Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-10-15

have nothing to say against my friend Mark at all, I hav5 known hlm for 1O or 12 years, but there are too many peopi9 in the Territory of Arizona that believe anything that Mark tells them, like the Connecticut preacher and h's brother, but if you will investigate you will ind some of these statements are made o'o~s through the hat. as the tXprcssi.n IS among miners, than from facts and tigu- res. l. sounds very we'll but what gre the facts? We admit that Carnegie IS a millionaire. and he msde his millions Tn the manufacture of steel, which s pro t,cted industry, but we have to acmit further that the laws of the United States are such that they must protect the millionaire swell as the poor man, aud say that no law could be god Ou- less it did protect the poor ard the rich alike. If wa look lack we find shat fifte en years ago Carnegie was working for dollar day aod the field was an open one for all men to bee me million aires the same as Carnegie did. By the exercise of his intellect and by his pluck and energy he has become a millionaire while the other labOrers continue to
 
 gressional committee, the chairman of xhich is a Democrat snd free trader, shows that out of the 3S20 men work ing st the CaTnege works but BPS of them were affected by the scale they wished to put in effect, and. out of that number theTe was not man who vas not drawiog from eight to twenty dollars per day. Ths scale under which they were working went iuto effecs Tn 1889 and under it they were then able to make from S6 to SIS day, but by the introduction of improved machinery the men affected by the scale were able to make from sS to s24 Q day. The min | imum of that scale was S25 a ton and l the maximum was unlimited. If steel l had gene to 100 ton they would have been paid on the same scale, but if it had gone down to one dollar ton they would have still been paid on the scale of twenty-five dollars. The company wished to reduce that to S23 a ton which would have reduced their wages S18sper cent, but they said: 'We wont allow you to do this. We admit that you are losing money by the scsle we are row working under, you must pay us those wages simply because you have made your millions in this manufactory. The testimony before that committee showed that McLuckey, one of the leaders, testified that he was able to invest S20,- 900 in real estate mortgages in Kans3s some six weeks before, and Dillon ad- mitted that he rode to the works ia the morning in his carnage. Those were the "poor oppressed laborers" with who's blood the banks of the Mononga- hela were running red, as my friend Smith says. 1 g am friend of the labor ng man for l haze been a labCrer myself since I was 13 years old, and 1 am labor ing as hard today as I ever labOred in my life. 1 beliere in organized labor. l love to see lahoring men protect them selves, but | don't believe n any class of men demanding any more than is just y due them. 1 believe they should be paid, and we'll paid; and 1 would say further that if those men had been re- ceiving but Sl.25 to SI.50 a day I would have gloried in tn sir spunk m standing up for their rights and demaGdieg high CT wages, but when men such as Me Lucky and Dillon were drawing what we consider even in Arizona large wages. simply because Mir. Carnegie refused to give them everything they asked for and make every concession to them, they demandsd all the other working men to join tdem and argued that they must do SO because they woGld be the next ones to Ee reduced, IL IS the same as the free trader today sEy5 you are tue one that wi. next bs starving under protect on. Notwithstanding this. we are travelng right along and growing richer, and the of h1 Ia hnI Ir sI71rr better every day.
 You have all heard about the "tin- plate liar" They love to dwell upon the matter of tin plate ard 1t seems to hurt the free traders or the tariff re- formers that the tn plate industry should prosper in America. They tell you there IS TO tin plate produced in Amerlcs, but l Say to you that it has not been thIrthy days since I was at the Temescsl Mlnes lp California and I saw them producing tin pigs there and l read the day before yesterday. ID Min ing Dagazlne telegram sent from the Dead Wooi MInes to the Company in England saying they had struck on the lower level vein 415 feet wide carry Ing s per cent of Oxide tin, and had struck another yeln feet wide with ' per cent oxide tin. When you take into con- siderstion that, the best tin mine Tn the world produced only from ten to twelve per cent, ore you will see these are pret- ty good mines. A short time ago 1 met the Expert of that company and in a conversation with hin he told me they were putting machinery there that would cost SI50,000, and would give em- p.oyment to 10000 men. The one cent 8 pound on tin placed there by the Me Ainley bill has saved to the American people by keeping it in this country 2l.0O0,600, and causing thousands of dollars to be invested in America for the production of tin. Befare the Me Kinley bill went into effect We find tin was worth s4 32 box, at the present time tin is selling for B 22.
 We find the change not in the marta Of America bat the loss to the foreign countries. In addition we find if we cannot produce the raw material-the tin oTe-the raw material IS admitted flee. Sugar has been placed upon the free list and in so doing the Republican party has saved to the American psopl6 a great many millions of dollars. I speak of the raw material. In order to pro- tect sugar Wa placed bounty ot two cents a pound upon It and the conse- quenoe vas it cost us S7,000O0O, in pay ing that bounty, but We took out ef the Treasury of the United States and placed among the people S5l, ,OOO,OOO in the way of tariff. So 1 say
 With sugar aud tin,
 Republicans must wiz,
 Laughter and applause).
 ADsy as tO ,,ur tr-rrft,rSoI I,f ffo;-. I Ioo,. net tell you what l have done in Con- gress because 1 have never Seen there. have read great deal what my op- ponent has done there, but have failed ' to find really anything that hs has dOpa n, yri1Iip., r- |