The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-02-16

X with cities growing up like magic,
manufacturing villages dottiug every eli
gible site. each and all swarming with
mouths to be filled. the producers of food
are worse off than when half this country
was a desert, abandon sense In favor of
political economy.
Free Trade Not Good For Farmers.
One other thing have noticed in this de-
bate. When the gentleman from Kansas
CMr. Simpson, gets little money ahead, he
does not put il into stocks In these immense
IL profitable manufactures He has too much
sense He adds to his farm and has told
us so. Example il richer than precept.
II the hope Of a9riculturists IL in English
free trade, they had better ponder on the
fact that while the wages Of artisans have
increased in England e243 per week since
1850 the wages Of agricultural laborers have
only increased 72 cents, and while the Ian
cashire operatives in the factories live as
we'll as anybody except Americans the agri-
cultural laborers are hardly better of than
the continental peasantry. England's ex-
amrle will not do for agriculture.
Here let me meet one other question, and
let me meet il fairly. We are charged with
having claimed that the tariff alone will
raise wages, and we are pointed trium-
phantly to the fact that the wages of France
and Germany, protected by a tariff, are
lower than England, free of all tariff, and
to America with a tariff and still higher
wages We have never made such claim
in any form. Free traders have set up that
claim for us in order TO triumphantly knock
it over What we do say is that where two
nations have equal skill. and equal appli
ances, and market of nearly equal size, and
one of them can hire labor at one-half less.
nothing but a tariff can maintain the high
er wages and that we can prove.
If there be two bales of goods side by side
made by the same kind of machinery and
with the labor of the human being in both
of the same degree of skill. and if the labor
of one bale cost only half. for example, as
much as the other, that other bale can new
er be sold until the extra cost of the costler
labor is squeezed out of it, provided there
is an abundant supply Of the product of
the cheaper labor. If the bale with the
cheaper labor of England in 1t meets the
bale with the dearer labor Of America in ii,
which will be bought at cost of productions
leave that problem just there. The sale
England's production.
A Sound. Sensible Policy.
Now, as to France and Germany. The
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Harter) makes
the same blunder which he charges on US.
He says the tariff makes lower wages and
asks us to compare the three countries, say
ing they are all the same. except the tariff.
do not read history that way. England
had centuries of peace or distant war. while
both France and Germany were the battle
fields of Europe Until Bismarck made
| Germany a nation she was not even big
! enough to enter successfully modern indus
trial warfare. To compare either of those
nations in machinery or wealth to Eng
| land, 100 years in advance of them both by
reason Of her history before 1880 and her
tributary provinces, is absolutely farcical
Let Germany and France get thoroughly
/ established within themselves as good ma
! chinery as England now has. together with
her factory system, and nothing but higher
wages in those countries or tariff in their
own will ever save the English people from
| ruin. Lord Armstrong knew what he was
| doing when he established snsEnglish iron
mandatory in Italy with English appli-
ances and Italian Labor at half price.
| No, no. tariff does not make the blind
see, the lame walk, nor does it raise the
dead to life, but il il good. sound, sensible
policy for the United States for its growth
in riches and civilization, and IL it is stricken
I
will think us the most shortsighted will
be the foreigners who profit by our folly.
There il still another argument which
desire TO present out of the large number
yet unused. What has made England rich!
IL 10 the immense profits which come OF
converting raw material into manufactured
goods She is huge workshop, doing the
most profitable work Of the world-chang-
ing material to finished product So long
q ahe can persuaAs the rest Of the world 70
engage in the work which IL the least
profitable end leave her the most enriching.
she can well Be content.
i. n Pssa u Lisosls.
La me give one item, and the figures
ahall b. fayniahad By the gsntleman from
Alahama or. wAeslsr). Who told me ia
I yuur pressooe thaS tAs value at all the cot
ton raised in the United States was only
10000, 900, while the finished product oi
that cotton vas d ~, 600 600. When cotton
leaves the hsla. it II worth oooo. .Ooo, 600
When it leaves the mill. IL il worth siz
times q much. On our own cotton croF
alone We might in time mako the proats on
q. SOC. .O00. .000of manufactured goods. MOI
10 there anything to prevent such resuli
in . protective tariff.
Nobody knows 20 well ~ do how much
have failed to present even of my owr
comprehension Of the great argument which
should control this vote. have said not q
word of the great fall Of prices which has
always come from the competition Of thu
whole world rendered possible by protec
ton and substituted for the competition o
. single island. / have said not = word o.
the great Differences hetween the attitude d
employers who find their own workman
thar bess customers in their own land. and
who are therefore moved by their own bss'
intsrests 70 give thetr workmn fair wagss
and thone Who ssll ahroad and AEs thsrD
fogs anxious Tor low wagn IT ho0o -
q whom works unrsstriesedly thae psr
nacioas ductrins- - waG.1 I'll pso1te -
Uhasa and much noeD hnvo emitted T.
NhHo = : ltmtt onn sDonkinG M ~
NJ knoW. ~ fs1nn1h. 49, boooeo ~
tsl1nnA N IL q - posa1 ~ vpta N,
Wa1all ~ GeepgWpey yAosend fneAeNcA