The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-20


i that organization. The tariffs precisely
e the same thing. You tell the people
e abroad that when they pay labor, say
!. for instance in the production Of iror
Y and steel, 81 62 q ton in England, anC
> wages here are s. 50 per ton, they can
: not sell that iron in our market unless
Q the difference in wages, ut least, is Gov
cred. [Applause.l That is fair. That
i is business, AS some people say, aud We
: believe in that kind OF business that will
, enable us to protect ourselves and tell
) the foreign producer that we intend to
r supply ourselves with these articles, and
| do not intend to supply ourselves with
/ them ut the low, miserable wages paid
in other countries. Cheers.
Now, it naturally follows right here,
us l have brought in this question, has
the tariff any influence on wages?
| have spoken Of pudding. How
many OF you can go back with me to the
} time when came to this country in
1860? In 1860 the price paid for boiling
in the city OF Pittsburgh was S5.2j and
$3.50 per ton. need not tell you the
kind OF pay they got ut that time; it
was more in calico and molasSes than in
currency. [Langhter.l My friends, tits
very strange that in the year 1860 the
price paid for the best iron in England
was S3.25 ton. | um giving you the
highest prices in this country and the
highest price in Great Britain.
THE BOILER IN GREAT Britain
has gone down from IS shilliugs to 6
shillings 0 pence; he has gone down
from S3.25 to Sl.62 per ton. The boiler
in the United States-and | thank God
for it!-has gone up from s3.2j aud
$3.50 to $3.50 per ton, and it isn't u cent
too much; it ought to be II half dollar
more, think. The wages | Avn giving
you are the full wages and the boiler in
Great Britain pays his own helpc what
ever he can afford.
In TIE last fourteen years 100000
people have cone to this country from
Great Britain-an average OF 100000 Il
year. Yet these Free Traders tell us these
people could have done better il they
had stayed at home. [Derisivc laugh
teri What absolute fools they must
have been!
What have said OF boiling holds good
OF every other branch Of labor. You
will hear them say that wages have adj
vmced in England. They have in some
directions; only in the direction in
which machinery or improved tools
have been applied. Inall Cases where
work is done by the pieCe-boiling, per
ton, for instance-wages have generally
advanced in this country, but have been
reduced in Great Britain.
| know there are glassworkers here in
Wheeling, and it may be well for them
to know that the wages paid in Belgium
in the glass factories are in some in
stances higher than in Great Britain;
and make this broad statement: that
since the enactment OF the tariff Of 1879
in Germany, wages have been steadily
going up. | cannot say that for the
wages OF Great Britain for the same time
showing that the tariff is in the dircc-
ton Of higher wages. l may state here
that the Germans are learning the value
Of organization.
HORSE SENSE on THE TARIFF.
| was at the dinner table to-day, and
there was Colorcd man, waiter, eye
ing me closely. Finally he said: "Arc
you the great politician that is going to
I snid, "So: nm no politician"
"Well. ain't Won n RepubIican ~
I snid. "No. / nm n rnmnant Demo.
cratr-for fnn. al course,
ooh" he saws. Eve have n grand Re-
publican coming here to sneak TO.
night"
/ saws. "Who is that?" and he men
toned my name. | told him was the
man. | asked, "DO you believe in the
tarIIiY
sovs ~! ITS' I"TS ,,os 10 ,i,.o ,,o,, tho on.
ton Of getting your clothing cheaper
and everything you buy, cheaper than
you are now getting it, or IN advance
in wages, which would you Choose?'
"rhe advance in wages, every time,
saws he. Laughter.
Do you know that colored mans head
was level. Applause l tried him fur
ther. "But don't you see" saws !, "that
cheaper clothing and cheaper wool and
cheaper everything you buy will be
practically the same thing rs IN advance
in wagesf"
CS, i see tnut, TOO; but wnlle IL Is
an advance in wages for me, it is re-
duction for the fellow that makes the
clothes and everything buy" rCheers
and cries OF "Good."1 | tell You my
friends, | thought of the time when
that mans predecessors were slaves in
this country. thought of the time
when came to this country, when these
men had no rights of their own: when
they were
so,r,s ~, ,rrr,s ox rur p,oc,
So, So" SO w." .l, : '''l"' ''., o' 10, "'''N% n,
and looked around me an" recoIec'e"
how !, when | came here, was Free
Trader. In looking over the field saw
N,o1iroo,r IN ,To oro s;do nlood;r,
:in nne .;nIts % ~ frao % Iohor W o"J o dt%crs ] "E
M .ae atiS .os a;,o !, i. oJvo"ntr, all" sIovorr Tba
tIo .I. JILL s'H nf e,""os" ~ thnt ,;n;o woro
aHoc,os n c5,.ooOtas ~ S, W Eroo TrnJ, % T no von
tl,c ,,loe auh"etius a,S Frr;oS % afsIVoo % " " rba
rgticlnnef 3 'tiIS a.. Loir's, ~ ,dor islo and
N"eorS ','o, o. oasS saH hoforo VI" Sro % tnc UJvo
not6 LOT seoGi W Ero es Trode % corId MD not % nnder
stand Il | Thought Free Trade and free