The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-16

the coal MINE hOleS ana SUCK tncfh uOWu
somewhere else, unless we can utilize them
as places Of refuge for the committee after
the election. There is what used TO be S.
100000 worth of STUFF belonging Ia the peo-
pie that make screws. Leu as t,sle that up.
But it is not worth $500 600, letmlone IS ,0O0,-
O0O The bill has dropped 20 zoe, 000-that
cannot be transferred anywhere.
But what do You say about the farmer!
Well, on that subject do not profess any
special learning, but there Is one simple
statement l wish TO make and leave the
question there.
IL with cities growing up like magic,
manufacturing villages dottiug every eli
gible site, each and all swarmng with
mouths TO be- Oiled, the producers of food
are worse off than when half this country
was a desert, L abandon sense in favor of
political economy.
Free Trade Not Good Tor Farmers.
One other thing l have noticed in this de-
bate. When the gentleman from Kansas
(Mr. Simpson, gets a little money ahead, he
does not putt into stocks in these immense
ly profitable manufactures He has too much
sense He adds to his farm and has told
us so. Example is richer than precept.
If the hope of agriculturists is in English
fact that while the wages of artisans have
increased in England S243 per week since
1850 the wages of agricultural laborers have
only increased 72 cents, and while the Lam
cashire operatives in the factories live as
we'll as anybody except Americans the agri-
cultural laborers are hardly better off than
the continental peasantry. England's ex-
ample will not do for agriculture.
Here let me meet one other question, and
let me meet it 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 tariff, are
lower than England, free of all tariff, and
to America with n tariff and still higher
wages. We have never made such a claim
in any form. Free traders have set up that
claim for us i'm 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 costlier
labor is squeezed out of it, provided there
is an abundant supply of the product of
the cheaper labor. IL the bale with the
cheaper labor of England in it meets the
bale with the dearer labor of America in it,
which will be bought at cost of productions
leave that problem just there. The sale
<xff he !, hnlx Will ha tad v
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 OH 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.
1 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 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 i'm advance of them both by
reason of her history before 1850 and her
tributary provinces, is absolutely farcical.
established within themselves as good ma
chinery as England now has, together witt,
her factory system, and nothing but higher
wages in those countries or a tariff in their
own will ever save the English people from
ruin. Lord Armstrong knew what he was
doing when he established an English iron
mandatory in Italy with English appli-
ances and Italian labor at half price.
No. no, tariff does rot make the blind
see, the lame walk, nor does IL raise the
dead TO life, but it Isl good, sound, sensible
policy for the United States for its growth
in riches and civilization and fit is stricken
down the people who in their secret hearts
will think us the most shortsighted will
be the foreigners who profit by our folly.
There is still another argument which
desire to present out of the large number
yet unused. What has made England rich?
IL is 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
as she can persuade the rest of the world to
engage in the work which is the least
profitable and leave her the most enrching
she can well be content.
The Plea # lincoln.
Let me give one tern, md me figures
shall be furnished by the gentleman from
Alabama (Mr. Wheeler), who told me in
your presence that the value of all the cot
ton raised in the United States was only
$500, goo 600, while the finished product Of
that cotton was 81 ,750, DOC, 600 When cotton
leaves the field, it is worth $30O,0O0,000.
When il leaves the mill, it is worth six
times as much. On our own cotton crop
alone we might in time make the profits on
Sl,5O0, 600, 600 of manufactured goods. Nor
is there anything to prevent such q result
in protective tariff.
Nobody knows so well as do how mnch
have failed 20 present even of my own
comprehension Of the great argument which
should control this vote. have said not
word of the great fall of prices which has
always come from the competition OF the
whole world rendered possible by protec-
ton and substituted for. the competition of
single island. ! have said not word of
the great difference between the attitude of
employers who find their own workmen
their best customers in their own land, and
who are therefore moved by their own best
interests to give their workmen fair wares,