Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-02-02

I market 10 the destructive compeuuon oi
foreigners, and those who vote for il do IL
with the reservation that they will in
stantly devote themselves to new cru
sade AGAINST whatever barriers are left
protection gives us money and men,
and our vast country needs both II may
show why we have so wonderfully pros
pered IL IL does, ! am inclined to think
that the way TO have two Jobs hunting
one man is 10 keep on making new mills
md try TO prevent the committee on ways
and means from pulling 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 profita-
| blef Yes, that would be "A good idea We
| will commence in West Virginia and take
up the coal mine holes and stick them
! down somewhere else, unless can
/ utilize them rs places of refuge for the
committee after the election. There ia
what used To be ., ,0D0, 900 worth Of stuff
belonging TO the people that makes
screws Let us take that up, but il is not
worth $500 900, let alone g., 900 900 The
bill has dropped g., 200 OO0-that cannot
be transferred anywhere.
1T IL the immense profits which come
of converting raw material into manu-
| factured goods which has made England
rich. Shei huge workshop, doing the
| most profitable work OF the world chang
ing raw material to finished product. So
/ long as she can persuade the rest If the
! world to engage I'm the work which is the
least profitable and leave her the most
! enriChing she can well be content
Let me give one item, and the figures
] ball l..I IYrrs Al
| Alabama (Mr. Wheeler), who told me ia
your presence that the value of all the
cotton raised in the United States was
only 500, 100000, while the finished pro
duct of that cotton was 81, 80, 900 600
When cotton leaves the field it is worth
$500, ,0O0, 900; when IL leaves the mill il Is
worth six times as much. On our own
cotton crop alone we might in time make
] the profits on 81 800, ,0O0.0 900 of manufac'
tured goods. Nor In there anything To pre-
! vent such n result i'm n protective tariff"
As Viewed by Crisp.
! Speaker Crisp followed Mr.. Reed, and he
received An ovation.
Mr.. Crisp declared that an examination
OF the protective system would show that
while 1t was built up for the ostensi-
BILE benefit of labor 10 was in truth con.
structed for the benefit Of the manufac-
turing classes. He pointed out that the
wages Of laborers in protected industries
went down and those in unprotected in
dustries went up as result of the Nc
/ Kinley act.
81 can show how protection hurts the
farmer" said the speaker, "but | defy
any man 20 show how IL benefits the
farmer" He proceeded to elaborate the
idea that all the farmers products, corn,
wheat and cotton, were sold in the free
trade markets OF the world, while all the
farmer consumed was bought in re-
stricted protected market. "The gentle
man from Maine" said he, "had stated
that the corn laws In England, ostensibly
made in the interest of English farmers,
were in reality made in the interest of the
landowners OF England
True" declared Mr.. Crisp, emphati.
cally, but he should also have told you
that protective tariff, always defended
In the laborers' interest Is in reality made
for the benefit of the protected mauufac-
turers-Amerca's noblemen.
High wages here are not the result of
protection; the fertility of the soil, the
wonderful resources Of our country, the
independence and intelligence of the peo-
pie, all unite to make good wages.
"Wages here are more dependent upon
the independence of the laborer, the
trades unions, and the consciousness of
her power which enable him to demand,
exact his rights, than upon protective
tariff
"Of all the nations Of the earth, only
one people are excluded from our shores
the Chinese. The laboring men of that
country built a wall about themselves
and reduced themselves to such a scale
that the American people absolutely for
bade them to come here. IL you want to
see type of what the protective tariff
will do" said he, raising his hand aloft,
impressively, ''we point you to China,
where, for thousands of years, the people
have experienced the effect of trading
with themselves.
"Let us pass this BILL" he concluded,
"and redeem the pledge we have given to
the people, and if IL is orystallized into
law, while there may be some monopolist
or wealthy man who may complain, in
the homes of the farmers, the working
man, the laborers in the fields and I'm the
cities, there will be rejoicing that we have
relieved them of some of the burdens
placed upon them. 1t will encourage ag-
riculture and conduce to the prosperity
of all classes of American citizens"
AS Ine speaker Cedstu, the
side rose with a cheer and the galleries
waved hats and handkerchiefs, while a
feet-footed page scurried up the aisle
with floral tribute. Amid a confused
din the speaker made his way through his
fellow Democrats, vainly seeking to grasp
) his hand, assembled the rostrum and as
! sumed the gavel.
Tho Authors Argument.
He recognized the chairman of the ways
and means committee, Mr.. Wilson, whose
appearance on side aisle was the signal
for another outburst on the floor and in
the galleries.
"Mr. Speaker" he began, II might
well rest in this argument after the able
and eloquent speech of the gentleman
from Georgia, but | feel il my duty to
add a few wordra and to answer some
arguments which have been advanced
For three weary weeks the gentlemen on
the other side OF the house have la.hed
around the old time-worn arguments and
prophecies that have always risen up
against every effort to advance freedom
and advance toward the goal of equal
commerce"
Referring to the speech of Mr.. Reed, he
said: After all. his main argument was
that which is heard at every schoolhouse
aud crossroad in the country, that be.
cause we have had protection In the
United States for the last 80 years we
have got our prosperity from u law OF
gress, and not from the gifts of Almighty