Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25

|
the duty This is Democratic doctrine, ano
according to that party is the only kind oi
| tariff needed in the United States. The
Democratic platform says by implication
that the party doesn't care for the Amerl
can people.
Effects of a Protective Tariff,
ga protective tariff levies duties on those
things that we can manufacture at home
in sufficient quantities to meet our wants.
| 1t aims to protect American capital and
| labor. 1t levies no duty on tea, coffee,
sugar, hides or rubber that we do not
raise here, 1t is embodied in its most per.
feet form in the Mckinley law. 1t is the
most thorough, systematic and logical tariff
law that was ever placed on our
statute books 1t lifts from the
taxpayer all the burdens possible.
There is a great deal OF misunderstanding
about the Mckinley bill To listen to
Democrats one would think it raised the
duties on everything and reduced the taxes
| on nothing. In the iron schedule all the
| duties have been lowered, except on tin
plate. We never before had such a
free list There are more free
than dutiable articles coming in. We
imported last yearnearly 500, 900, 600 worth
more of free goods than dutiable ones. Take
sugar, for example In 1889 we bought
S195, 600, 900 worth of sugar and molasses
The Mckinley bill took off $50, 900, 900 of
customs that the people paid. The great
vice of a revenue tariff is that it is a tax on
the poor man and not on the rich. 1t takes
as much to sweeten poor mans cup as the
rich one who has millions.
Startling Increase of Foreign Commerce.
"Our foreign commerce has increased
amazingly under the Mckinley law. Our i'm
ports and exports last year were almost two
billion dollars. Think of it! The balance of
trade in our favor was about S203, 600. .000
And yet the Democrats walled that
the Mckinley bill would be a great
Chinese wall around the country.
What does the balance of trade mean? If
you make 81, 900 year and spend 5000 you
are in pocket 500. If you spend 81, 100
you are out 500, or the other fellow is from
whom you borrowed the money. Laugh
ter We naturalized also number of new
industries You read in the Democratic
press sneers at the tin plate business. What
is tin plate? A voice-A tea cup
'It is only sheet of steel dipped in tin.
We have everything here necessary to the
making of tin plate, and, if needed, we can
import the ore like England. In Gods
name, why should we send to Europe for
tin plate? During the year before the Nc
Kiniev bill went into effect we paid Eng
land S36, 600, 900 for tin plate. Instead of
feeding the Iaborer in Wales and piling up
Welsh capital, why couldn't We make it
here and keep the money in the United
States?
Drop in the Price of Steel Rails.
SIN 1850 we paid England $3.50 per ton for
steel rails. In 1870 Congress put duty of
S2S per ton on them, and now we make
more steel rails than England, and we can
huv fbap7 bara in T. Tn
1870 the Democrats made the same arguments
against the steel rail duty that they
are now urging against the tin plate tariff
Tin plate is sold in Liverpool for % cents
less than the old rate, and the importers
pay the duty"
A workman-I want to know about the
tariff and the strike. Why are wages not
increased. [Cries of sit down.
Dalzell-I will answer that question soon.
'sBlaine is the author OF reciprocity.
TGreat cheers. | The Southern countries
make lots of things that we don't produce.
We send our corn, wheat and manufactured
rticles to them, but they charged duty on
hem.
What Reciprocity Really Is.
'cNow, reciprocity is free trade in nom
competing products 1t is free trade at
home and protection to American trade
law the balance of trade was
S5O,OO0,OO0 in favor of Brazil, now
things are reversed, and trade with Brazil
is being equalized. Take Cuba 1 was
there year ago and found that they got
their -four from Spain. Why? Because the
Cuban tariff on American -four was over So
per barrel. 1t was reduced to 81 per bar
rel, and to-day the Cubans eat our wheat
We send our products to them in exchange
for theirs. And when the Ohio river is i'm
proved 1 hope to see our Pittsburg coal
lighting Brazilian hearthstones [Ap-
plause.
'eNow for our friends question. say
that the tariff may not raise wages in every
instance, but it always aims to maintain
them. [Applause. What wonld be the
effect on the mills that line these rivers if
the tariff was stricken off? The hum of
wheels would cease, and the workman
would be turned from his honest wage.
The Effect Upon Workers Wages.
"Will my friend deny that wages are not
100 per cent higher here than in other
countries?"
Voice. deny that. They are not more
than 10 to 20 per cent higher.
well, I'll take it that you and Iagree, but
it is only question of quantity. A Senate
committee, of which Carlisle was one,
travelled the country not long ago to ascer-
tain whether wages and the cost of living
had advanced or not They found, ire
spective of party, that wages in
general had advanced three-quarters of
per cent and the cost of living had decreased
3A per cent, or the gain to the 100000
families of the country was S325, 600, 600.
But Mr. Peck's report made in New York
proves what the Senate committee discov-
cred. And now one word. We have labor
conflicts. We have had them ever since
man looked into the eyes of his fellow man.
To-day 100000 men are tramping the
streets of England, striking not for higher
wages, but wages enough to keep them
alive Politics enters the question to this
extent that if you had no tariff you wouldn't
have any strikes, for there would be no
manufactures. No matter how much the
capitalist and laborer may fight they stand
shoulder to shoulder in defense of the