The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-08-16
Startling Facts.
The Wage Farmers Of Europe and Am err
lea Compared.
Speech ex-senator W. p. Eve.

Speech of Senator w. r. FRYE.
Senator W. P. Frye, of Maine, spent thu
He went there to investigate for himsel
vacation of Congress travelling in Europe
the condition of labor, and the effects O.
the economic systems Of the States OF
Europe, as compared with that of Amer
lea. He is a gentleman whose statement
can be implicitly relied upon, broad
gnaged statesman. and one of the ablest
and most influential members of the u. S
Senate. 1t was delivered at Frederick
Md, on the I'd, inst
The house rose when Senator Frye was intro.
due d. The cheering lasted several minutes
Sc ator Frye said: II didn't come here for fun.
but TO do what could to insure the rec election
Of McComas He is mighty good fellow and
he has shown himself so in the House of Rep
resentatiYes. He is one of the most popu lar
and potent members of that House He is the
only one In that House who, by his own
strength, passed over Cleveland's veto q pen.
sion bill. Wild cheering [ shall do some
good II | can make one man vote the Republic
can ticket who never voted it before. Did you
ever calculate the power of one single, silent
ballot? One vote next November NAV elect
Mctomas to the National House, and he NAV
be the Republican m jority that may elect a
speaker and shape all the committees and the
welfare of the whole country. A ballot ia a
sacred thing, man must know what q ballot
meanE. You are the jurors to determine next
November between free trade and protection
deal with plain facts and simply. The Repub.
lean party at Chicago declared plainly for q
protective tariff the Democrats declared not
so plainly but they said they stood by Cleye-
lands message. A duty is a tax always added
to what man produces and what has been
produced The Golden Club had this as their
fundamental doctrine, and it has SO continued
The Democrats endorsed the Mills bill which
Inc ha
free list and made farmers contend with Aus
traiia. 1t put on the free list beans butter
milk. bark, and almost all the farmers raise
along the border. The Democrats say we are
for Tree trade. and we take the first step to-
ward it this year and the next, and 90 on. The
party Is ior free trade, and they do not deny it,
except in the states that are for protection
They call protection robbery. a scheme to
ruin poor men. was born protectionist
My father voted for Harrison, and at his feet l
learned its doctrines. am profounder pro-
tecttonist to-day than ever. What is protec-
ton? Can't capital take care Of itself, Of move
where it finds the best protection2 CAPITAL is
as timid as q girl, frightened at every shadow
Capital need not go into business unless it
wants. 1t can go into savings banks national
banks, county and state, and United States
bonds. draw its interest and pay no tax. l
want to encourage it TO come out of those
places and go into the coal and iron mines
granite quarf1es forges, silk aud cotton and
wooden factories, canning establishments to
hire men and pay them good wages. to enable
them to fl their children to be American citi-
Gems buy and own houses, have more at stake,
and be better citizens forit. l want capital to
do that, but how about the men who work for
a living? They can go hither and thither. They
have to work to take care of themselves and
their children. | want protective tariff for
them. A protective tariff is better in times of
trouble than in days of prosperity. If big
mill were put up here, 1t would mean more
ali pd 9 to aa ds
would &C up twenty per cent. in value, and all
the farm products would pour in here and the
a great awakening here. I'll buy such mill
in Baltimore and call it Europe, and call Fred
eaiek Am ae:m When my mill s done II has
Why, % per cent. ot it has gone to the men who
wofsad on it with their hands. Now in Ralti-
gooa ana tx las y me
S25O,OOp, half what it cost in Frederick. Why?
The trees clay and granite are as cheap here
as there. Why the difference? Thank God
the men who worked here were worth twice as
much as there. put my machinery aud pay
them well for it too. Ninety per cent. of ma
cbinery is bone labor l pay the operatives
well and get out hne muslin.
They taLk of high wages in England. In Man
work for 30 cents day. l know what am
talking about. The Democrats say buy where
could not run the mill in Frederick
except the wages are cut down, by their gys-
tenn. You couldn't have beef once g month.
You could have. coup and co4ee sWeetened with
molaases. and lay '3up nothing but your old
bones You never could own q house. If you
had tree trade you would have to go without
house. The Republican party believes every
laborer ought TO have wages enough If tenn
perate. to lay by a little every yeal, and have
and IL man works lie ought to live as well as
a loafer. Our party is IL favor of q healthy
competition. 1t says to the English manufae.
