The record-union., 1892-10-18
Average. e..................... 50 81. 2

This table has been fittingly supplemented
by the report Of Charles +. Peck, Dc mocratIc
Commissioner OF tne Bureau OF Labor Statis-
tics the State of New York. addressed TO the
Democratic Governor of that State on August
IS, 1892, showing that there has been net
increase in wages IN 1891 OF SO, ,377 ,920, and
a net increase IN production III that state dur
ing the same period ofS31, ,315,130.
Mr. Peck's report shows that there were
2S5, 723 men whose wages were raised in the
State OF New \ ork as the result OF the McI[in-
ley bill7S operations in 1891.
This is the report Of Il Democratic official,
originally appointed as Chiefof the Bureau of
LABOR by Grover Cleveland, continued in that
Office by David g. Hill, and recently reap
pointed by Bos well p. Fvower-all Democrats!
Just think OF it, one State alone the net in
crease in wages amounting TO over six million
OF dollars. Does that look as if the Mckinley
bill was robbery and Il fraud? OF course
our Democratic friends found fault with this
Peck in Jail, and for what for the simple rea-
son that he put things as he found them, not
as narrOw-minded partisan would like to
have them. / could furnish you with long,
long lists that would further demonstrate the
irresistible tendency of the Mckinley bill TO-
ward 81 higher plane OF income, but what l
have presented are sufficient indeed for any
man who is in a position 10 look this question
square in the face.
While these comparisons are odious to DEM
I Ocracy, they nevertheless present to them
conditions and conclusions they do not even
attempt to explain, much less overthrow.
II this tartItaX as they call it is burden how
does the great Chancellor, Bismarck, consider
it? He says: The advancement of America
| in material improvements and progress is the
most illustrious of modern times; She has not
only suppressed the most gigantic war of all
history, but immed dil ltely thereafter dfsbanded
her army, found employment for all her SOL
diers and marines, received and cared for all
the poor OF Europe as last as they could flock
to her shores, made internal improvements
put surplus in the treasury, ANA all by
system OF taxation so slight as not TO be per
ceiYed, much less felt" He urged upon his
I country closer imitation of A ofS
great policy OF protection.
Thus We fnd tnat incidental to our enOr-
nous income from the tariff our manufact-
urcrs have grown and strengthened, until
now we not only have healthy home com
petition, but our manufacturing trade is
yearly encrOaching uEon the heretofore un-
disputed territories of Great Britain until
only the other dag the Board of Trade of that
country urged upon the English Parliament
the enactment of such laws as would tend to
check "America's commercial crusade upon
the seas OF the world"
While our Democratic friends pretend to
denounee protection rs a bad remedy in the
very next breath they tell YOU how good
il is administered from prescription which
have been prepared in Democratic drug
store.
Murder is murder, whether committed with
an AK or by chloroform; theft IS theft, whether
it is grand or petit larceny, tariff is tariff:
and IT is no worse, no different. or no more
unconstitutional when applied to the i'm
prOVenent of our laboring eS by the Re-
publican party than when used by the De-
moeracy for revenue only. The Democrats
Z even admit that protection WAS proper mol
icy 10 pursue, in 1883 up to 1882. when our
industries were young, and as they say, re-
quired protection. They admit the wisdom
Of a measure that compelled foreign powers
TO pay oil our war debt, but now they say the
purposes of protection have been accom-
plshed; the limit of its possibilities has been
reached; it is q remedy no longer required:
its repeal becomes now necessity. The Re
publican party says no.
I have within my garden a certain plant
During the early stages of its growth, I built
n frame upon which in fall l could place q
canvas and thus protect il from the ravages
OF winter. The little plant, being thus pro-
tected, grew until now it has become a sturdy
perviouS TO the rayages OF frost, but still in
winter time keep the canvas there, because,
in the meantime, entwined around its every
limb and clinging seemingly for its life, there
grew a tender, delicate spray of sInilaX, the
very leaves of which seem now to be a part of
the original vine. The death OF the smilax
would spoil the beautiful effect of the foliage,
dead leaves would appear among the green
ones, and so, 10 retain the effect | cover the
smllax and shield IL from the chill of winter
In doing SO bestow upon the other a pro-
lection 1t does not require. And so
with the question of tariff During
the infancy of our manufacturing industries
( the assistance given, likewise bestowed upon
! the labofers OF this country q protection
and as the smilaS chung 10 the vine so have
our artisans, mechanics and laborers become
an iuseparable part of our manufacturing in
| dustres, and while our factories NAV have
passed the timeswhen they require the beneh-
! cent shelter OF a protective tariff, its removal
would impair, aye, be disastrous to the thor-
sands of factory hands that are busy to-day t:
and as l have to cover over my snilax in
/ winter with no concern as to the necessities