The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-07

trickery and dishonesty is with sucn
men as Mr.. Morrill,. What l under
stand the tariff reformer to want is this:
Free raw material of all kinds so that
the manufacturer may be able to COM
pete with the world with his article OF
manufactured product, and by SO doing
export more than any other country.
England has about 95 per cent OF the |
import trade of South America and
Australia, and of large portion OF |
European countries, and we, as manu-
facturers, with our burden of high |
taxes on raw material, have to
stand by and see England taking
from us and from the people
what honestly belongs to us. Mr..
Sargent says that the only goods
he can export are the goods that the
cost is in the labor put upon them in
finish, and then says that the goods
made with little labor are the goods
that it is impossible for him to export.
This, to my mind, shows that laborcom-
pared to the quantity of articles made
| to the individual is cheaper in America
than England. Now, if you give the
American manufacturer free material
| he will be able TO export great guam
tity of goods creating demand for
more manufacturers and more laborers
in this country. Supply and demand
regulate the price of both the manu-
featured article and the price of labor,
so if free raw material had any effect on
wages it would be to advance them. In
connection with tlffs you would have
more people here to consume the prod
uct of the farmer; not only more people,
but you would give the idle people that
are already here employment, and by
SO doing give them the wherewith to
purchase what they need for their daily
consumption. If the manufacturer had
free raw material he could stand a re-
duction in the tariff on his manufac-
tured article, at least as much as he
would be benefited by the tariff being
taken off the material he uses, and in
that way the American consumer would
reap the benefit Of free raw material by
being able to buy what he consumed at
Just that much less-just the amount
that the manufacturer would receive in
his free raw material. In this way
everybody would be benefited except,
perhaps, the producer of the raw mate
rial but that would be so small, not
only in loss of property but in numbers,
it should not be thought Of 1t is Our
!; duty to make such laws rs will do the
most good and be the greatest benefit to
the greatest number.
. Mr.. Morrill, says: "Workmen in Great
Britain when out of employment have
no resource but the work-house, but
American workmen generally own thcil
own homes, take their own newspapers
and have money in the savings banks.
This is not generally the case, but veSy
far from it. If Mr.. Morrill, will take
the trouble to look it up he will see, as
J Prof Carroll d. Wright shows, thai
. there are 200, 600 men in Massachusetts:
|. able and willing to work who can no
get work to do. The labor bureaus o
1 two of our best States declare that thu
average wages of worlmen are no
enough to bring up a family upon ever
> in the most meager way unless supple
mented by the wages of wife or child
''Three hundred and fifty dollars a yea
is the average income of the working
men of our land and millions have no
even this" In New York City there ar
whole sections where the overcrowdinI
is greater than in the most crowded
quarters of London. 1.-TWO million mel
out of work means 100000 wives, 3,
600, 900 children out of bread, out Of fire
out of Clothes and many of them with
out roof to shelter them Letter
and kilograms continue to pour in upol
DR.. Edward n. Small, of Sedalia, Mo,
who thoughtlessly offered bonus t
- any one who would consent to be bitter
by his mad dog for the benefit of med
= : ical science. Has life really become $
: cheap in this country that hundreds ar
!, willing to sell it from 500 to S500?" sc.
!" a.. young man named William Miller,
u factory hand, tainted on the street i
s. New Brunswick, n. j., one Wednesda
y night from sheer starvation. He wa
out of work and had eaten nothing fc
: some time. He was exceedingly wea
and died shortly after being taken t
the poor farm the other morning" "Mr:
y John King, of New Haven, Conn.,, wa
found dead in her led. Her three boy.
= aged two four and six years, were gail
cred around her half clad and almoS
dead from starvation. They were will
= out clothing and reeking with fill
Mrs. King, according to the report {
" Dr. White. medical examiner died {
starvation.
\ Our agricultural sections, too, ar
about equally as poorly off Farms al
deserted to-day in England just whe
u Mr.. Morrill, says that ''home manufa
turers planted in every State alongsid
- of the farmer largely save in distrib'
L ton" Why then are these farmers i
nd New England giving up farming, an
ID why did the farmers of the State of Ill
ID nois lose 10000, 600 on their corn Gre
= alone last year? hIr. Morrill, knows tn;
Il the market price on the farmers prodh
tion IS made in Liverpool Eng, and ;
& he says: Every ship load OF wheat {
. corn exported tends to reduce the prit
: abroad and What the price is ahrss