Iurer, our MANI fagtGrerS nave to pay taxes for
schools, Interest on the public debt, for pen
sions, &c. You in England don't pay any taxes
for us. DO you suppose we propose to bring
your goods here to compete with us, you hay-
ing all the advantages over our citizensS But
when you bring your lower goods here, when
ward or taxes. You may bring 1t in when it
has come. You see it has cost as much as
yours Your schools are open and your pen
sioners are paid, and SO on. That's protection,
and that is all their is in it. L heard Beck in
the Senate say the wages in Scotland were as
high as in the United states, I've heard DEM
ocr9ts say over and over again tnat when the
purchasing power of money was considered.
there was very little difference between wages
here and in Europe.
went over there to see for myself and found
had always given the wages too high. | went
into the novels and dens, where 80 900 women
and children are making nails on little anvils
by the little hollows Where they live, and I
talked with them. Italy has 80 600, coo OF people,
and completes with you, and one ship that could
blow your whole navy to pieces She has five
millions of the finest soldiers ever saw outside
of America. King Humbert is shrewd, and in
every possible way is building up Italy as
man facturing country. and before you know
1t she will be finishing Der fabrics. The wo-
men do all the work with the old fashioned
implements, and you can't find a farm here
like theirs. Women who work Twelve hours
day get twenty cents piece and board them
selves.
"In Venice, in a government lace factory. I
found two hundred women at work. ! saw
some lace worth $500 yard. One won en- saw
worked torty-one years, and was the most ex
pert in the factory. On the payroll I found
the highest wages a day She ever earned was
twelve cents. The wages of the others aver
aged nine to ten cents a day, and the chill
dren five to eight cents a day. In a cotton
mill at Vesuvius l found they worked any
TO do Thn
men got forty cents in a marble yard. The best
wages were sixty cents day. In America the
same men Would get four dollars day. My
drivers dinner was macaroni and greese. boiled
together. In Free glorious switzerland ! saw
gardener who gets $50 year and few vege-
tables A herdsman get forty cents a day for
three months, and thirty cents the rest of the
season.
SIN Belgium in the bee hive and garden the
women do all the work. They are yoked with
horses and dogs and they get twenty cents a
day. In a lace mill a fine operative could earn
twenty cents day. Forty cents II day is good
wages for a man. In Belgium they are COM
peting with you, and sending iron, silk and
lace right into your markets. We're there no
tariff they would flood you. Belgium and Ger
out of rree-trade England. In Munich | saw
four women in the cold and sIeet saving wood,
and carrying it into the store on their heads,
and they said they got twenty cents piece
day. One made only fifteen cents day, be-
cause she had five children at home. She said
she took ten cents and bought the first vast
her children.
Women all over Germany work out of doors
for twenty cents day. Almost every woman
literally carries a German soldier on her back.
In $50 iron and steel factories the average
wages per week is $4.25 a man. Germany sent
millions of dallars' worth a goods here last
year. In the black betting England you will
see twenty-five miles of smoking stacks, where
thirty thousand women and children are max
ing nails. A man and wife and child make
S4.77 week. In London alone there are one
million paupers. How wages be good with
that number in the poor-house? In the Liver
pool docks every day | saw one thousand men
wandering about hungry and sad, asking for
an hours work to buy bread for starving chill
dren. In Ireland anywhere you will find hun
dreds following your carriage begging for q
penny to bly, bread. There are paupers every
where. over onehalf OF the farmers are out
of work. In England they WORK for shilling q
day and that cuts off the IL ish. You can hire
men to work out all day for twenty cents. In
PaWtucket, Rhode Island, where they do the
same work as In Scotland, the wages are three
times as high. | could go on at this for hours.
ask you, do you wish your country to compete
with countries IKE these? If you do. vote the
Democrat ticket. A colored man. mo. sir! no
street, Ihe Democrats say what Cleveland
says and don't know any more than he does
about the tariff They say it costs you more to
live here. though you get higher wages. Sugar,
beef, bacon, bread, and other necessarieS are
cheaper in Frederick than in any country in
Europe. We send over lnere all these things
and do we send them three thousand miles
and sell them for less? Not much: we are not
Get piece of goods over there and have ii
made UP, and you will never wear it but once
Why? Because they do not pay their work
men. You do pay them here. TIE journeymap
in America owns the boss. You can buy the
same clothes, in better style and cheaper here
than you can in Liverpool or London. ! ask
any man TO name any single product that has
sprung up here under the protective tariff tina,
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