Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-03

ing if you have not security in the laws. There was opposition to the force bill few years ago.. You didn't want it. If judge sitting in Louisiana can appoint inspectors for elections in Bessemer 1t is confession that the people of Bessemer cannot manage their own elections.
 There is a diversity of interests in this country, but what affects one affects all, what ipj lures one injures all aud what helps one helps all. was not born democrat. My father belonged to another party, but when 1 came to vote investigated the par ties and found that the democratic party was the only one that protected the inter-
 ests of the people and tried to preserve the principles laid down by our forefathers, who founded this government. Democrats believe in government oy the people; the republicans try to centraiize power. To illustrate the tariff: A Montgomery mechanic went to Canada last year and bought suit of clothes for $17.50. When he came through the port of entry on his return he had to pay S17 50 tariff. That mechanic said the foreigner didn't pay the
 pays it, The merchant who pays the tariff on his imports always tacks on enough to
 the selling price to make it back. The government is for the purpose of pro- tecting the people. It must protect you in E the pursuit of peace, prosperity and happi- ness. If the tariff is too high there is no E protection for the people. The government may put the tariff 30 high that there will be
 no imports, and, therefore, no revenues -oan be raised. A few years ago the tariff was so high on flannel goods that none could be imported. The first year under sthe Mckinley billthe revenues fell off S44,- s000, GOO.
 E Tie speaker here mentioned a number of |zitems, with the tariff on same, the cost to
 the merchant and the cost to the consumer.
 Some people say tive don't buy inn
 ported goods" Suppose you don't. The tariff tax increases the price of the foreign
 IL @41a r..I 4I@ x@,tf4 dc ona epriced accordingly. For instance, say a pair of shoes costing $2 has 90 cents tariff. If the shoes come from some other country they cost $1 10 pair and 90 cents is paid at the port of entry. If the shoes are made in this country the 90 ceuts is added, but the government don't get it; it goes to the man ufacturer.
 This country sells large quantities of goods and products in foreign countries.
 With high protection the ships had to re- turn to this country with rock as ballast and our goods had to pay the freight both ways.
 As said by the AaE-HERALD few days ago, we are almost in days travel Of Cuba, England, because the ships can unload England's product in Cuba and get re- turn cargo.
 talk with you as men interested in man. ufacturing. l am interested in an iron furnace. It is at Woodstock Ia 1892 we had meeting and Mir. Aldrich and myself were sent to New York to see if something could be done to start it. They said iron ! could not be made there as cheap as it was selling. That was six months before Cleveland was elected.
 Then what did Ceveland's election have to do with it? All your furnaces here shut down after the enactment of the Mckinley bill. We can sell every year 5000 1000 bales of cotton. Of that over 5, ,000, 900 goes abroad. We cannot consume the whole of 1t here. So with every other product. The surplus must be sent abroad. II those countries buying from us are not prosper ous they cannot consume our surplus. There never was a high tariff until our friends, the republicans, came in power and enacted the Mckinley bill. One was passed in 1882, but the south kicked up so about it that compromise was adopted. In 1S44 the democrats were in power, and w hat was known as the Walker free trade tariff was passed two years later.
 In 1850 the wages of the laborers in woolen mills was $205 year, and in 1850, after fourteen years of the Walker low tar if, the average was $2S1 q. year. In 1850 but s6, ,000, GOO of labor saving machinery was made, and in 1869 it had increased to $17 400, ,0O0. The value of farm products in the United States in 1850 was $3, ,271 ,000,- GOO and in 1860 it was $6, 500 ,000 1000, and in 1880 it had increased only about $500, ,O00,- 0C0 over that of 1860. Here in Alabama the farmers in 1850 were worth $75, ,000, 900; in 1860 they had increased to $175, ,000 GOO, but in 1880 they had decreased to S64 1000 ,000.
 ,t5,a. Here is p9"; good republican authority: Years in Congress- that the Walker tariff yielded abundant revenues for conducting the government. That tariff worked 80 we'll that opposition to it ceased, not only among the people, but among the manu- facturers. In 1856, ten years after it's en- actment, neither party mentioned tariff in their platforms, and it had been enacted as free trade tariff.
 The country had prospered and values of farms increased wonderfully. Can any body point to the ten years following the enactment of the republican high tariff and say the country was as prosperous? The war came on and money had to be raised to meet the expenses, and until last August we had been unable to remove repub ublican legislation from tbe statute books.
 You say agitation creates unrest in busi- ness. Then quit agitating it. How? By doing like the democrats did in 1S46 when they adopted just and equitable tariff. The democrats passed one last summer that is just and equitable to all the people. Some changes may be made, but they are not many.
 What you want is market. If you mot sell to other countries your surplus will be piled up and factories will have to close down. Every country is going to trade with that nation which trades with it. With high protective tariff you shut out the foreigner and cut off your market. CVery man IS going 10 buy what ne needs in the market where he can dispose of his product. You must apply practical busi- ness principles to the administration of the government, for the government is nothing but business institution. The govern ment has no right to protect one man at the expense of another. Democracy teaches the old maxim, 'Be just to all the people,"
 meet great many populists. I don't know what they want and don't believe they know themselves. few years ago