The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-04-10

all the markets from them in spite of every
thing that they can do. lApplause.l Europe
is exporting to-day over s., 000OOO,O00 in textile
cotton, silk and linens 81 000000,0 900 in textile
that we can manufacture, nine-tenths of them
cheaper than they can to save their souls,
We have cheaper labor than they have.
Now take your taxes-call it a tax; il is a
tax-the tax has to be added when you buy all
your wool. They buy their wool in South
America, Russia or Australia, but there is a tax
on your wool, to be added to the cost. Take
that tax off and you put your manufacturer on
an equal plane with theirs; then, your labor
being cheaper than they can possibly have it.
you sell to the world. Think how many work
men would be called in to manufacture; con-
ceive of the hundreds of thousands of hands;
what demand for labor all ever the country.
Is it not a tariff on the thing that effects the
laborer's wages? Would it not increase the de-
mand for us? 1t is the cheapening of mans
labor that decreases and not increases the price
on goods which he makes. 1t is the lack of
the article which is imported the profits of
which go into the pockets of his employer
and not into his. The tax is not on the labor;
it is on the thing that the labor makes and the
thing that belongs TO his employer, not to him.
Applause. Ifyou want TO increase the wages
of your laborer; if you want to give employ
ment not only Tor nine months but for twelve
months; if you want to keep him constantly
employed at wages tending upward; if
mouth and into that of his wife and chill
dren, then make a demand for his employ
ment constant, active and vigorous, and to do
this you have got to take down these barriers.
If that raw material is purchased in all parts Of
the world upon an equal footing with all other
countries, then give him the privilege of doing
that work, and you will do that very desirable
thing. Applause
Take the taxes off of wool, take the taxes off
of coal, take the taxes off of ORE off of fax and
all materials that enter into our manufacture,
lokk Iav0, h A,,k~,
would be demand not only for the inhabitants
In this land but for more people TO come. Why
must we have high tariff TO protect labor?
Is there any tariff on labor? Is there duty of
10 per cent. on foreign laborers coming into
this country with fixed value put on the
head of each one? Any tax upon the importa-
ton OF arms, legs and heads, the things that
make goods? Is the supply made less by
duty on that foreign competition kept out and
the demand being improved In this country?
That Is protection. How far does that pro-
lection 60? Is not that thing to redeem the
laborer? But the protection is upon the
material owned by the employed, and
the enhanced prices goes into the pockets of
of the employer, not to him. There is no pro-
lection for him. No tariff can benefit him. 1t is
beyond the genius even of an American man to
make any tariff that will afford any obstruction
to movements of commerce that possibly bene-
fit the workmen. The only thing that the
American workman can do is TO tear down the
barrier, ana allow commerce 10 HOW as GOQ IN
tended it should, for the benefit and happiness
OF his children. lApplause. But the tariff
must be for the workman. AS Mr.. Blaine said
in the beginning of the last campaign, Capital
can't take Ofitself; it is question of labor
from skin to core, and back to skin again"
and it has got TO skin again. Laughter 1t is
q question of labor from skin to core, but if the
tariff is for the protection of the workman, why
don't they give him the benefit of it?
find that there Is tax OF $6.72 on ton Of
pig iron imported into the United States from
foreign countries, but when | look into the
report made by the manufacturers of pig iron
made by the census of 1880 / find that the
amount paid for labor is from S1.25 to $3.50 per
ton, but who gets the balance OF that 500, and
who gets it all? Why, the man who owns the
pig iron, not the laborer. If there was no
tariff on pig iron at all, if admitted into this
country free of duty, they would still pay him
Sl.25 and S1.50a ton. As 1t is now. all that goes
into the pocket of the man who owns the ma
terial. We are paying duties OF from 100 to
go per cent ON wooden goods, and the cheaper
the goods the higher the duty; the poorer and
cheaper the higher the duty. Thomas Jefferson
said, under the inspiration OF heaven believe,
when he penned the declaration of independ-
ence, when he appealed to the universe he said:
eve hold these truths to be selfevident that
all men are created equal. [Applause.l
Equality is the fundamental condition of asso-
citation OF all men in every government" In
those good old days we did not hear of
millionaires. You could have counted on your
fingers thirty years ago all the millionaires. /
can only recollect of hearing of Stephen Girard
and John Jacob Astor. Now we have the VAN
derbllts-think of the capital they control and
the amount OF tariff you must pay 10 furnish
five or six heads with bonnets or their bodies
with clothesl Does anybody fail to see that
there is not distribution of tariff equally?
Is not everything we have made up OF labor?
Certainly everything is from labor. This house
is made by labor, your food is labor, your farm,
everything, the pearls these beautiful ladies
wear, gotten from the depths of the sea- the
flowers, the adornments, everything is com
posed of labor. Now tell me- why now Is there
any tariff? Here is a suit of clothes that cost a
man ten days labor in Massachusetts,. He
wants wheat, and he proposes to exchange it
for ten bushels of wheat, that costs some man
in Minnesota ten days labor. The man in
Massachusetts, can't make wheat and the man
in Minnesota can't make clothes. One has
to depend upon the other, each working at
their own occupation. They make the ex-
change but suppose the man in Massachu-
sets is protected by tariff and compels the
man in Minnesota to work thirty days for a suit
OF clothes. One OF two things must result
either youireduce the labor in Massachusetts, or
the labor in Minnesota, because if you reduce
the wheat in purchase price by adding tariff for
the clothes you will decrease the price OF max
ing the clothes to that extent, and you can UNI
derstand now where the millionaire comes in.
Applause. But go on with that policy and
you will have millionsires on all your streets
There are thousands of millOnaires made
within the last quarter of a century, and only
three or four in the half or three-quarters of a
century during Jefferson's time, or two or three
generations. The result is that the farms are
mortgaged, men are standing idle begging en-
ployment, wages are being reduced by men
who make these arguments, and yet in this
country these things exist. Vote, then, for
that policy which calls into life again our mer-
chant marine, call back that policy which Hr.
Jefferson so strongly and ably advocated when,
in the declaration OF grievance to the king, he
announced the principles of freedom. Vote
for the policy which floats our navy in every
part of the world and on every sea, she used
10 do.