Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-08

sinners:n prone TO evil as the sparks 70
av inward. D" ave are each Of US"
saws ae. seeking our Own good or fan
eied good. we are each Of US endea-
vorine 60 obtain the best we can out OF
life; free trade or protection makes no
a,asrence in human nature In tna'
rssneetn There, we have It, MI O1 ,snt
man: nut in plain English 1t means nav 40 =
every fellow is going to get all
and keep all he can.
THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF
may cause more wool to grow on the
/ back OF an Ohio sheep, but IL will never
/ cause more benevolencc 10 bloom in the
/ heart of a Massachusetts manufacturer.
| Now, let US see how the very able gen.
tleman from Maine sums the matter up:
$50 that (says he) is is not the arbi-
| trnry fxation of wages, but 10 Is the
/ growth in intelligence, the growth IN
/ desires aud wants OF the laborer that
\ forces the rise OF wages. What Is the
direct means by which the laboring men
reach this result? By labor unions, by
making the manufacturers understand
that they must give higher wages
And so at last we have it, Mr.. Chair
man. The gentleman from New YORK
/ pointedly admits that the manufacturer
| will not pay anv higher wages "unless
| he is compelled TO do it by the trades
/ union," aud the Republican leader in
this House (Mr. Reed admits the same
thing. But who is so ignorant as not
| 10 know that the whole power OF pro-
tected monopoly is 5eing exercised for
the very purpose of crushing out these
very ''trades unions" and organized
labor" in every form? That was
the real issue CT Homestead,
and the distinguished gentleman from
Connecticut speaking on this very same
point and i'm the same discussion above
/ referred TO, said: Now, il has been
stated bv eminent authority that four
! thousand or more men who are now out
OF employment in DanburY, looked out
of the shops there, owe their unfortu-
nate condition to the proposed change
in the tariff. Nothing could be farther
from the truth; nothing could be more
false than that assertion. The fact Is
that the suspension OF operations in the
hating factories of Danbury is due TO
/
manufacturers there to crush out the
trades unions The fact is that the
effort has been carried on almost from
the time that tho Mckinley bill went
into operation Congressional Record,
January 6, page s5S.
And so, Mr. Chairman, at last we
have IL. Republican high protection
puts the profits in the pockets OF the
manufacturers, and when the trades
unions get a "patent extractor, b" to get
them out, the manufacturers straight
wav set about to have the patent can
| celled. would suggestto my Repuoil-
| lican friends that, il they are In DEAD
earnest about this matter and their zeal
and labor is real and not affected, they
had better provide trades union at
tachment to q high tsrH schedule, just
as the enterprising patent-medlclne
| man sends along q cOrkScrew with every
bottle OF his remedy. The whole thing
is farce, sir; and next in magnitude
TO it is the
"HoME-SfARKET" FRAUD,
or the proposition that high protective
tariffs are a benefit TO the farmer. The
protectionists say to the farmers in
certain county of New York, for In
stance: "You farmers can not sell to
each other, but il you can get some
large wooden mill here, with 700 or 1000
hands, you could sell to them, but we
can not afford to put them up at the
present prices Of wooden products; but
IL the government will pass law put
ting high duties upon foreign wool pro-
ducts that will increase the price of our
wooden products, and we will build the
mill" 1t is agreed to, and up goes the
| mill. The farmer brings In his bread
stuffs, and 10 and behold! he finds the
mill men feeding upon breadstufs
! brought in by the railroads from Mime
sofa, Kansas or Nebraska. He brings
in mis- cattle and finds the same thing,
and so on throughout the list, and all
/ that he can find any sale for is a little
garden truck"
How is it with the farmers in Mime
sofa, Kansas and Nebraska? Only a
small part of their vast output of agri-
cultural products can be- consumed by
factory hands in the United States, Snd
the balance has TO be sent abroad and
sold in competition with like products
from all the world, and when the money
obtained from them is exchanged for
goods they need, these goods, on the
/ arrival at our ports, have to pay an aver
age duty Of so per cent, thereby re-
ducing in that ratio the price received
for the products exported. In other
words, the protective system is burning
the candle of the farmers resource at
both ends at once. He is paying more
for tue manufactured articles be buys
and getting less for the farm products
he sells. But" say the prOtectionis,s,
keep on building up factories, and
after awhile we will consume at home
all the farmers can make" Let us ex-
anime that for a momont. High tariffs
have been in operation for over thirty
wears, millions OF immigrants have
landed on our shores, very many Of
them to work in the mines and mills,
and yet what do we find? Taking the
careful calculations OF Mr.. Davis,
quoted with approval by the american
Economist, the organ OF protective tariff,
and we learn that during the period
from lS5O-lSS9 our population and the
production OF the more important
staples increased in this ratio:
Per cent
10
Cattle 10
Swine %
cotton - '-...'.''.''''''.' III
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