Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-25

men. IL IS Simply auu eASiN
,iyely a question OF increasing the
profits OF capital invested in manufac-
lure. TApplause. To-day the greatest
need of the workingnan is markets for
what he produces. Applause. We
are sending abroad two out OF every
five bushels Of wheat we produce, and
more than half of our cotton, because,
when we meet the consumptve demand
Of our home market we have surplus,
and have 20 find market for the rest
abroad.
Now. as l stated to my former friends
to-day, made a calculation TO
show the length OF time which Will be
REQ uired for the former to find home
market, at the ratio OF progress during
the thirty years Of Republican protec-
tion. Ii will take him 3S5 years. We
are further from home market to-day
than we were thirty years ago. rms Is
also true of other prodGctives. with
our limitless resources, our great MIN
eral wealth, our wonderful facilities for
producing and for shipping, We can
to-day supply all the needs OF the pso-
pie OF the United States by
WORKING SIN MONTHS
at our full capacity. The question with
the American Workingmen to-day Is
how he can get steady employment al
good wages for the other six months
I Applause.
There are only two ways TO get rio OF
the surplus product, one is by selling 70
people Of other countries and the other
by limiting production TO the consumP-
tion capacity Of the home market. 30
far as agricultural products are con
cerned we can not cut down the supply.
The farmers can not meet every spring
and estimate the needs and demands OF
the home market and then produce just
sufficient amount to satisfy those
demands. But in many lines OF manu-
featuring it is perfectly feasible and
has already been done. Manufacturers
are protected from outside competition
by tariff wall and they then determine
through their trusts and combinations
inst how much product there shall De
and they also fix the price.
When the sugar question was under
consideration in the House OF Repre-
sentStives, there was testimony to sno"
that we can refine sugar az cheaply as
any country, The fact that we an
nually shipped abroad thousands oi
pounds proves that We can do 1t. But
the sugar refners preferred bigger
profts in a protection market, to a
greater prod which should meet
the competition Of rehners elsewhere.
They
ORGANIZED A TRUST
and closed several large rehnerles
They do the same In every branch o.
prosected Industry. Wherever trusts
and pools are formed they have for theil
object the limit of production to the de
msnd OF the home market, and they es
cape competition in price, while LABOR
thrown out Of employment, or IS EN-
plOyed for only portion OF the year
| So say, unles we give employment u
toe workipgman from year TO year, tn
I&9,.}sstiotres the laborer in the face to
day. Applause.
! Why shouldn't we take possession o
other markets? They say we will b.
thrown into competition with the cheaI
labor Of Europe, and that we can't com
pete in their markets until we CONF
| down to their level Of wages. So, &C
cording TO their theory, we must fence
in our home market. lis proposition
that can be clearly proven, that labor
here compared with the product o
labor, is cheaper than the labor OF Eu
rope. That Is due to the fact that the
American workinRman Is better fed
better clothed, more intelligent than
the European laborer; that we have
a great country, whose resources have
not yet been catalogued; that we have
better and greater facilities for produc.
tion than any other nation, and we use
all those great Inventions which save
and multiply human labor. Prolonged
applause. So when they say that the
average Of wages here is higher, ask
them what the
AVERAGE PRODUCT PER NAN
is here and 10 England. You will find
that the average product per man here,
at the average wages Of 1887 a year, is
more than double that of the English
man at S2O5 a year. Which country,
then, has the cheapest labor?
Permit me to call your attention to
another fact. We are having a consid-
erable export Of manufactured prod uct.
II you include flour, we send $3.50, 000,-
600 10 other countries, We fad by the
protection theory that these products
were made by the lowest paid Amer
ican workingmen. On the contrary,
these articles OF export are made
by the highest paid labor in the coun-
try. In 1898 we exported more than
$50, 900, 900 worth Of iron and steel.
Are the iron and steel workers the low
est paid labor Of the country? We eX-
ported 50, 500, 900 worth Of locks, hinges,
and hardware; $40, 900, 600 worth Of iron
and steel machinery; more than 50, 000,
600 worth Of engines, locomotive and
stationary; 80, 900, 900 worth OF watches
and clocks. Are the men engaged In
the manufacture of these articles our
lowest paid skilled labor2 Why one Of
our watch manufacturers took the con-
tract, in open competition, for furnish
ing watches to the railroads In India.
We sent over 5000, 900 worth Of agri-
cultural implements, $40, 900, 600 worth
of leather goods and so on down the list.
Now that my constituent, Stephen b,
has brought TO your attention how
much the lumber interests Of this State
are going to be injured, it may be To-
teresting 20 know that we sent abroad
in 1898, s23, ,OOO, 900 worth OF lumber
and articles manufactured OF wood, to
compete with the product OF Europe.
The highest paid labor Of this country
is the cheapest labor in the world,
when you look at the quantity Of pro-
due per man.
II under high protective tariff, We
can send this manufactured product out
Of the country,-if we are given free
raw material TO work with, what Is to
hinder US from getting the
INDUSTRIAL SUPERIORITY
10 which the intelligence OF our people
entities US? [Applause.
Mckinley WeeDs over the destruction