The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

modities OF increased the wages of labor
bat had, on the contrary, interfered
H.ith and obtructed the operation Of the
natural laws governing the subject. He
Eustanced fifteen general occupations in
pppTptected industries where the aver
hse rate of wages had gone up and fif-
tean other trades in highly projected in
6nstries where wages had gone down.
He was followed by Mr.. Proctor, who
attacked some of Mr.. Carlisle's positions
byquotations from an interview with
ML. Rogers, the managing partner of a
Welsh tin plate mauufactory-the
principal point of which was that the
election of Mr.. Cleveland would be a
Efftory for free trade, and that its effect
would be to reduce American wages to
hfe ieyel of English wages.
The Mckinley Act Defended.
Mr.. Sherman and Mr.. Allison defend
al the MCKINLEY act, and Mr.. Hawley
bbtained the floor to carry out the fight
On that line today.
After the tariff debate ceased the Shti-
Ppti0n hill was laid before the senate as
The unfinished business, and was then
hgid aside informally when the presi-
HHntS veto of the bill submitting to the
court of private land claims the title of
William McGarrahan was read and its
eQnsideration postponed till December
hext.
After some difficulty in obtaining a
quorum, and a brief silver speech by
Mr., Stewart, Mr.. Carlisle addressed the
ssnate on Mr.. Hale's resolution as to the
relative merits of protection" and
tariff for revenue only" and in re-
sponse to the speeches of Messrs. Hale
Rnd Aldfich.
~ IL, said Mr.. Carlisle, higher prices
were injurious to the community at
large and if low prices were beneficial,
Then everything which interfered with
and arrested the. natural tendency to-
ward decline in the prices of com
modities and a rise in the wages of labor,
anything that tended to make it harder
and more expensive for the masses of
The people to live-whether it were war,
besElence, famine or Mckinley act
wasE public calamity, to be deplored by
every man who loved his country: "-~.
IA List OF the Lucky Fifteen. ESKS
Bis purpose was, said MIR. Carlisle, to
shpw that the tariff act of 1890 had
tnfeffered with the natural tendency to
A DECLINE In the price of commodities
Nd p arise in the rates Of wages, and
that " had made it harder and more ex-
pensiSe for the masses of the people Of
the United States to live. He said the
Fifteen general occupations in unprotected
industries were bakers, blacksmiths,
hricklayers, cabinet makers, carpenters,
common laborers, farm laborers, ,machin-
lists, masons, iron molders, painters,
plumbers, stone cutters, tailors and tin
smiths. The average increase of wages
p these occupations during the period
EpTered by the investigation of the f.
hznce committee had been 75-100 of
per cent. The fifteen highly protected
occupations were bar iron, boots and
Ehoes, cotton goods, cotton and woolen
goods, crucible steel, flint glass, green
glass, lumber, machinery, pig iron,
steel ingots, steel blooms, steel rails,
window glass and woolen goods. In
these occupations the rates of wages had
Ellen, since the Mckinley act, an aver
age of 89-100 Of l per cent, as against
a rise of 75-10O per cent. in the fifteen
unprotected Industries.
Mr.. Carlisle then went into detailed
statement as TO the cost Of imported
goods and as TO tin plate. On the lat
ter point he said the Mckinley act had
paid, not to the importer, not to the
government, not to the dealers, but di-
rectly TO the Welsh tin plate manufac-
turers, 81, ,629, 75O, or more than half the
value OF the plant of the sos tin plate
works Of Wales. The Mckinley act as
70 TIM plate had proved TO be, not for
the benefit of the American consumers,
but Of the Welsh manufacturers.
Departure Of the Democratic Party.
Mr.. Carlisle was followed by Mr.
Proctor, and he by Mr.. Sherman, in
brief speech. He urged that the policy
Of tho Democratic party of the present
day had departed far from that of the
Democratic party in the days of Wash
Ington, Adams, Jefferson and Monroe,
which favored the encouragement of
American industry. He commended
the results obtained through the action
of the Mckinley act in relation to su-
gar, tin plate and other industries, and
spoke Of the benefits which the farmers
OF the country had derived from it. He
believed that when the question of pro-
lection was discussed before the people,
and when the Democratic party had
taken its bold position in favor of free
trade, the judgment of the people
would be in favor of the policy Of pro.
lection, as approved by Washington and
Adams and Jefferson and Madison and
Monroe, as favored by jackson, and as
only lost sight OF in the lights Of modern
Democracy. The people would stand by
the old doctrine Of tho fathers.