Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-29

as labor commissioner of the state OF New
York, from which IL appears that during
the years since the Mckinley law went in
10 effect there has been an increase in that
single state OF wages OF S. ,000, 600, and OF
manufactured products $3l 100000.
No wonder the average free trader says
Peck is liar. Laughtcr.l That is one
trouble with the free trader-l don't say,
mind you, with the Democrat, hut-with
the man who IS willing 10 reverse the policy
under which we have prospered. The man
who is willing 70 tear down the protective
system and put this country upon the free
trade basis. Nothing IN the way OF an in
dusirlal triumph pleases him. Nothing in
the line of an industrial calamity but
what gives him encouragement. APP
plause. They are tho Anarchists OF Amer
lean industry they are the Anarchists of
mean 10 be or not. They stand always
with wide open mouths shouting prophesies
of evil. They frighten capital whenever
they can againSU entering INTO this industry
or that They thereby keep labor out OF
employment, aud they depress our country
and our prosperity.
They are everlastingly telling us: "You
cannot do this and you cannot do that"
want an American citizen never TO say
that American capital and American labor
cannot do anything. They told us way
back In 1867 and 1870: "YOu cannot make
steel rails" At that time steel rails were
selling Mt Sl5O IN gold. and very, much
more in currency. Congress put duty on
steel rails, and without going into the de-
tails of 1t, to-day we are making in the
United States, and have been tor years, all
the steel rails which we have needed for
our domestic consumption, and we are eX-
porting some, too [applausel, and the price
ranges from S27 TO S31 and $32 ton. lAp-
plause.l Well, when / made that state
ment the other day to free trader, he SAID
to me: ''Well, III we have got so now that
we can make steel rails and export them,
why don't you take the duty offY Laugh
ter. And sad TO HIM just what say TO
you tonight that there would be Just as
"My friend. that fence of yours has kept
your neighbours hogs out of your cabbages
now for four years why don't you take 1t
down%' Great laughter and applause. ]
SUGAR MADE CHEAP AND FARMERS PRO
TECTED.
We passed the Mckinley law we took
the duty off OF sugar; we cheapened sugar
to every family in the United States. A
while after we took the duty OFF of sugar
Mr.. Mckinley told me that q man III his
town went into store and wanted q dol-
lars worth of sugar, and the merchant be-
gan to weigh 1t out; he kept dipping, Dip
ping, dipping the sugar INTO the measure,
and the purchaser interrupted him and
said: Il only want dollars WORTH" lie
said II am giving you dollars worth -
and he kept on until he made bundle of
twenty pounds of sugar and wrapped it up.
The man took 1t in his arms, walked out
to the sidewalk, and said: MIR French
for dollar "WhyP' why, ifyou did
she Will never give me any peace till vote
the SUPPLEMENTARY Greatapplausea and
laughter. We were paying about sos, OOO,-
600 year out of the pockets of the people.
duty on sugar, and That was tax because
that was tariff tor revenue only, for we
did not produce enough sugar in this coun-
Try to affect by competition the price of it
here at home. Gen. Bragg talked the other
night at TOmah about our legiSlating in
favor of the sugar trust. We put duty
on raw sugar sugar which could not be
used by the people without being refined !;
we preferred that our sugar should be re-
fined in the United states TO having that
labor done over the sea. We put a fair,
reasonable duty upon it, But we did not
begin to put the duty upon refined sugar
that the Mills bill put upon 1t. The duty
put by the Mills bill upon refined sugar
saved toithe sugar trust 81 100000 more q
year than the duty put upon refined iS sugar
equal to the duty we had taken off to en-
courage home production and we afford
thereby-and the supreme court held 1t to
conStitutiOnal-we afford thereby the same
encouragement at small outlay to the do
nestle production as this great tariff did
when levied upon sugar. And what is the
result of it? We did 1t with our eyes open.
We did it to encourage the production of
sugar In the South we did it TO encourage
the beet sugar product In the North, aud
one refinery in Nebraska this year, will
produce S,0OO,OO0 pounds OF beet sugar as
good as ever was seen on the earth.
Gov. Rusk told me the other day that the
experts had demonstrated beyond any
question that there was large belt of states
having the soil and the climate which
would enable the farmer to make profit
able crop of the sugar beet and which
would enable us before many years 10
make, in his Judgment, TO provide our own
people with sugar; and he told ME that
Wisconsin was one of those states; and the
oxford company has agreed with him TO
establish great sugar refinery in this
state in order to give our farmers chance
to open up another agricultural industry.
so WILL PEARL BUTTONS AND LINEN.
Why, the free traders told US when the
Mckinley law was passed: "You cannot
make pearl buttons" Well the trouble
with that is, we are making pearl buttons.
There is only one pearl button which we
are not making in this country to-day.
which we imported here before The McKin-
lev law, and that is one made in the prisons
OF Austria which we prohibited from COM
ing here forever. Applause.
They told us that the duty on linen-the
duties imposed in that schedule would en-
nance the price of linen to the people and
would not do any good because you can
not make linen in the United States"
Why dot? We have the flax: "0h, yes;
but you have not the machinery" Well,
when before did America fail TO make any
| thing for lack of machinery? If they can
| not buy it they invent 1t. Continued ap-
plause. 1t was not long after the Nc Kin
| lev law was enacted that they sent several
| bales of Minnesota flax to the mills in
| Scotland, and it came back In good linen,
with certificate that they had never II ad
any better fiber In that mill: and the other
| dav when we met IN Minneapolis 10 noml'
nate BENJAMIN Harrison the next president
OF the United States great applausel the
| great Exposition building was carpeted-
YOU remember it-wlth linen made out OF
Minnesota flax in Minneapolis mill.
| IGreat applause. No, we cannot make
| linen. Well, my free trade friend, we car
make linen, and we will make linen
| lGrcat applause.I
| MAKING TIN PLATE NOW.
There is no one subject upon which
more has been said against the Mckinley
| law than the duty upon tin plate. voted
| as said here in 1890 for the duty on til
plate. | said in 1890 i would do It again u
| I had chance. say tonight i would dc
1 a. ocotn 4 had ohauap TAnnlaugp