Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-11

ported. save IN exceptional eases, even if
there was no duty, while the tendency
OF invention and Improvement Is in favor
OF the United States As against Europc.
Steel made into rails in this country is
from the native ore, Whnt pig metal,
blllcis or blooms are imported are used
entirely in other iron and steel mumuiac-
lures
Now It costs less than 81 ton to
make steel rails from blooms, including
The slraighlcning ana punching In to-
DAYS market steel blooms sell less than
Ait, steel rails should not bring over
Sll, They did fall nearly to that price
fcw weeks ago during temporary
break In the steel rail pool, But the
pool WIS quickly rc-orgauized at ST.
ton. so that by virtue of the duty which
keeps out the foreign rails. the pool is
compelling users of rails 10 pay - per
cent more than a fair price. This steel
rail pool Is composed OF seven manniac-
tuters, headed by Carnegie, who nhso-
lutely controls the products of moro
than half OIL the rolled steel produced
IN the United States, aud VINO have
combined to pay other large mauufae'
turers heavy annual sums 10 close the
works discharge anon and make no steel
10 employers pay larger wages when
they get lurgcr pmhtsy do not. aud
even nhilanthr0nists do not. Take Car
negie, Who gives like prince ont ol his
millions the tariff has enabled him to
tnkp from hts fellow citizens, hut lac
docs not raise wages until he has 10,
Before he started for Jerusalem le
utilized the tarif To re-estahlish the si,el
rail pool and pav other manufacturers
TO shut no and throw men out Of en-
pluymeni, Then the general rut 10
wages WAS made In all his great estnb-
lishmcnis, and then he announced himscf
ready TO give rs much MS $1,000 u LAY
10 feed the unemployed 10 Pitisburg,
place that. u there were any theory
that protection Is good for labor, ought
TO be the very paradise for worhingmen,
Now which rs tue best Tor labor, iAtuly
of charity soup houses or plenty 0i om-
plOymcnty II We could abolish the whole
tariff on the first of February, do not
believe There lie a single manufacturing
industry that would close. On the con.
irary all that wcre not purely eNotcs,
kent alive 10y taxes, would he greatly
stimulated, foreigners would want
more of our products and foreign mas.
Eeis would be open to our goods. Wheat
would bring more to the grower and
labor would bring more TO the luhorcr and
the misses OF the people would want and
could pay for manufactured goods. You
cun not depress industry and impoyerish
labor by renting the taxes; chat Is
done by imposing tnNes.'
The bill he would pass, he said, would
consist Of three sections,
Section l. All import duties aud cor
responding internal revenue duties nro
hereby abolished, and all officials en-.
gagged In collecting such dutlos arc here
10y discharged.
Sec. . The secretary of the treasury
is hereby directed to sell the custom
houses and revenue cutters and pay the
proceeds into the treasury.
Sec. ., This act shall take effect i'm.
medintoly.
"Such bin would excite no more pro-
tcctionists opposition than this poor, tim
id little Wilson bill will, But II would
not he snccrcd at and 1t would arouse o
mighty support that this bill rnn not
get
Mr. Dalscll, who was the next speaker
said the election of 1872. which resulted
in the asecnduucy In all the branches of
the government 0f the Democratic party,
had no sooner occurred than crisis GU
sued amongst tile mosi appalling In our
economic history. All the Industries
suffered an immediate collapse; trade
foreign and domestic becnme paralyzedt
the ghost Of distrust sjnlkcd threaten
ingly In all the avenues Of commerce
and fear fell On NIL non rich and poor
alike. AS a people we walk today In
a valley of dcsolatipn. The furnuce fires
have gone out aud the fires upon the
humble hearths as We'll, while thrnughout
all our borders factories aud workshops
and the various implements aud appli-
anccs Of industry remain idle and I'M
used.
"lu The few months the dominant party
has held the rclus OF government, 10 has
proved itself conspeuously incompetent
TO deal with "A single Important question
presented hy tho responsibility Of civil
administration. The executive, with an
ignorance, on the Limitations in bis Office
lncxcusame IN AN intelligent man, has
usurped the functions Of congress. not
TO meet any exigency or for any justi-
fable end, but 10 undertake and niser-
ably fail IN foreign policy which would
he grotesque, If IL were not conicmpt.
be
THE tadn bll has been presented
That II enacted. | predict, positively Will
be pronounced tie most Infamous legs-
latiOn Of orr history. Instead of relief, It
brings aggravntions. no the mnnufnct-
urer whose idle capital u bringing him
no return, whose plant disnHed " de-
prccinting and whose income has been
scattered narrowed or entirely cut On,
II offers the deceptive lure Of free raw
materials, while il strips him Of all ability
TO compete IN any market. 10 the
farmer IL offers instead Of protection
an enlarged competition from ahrond in
the product of hs farm; instead Of the
vast and growing home market, a market
abroad in which his Increased surplus
cannot dem0rallzc prices. The cry Of
the labOiing man clnuoiiug for work at
American wage rates, 10 the end that lie,
his wife and his children shall live like
Americans its brutal answer is. Lower
wages or war with your employers aud
for tho empty treasury depicted beyond
the power 20 meet The current cXunses
what rellciy q y ame 10 tell H.
"A further depletion by reducing the
national revenues from S7O.OOOOO0 10
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