Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-05

0viicr tiiHos ne ulu O know now Davfii
HRrpstsr. whose chief boast was that be
owned more sheep than any other man in
Ohio, would explain this. For himself hs
was certain that the duty had nothing Ia
do with the number of sheep. It was dill.
terent in different years, just as it was with
hogs and cattle.
be could remember when his own beauti-
fol valley OF the Scioto and the Miami val
ley also had droves Of cattle-sometimes
. or 800 In q drove-but that day vas
past. There are comparatively few cattle
raised for the market now, because by the
time they were fed and fattened and driven
to the market the outlay would be 80 great
that there was no profit to be gained in
competition with the cattle kings OF the
west and southwest. Il was the same with
sheep. Ohio was one OF the first states in
the union in sheep raising, but now Texas
outnumbers rs in sheep over a million, and
California is ahead OF us. The reasons are
plain. In those states the climatic influ-
ences hold superior. In this state, with
our long winters and expensive feeding, it
costs too much to winter the sheep and
then compete with Texas and California
dock-masters.
Mr.. Neal then gave facts and figures con-
corning the price of wool at different dates
under different tariffs. He asserted the
law OF supply and demand regulated the
price Of wool just as it regulated anything
else. The effects OF the Mills bill allowing
certain kinds Of wool to come in free would
have the inevitable ,sult ot causing more
wool of that kind to be used, thus making,
also, a greater demand for homegrown
wool in connection with it. There being q
greater demand. the price naturally would
raise, and the fockmasters would be more
prosperous than ever.
He then discussed the tariff on hemp, and
as a result the increased cost OF Irvine
which the farmer was forced to use in large
quantities. He knew a farmer in his own
county who paid $3.50 in one year for
Irvine. Mr.. Neal said the farm he owned
himself, and had tried to run profitably,
had run him behind and he had to borrow
to pay the taxes on it. He thought had
he not made some money out of his pro-
fession az a lawyer it would rave bank
rupted him. He then discussed the tariff
On salt and showed it to be unjust.
he said that it was claimed the reduc.
ton OF the tariff would affect the income
or the wages of the farmer. He had
studied the matter himself and had tried
it practically, and could speak from the
farmers and workingman's standpoint
and had given the illustrations to show it. |
Speaking OF the question of wages and
the effect that it would have, he wanted to
know why the laborer in the little Demo-
cratic Nutmeg state of Connecticut receives
so much more than in the Republican
state OF Maine. Why, also, was it that
plumbers received about 81 per week more
in Chicago than they do in New York,
Showing the inequality in the reward for
labor in other ways, and especially between
England and the states, he showed that
the American workman earned more
money than the Englishman and did twice
the amount OF work. He instanced the
case OF an American who went to work in
an English shop and found he was doing
three times as much work as his fellows
receiving the samepay. Accomplished
his employer who acknowledged the JUS
OF the claim q replied that he would
pay him in accordance with the product i
Of his labor. He showed how, even in
farm and common labor, the price fuc-
each year, and was regulated. by
and demand.
He sho ~ed that all Henry Clay asked |
was q tariff sufficient to meet the expenses
government and no more. It was simply
tariff for revenue. He read extracts from
showing the condition of the
English workingmen under protection and
heir superior condition now. He then
the condition of the workingmen
n the shops Of Lowell, Mass, as they ap-
beard prosperous and hearty when we had
tariff for revenue contrasted With their
and misery now under protec-
Jon.
He dilated on the wages of protected
Pennsylvania, and showed the boons in the
vay ct misery, degradation and low wages
hat protection had given it. His state
nents were substantiated by state reports .
md statements of inspectors, officers, etc. !
lie told OF the story of the Pennsylvania !
miner who said they didn't always eat .
yhen hungry, but simply frightened the belt.
Next he alluded to the great corruption
und raised by the money kings and mo-
who had waxed fat on this pro.
ection policy to carry the last election and ,
ubvert the will OF the people. /,