Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-10

bate. When the gentleman from Kansas
/ (Mr Simpson, gets little money ahead, he
does not putt into stocks in these immense
/ Improbable manufactures. He has too much
sense. He adds to his farm and has told
us so. Example is richer than precept.
II the hope of agriculturists is in English
free trade, they had better ponder ON the
fact that while the wages Of artisans have
/ increased in England s. 43 per week since
I 1850 the wages of agricultural laborers have
only increased y cents, and while the Ian
cashire operatives in the factories live as
well as any body except Americans the agri-
I cultural laborers are hardly better on than
the continental peasantry. England's ex-
I ample will not do for agriculture.
/ Here let me meet one other question, and
I let me meet it fairly. We are charged with
/ having claimed that the tariff alone will
raise wages, and we are pointed trium-
I phantly to the fact that the wage of France
and Germany, protected by tariff, are
lower than England, free Of all tariff, aud
to America with tariff and still higher
wages. We have never made such n claim
In any form. Free traders have set up that
claim for us in order to trumphantly 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 tariff can maintain the high
er wages, and that we can prove.
! II 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 il 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 eostlier
I labor is squeezed out Of il. provided there
/ is an abundant supply OF the product Of
the cheaper labor II the bale with the
cheaper labor of England in il meets the
bale with the dearer labor Ct America in L..
which will be bought at cost OF productions
I leave that problem just there. The sale
of the English bale will be only limited by
England's production.
A Sound. sensible Policy.
Now, as TO France and Germany The
gentleman from Ohio lMr. Harterl makes
/ the same blunder which he charges GA uS.
/ He says the tariff makes lower wages aud
asks ns 10 compare hcthrce countries. say
| ing they arr all the same. except the tariff
/ | DO not read history that way. England
had CENTURIES Of peace ordistaut war, while
I both France and Germany were the battle
/ fields of Europe Uutl bismarck ma,le
[ Germany u nation she was not even blg
enough 90 cOtcr successfully modern indus
[ trial warfare. To compare either % those
nations in machinery or wealth b. Eng
I land, ieQyears ia advance u them both hy
MASON 81 her history before 1850 and Ter
I Tributary pros iuccs, l. absolutely farCscal
Let Germany and Francs grt thoroughly
/ established within themselves A. good MAJ
I chinrry a. England nov has. together with
I her factory system. and nothing bat higher
{ wages in those countries or a tariff in their
I own will ever save the English people from
/ ruin. tarl Armstrong knew what be- was
doing when be established an English iron
mRuufactory in Italy with English apple
ances and Italian labor at half price.
No. M. tariff does not make the blind
see. the h,me walk. nor does Il raise the
dead TO life. but it lisa good, sound. sensible
( policy Tor the United States for its growth
| IA riches aud utilization aud ifit is stricken
/ down the people who in their secret hearts
/ will think us the most shortsightc,l will
/ be the foreigners who profit by our folly.
/ There l. still another argument which
desire TO present out OF the large number
/ yet unused What has made England richg
/ 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-
I ing material to finished product SO long
/ as she can persuade the rest Of the world 10
engage in the work which is the least
/ profitable and leave her the most enriching,
| she can well be content.
The Plea of Lincoln.
| Let me give one item, and the figures
shall be furnished by the gentleman from
1 Alabama tMr. Wheelerl, who told me in
| your presence that the value OF all the cot
ton raised in the United States was only
| $500 900, 00o, while the finished product OF
that cotton was 81 $50 000, 600 When cotton
leaves the field, 1t is worth S3U0,OO0,OOO.
| When it leaves the MILL it is worth six
! times as much. On our own cotton crop
alone we might in time make the profits on
| 81 500, 600 000 of manufactured goods. Nor
is there anything to prevent such result
| in a protective tariff.
Nobody knows 30 well as do how much
/ have failed to 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 protcc-
ton and substituted for the competition ~
single island. have said not word u
Z but Eftftb tliiitTtlAt UfNhftl Anf NAtAiillt NL
employers who find their own work men
their best customers in their own land. aud
who are therefore moved by their own best
| interests 10 give their work men fair wages.
and those who sell abroad and are there.
fore anxious for low wages 10 home aud
on whom works unrestrictedlY that per-
nicious doctrine-as wages fall profits rise.
These and much more have ! omitted. far
there Is a limit to all speaking.
| We know, my friends, that before this
/ tribunal we all Of us plead Ia vain. Why
/ we fail let 81 1se answer who read the touch.
| ing words OF abraham Lincoln's nrst in.
augural and remember that be plcafs,i VA
/ vain with these same men and their prede-
/ cessors. Where he failed We cannot expect
tosucceed. But though we fail hers today,
/ ike our great leader 81 other days la the
/ larger field before the mightier tribunal
/ which will finally and forever decide this
| question we shall be more than conquerors,
/ for this great nation. shaking on NJ u has
once before the influence Of n lover civil
I .izaiion, will 20 on 70 fulfill its high destiny
| until over the south as well A. over the
/ north shall be spread toe full measure ~
that amazing prosperity which Is the won
der OF the world.