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

selves as good machinery as England now
has, together with her factory system,
and nothing but higher wages in those
countries or tariff in their own will
ever save the English people from rum.
LORD Armstrong knew what he was DO
ing when he established an English iron
mandatory in Italy with English APP
pilances and italian labor at half price,
NO, no; tariff does not make the bllno
see, the lame walk, nor does it raise the
dead to life, but it is good, sound, sen
sible policy for the.United States, for its Is
growth In riches and civilization, ana II
IL IS sJrlcken down the people who IN tnelI
secret hearts will think us the mosC
shortsighted will be the foreigners VINO
profit by our folly.
"There is still another argument
number yet unused What has made
England rich? 1t is the immense pronts
which come of converting raw material
into manufactured goods. She is huge
workshop, doing the most profitable
work of the world, changing raw
material to finished products. so long
as she can persuade the rest OF 6ne Worlu
to engage in the work which is the least
profitable and leave her the most enrich
ing she
Can Well Be Content.
Let me give one item, and the figures
shall be furnished by the gentleman from
Alabama (Mr. Wheeler) who told me in
your presence that the value of all the
cotton raised in the United States was
only $500, 1000, 900, while the finished
products of that cotton was $l,750, 0OO,-
00O When cotton leaves the field 1T is
worth $500, 900, 600; 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 billion and
half of manufactured goods. Nor is there
anything to prevent such a result IN a
pl effective tariff
"Some men think, indeed, this bill and
it's authors speeches proceed upon the
suppose ton that the first step towards
gaining the markets of the world is to
give up our own, just as ii fortified
| army, with enemies on all fiauks, should
overturn it's own breastworkS as the first
preliminary to march into the open.
Even the foolish chivalry OF the Marquis
de Montcalm, which led him to his
death on the heights of Abraham, had
not that browning folly. Such is not the
history of the world; such is not even the
| example of England.
"Tariff duties, whether levied for that
| purpose or for revenue, become dead
| letter when we are able to compete with
| the outside world.
"We are the only rival that England
| fears, for we alone have i'll our borders
| the population and the wages, the raw
material, and within ourselves the great
market which insures to us the most I'M
proved machinery. Our constant power
to increase our wages 1nsures us also con-
| tinuous progress
| "If YOU wish us to follow the example
Of England, say yes, with allsmy heart.
| but her real example and nothing less.
| Let us keep protection, as she did, until
| no rival dares to invade our territory
| and then we may take our chances for a
future which by that time will be un-
| known.
Nobody knows SO well as l do how
| much have failed to present even OF
my own comprehension, of the great
| argument which should control this
| vote. I have said not word of the great
| fall of prices which has already come
| from the competition of theswhole world,
rendered possible by pro lection and SUBJ
| stituted for the competition of single
/ island I have not said word of the
/ great difference OF the attitude OF en-
| blowers who find their own wor kmen
| their best customers in their own land,
| and who are therefore moved by their
! own best interests to give their workmen
fair wages, and those who sell abroad
| and are therefore anxious for low wages
] at home, and on whom works unre-
| strictedly that pernicious doctrine, as
wages fall, profits rise. These and much
more have omitted, for there is limit
to all speaking.
/ ave know, my friends, that before this
tribunal we all of us plead in vain. Why
we fail let those answer who read the
touching words of Abraham Lincoln s
| first inaugural and remember that he
| pleaded in vain with these same men
and their predecessors. Where he failed
we cannot expect to succeed. But
though we fail here today, like. our great
leader of other days in 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 off as it has
once before the influence of a lower
civilization, will go on and fulfil its
high destiny until over the South as we'll
as over the North shall be spread the
full measure Of that amazing prosperity
which is the wonder of the world"