The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-02-02

the consumer pays The whole tax or
,art of it, there is any benefit to our
country thereby Does not the pubic
suffer for the benefit of the few? Not for
the benefit of the capitalist, for in the
0ng sb boM YOU that prd aoitedai industries
will not obtain any greater remuneration
than the unprotected. The same is all
thew ask for and more than they often
get. ia:
But we need not depend upon politl-
cal economists, for they are always I'M
safe. The gentleman from Massachu-
setts (Mr. Draper) in lis admirable speech
has demonstrated thlt fact. In Massa-
chusetts tn ey have satisfies so well col
lected
That They Mean Something.
and those statistics snow that Massachu-
setts manufacturing stocks pay SO. 81 per
cent, Boston bankssstock 4.53 per cent,
and in New England railroad stocks
4.29 per cent.
"Let me put the assertion in another
form. If you will give me all that capital
has made on railroads, an unprotected
industry, will give you all that capital
has made on factorlesand agrees TO Ieeo
theshungry crowds caused by the Wilson
bill, and not claim any virtue for my
charity.
aThe public again Do not suffer for the
sake of the employees of the protected
Industries, for they get no higher wages
than the unprotected. In fact, the IN
crease goes to one as much as to the
other.
"Who built the mill, of Fall River?
Who made the machinery? Who fur
nished the provisions md the other con-
sumable wealth which Fall River and
| it's mills demand? Tie answer must be
the whole United StiJes But says
! my questioner, if yol only distribute
this money which was taken from us for
| the extra price amongus all again who
paid it, what is the gtod?' If that we're
| all there was to it could answer that at
| least there was no loss But beyond a
question this system establishes diversl-
| fed industries. Nobody can doubt that.
Diversified industries call out all the
working powers of theworld. Some are
| fitted for one thing, some for another.
The only way to utilize all the powers
| of body and mind in anation is to have
something which subs all. By this
means the great army Of the unemployed
| can be kept down. A nation which keeps
| its people employed is, in the end sure to
show the largest gains even of wealth.
Diversified industries educate the
people and give them a broader education
| than books can give, and so help them
| on the road to greater civilization. We
have already seen that greater civiliza-
| ton leads to higher wages, to greater
production. In country of high wages
| there are greater inducements for inven-
| tors. for they can save more by their in
| yentions, which are therefore more readi-
| ly adopted.
"To sum it up, if this
Protection Give, Us Money
and men, and our vast country needs
both, it may show WIN we have SO Won
derfully prospered. lift does l am in
| clined to think that thu way to have two
| Jobs hunting one man is to keep on
making new mills and try to prevent the
| committee on ways and means from pull
| ing down old ones.
But, says one gentleman fuller OF
! political economy than of sense, why do
| you not transfer your capital from these
| protected industries to the more proflta-
1 ble?" Yes, that would be good idea.
We will commence in West Virginia and
take up the coal mine holes and stick
| them down somewhere else, unless we
can utilize them as places OF refuge for
4 the committee after the election. There
| is what used to be Sc, 100000 worth OF
stuff belonging tosthe people that make
| screws Let us take that up, but it is
not worth $500, 900 let alone $4,000
| The bill has dropped 81. 200, 000-that can
| not be transferred anywhere. ~
! "But what do you say about the farmers
| Well, on that subject do not profess any
special learning, but there is one simple
| statement I wish to make and leave the
| question there.
eff, with cities growing up like magic,
| manufacturing villages dotting every
eligible site, each and all swarmlng with
| mouths to be filed, the producers of food
are worse off than when half this country
was desert, l abandon sense in favor
"One other thing have noticed in this
debate When the gentleman from
Kansas (Mr. Simpson, gets little money
| ahead he does not put it into stocks In
these immensely profitable manufactures
He has too much sense. He adds TO his
| farm and has told us So
Example is Richer Than Precept,
eff the hope of agriculturists is ir
English free trade, they had better
ponder on the fact that while the wages
of artisans have increased in England
50. 43 per week since 1850, the wages Of
agricultural laborers have only increased
Il cents, and while the Lancashire oper
aG1VoS III bu6 IdCGCIlCo 1tFC co w GIL oo an
body, except Americans, the agricul
tural laborers are hardly better off thar
the continental peasantry. England
example will rot 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
triumphantly to the fact that the wage
of France and Germany, protected by !
tariff, are lower than England, free of al
tariff, and to America with tariff ant
still higher wages. We have never mad
such a claim in any such form. Free
traders have set up that claim for us il
order to triumphantly, knock it over
What we do say is that where tw'
nations have equal skill and equal ap
pIiances and market of nearly equa
Size. and one of them can hire labor a
one-half less, nothing but tariff cal
maintain the higher wages, and that w
can prove.
aIf there be two bales of goods side b!
side made by the same kind of machiner.
and with the abor of the human being
i'm both of the same degree of skill, ano
if the labor of one bale cost only half
for example, as much as the other; tina
other bale can never be sold until tn
extra cost of the costlier labor il
squeezed out of it, provided there is al
abundant supply of the product of tn
| cheaner labor If the bale with tn,