St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23
we always give you whatever you want.
we need some votes from you when the
Election Is Coming On.

don't you know: laughter we will
give you what you Want, we Will give
you 200 per cent. L is given. Now
then, the yard of goods costs 81 in Eu-
rope, it cQstS 81 ayard to pass it through
the custom house; the foreign goods
United States. That fixes the price Of
the domestic goods, protected up to that
point at So yard: and now the manu-
facturer has to work two days at S. a
ss aE iS 81 KS @ gaF G "e Willie III alS hs
workman has got to work eighteen
days to get SIS to buy the six yards of
cloth. Don't you see how this operates?
[Applause.] They started perfectly
equal by the laws of nature-a fair
trade, an open and competing trade
but as the tariff comes the work.
man has to work longer, and just in
proportion to the rate of duty he goes
that way (dOwnward), and the manu-
facturer goes this way (upwarD; the
manufacturers wages are increased
the workman's wages are decreased.
Put it 100 per cent more, ana the work
man will have to work twentyfOur days
to get S24 to buy the same six yards of
cloth, and he will work at 25 cents
day. Put Oh 100 per cent more, and he
has to work thirty days to get $50 TO buy
the same six yards OF cloth. and then he
will work at 20 cents day. That is the
way the tariff benefits the wOrkingman.
All this duty levied upon goods is for
the benefit of the woJklngman, they
profess. Why does he not get it? There
Is duty of S6.72 placed upon each ton
OF pig iron for the protection of Amer
lean labor in making that ton of pig
iron. But who gets it? Why, all the
reports of the manufacturing establish
| mentS in the United States show that
the workman only
Gets Free Trade Prices
for his labor he gets from sl.25 to Sl.5O.
and, III rare cases, S1.75 for the labor of
making q ton of pig iron. The manu-
facturer gets the S6.72 and puts it in his
pocket, and this is the way it helps the
wOrkIngman.
Now. l have a proposition to make
that have made all over this country,
and l will make it here in this beautiful
and historic city. and that is. that if any
man will show me how | can get that
S6.72 out of the pockets of the owner of
the pig iron, under the tariff. and put it
in the pockets of the man who made it.
will vote the Republican ticket and
talk for it all over the country. [Great
applause. | can make this proposition
without the least peril. Laughter.
Because you can no more do 1t than you
can stretch your hands up and tear the
sun from its couSre.
The tariff increases the price of the
thing upon which the labor is expended.
not the labor; it increases the price of
the product imported into the country
and the product that is competing with
it made in this country. 1t does not be-
long to the laborer, it belongs to his en-
ployer. When the tariff OF 1912 is put
on d ton of pig, iron it increases the
price Of pig iron in this country, not the
price of the sweat and strength Or the
arm of the labOring men that made it.
The manufacturers get 1t all. But still
they say whatever tax is PAID at all in
this country is paid by the foreigners
over yonder; that our people do not pay
it; that the dutyis
Paid by Foreigners.
My friend Mckinley is going about all
over the country saying that the issue
presented to the American people is
whether the American people shall pay
their own taxes, or make foreigners pay
them. Taxation goes from the citizen to
the government III compensation for the
protection of the government to his
rights. What right have we, protesting
to be an honest, moral and religious
people, to lay the hand of power upon a
foreign people and take from them two
hundred and twenty-five millions of
dollars, when we offer them no protec-
ton to life, TO liberty or to property in
our own country? Applause. There
used to be pirates swarming the seas in
the centuries that are gone: but in the
progress OF morality and civilization and
christianity, the nations of the earth have
combined and swept the pirates from the
sea. Yet, in the closing years of the
nineteenth century. statesmen, claiming
to have come from party of the high
est morality of the country. 90 before
the people and advocate a policy of
rObbing foreign people to make them
| support this government, when we
afford them no protection. Applause.
| But, my friends, if we could do it, and
| if the moral question is left out of ac-
| count altogether, why stop at S225, 000,-
000? the expenditures of this govern
ment are S50,000,000 ayear. Why shall
we not make them pay it all? Let us
take $500, 000.0 900 from, them, and do not
let us stop at that either. If We can
take S225. 100000, or s500,000,000. WHY
| Applause and laughter. Why not d.
vide it up among us? We all need
something in this country. we could en-
| JOY it very much: and if we have got
| the power to take 1925, 900, 900. we have
got the power TO take
Everything They Have Got.
But that is fallacious. 1t is false. 1t
is not hardly a sOphistry, it is so plain.
How on the face of the earth can we
collect taxes in foreign countries? Take
that ton of pig iron that have been
speaking about. When it is made in
Great Britain or Belgium it is worth
$40. Now, then. Mr.. Foreigner pays the
tax when he sells that ton of pig iron.
When lie sends that ton of pig iron over
here we could, but for the tariff, buy
that ton of pig iron at the same price
we buy it in Europe. If we pay the tax
we buy that ton of pig iron at the price
at which it is sold in Europe, plus the
amount of duty paid at the custom
house. And that is what we do. When
the ton of pig iron comes to this coun-
try it is sold; if it brought there $40, it
is sold here for sl6.72 a ton, with the
other charges added to it, and the Sc. y
is collected at the custom house
| and paid into the treasury at Washing
ton. Do you suppose that any man in
the world who is making pig iron is
fool enough, when it costs him IS out of
| the $40 at least for material and labor
and then pay s6.72 and sell it for $40?
| [Laughter.l If it cast him IS for labor
and material and S6.72 for taxes, that
would be Sl4.72 that he pays out. and he
takes in $40. And yet they say they are
getting rich at it. This is sample of
all the rest. No, my friends, we pay the
taxes. We suffer the burdens, and our
working people are the chief sufferers
from this Ubiquitous system that is
gathering up the wealth of this country
and putting it into the pockets of
favored class. There is only one way,
my friends,
To Make Wages Higher
| to increase the rate of wages. That
one way is to increase the consumption
of the products of labor. When you in
crease the consumption of the product,
you must necessarily increase the EN-
plOyment of labor that produces the
| products, and when YOU increase the