The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-08-18
FACTS NOT FANCiES.
SENATOR FRYE COMPARES PKOTEC.
TION AND FREE TRADE.

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One party favors a protective tariff
chiefly for the best interests of men who
work for wages What is 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 1shall be governed
by facts, not by fancies Wherever | give
wages | shall give those abroad at the
highest, and those at home at the lowest.
Now if you please consider for awhile
Woodstock to be the United States; New
Haven. Z gland; aud | take E gland
because it is the best wage paying country
in the world outside this republic. |
propose to build a twelve set wooden mill
here at Woodstock, United States, and its
exact counterpart in New Haven, Eng
Lind. | commence here in Woodstock,
United States | pay men who cxcavate
for the foundation from 81 to 81. 40 a day.
and the men who work i'll the gu airy and
set the stone, from 81 80 to SO day;
men who make the bricks, from 81 so to
So "a day: the painters, from SO 10 SO a
day; the quarters OF slate, from 81 80 to
So IA day; the masoDs who lay the bricks.
from SO to SO day; and when my mill
is complete it has cost me $500. 600 80
per cent, of the whole amount being
money paid for labor. | step across into
New Haven, for the time being England,
and proceed to erect the same mill. To
The men who excavate l pay from 40 to
80 cents a day: to those who quarry
and lay the foundation from 60 to so
cents day; to the brick makers from
80 cents to so cents day. | go TO Stat
fordshire aud hire. it may be, 100 women
TO make my bricks, and pay them "a
cents Thousand; or, it may be, hire
some little girls, barefooted and bare
headed, from 10 10 IA years of age, to
carry the wet clay in my brick yard on
their little bare heads, from to s cents
day. | pay my masons at from 70 to
S5 cents day; my skaters 81 day; nv
painters from 80 cents to 81 q day; and
when my mill is completed, it has cost
me 5000, 900 Why this mill 5000 600 and
the mill III Woodstock S4O0 QUO? What
makes this Immense difference III cost?
R4mem Der that the mill is 80 per cent
labor.
Remember that the trees in our forests,
the clay in our banks, the stcne and slate
in our quarries, the coal in our mines aud
the iron ia the earth. are as cheap as in
Europe. What, then, makes the mill
here cost twice as much as there? Clearly
only that labor here is paid more than
twice as much as labor there.
| now build my machinery for The mill
in Woodstock, the United States | pay
my machinists from So 80 to So a day, and
it costs me $75 900. | step over into New
Haven, England, and pay my best ma
chinist So IA day, aud nv machinery costs
me $50, 900. Remember that of the ma
chi"ery 80 per cent. at least is labor.
Now the mills are complete, and here
in Woodstock, the United States, hire
my men and my women. my sorters, my
splnners, my Weavers ana my oressers'
pay my women from So to So a week.
my men from Slo to S2o week. l get
out case OF cloth at cost to me OF JUST
SlOO go over INTO New raven, Eng lahu,
and hire my men and my women. pay
my women from 81 9O to So week, my
men from $4 to 81 a week. | get out a
like case of goods, and lind its cost to be
just $50 Now If can take that case OF
1t III competition with the case whlch mas
cost here IN Woodstock Sl00. don't you
see can sell 1t for $50, $40 less than The
cost oil the case here, and still make
profit of $40? How long, then, will my
mill in Woodstock run against such com
petition as that? Now the Democratic
party saws, under Its doctrine OF Tree
fraoe-tne right TO ouy III the cheapest
markets and sell IN the dearest MAKE all
the goods you please over mere III new
Haven, England, send them freely here.
and sell them in competition with the
goods made in Woodstock. But, my
Democratic friend, will not the mill Ill
Woodstock be compelled to stop? NO.,
How can it run? There is but Que way on
the face of the earth it can. and that is by
cutting down the wages of the men who
work on the excavations, in the auarries,
on the foundation, in the brickyard; OF
the plasterers, the painters. the wood
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.
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