Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-10-15

America were flooded, our production stopped and our laborers wefe starving
 Now tke laboring people Cf America are more prosperoUs and live better and get better wages than in any ether coun- try in the world, and at the present tiue instead of having rag carpet or no car pet at all, under the high protective
 tariff system you are invited into room
 carpeted with Irgra;n or Brussels, which
 cost less than the rag carpet ID Io0f,
 neatly furnished, where instead of the
 spinning wheel we find the organ or
 piano and fad the laboring man and his
 family well dressed ard sitting down 10
 the table three times a day to good
 meal with tenderiOiu steak If they de-
 sire. You cannot find thus m any other
 country among the laborIng ciasse be- cause If they haze meat once q week they are doing well.
 Now figures wont lie, but men that
 make tRem will, and if you will take time to investigate the 8 'atistics and .fud that 1 have not told you the truth.
 why, then 1 want you to vote against | ne. They say 10 you the robbiDg Me- Klnley bill is taking from you every day fifty per cent. and that if you Ter
 move the tariff you can buy clothes aud flour and everything fifty per cent. | cheaper and live and make money. If | that be true l would say remove tue | tariff at once, open the ports of America
 and let us have foreign productions. If by removing the tariff we can save the expense of living then let's put a bounty on things and we can get them for notb- | ing and live happy. They say you are | taxed one hundred per cent. on the
 calico you buy for your wife's dress; you
 are taxed for the very salt you eat and the clothes you wear 165 per cent and
 upon the nails you use POO per cent. | Now that looks enormous, and as if you
 were being robbed, but they forget to | tell you that under the Mckinley bill the tax on calico is but five cents a yard. and in the cities of the East where
 it is manufactured you can buy it as | low as four cents and in Arizona for five cents. Salt is taxed no Der cent, | but We find back few years that salt l.was worth 2S0 cents barrel. We find at that time that we were using entirely the foreign product, and we find that | by placing tariff of sixty-fve cents on
 it that in less than B year salt was | worth Sl 50 barrel, and 1t has greatly ! decreased under protective tariff, and ! today you can buy it at twenty eight
 cents barrel with the barrel thrown ! in. ard 1t is taxed at B cents. Take
 wire oails. They say you aretexed 2l0 on wire nails. That is fact. In 1883 | there was produced in America some thing less than 200 kegs of wire nails. | They were worth from eigth to ten dol
 lars and the tariff ou those nails was
 one dollar keg. England supplied us
 with every keg almost that we used,
 ard there was a tariff of four dollars a | keg placed upon them. If their theory | IS correct that tariff adds to the price then wire nails ought to have brought
 SIP or S14 keg. Take the records and sse the quotations on wire nails each
 year and you find the price decreased, | and the production increased until to-
 day the tariff is S2.06 a keg and wire
 nails dre selling at Sl65 keg, and from production of jess than 200 kegs
 in 1888 we produced in America during
 the last year 1,750,0O0 kegs of wire
 nails. American labor produced them, and those Iaborers consumed American
 products. The industry gave employ
 ment to 50,O0O people.
 Now take the item of steel rails.
 About 10 years ago I was connected
 with the Benson and Guaymas Railroad and tle Santa Fe Company endeav- | ored t, buy their steel rails as cheap as pssibe. Under their charter
 in th,s country they vera com peled t0 use American steel rails but
 in Mexco they could use whatever rails | they Ileased. America and England bid for those rails and I kuow that those r,ils were shipped from England, | landedis New York and were shipped ! from Vew York to Benson aud from Beusol to the line under bond ard placed for S6.23 ton less than AnerIca | could produce thsm. Al that tine they had topay no duty, but if they had to | pay the S17 duty then America could ! have supplied the rails and would have 1 supplied them. They say to you, that shcHs by your own argument that the
 rais would have been cheaper under 1 fres trade. That is very true if you 1 loex at it in that sense. If you had to purchase English rails 1t certainly would 1 have been cheaper; but if we take the history of the steel rail business We find
 that in 1870 steel rails were worth SlO0
 ton in gold coin, exclusive of the tariff. 1 There WAS produced in the United | States at that time AO,CO0 pounds of ! steel rails and there was Jess than fifty
 nen employed Ia their man ufacture in 1 America. We find Congress placed
 duty of S4S ton, and if their theory Is correct, steel rails should then nave been worth Sl4S ton, but in less than Is months steel rails were reduced from
 SlO0 to S88, and in 1876 they were down
 as low as S48.50, when the tariff was rs-
 duced to S17 a ton. Following it down
 to today we fird that steel raIls are sel-
 lipg for S23.50 and the tariff is S13.C8, and from a production of 20, ,000tbs in lS60
 we produced in America in 1891 2,500,G00 tons of steel rails. They were all pro-
 duced by American labor and those
 laborer5 were consumers Of American products. (Applause.)
 I could go on with item after item
 and show you conclusively that under
 protective tariff everything has de-
 creased and wages have increased. Take the Mckinley bill and you will find that
 every article mentioned Tn 1t has been
 reduced in price, excepting pearl but
 tons. and as my friend Uncle Billy
 Williams would say, if they can't buy
 pearl buttons they can buy safety pins
 Ind then they WOul Rcb HuIl. Al aHeElCd
 DAYS one hundred per cent more wages than any other country in the world.
 She pays double the wages that Eng
 land does, and England pays the high
 st wages of any foreign country. It costs each individual in tue United States but S262 year to keep up the protective tariff system, and in the pur- chaEng of commodities to-day is there a person that realizes that there is such a ] thing as protective tariff? We have
 to collect S400,000.O00a year for tho run ping expenses of the United States and
 l ak you if you would not prefer to pay
 the S2.62 Tn the way you pay it today
 tan to walk up and pay it as you do
 your taxes? This sum is not all raiss
 by the tariff, for there is the internal
 fefenue and revenue from other
 surces
 You have all Lesrd it said that this law
 mlkea millionaires. Admitting for the
 sske of argument that it does. IS there a
 man in this house who would not pre-
 fer mlllionaires to be made in this coun-
 tY than in a foreign coun-rv? woujd