New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-04-06
FREE TRADE ROAST.
Tariff Reformers' Who knew What
They Wanted and Why They
Wanted 1t.
Labor-0wning Free Traders Who
..Talked Like butch Uncles"
to Workingmen.

Tie following extracts are taken from
advance sheets of a little work soon TO be
ISSUED by the Ben Franklin Publishing
entitled sThe Tariff Riddle: A Key There
10 in an Old Debate, by Welker Given.
formerly of the Iowa State Register and
lister of the editorial staff OF the Chicago
Tribune. This little work treats the matter
from a new standpoint and pours flood of
light on the tariff question.
Nothing can be learned from the tariff
Eof-revenue-onIy speeches aud documents
put forth at present. They are intended for
effect nierely-to hide and obscure and not
to state the real doctrine of free trade.
To get at the truth thinking men nlustgo
the plain-speaking old Southern Bourbons
ofJackson's time who had the courage of
their convictions and said just what they
meant.
The tariff reformers to listen to are the
blunt old fashioned Democrats who talked
right out in meeting and expressed them
selves in way that lett nothing to be
guessed at.
HIGH DEMOCRATIC FREE TRADE AUTHORITY
ON LABOR.
First and foremost was the Hon George
McDuf1ie, Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee OF the House IN 1882,
and the leaders on the Democratic side.
only on account liability and irankness,
hut because of his position as leader of his
party i'll the popular branch of Congress.
Replying to Davis, of Massachusetts. who
had asked whether it was expected that
Northern white labor would compete with
black slave labor on equal terms the DEM
bcratic leader gave all answer not lacking
an honesty or candor. "Let me tell the
gentleman once for ALL Numbered Nc
Duftie in his great free trade speech sum
ming up and closing the debate on the
Democratic side, that | utterly disclaim
his right to make any inquiry or question
us 20 the description of labor employed i'll
the Southern States and to assure him that
if God gives the people of the South the
spirit of his ancestors and mine he will be
obliged to compete with just such labor as
they choose to employ and upon terms,
too, of perfect equality"
WAGES HERE OUGHT TO BE THE SAME AS IN
ENGLAND.
General McDuffie was perfectly consist
~eslG advocate Of q tariff revenue only. He
didn't make the slightest concealment of
his desire to cheaper labor. Replying
aurther to the Northern champions Of pro-
lection he said:
Massachusetts, if he will pardon the liberty
what is the natural price of the Inanutac-
turing labor Of the Northern States esti-
mated in money, 1t is precisely the same
as the manufacturing labor Of England and
.ssota cent more.
'EExTRAVAGANT WAGES IN THE NORTHERN
STATES.
Gen. McDuffie did not demand the entire
repeal Of the tariff, but said he would be
satisfied if it was brought down to the basis
OF revenue only Answering the claim
that this would compel Northern factories
and workshops to close, he said:
The peop.e of the North will continue
to manufacture ifthe duties are entirely re-
pealed. The only difference would be that
they would have to curtnil their enormous
profits and reduce the extravaganza wages
of their labor and sell their manufactures
cheaper"
LABOR A DANGEROUS ELEMENT, .'BLEAcIIED
OR UNBLEACHED."
After the close of the session of Congress
and the defeat OF his bill to make hori-
:zoutal cut OF the tariff to 124 per cent, Gen.
McDutfie returned to his home i'll South
Carolina and i'll a speech he warned his
constituents to prepare Tor a contest with
the North; told them that the Northern
people were declaring openly and boldly
that the free labor ofthe North must not,
shalt not, be degraded to the same footing
with the slave labor of the South" Short
8y after this Gen. AlcDuffie was elected
Governor of his State and in his message to
population "bleached or unbleached, a
dangerous element in the body polite"
NORTHERN WHITE LABOR WANTED CHEAPER
THAN SOUTHERN BLACK.
McDutfie was strongly backed by his
Democratic associates in his attlck on pro-
tected Northern labor in the debate in Con
,ress. Lewis of Alabama, who ranked as
one of the heavy weights ofthe House, said
he opposed the tariff because it forced
wages up to an unnaturally high point in
the North. Declaring that 1.-The average
price OF labor in the Southern States is not
more than twenty-five cents day" while
.in the North the average price of labor is
at this time 1882 fifty cents day" Mr.
Lewis added: But for the operation of the
tariff laws in enhancing the price of North
er,i labor the state of things would have
been completely the reverse of what it now
is, and a days labor III the cotton field
would have commanded two days of North
eern manufacturing labor"
This opinion, it must be remembered
was not that OF a protectiOnist but OF a free
trader and a tariff smasher AS Mr.. Lewis
plainly and emphaticaly said, be wanted
y low tariff to bring down Northern wages
and make white labor worth less than
black.
p WoRKINGMEN NOT FITTo VOTE.
In "The Tariff Riddle" the debate OF
b is compared and contrasted with anoth-
er winch took place just before the out
break OF the Rebellion. At this time Gen;
NJ b. III. Garnett, of Virginia, was one Of
She stongest advocates of a tariff for rev.
e,,re only, and he did not hesitate to dis
play his hostility to the protected labor OF
the North. Said Gen. Garnett:
.'in populous communities, where all are
of the same race and universal suffrage and
apportionment Oh mere numbers prevail
the Democracy necessarily becomes gov
ernment1 or rather despotism ofthe mum
erical majority. There are many who
lahor severely Tor their daily subsistence to
devote much attention to political affairs,
or TO acquire that training which is neces-
sary to lreemen for an intelligent judge
ss,ent Of the issues of the day Many votes
are controlled in great part by patronage
atid money directly or Indirectly used I
DEMOCRATIC PLAN TO Make CAPITAL AMI
LABOR WORK IN BEAUTfFbE HARMONY.
The opinion that manual laborers Were
unit TO take part iii politics and that such
matters should be reserved for gentlemen
afleisure, Washed by that other strong
Democratic tariff reformer and anti-protec-
Zionist. the Hon.. Daniel G. De Jarnette, Of
Virginia. Pointing out that the Southern
atso,,tederaey. would be established on a free
trade basis, he proceeded to dilate as fol-
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