The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-10-18

bin that that committee might prepare.
II Tariff Lawn sf 20 snd ~.
All, bat they say bad as the bill il it il
letter than the law Of 1890" Better for
whati Better In what particular Bet
ter for whom. Better for any American
citizen? II 1t served any American inter
| rst ct all 1t was the sugar trust And the
whisky trust. (Applause.] Has It opened
up any new factories! Has it opened up
any new industries? Has it lighted .
dngle fire in a furnace! Has It given IN
additional days work to the workingmen
If the United States? Has it increased
:heir wagesf How many men. who were
employed in 1892, are idle today! How
many men are receiving the wages today
Paul, answer me. WorkinRmen of Min
ployed at remunerative wages, are idle to-
lay. IA voice: 1.-TWO thirds."] IAN
,ther voice: ''More than that."] And.
my fellow countrymen, whether it be one
ihird or whether it be two-thirds, let me
submit another questions: "How many of
you who have employment are getting as
good wages today as you got in 1892?
MANY voices: ''None."] venture to
say, not 10 per cent of the workingmen Of
Minnesota, or of the cities of St. Paul or
Minneapolis, are getting as good wages
In 1894 a. they got in 1884, Voices:
| HYou're dght."l
Better than the law of 1892 Why,
under the operation of that law every In
| dustry i'm this country was working to its
fullest capacity. Not only was every in
dustry working at it's fullest capacity, but
every man in this country who wanted
work could get work at remunerative
wages. New industries were builded up
under that law, and they were built up in
the United States.
Under the stimulus of the law of 1894, If
tho representative Of the Commercial club
of London, that banqueted Mr.. Wilson,
can be relied upon, the law of 1894 has
stimulated English industries.
The Dinner Pail Incident.
While on this stand .workingman
brought me this tin pail-this bucket. He
told me it was American tin made from
American steel. and that steel made by an
American workingman, and this tin pail
made by an American citizen here, in the
city of St. Paul. One week ago today
every tin-plate factory in the United States
closed down. Why! Because the tariff
law of 1894 had so reduced the duty upon
the foreign product as to make it impos-
sible for those manufactures to produce
and pay the scale of wages they had been
paying under the law of 1892, and 10000
men last Saturday night were put out on
the streets as the result of the law of 1894.
Not only the 10000 men engaged in the
immediate industry, but the 10000 more
men that were making the steel ingots and
rolling them into the sheet steel to dip
them for tin plate were reduced in their
employment by reason of the shutting
down of those mills.
When was in the city of Lincoln, Neb.,
day before yesterday, in the great street
parade there was the representative of
what was said to be the largest brick COM
pany in that state and the head of that
firm WAS Democrat-NOT NOW-and
printed ACROSS the banner carried by the
ill0 Workingmsn was this inscripti
''Twenty-two million brick In 1s93-n
one in; 1893 or 1891" " 4
And that is the story of every city of this
country, and in some line of industry or
another.
Better than the law of 1902 Why, un-
der tho law Of 1890 we collected from GUS
toms and from internal revenue enough
money every day of the two years and a
half it was in operation to pay the ex-
penses of the government, the interest on
the public debt and pensions to the sol
diers of the country. And since 1892, when
the new administration went in, and the
decree had gone forth that the policy that
had been in operation for thirty years,
under which our industries had been
builded up and to which every delicate
fabric of enterprise has been adjusted.
from that time down to this hour, the gov
ernment of the United States has not COL
lected, any day of any week of those 19
months, enough money to pay the every
day expenses of the government. And it
has been compelled to go out and borrow
S5O,000,O 900 and issue the bonds of the
government-which has not been done
since the days of resumption. Not only
been compelled to go out and borrow fifty
the gold reserve in the treasury-that has
been sacred ever since John Sherman es-
tablished it down to the Inauguration of
President Cleveland, and fifty millions of
that gold reserve has gone, to meet the
current expenses of the federal govern
ment.
Democratic Times Of Long Ago.
But it is only history repeating itself.
The last Democratic administration be-
fore the war was an administration of
loans and deficits and distress in business,
and the first full Democratic administra-
ton since the war is an administration of
loans and deficits and of universal distress
to the country.
Better than the law of 1890? There were
mistakes in the law-no great bill with
5000 items could be passed without hav-
ing some mistakes my countrymen,
whatever mistakes were in the law, what
ever errors crept into that law, every one
of them was in favor of the American
home, the American citizen, the American
factory, the American farm. But of the
$50 blunders discovered in the law of 1894
not one of them is In favor of the Ameri-
can people They have not even, by acci-
dent or blunder, made any mistakes in
favor of American enterprise, American
industries or American homes.
All, but they say: "Our tariff law is |
better than the Republican law because it |