Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-19

cav we are free traders and the country i
going to bs ruined By free trade. 1t
very much like Bret Harte's stor,
of the Heather Chinee, when Bill
Nye said We were ruint'
by Chinese ehep labor bacaus
he had caught q Chinese cheating at littl.
game Of cards. L,ughtet and applause
That is simply an absurdity, but it is NO
any more absurd than soms other OF theii
propositions. They say that this countr,
Is made rich BY these highly protective
duties, as if it were possible to make peo
pie rich by taking out Of their pocketi
more money than the government hes ap J
use for. They say it is for the benefit O
ths laboring men, as if q laboriug mans
condition could be benefited by taxing bin
on every thing he wears. lApplause
Henry Clay was called the father Of the
American protective system. He did ro
make such arguments as that. He said
prote:t;on was to encourage the infant in
duytries of the country. Well, Clay lived
long enough to sly that infant had grown
to be a man and it was time to stop.
FEEDING HIM WITH A BOTTLE.
II has been forty odd years since tia
infant became of sgs, and think myself
il is time tor him to shuttle for himself
Applause They say We are the enemies
of the manufacturers. No man ever In
this world advocates American manufac'
lures more earnestly than did Thomas
jefferson. Why, we ara just as much To-
terested in the manufacturers "a they are.
This beautiful city of Fort Wayne IS
great manufacturing city, and l admire II
because it is a great manufacturing city.
might say feel debt Of gratitude to its
manufacturers for their enterprise, theil
knowledge aud the way they have
helped 10 develop the country. Am
their enemyp Are you, the psop'e of Fort
Wayne, their enemies? Ny friends, it is
an absurdiiy. You cannot get together
1000 Democratic votes IN aoy part OF the
United States that you will not lind SPY
out of the 1000 laboring men. 1t ta9
always been so and it is because the vary
principle upon which the DemO ratio
puy is fou6ded makes it the parry of the
lsboring man. 1t is the principle that
the immortal Jefferson set firth IN the
Declaration Of Independence, that all
man are bra free and equIl, that has
made the Democratic party the friend o.
the poor man and the labCiog man from
the day that party drew its first breath
down ID this day. Applause. The
Democratic party opposed to the int rests
of lsbcr;ng meD? Why, If it were there
would not be any Democratic party in the
c. urse of 100 days. II would go to pieces,
1t would fall like a Republican platform
[Great applause.
THE TARIFF AND WAGES.
Well, now, my friends, have spoken
much longer than have be:n doing. but
will 90 in for very few minutes. They
talk about the necessity of proteeiiog
American labor against the pauper labor
of Europe. That ia q great cry they have.
Well, now, the tariff on these imported
goods averages AZ per cent. under the ex-
isiiug law. IL has been raised, and raised,
and raised, from 20 to AZ per cent. Have
the wages of the lsbofipg man been raised
in that way? Let any laboriDg man
answer. When they put up the tariff ~
per cent, where was wages put up ~ per
cent? You know this is not 50; and you
know, therefore, that this increase of the
tariff, which raises the price of products
which are the result of your labor,
does not raise your wages IN the same
ratio. What ia the reason Of that? Why
is it that certain goods can be made
cheaper in England than they can be made
in the United States? Is it the difference
of the workiugmen there and the working
men here? To very little extent, indeed,
Is it the result of any such thing, and
who not? If you take their wages by the
dsy it may seem that there Is quite dit-
ference in favor of the American laborer,
but if you measure the amount OF wages
by the amount CT the product, the amount,
for instance, that an English lsborer gett
for making o yard Of cloth ard the amount
that an American gets for making a yard
of doth, or for making ton OF iron or
ton of steal yon will find that in some n
$, ,suces, and not few, too, the American
lsborer is not the better paid OF the two.
LONGER HOURS IN AMERICA.
The American labo-er works more, b;
works ten hours D the English laborer''
sipht, or twelve hours to the English Ia
borsr's ten, and he is the more skilltal
workman, aud makes more of the product
at which he lab Dts, and when You m sasure
his pay in proportion to the amount ina
he produces, there is very little dlttsrtnc
between the wages of the two. But
wsges srs not ths only thing that enter;
into the c:st OF production. The manu-
factursr mus. have certain amount O
csoitil with which to urJ on his busints 81
and that capita msy cost more IN the
limited S'ates than it costs him IN Eng
land. How DOES tha. come about? why
in the main it comes about from the l,c'
that upon almos. every article OF raw ma
,erisl that is manufactured IN Eoglaud
there is no tax a. all. 1t ls free
whereas upon almost everything tina
g,e, into sn American mar
ofacture the American manufacturer ha
TO nav a tax. If You reiuce that ti'
wh;ch the American manufacturer has u
60 nav, if you put upon the free list that
which ought to be On the free list, th
American manufacturer will ba able 4
conrete with any manufactures oa tn
face ef the earth. Applause. Bat ther'
i, another thing thsse men audacioGs
say, and don't know what there is tha
they don't say. They say that the ell,
of the protective tariff is to lower the piic
of Commodities If th,t il the case,
would like to know why in ,he world an!
manufacturer wants high ta,ld. lap
plause.1 II tii to cut down thi, price.
want to know why he has lobbyists,
dozen or fifty of them at Washington I
follow members around there, to thei
homes, to their loi igings, to the committee
rooms crying out "FIr Gods sake help U
by incr sasing the tariff" (Appiau'e ]
Ia conclusion he said: "But. my friend!
men with such a cause viii resort to a
most any means in order to deceive an
to,dwipk the people, and in the long ps
riod have rever in my life known as Dol
or audacious
| ATTEMPTS AT DECEPTION
as are practjced this year by these me
who are making high protective tan
sresches. Lei me give yon sps6l ntl
You have bsen told by some OF them th'
this tariff tax that is paid for goods impor
ed into this country is not paid by u
Amercn consumer, but is paid by II
foreign importer; that he pays IL fer II
privilsgs of briuging his goods here an
selling them to you. Well, now 10
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