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

the VAST WedllIl tlluL VIC oCS otSuAN 'aS W
every side in this beautiful country q
ours. loud applause.
That grand friend OF labor, Abraham
Lincoln, in speaking Of this question
said that labor should receive the frs
consideration. hope not to weary yol
tonight, but l desire to deal witt
this question in such Practica
way that even the boy or little girl wht
may be here shall understand. Th'
question is simple one. OF course /
the politician comes and stands before
you, especially II heis college professor
lie can draw this picture in such line
that you hardly know where he com
menced or what it was he commenced
with, or what the animal was when hi
got through withit. [Laughter.] 1t re
minds me ofan incident between
4 woRKISGMAN AND A PROFESSOR
of Yale College. That gentleman ad'
dressing the workingman, talking abou
the law OF equations, said that and :
would never make anything but 4; twice
2is4, "Yes, said the workingman, 81
know that 9 and make !, but you put
the two twos on paper SO that they make
TWENTY-FIVE" Laughter
Now, it is true, there are some men
who talk of Free Trade as though il
meant free trade in its absolute sense. |
have been discussing with my distln-
guished friend Henry George, who be-
lieves in absolute free trade-that If, no
custom houses, no import duty, but ab-
solute free trade between US and every
country on the face Of the globe. do
not know what system You wonid adopt
TO prevent the pauper labor OF Hungary,
OF Italy and China or its products from
coming here, but | do know that we
must have laws or restriction and ad-
dress YOU, my friend, us one-although
some people have not confidence i'll my
integrity-as one who believes, who has
always asserted, on the platform, in my
home, in the church, and everywhere
else, that the workingman's salvation is
in organized labor, and am going TO adj
dress you tonight from the standpoint
of one who believes in organized labor
[Chees.
There are some people-and may us
well DC pun III tSlllhS Spu tAA' Pea ~
it-severai Democratic editors who say
that | testified before the Senate Com.
mittec on Education and Labor when !
was President of the Amalgamatcd AS
sociation of Iron and Steel Workers, IN
organization which feel proud to ac-
Knowledge here tonight, an organiza-
ton to which ! owe all that am to-
uirht-they say that testified before
that committee that it was only organ
lied labor that was the cause OF the
HIGH WAGES IN THIS COUNTRY.
admitted then, that were it not for
organized labor wages would not be us
they were in this country. l believed
it then, and believe it now, but l also
stated, and you will find it on page 1923
of the report OF that committee, that our
organization (referringto the A. A. OF |.
and s. W. was tariff organization, that
it believed inthe tariff, because it looked
upon it rs Il means OF isolation from
competition between laboring men OF
our country and those OF foreign coun-
tries.
On page ll2l oil that same leporI! you
will find that | stated that We believed
that the protective tariff protected us in
our wages. To prove this in plain, sim
pie language, want to show you the
Two policies. understand some persons
TO say free ifaue Is 1He .IS i,s; r;aht t;m" "me
What is meant by Protection? Pro-
lection is the American policy. BY it is
meant that on all imports, articles i'm
ported IRON abroad, that cEnlG ny; III ,Snna ION.
sg%aiI g1Hi bn Levied n duty sufficient to en-.
able our people to command higher
wages than are paid abroad; on all ar
tirles such US we cannot produce, snch as
tea, coffee, spices and SO on, there should
he no duty. These articles should be ad-
mitted free.
The English system, whlCh IS the op-
posite to ours, and ! nave h9d tne ms
fortune to be born under the English
nag-although ! assure you, my friends,
that my father and mother never con-
suited me about the matter-you know,
MS well us | know that was not a party
to that contract l Aii ohIy e'"u ttl"t i
was born somewhere-l was born under
the British flag and reared up to young
manhood IA little over II years OF age)
in the school OF Free Trade; and 1t was
natural that when came 70 thls Gouh-
try would be II Free Trader. Now, i
want to tell you that
THE ENGLISH PoLlcY
,u:,. r,,, al .oods thot como into
iS ''''s t'"' ~, ~ eo"' ,, - 80 Ill III
competition with nome production snail
be permitted to come in free; that is the
very opposite of ours. But tea and cof-
w. w. .,,,t siF s,,;,os a,,I nr,,,,lns of ,,nt t;ra
iee 'n'' 'P''e'' 49, , " M ~ a' '' -, ,,'''
have to pay duty i4Gre are many
Englishmen, many Welsuheh, many
Scotchmen, anu large NUMBER oi lrish-
men i'll Great Britain, VINO thlnR Iney
pay no duty on tea' spices an! Conee
and articles OF that nature III tleir couh,
tries. They pay DUTY on every one oil
them. You heard Nlr, y0Vlsson say
here this evening that ne Is gettihg as
good tea here for 90 cents US he got III
England for 60 cents, 1t IS because tea
is taxed in England ana not IN TINS
country,
! have shown You the policy. on both
sides rs far us the situation Is involved.