St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-23

quarter to make The pants, one day to
make the vest. On those figures the
senator wants a tailor, a skilled laborer,
to work six days for 1928, less than a
dollar day. He had found out, too
just what tina suit of CLOTHES cost-SI4,
Davis made mistake" of $3.50. Da.
Wis had also said that man could save
money on clothes through the tariff,
unless he wanted to buy English clothes.
Senator Davis told you." said Mr..
Wellington, that the increase Of the
tariff on TN plate comes ont of the i'm
porter. BY what SORT of logic does he
deducc that the tariff on tin pIate comes
out of the importer, and the decrease on
clothes Is all saved to the people?"
Davis and binding Irvine were next
taken up. The duty on binding twihe
used to be in the aggregate Sl65,C00 per
year. Davis b0aSted because the Min
neSota farmer las been saved 500, 900 on
binding twine. But Davis had pleaded
for tree binding Irvine in the United
States senate. Wellington quoted from
his speech:
Senator Davis stood upon the floor
Of the senate chamber and pleaded Tor
free binning Irvine as a priceless boon.
The binding Irvine manufacturers
said he. tell us that if we admit this
article duty free they will be compelled
to close up our factories, and hundreds
of men will be thrown out of employ
ment. / see in this a prayer and a
threat. / disregard the one and defy
the other. If these manufacturers CAN
not make cheap Irvine for our farmers,
there are factories in Hong Kong and in
Canada that will supply u.s.
That Is What Davis Said
in congress. He came before you here
and told you what a beautiful thing is
this tariff. But he didn't want to pro-
tect binding twine. and if that doesn't
need protection what does9 He told
you that you shouldn't ask American
la orers TO compete with European
wOrkmen, through free trade; yet, from
his own words in congress, he was
willing to make American workmen
compete with the yellow skinned.
almond-eyed, rice-fed Monaghan who
laborS III Hong Kong for three cents per
day. In that speech DAVIS said: we
cannot cut off the world, live by our
selves and grow rich off one another
Then he came up here and told you that
you must do that very thing"
The tallacy of reciprocity was eX-
planned. Reciprocity, in its fullest
sense. means free trade. Blaine'S
scheme includes this stipulation: The
United States will admit manufactures
from such countries as will bar out alb
solutely the products of all countries
which would compete with ours. No
nation would enter into such an agree
ment. That sugar schedule was eX-
planned. Only the coarsest brown sugars
are admitted free. They must be re-
fined before using. The saving of S55.-
000.000 per year all goes to the refner,
to the sugar trust.
when this tariff bill was under prep
aration. special train loads of manu-
facturers and their paid attorneys went
to Washington to confer with the COM
mittee on ways and means. Where was
the special rrain and the paid repre-
sentatiyes of the farmers and the labor
ers?''
A still. small voice-Snider!
Yes; and it was the most snide:repre-
sentatiOn they ever had"
Mr.. Wellington closed his address
with an impassioned appeal to the peo-
pie to throw aside party prejudices and
vote for the men WHO would look after
their interests.