Evening journal., 1894-10-18

making glass, and cotton and woolen
goods until England was forced to devise
plan to keep them out of their indus
tries by protecting them, and do
they now need soothing syrup
as administered by Mckinley, Quay.
Reed and Higgins2 Let me call your
attention TO this fact. The golden days
Of the manufacturing industries were
not under the Mckinley tariff, but under
the Walker tariff of 1916 Then we made
1s 000 tons Of steel rail After thirteen
years of low Democratic tariff We made
300, 600 tons. The very manufacturers
we are asked to tax are to-day success-
fully competing In the home and foreign
markets with the produce Of other lands
We sell cars and engines in Brazil,
cutlery In Sheffield, watches in Switzer
land, carpets in Cork and glass goods In
Munich | have here q letter from a
leading carpet dealer in Cork in which
he calls attention to the fact that he is
agent for American Administer carpets
Yet we are asked to protect this industry
from the pauper labor of Ireland We
sell coal in Canada, lumber in Vancouver
and Mexico. Yet those gentlemen say
II we take the tax from coal we will be
subject to an invasion of Canadian coal
and the ehigering worklDgman may warm
himself At less cost The United States
mines $50, 900, 900 tons of coal, Canada
3 600, coo tons, yet the coal barons OF
Pennsylvania, whose miners are so well
paid and happy, and whose workmen
never strike, profess to fear that they
will be ruined forever il Cansda's
5000. coo is placed in competition with
our $50, 600 GOO tons. la 1926 silk goods
were excluded from England and at no
time was that industry so depressed and
SO many strikes occurred then / have
here the report Of the Treasury Depart
nlent which shows that from 1889 to
March 1898. when Harrison and his
administration stepped out. there were
5000 strikes, affecting 600 600 hands,
aud without an exception every one of
tine firms where these strikes occurred
were protected under the Mckinley bill.
Il was in the great protected centres
that anarchy, riot and depression was
found
Undue Stimulation Of Manufacture.
I'VE in this country suffer from an
undue stimulation of manufacturing. Ii
every furnace should GO into operation,
every wheel In our factories bs set 10
motion, we would manufacture in
| twelve months more than we can con.
sumo in two years Mr. Higgins says
seek home markets Who will buy and
where can re sell2 Under this artificial
stimulation it Is q disadvantage to the
manufacturer to raise a wall which bars
him from the markets of the world.
Then after frying the fat from the
manufacturer our Republican friends set
out TO fool the workingman, and / am
sorry TO say frequently does It, In the
/ town Of Bristol, Ptnns9 lvsLis, ] have
seen marching Republican clubs or
| gsnizad by Republican manufacturers,
where the men were hired to fill the
ranks, and the spectacle exhibited to the
workingmen was that OF flags aud
banners inscribed Protection to Ameri-
can Workingmen' carried bV unnatural
lied Italians, Who were paid 7S cents day
to displace those very same workmen
They draw untruthful pictures OF the
/ difference between our own and foreign
labor. They tell you of the home Of the
American bricklayer, and point TO it as
a sample OF the benefits of protection,
but they do not tell you that there is 70
| tariff on brick nor on the for
| sign bIieklsyer either want
| you labor ing men to 90 down
after this meeting and ask
Senator Frye this question If tariff
makes high wages, how is it that but 10
| per cent of the workmen are employed
/ by protected industries and yet the other
IS per cent get higher wages Under
bis system the Is per cent. should get
at least 25 per cent. more wages as a
| result of protection, but they don't.
A Question for Mr.. Higgins.
Ask him, or ask Mr. Higgins, how it
comes that, II the tariff is designed to
cover the difference in wages between
here and foreign countries. the difference
between wages in North Carolina and
| Massachusetts,, between California and
Indiana, Louisiana aud Minnesota, il
greater than between this country and
Englsnd2 Why the difference between
wages in these states Is greater than the
ference between Wilmington and
Manchester. England2 Bow does he &C
count for the fact that there is greater
difference between the free trade states,
with an interval of but thousand miles,
than there is between the shipyards Of
Wilmington and the Clyde? If 1t is true
high tariff makes higher wages, how Is
II that wages are higher in free trade
England than in high tariff Germany, II
France with low tariff and China and
I npAluk LAlH LAS never D6el AuHWbIel
yet, nor can il be. If it Is true that thil
tariff is levied to protect tho working
man AID make up the difference il
wages between here and abroad, why
not make the tariff equal that difference.
Do you find it has made the workmeI
poorer or richer, or the manufacture
richer or poorer2 Take the history oi
this country and see if there has been
fair division of this tariff between
. manufacturer and employe If it baI
been, why is the tariff three times
more than the labor cost Of the articles
The tariff on q ton of steel rails wa
, $13 A, the labor cost So; on 800 wortl
Of cutlery the tariff is $50, the labo
$44; on 800 woolen goods, the labor
cost is $20.S5 and the tariff 800. 90
! You can't point to single item in tn
! | Wilson bill, where the difference is no
, more than the cost Of labor.
Considerable has been said about tn
, ! wnges Of the workiDgmen here ant
I abroad. We do not fear competition
wa showed that fact in Philadelphia il
rs. and emphasized it in Chicago in '9S
, The difference lies mainly in the fac
that the American workman produces
i more and consequently gets more for 1t
: than the Eaglish workman Republican
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