St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-16
No ONE BELIEVES IT,
Car Reed Claims That the
New Tariff Is Just to the
Poor.
A Panaeea for ALI Ills Man
kind Is Heir to Except
Trusts.
Protection, He Says, Leads to
Invention, Higher Wages
and Happiness.
A Yarn That the Overtaxed
Masses Will Take Cum
GpanO Sails.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct.15.-Hun. Thorn
as Is. Reed addressed all audience of
over 5000 people in Music hall tonight.
Speaker Reed was given a royal recep-
ton. He was escorted to Music hall by
the Republican League club, and ,on be-
ing introduced by Chairman Becker,
was greeted with a storm of applause
After thanking his audience for their
cordial reception, he said: Il intend to
address you tonight on the living issues
of the day, but l will vary the order. /
have been respectfully requested by a
Democratic club to answer certain ques-
tions. am so little used to respectful
language from the Democratic party
in the section where the major part of
my duties is performed that feel in
clined, on account of this remarkable
phenomenon, TO comply with the re-
quest, and, further, because the ques-
lions ure quite easy. The first question
is, do consider the Mckinley bill just
to the poor? Well, should say so. A
bill which has for it's object the raising
OF the wages of the poor, and at the
same time to lower the price of the ne
cessitieS of life, would seem to me TO be
not only just, but generous. This club
also wants to know whether any in
stances can be given where
Wages Have Been Raised
by high tariff dill. The Mckinley bill
has been in operation only nine days,
and it shows remarkable briIliancy on
the part of the club that they expect
wages to be raised in that time by that
bill. But if they read the morning pa
pers they would learn that mdnufact-
urers of pearl buttons are reported to
have raised the wages of their men Is
per cent on account of the Mckinley
bill: What shall it profit young free
trader if he only loves Grover Cleveland
Another question is: If protection
makes higher wages, why is it that
the people of New South Wales have
higher wages than protected France?
Protection never lowers wages. The
question is whether protection causes
higher wages than in a country under
free trade? That question is answered
by the United States under thirty years
OF Republican rule. Everybody knows
that the wages of the laborlng man in
the United States are higher to-day than
in 1853 at the close of the free trade
period. Still another question is: Can
oeoIC dLy al etClc WHICH HIS US6u low
cred in price by the Mckinley or any
other tariff bill? l can spend the even
ing doing that. l remember paying
81 .25 yard for ingram carpet which /
can buy to-day for 45 cents; iron nails
cost So keg then; steel ones now are
1890. Several years ago Mr.. Carlisle
stated that it is an abSurdity that no
SoDhistry can explain that the tariff by
making labor higher can make the prod
uct of that higher paid labor cheaper.
1t was hard dilemma, but they had to
admit two factS-WageS were higher
and the products of those wages lower.
The Democrats claim that the lower
prices are caused by invention and
causes invention? l will prove it rests
on protection. Do you suppose some
body
Reached Out Into the Dark
and drew in the steam engine. 1t was
only by slow processes that it was in
vented. Take the electric light. 1t was
known for fifty years, but was nothing
but scientific toy. By and by the
world got richer and wanted better
light than gas, and 10000 minds were
directed toward perfecting the electric
light. Now, then, the more minds that
are directed toward invention the
greater the possibility of invention.
What creates demand for inventions?
Why. protection, and when you direct
10000 minds toward invention you
double the chance of getting it. In 1888
Great Britain was in condition of de-
preston. A royal commission was ap-
pointed to examine into the cause.
They found that if Great Britain could
have got. in 1883, the same prices for
her exports that she got in 1878, size
could have got 100000 ,009 more than
she did get. The world got Great Bri-
tain's products that much cheaper. Be-
tween 1878 and 1888, the civilized world
became protected, and the whole world
was In competition with Great Britain,
SO that she had to put the value of her
goods down that enormous sum. But
what's the use of discussing protection?
We did discuss that in 1885, and it re-
ceived a handsome Endorsement and
that Endorsement resulted in the Nc
Kinley bill. The first essential to bust
ness prosperity is stability of the law.
Every man wants permanence, in his
business condition. The last seven
years have been spent in the tariff agita-
ton. 1t is time it ceased for the bust
ness interests of the country. The
world ought to know that the people in
1890 ratify the demands of the people of
1888. Speaker Reed then spoke of the
obstruction tactics of the Democrats
during the recent session Of congress
and the necessity of federal election
law, and concluded by urging all good
Republicans to see to it that the next
house of representatives shall be
securely Republican Mr.. Reed de-
parted tonight for Ohio. where he is to
deliver addresses in Maj. McKinley's
district.