The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-05-17
FOURTH EDITION
"WAGEs AND MONEY. +"

ANNbAty kNpV PCOHlC
Roswell q. Horr, OF Michigan, in the
Opera House last night she eloquent
" discussed the topic of Wages and
Money" synonymous in n political
point of view with protection and
sound money.
Quite number of ladies graced the
audience, but the greater part OF 1t
was composed of tho woriingmen of
Wilmington, who were lavish in APP
pluuSe OF the speakers apt and humor-
Gus hits and utterances, Instead of
having a chairman and large retinue
OF vire presidents and secretaries upon
the platform, Mr. Washington Hast
ings presided and simply introduced
MIR. Horr.
Mr.. llorr said he came this evening
purposely to discuss one of the ques-
tlons about which the people OF the
United States are divided, and he in
tended to discuss it from business
standpoint. and no intended to avoid
making 1t partisan question. but it
was impossible to talk sense on this
question without some liepublicanism
mixed up with it.
There was no doubt among the neo-
pie that there arc different ways of
building up business for the labor of
tho people OF this country, but there
was no such thing on the face of tho
earth as n pure FREQ trade nation.
Even England collected over s7S, 0G0 :
900 ON ten, over $500. 900 on coffee aud
over S41, 900, 900 on tobacco Inst year.
Mr.. Horr then at some length explain
cd the difference between free-trade
and protection. Whenever we levy on
an article we can produce, four things
happen: I'VE build up new industry
here In the United States; we lnvaria-
bly, enable the people of the United
States TO pay better wages for work
than they pay anywhere else OH tho
face OF tho earth"
Mr.. IIorr then used the language of
the free-traders when they admitted
that wages were better here than in
England, but they say that everything
n man used I'm this country Is so high
under protective tariff and in free
trade countries tho goods are SO aw-
fully low that with their wages there
they can actually purchase more of
the necessities than they can hero. II
they are better off over there why DO
they come over here2 | can under.
stand how tho steamboat people might
tell them about tho great place here
and got them over here but when
they get here and see what hard time
they arc having here, AMI remember
what Il good time they had over there,
l wonder that they don't 60 back.
Mr. Horr took as his first illustration
the duty on salt. The free.trndeI
says the tax on salt ruins everybody
who uses it. We made In Michigan
l,O0i, 900 barrels Of salt in sight of my
home. SO if there Is anything know
about, ii is salt In 1864 we levied "a
cents barrel on suit. The rree-traders
say that the tax aids to tue cost OF
the article. Instead OF salt going up
it commenced to go down. In 1879 II
was down to sl.O7 barrel IL had
been 81 50 in 1854. In 1872 we revised
the tariff to 30 cents IA barrel. In tho
last four years in Michigan We have
| been selling salt at 80 cents barrel
barrel and all. The barrel costs 20
cents, and We get 30 cents a barrel 70 /
the salt, and the duty Is ~ cents on It.
Mr.. Horr then took up the wire nal
| question and said that when lie was ii
| Congress in 1888 we levied duty OF
wire nails. They were then sold Al
| ~ u Lnrrel, none We're made here
| The free-trader5 made almost melting
| speeches To prevent the levying of 1
tax. We went right on and levied {
| dIty of "a on key. Nails did not &c
Va ~ uAiN I'm , Wi NtAthR oll lil'f VI ltt
Last year we manufactured i,lll.G0
kegs of wire nails and they are now
s. Hing at 5l.65 key.
Mr.. liurr then in like manner iilustra
ted how the prices of hardware, crock
cry, raw silk. cotton goods and cloth
| ing. had decreased in prices under pro
lection.
| III referring to the tin industry Mr.
! llolT explained and eaid that the Nc
| kinlny hill did not put tax on tin bu
| on tln'plate. In 100 pounds OF pail
there arc e6 ! pounds Of iron or stee
and pounds OF tin coating
| Why should not tin ulate he protected
Iron and steel are GNing produced ii
| the nitcd States. 1t would take
| free trader an hour to prove to m,
That we don't make tin-plato here 70
| have cen in five factories and hay,
seen ii made.
The Mckinley bill has only leen II
! operation about nins months, hut il
| that time over three million pound
| oil lln-Ilate welf manufactured in tn
ltted States We lave now 81 fac
tories in operation and II more Ar
getting ready to start. What the free
lrai, Is arc now saying about the tin
plate industry they sud before nbonI
the iron trude. The ircc-tra,lrrs sal
the tariff would stop the building o
railroads, but sine then there Ia
Teen more railroads built IN the Unite,
States than ever before.
referring I o the glass trade Nj
liofr said Wa wern making as goo
plato glass now at 10 eei.ts IL .piar,
loot a when we paid 800 for tho iur
ported article. Mr. l!orr referred AIS
10 Inc introduction of the linen indus
try and said lie WAS promised The lir7
yar'l oI linrn from a mill in Michi9a
on which lie inirndS to stamp IT,
American flag and Lake IL in the fac
al every tral-tra Ter In mot. rassin
hastily 10 the FREQ silver heresy, MI
li9lr said, tile standard valnt OF th
dotiHr should neYei be lowered as tha
J would be doing business vita II nleuT
ef dollar than wo Hu% use. An on
money Is now good
Our libd OF money can lle change
into another Without uNpGhsH AVA
ba'k from ls5g 60 nobody could IL
wilrtlnna hill received nj night wonl
Ina good until the next morning III
silver dollar We have GoW Through il
iLirlnsi" value ls only u celIts,
worth Il dollar htcaase the COVERT
mont talic5 care of the the other (:
cents kept Ia resr,re. il il Ibis /.
cents thai the FREQ silver maa ar,
after. iley H;ent l3nu' that IN tilri
pockets.
PISS the franeolulga ari. to gel
dollar wnIld disappear and l.la bis
he,4 of the country W1ul / ,,f don
witla ;a-crut t!ol,ai. l'nlal.t . Ire,
coinage bill Il man caslld -tIl EOl
dollar ahal get u iivni dollar ;ld {!
cents additional. and il II" awrl t,o
Ian he could pay il with us.isnr i.5sc.
dollar and put the 20 cents = il.
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