The Chinese question, the
question of importation of Chinese into this
country. Now, what ] think upon that subject
cannot be better expressed than by reading
what said to my own constituents in Cincin
natl in the year 1870 five years before the legis
lature of California memorialized congress on
this subject of Chinese emigration.
The extract from Judge Thurmans speech
delivered September 10, 1870 at Cincinnati, o.,
was then read to the audience as follows:
Il do not think that large Chinese, emigra:
it would be a valuable acquisition. On the con-
trary, think 1t would be seriously disturbing
element. In race, civilization, habits, educa
ton and religion the Chinese are widely differ
ent from our people, so different as to form
very striking contrast. The European emf
grants are of the same race, religion and civili-
cation as ours, and while they add immensely
to the power and wealth of the republic they
do not seriously disturb the substantial hom-
ogeniety of our white population. Their
migration, therefore, benefits the country and
deserves encouragement. Not so with the
Chinese.
They VIII Never Become One People
With Us.
Were they to dwell here for centuries they
would probably be as distinct from the white
race as are the gypsies in Spain from the pure
blooded Spaniards. We are destined to have
great commerce with Asia, and the natural re-
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