Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-03-21
ENCOURAGE HOMIE INDUSTRY.

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Take Care Of the American working
man-Renefits OF the Mckinley Bill
-Striking Dement'S from Protection
Tho First Gum Of tho Republican
Campaign In Connecsicut.
Said prominent republican: Hon. N.
D. Sperry's speech at the Milford republic
can rally Friday night, the first gun of the
campaign in Connecticut, ought to be en-
graved upon the hearts of our republicans
all over our little commonwealth and the
Union. No more telling and convincing
truths and scathing exposition of demo-
cratic fallacies have been uttered, nor have
I seen anything in print more to the point.
His remarks went to the root Of the mat
ter and his arguments are unanswerable.
Just take the following resume of speech,
furnished by q shorthand reporter, of q
few Of the many strong points in his adj
dress-these relative to the tariff issue
which ia SO much misrepresented by the
democrats, and which may help some be-
logged on the subject to the clear light,
said Mr.. Sperry:
The tax on tea an coffee was removed
by the Mckinley bill, because those articles
are not raised in this country, not pro-
duced here. In this, protection was not
needed.
And by the way, under this bill we also
said to foreign powers exporting tea and
coffee: You shall not put on an export tax
| on those articles. IF you do We shall re-
taliate. We shall guard against such &C.
ton as was taken once by Brazil in aspirit
| of greed and to enrich its treasury.
Now as to the removal of the duties on
sugar As we raise only ons-seventh of
| the sugar we consume, the tariff ON sugar
was taken off and the people reap vast
| benefit thereby. But mind you, as we can
produce and do produce considerable sugar
| in this country, we protect the home sugar
industry by paying a bounty for all home
raised sugar. We took off the tax on i'm
ported sugar, but we at the same time pro-
vide for net crushing our own sugar pro-
ducing industry. We give a bounty to en-
courage home production. We encourage
1t also as a menace to foreign sugar pro
| ducing countries not to put up the price
| ON US. We protect the home producing
sugar industry also by means of this boun-
ty SO that we may not be at
| the mercy of foreign producers, aud &c
that we may develop sugar producing in
this country the same az Germany and
Francs have done for their people and
continue to do with magnificent results.
BY protection Germany and France, which
wefe dependent upon foreign countries fol
their shgsf, have encouraged home indus
try by pf6tseti6h, 60 that now those e6th-
tries not eRly raise ell the sugar they need
| ut home, but are exporting the article &c
ether countries. They have created g
great source Of income aud wealth fol-
sheif eva people: That's whst protection
does, Instead Of feeding other a9Hhtfia.
| aud tatttna N manila far sa hHiiagA 1
encouraging home industry i.
And here let me say that pretsetienistt
never claim that protection 10 not tai
when IL relates to imported articles which
We cannot produce In this country,
Nuw In relation to tin plate, A tar
III WAS put upon tin plate by the addition
of l 2 10 cents q pound. Whyl In order to
may manufacture tin plates here. W.
have tin In the Black Hills. We have al
30 the iron and produce the sheets which
are coated with tin. We have o right tt
and ought to protect our industry for oul
own advantage In natural wealth and
thereby furnish thousands Of men with
new employment. The value of tin pro
duced by foreign countries and sold herr
amounts upwards to $22, 600, 900 annual
ly, and the labor employed In prod ueint
that tin amounts 10 thousands Of EN-
| plOyobt huu OuE w 6ibA kEieAoH UP w tAi
time have had complete control OF on
market, charging exorbitant prices TO
II, amounting In many instances to seven
ty per cent. profit, which We Americans ar
paying for that tin. The tariff OIL
tin, our friends, the democrats, claim
is burden or tax upon US. It's preeisel.
the same old cry which they used when
tariff WAS placed upon cotton fabric. The.
asserted that we were taxing the shir
upon the poor mans back. At the tim
OF this democratic cry cotton was selling
at 80 cents yard, and the tariff place.
upon cotton fabric enabled us to make tn
same by protecting home industry.
took some years to establish the machiner
necessary to produce cotton fabric, bu
when we became equipped for the making
of this fabric the manufacturers of tn
same became numerous, competition
stepped in, which regulated prices an
, the price per yard of cotton fabrics fel
from 80 cents to rs, from IS cents to 2(
then to Is cents then to 12a cents, 10 cent
and now you can buy it at or cents
, yard, all owing and due to protection 1 cit
| this to show that it is a parallel case wit
the that of tin plate and the reduction il
, price of tin plate will follow in substantial
the same ratio, yes, in the same ratio. Fax
tories are already established and With
the five years fixed by law favoring tn
manufacture of tin plate what
, have said will become fixed fact. It
| as sure to come as the sun is to rise in th
, | heavens.
. Now take the matter of pearl buttons
. We had several manufactures of thes
goods in this country, all of which wer
, going to decay in consequence of the in
portation of pearl buttons from Austri
: which were made by convict labor an
poured in upon our shores in competition
y | with free labor. Austria herself prohit
tied by law the sale of pearl buttons mad
: by convict labor in her own dominiont
but our friends, the democrats, in congress
. refused to put small duty upon those in
I ported pearl buttons to protect our ow
establishments here and the labor en-
ployed in them. The Mckinley bill &C
9 vanced the tariff on pearl buttons and th
! law went 30 far as to render pearl button
b. made by convict labor when imported int
this country liable to coniscation; and tn
" result is that our languishing pearl butte
1 industry was revived and now we have tt
2 day under the operation of the McKinle
bill seventy seven pearl button manufat
7 tories in operation, where before the pass
age of the bill we had only seventeen
: And the price per shirt, where pearl but
n tons are used, will not exceed from II t.
a Q cents more. If our friends, the demo
q crats, who are SO anxious about the we
fare of labor in this Country are willing
a 80 legislate that articles made by convie
: labor shall be poured into our country t
the detriment of our own mechanics an
i people. they should have the advantage {
. such legislation and the full stigm
thereOf