Telegram-herald., 1890-11-02

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snd tass hzvs contFirutse 81 tee agxt
cUls4FA sx.taTs ~ Inis N4tsoa We
,sPo ssa lntS this co0avy ass year
frea 0aAxas over sze 90 80 II f4rm
pr~d dcss- e2Pposlng tssse t4rn pro
ducts eoula eoase IN free @eal1 not
thst a-gress the price OF the faTtn pre-
d aZts Of Tie AmeFSAa fsFfnf Most coF-
salEiy it s0uia. Ne lmpSsted lzst
year from Canada tao miliasR doll&rs
ssTta Of skgs. You may NOT have
looked up shis egg question blt u = =
fact, nay friends, that the sslue OF the
egg product of ths United states
amounts 20 more than the value OF the
o2E crop of the United States. Eggs
have been on the free hst now se
pfoposs undcT this blll 10 protect
tue American hen Laughter snd
spplkuse. The CANADIAN farmer
does not send any more eggs
into the United States unless he steps
INTO tie customs house and pays 5
cents a dozen toward paying the run
ming expenses OF this government.
Applause. | want 10 say 10 you that
the American ben Is cackLng IN favor
OF THIS very Mckinley oil. Laughter
and applause. Now the sheep voted
two years ago, thinking 10 put wool
that great Industry OF Michigan upon
the cree list, and my friend Ford went
and voted for it; but the sheep went
and voted him out and Belknsp IA.
Laughter aud applause. We have
laced in thls measure little additional
tarIff on wool, one OF the greatest IN
dustries OF this country. So, upon all
the products of the farm We have put
a little additional tariff, and that is
one thing, my friends, that has
advanced IN this country the
price of farm products that has
simply advanced because Of the iegisla-
ton OF the Republican party. [Chrers.
over one-thlrd of the people of the
United states are engaged IN farming;
and whenever the farmers OF this coun-
try are prosperous, this nation IS pros
porous. The agricultural interests are
the basis OF the wealth of tins country;
and whenever the farmer gets = good
price for the product of his farm, then
we are IN prosperous condition; but
they say the laboriDg man has 10 pay
more for his products, for what he pur-
chases from tnefarmer. That may be
so; but when we are IN prosperous
condition labor is employed all over the
country, and they have more money TO
purchase with. Applause. You see
no IDLE men about our streets today.
The fact is, they are all busy. The
wheels are turning. Labor IS en-
ployed throughout the land, and we
are on peculiar prosperity. such as
we have not seen for years.
Beyond the agricu tIral interests,
the same considerat on has been gwen
to manufacturing interests or the
country, and | want to make THIS
to this audience; If | am
not right, will some Democrat or free
trader call my attention to lt-tnat
there is no single industry that we have
protected and fostered IN the United
States by = protective tariff but what
we have invested in that industry large
amounts of money, that has given en-
ployment 10 labor, made a better
market for the products OF the farm and
at the same time cheapened the price
of the article. [Applause]. You may
take the article of plate glass, If you
please. The Democratic party said IN
1873 that We could no: manufacture II
IN this country; they said we did not
Adft ltlC CtALlIlC anu bA4C 0Ol4. lAu VIII
notice that whenever they say
that we can not start any
new enterprise or industry in
the United States, they lay IT to the eli
mate and the soil. In 1873 we were
purchasing all the plate glass that we
used from foreign lands-from Ger
many and Australia snd France, and
plate glass was selling IN our American
markets for S2.40 per square foot.
Congress laid tariff upon plate glass,
and capital sought investment in that
indutry. We opened factories in diff
ferent places IN the United States-at
Evansville, H., at Pittsburg, and else
where; and we commenced the manu-
facture of plate glass. Al first our peo-
pie put 1t out under the brand of
French plate glass, because they
thought We could not manufacture SO
good an article as they did abroad, on
account of the ''cllmate and SOIL" /
presume. lLaGghter.l But the intel
hgcnce. the skill and ingenuity of the
American wOrkinSTnan soon brought
plate glass up IN quality 10 the bost
standard in the world. Applause.
That industry grew and developed IN
this country to that extent that Ia 1899
we manufactured seven-eighths of all
the plate glass that we used, and of as
good quality as manufactured IN the
world; and the plate glass IS selling IN
our market today for so cents per
square foot. Applau.e1
Now what has this Congress done
with reference to benefitlng the labor
interests OF this country? Why, you
i~r,nvu that fyrsr
years, | think. there was gentleman
IN Congress who attained some notori-
ETY. by being a member or chairman of
the Committee on immigration, and
they investigated the subject OF
immigration; they wanted TO keep out
from our land the psuper labor of the
Italians, the Huugarians and Norwe-
gians from abroad, and after four or
i've months of investigation, a member
OF the committee told me that they
could have stepped up 20 the Bureau of
Labor in the city of Washington and
have obtained all the Information they
did receive IN that FIVE months isunt;
but they obtained the information
what has become of it7 Have you
ever heard anything about it rnce
Whv, my friends. 'It sleeps the sleep
that knows no waking" Applause !
They never made any report of 10 20
Congress in the world; aud that IS
simply more Of the talk OF that Con
grss.. instead Of acting or passing Any
IsEisLston. lApplsuse. General Algcr
ssvs 20 tell toe gentlemen who tbst
chairman uas. I have been trying n
think about Is, bat since ae has ca ed
nay attention 70 II. believe Il wa. the
gentleman Who did not hold = "joini
debate" N thIs room during the
past veek-Mr. Ford. rCheers.
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