Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-27

ually that the last British colony has smut
its doors against the mother country. ITO 10
tected, fostered and nurtured on sne LILLE hns
of free trade, every British coiony MAS
grown to be land OF protection.
Now, do not let us smisunderstand about nro-
lection. Do not let us be silly about 1t rfo-
lection is not a panacea; 1t Is not the Iniiien
ium; it is not n patent medicine; 1t VIII not
cure all the ills of human nature, put IL Is
one of the great powers of this world, belng
the invention of universal human nature,and
while it will not put brains in the heao OF a
foolish fellow, it will give to you and to me
all we are entitled to. and that is white
mans chance.
Two WAYS of Proving Protection.
Is there not some other way or proving
protection? Well, there is one other way;
two, think. The first one is well known in
the books: it is called reductio al absurdum.
If free trade be sound, Grover Cleveand's
first proclamation was SOUND one, ana ne
said that under protection every article
that was imported paid a tariff tax into the
United States Treasury, and every article
that was make under protection. in the
country pail like sum, but not into the
Treasury, but into the pockets of the manu-
facturer. Now, if rec trade is true. that is
true. Whatever is paid that way is wasted
There is no reason why we should enrlch
the manufacturer at the expense OF the
country. There is no reason why we should
pay higher prices for things unless we can
find our advantages. Unfortunately Tor
this oratorv, this matter is capable OF math-
ematics. We know how much we import;
we know very nearly how much we manu-
facture. would give you the figures OF my
own, but would rather give Democratic
fl1ures because, of course, Democratic
purposes. Randolph Tucker has given the
figures, and he is an honest gentleman from
Firg inia. He says the tariff costs $l09o,00o-
600 every year, and it has been gong
of Wisconsin, in pamphlet issued this very
year tells the unfortunate 1nhabltants tna6
tho sum total is $50 coo, 600 600. Have you any
idea OF $50. 600 600. 600? My friends, you could
drop the whole State of Pennsylvania,
politics and all, right into it and never make
a splash. How much did we have when we
began this ruinous course? Less than S2O,0 ,000,-
C00,00O. We have lost the United States in
bad besides. We have abolished the earth
and are sitting in hole in the sky. Tnis IS
what call reductio ad absurdum, don't
you? Is there not some testimony on the
subject that can be believed?
What Commissioner Peck Has Found.
Commissioner Peck says that wages in
New York have gone up 100000 that New
York State alone under one year OF the Nc
Kinley bill has produced So, 1000, 900 more
goods than it did before What does that
mean? Why more goods are produced
cheaper there? The more goods there are
lying around the more you and have
chapce to get at them. Nevertheless they
persecute this man. The Democrat plat
form said there was no increase of wages;
Democratic newspapers said so. and yet TINS
man says there is. The compla1nt they
make against him is that he produced these
figure at very inopportune time, and 1
think their complaint is right.
do say that the tariff is a barrier which
keeps in this country the advantages of it.
What is it that makes this country richer
than any other country in the world? 1t Is
the magnificent resources; it is the gift OF
God; 1t is the great forces locked up by the
sunlight of ages in the coal beds: 1t Is the
flow of the oil and the gas; it is the human
labor. 1t is all these things which are given
us of God. This country has more of these
gifts of God than any other country on the
keeping them here. But you say that
is not philantbropc. / believe in philan-
thropy, but all i'll its own good time.
i believe that the race progresses through
nationality, and that our greatness is no
menace to the progress of the world, but
the greatest system thereof l should take
no pleasure i'll the vast aggregation OF
wealth in the United States. 1t would not
be q source of comfort to me to pile up the
figures OF the census if l did not believe
that we had established a system which is
better than any system on earth for the dis
tribution of that wealth among all classes
OF society; il did not believe that our CIV
ilization, more than the civilization of any
other nation in this world, brings home the
comforts OF CIVILIZATION TO tne naDlCatlOnS
of the poor.
How Wages Have Incuoased.
make the assertion, and challenge con-
tradiction, that the wages to-day of the man
who la bors with either muscle or brain is so
per cent greater than it was in $780, and 1
asseverate further that in making that state
ment L am undertaking it; am inside of the
truth. [Cheers and applause Let me make
Won another statement: Outside of foreign
you 25 per cent less than you paid
of you TO deny that am undertaking that
most outrageously. Well, my friends, what
does this mean? If you are getting more for
your labor and paying less for what you
buy, You are winning at both ends of the
route. What moro do you want? Do you
want the millennium without the trouble of
diving? 1 saw in the Boston Herald, an in
dependent Democratic paper. a statement
indorsed by President Walker, who can not
be accused OF Republicanism, declaring that
IL q laboring man in this country would be
content with the comforts of the people of
his grade-they have grades over therein
lie, he would not have to spend more than
one-third of his wages. Don't all OF you
know that is true?
Mr. Reed concluded by discussing the
constitutionality of the tariff. He claimed
the taxing power of the Government could
be used for other purposes than raising rev.
enue. The prohibitorv tax on State banks
and the oleomargarine law are examples.
He said the Constitution had been made for
the people, and is subject to q sensible and
liberal Interpretation. 1t is q terrible bug
hear to the Democracy