The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-12

be knows more now than he did then and |
that he could not look a paper man in the J
face when he paid him for his paper.
II. said Mr.. Horr, there is any one thing |
that his free trade friends delight in
talking it was the possibility OF
wearing cheap clothing, especially
WOODEN goods. He said that WOODEN
goods had been reduced in price
in the same proportion as any other article
under the protective system. This, he
said, brought to his remembrance that IN
1852 he taught school Tor slS per month
and boarded around AT the time ne
thought he was getting very small wages,
but as he looks back at the school ne
taught and the manner In which the
teaching was done, he thought that he got
all he was entitled to. But, returning TO
the price of clothing, he said that a suit OF
clothing that cost then So he could now
b,1y for $40. He believed in the protection
of labor. Wages here, he said, were higher
than in any other country. Soma people
SAID, why should they pay $40 for suit or
clothes here, that they could by IN London
for 81. He did not know, nor did he believe
that they could do so, but even il he could
he was willing and ready 20 pay the -
extra, knowing that 1t went into the
pockets of well paid iaborers instead
of the British manufacturer. II, he
said as his free trade friends claim. the
wages of laborers were higher: in Eng
land than in the United States, why
was it that so many thousands
of skilled mechanics or every descrlp
ton and trade are continually coming 10
the United States where the wages were
not so good Some of them, he said, go
back, but they go only to return, bringing
with them their families, mothers, fathers
and all their relation. Why, says he, the
hired girls send money enough back to the
old countries and bring more people to
! the United States than all the people, rich
and poor, that ever go back across the
water to stay. He was as ready as any
body to put a stop to the landing OF the
great body of ignorant Immigrants on
American soil, as they only break down
the price of American labor. 1t should be
stopped, and stopped suddenly.
Another cry, he said, was that we need
| free raw material in this country. BE had
the hrst man yet to define to him what
raw material was. One person told him
that rags were raw material, and that PEG
pie were always making them. He
once got Abram Hewitt to define
raw material. and he said it was pie
iron. Mr. Hewitt said pig lroi
because he had large factory in Ne"
Jersey where he manufactured car wheels
and other large castings and cast them all
from pig iron. But says Mr.. Horr, bow i:
it with the man who digs the iron iron
the earth. Pig iron to this man Is no
quite so raw as it was to Mr.. Hewitt. Ih'
true value of the raw material in ton
pig iron, quoting the best quality OF lroi
ore is only 40 cents. The balance Is labor
While visiting the locomotive works II
one of the great manufacturing district
of Ntw York state he asked the foreman
the price of completed locomotive n
was told that they were worth from $500
to SIS, 900 Then be asked the question
, how much raw material is there in an SIS
, 600 locomotive? The foreman figured
| few minutes and said that it was s3'
thus leaving balance Of ST., 1868 represent
, ing the labor of muscle an
brain used in producing tn
locomotive. His free trade friend
could 60 running after the 81, but he wa
: for protecting the labor represented by Tn
1853.
2 But they say we must have the market
of tho whole world. England has I'll
( markets of the whole world and WAS nc
5 satisfied She wanted our markets. ID
1 was in favor OF taking care of the Unite
States first. Why did not England sen
r her goods to India, whose population
greater than the United States, and whlc
i belongs to her? Because, where people G
l.. not Wear and eat much never buy to an
e great extent. Kansas uses more man
i featured goods than India. We mu
r take care of ourselves first and Englan
0 afterwards, and if he had his way 1t wou
1 be "a good while afterwards.
2 Speaking of the Mckinley bill, Il
e speaker said that the bill was framed
e the interest of every industry OF the VINO
), United States There was no tariff on II
t as is commonly supposed, but that
was on the free list Inere Is
g high duty on tin plate. There was man
l. featured 10 Chicago some OF the hueSt l
e plate that was ever manufactured III
n world. and he ventured the assertion th
q inside of the next decade that the Unit
g States would be making tin plate OF bett
n quality and much cheaper in price th
E. England could. In South Dakota has he
It discovered one of the greatest tin mines
e the world. He showed samples OF the
W plate made in Chicago and minatu
q anvil made from tin dug from the Sou
l. Dakota mines. When fully develop
d this industry would save &c this count
1t SIS, 1000, 600 annually.
y What the people OF the United Sta
le wanted was diversified industries.
,e wanted the time TO come when the peol
ID of this country would not have to look
n any other country for supplies, but woI
it produce all they consume. American
re eenuity and competition cheaper goods
e At the close of his remarks Mr.. H
y gave any one in the audience chance
ID question him on anything he had stat
One or two availed themselves of the {
re norrunitv and were answered quite sa
In fsctorilv to the majority of the audien
u the long and continued applause Il
be greeted his answers Is any criterion.
Is, The speaker was often interrupted
Dn bursts of applause from his audience.
o.
an There was good attendance at the
al terta,nment given last night a. the Do
Avanue NJ Y. church 4 long and in