The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-09

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i eign productions is TO raise American
wages. We cannot have our wOrkmen
! do work as cheap as foreign workmen
will"
The Fraud of 1t.
1t is right here that our Republican
/ friends claim to have a hold upon the
American people, the laboring masses
! of America, and they pose rs the party
/ particularly Interested in the welfare
/ Of the American workingnlan. I want
j to take up that claim and point out to
/ You the fraud there is in it. l think
shall be able to do 1T. (Applause.) The
! American manufacturer says he must
/ have high protective tariff in order
/ TO equalize the cost of production, say
! Ing he has TO pay higher wages to his
/ W0Tkmen, / hold THAT he still has the
/ cheapest labor. (Applause) You viii
say that is paradoXical. So indeed it
/ seems paradoxical to say that the
/ dearest labor is the cheapest But let
me illustrate it TO you.
/ We viii say that there is one man
I whom You pay 81 per day and there
/ is another that you cam hire for 81 a
/ day; but the man whom you pay 81
/ viii produce S.. in results. You pay
/ him his wages 81. and You have SO left
+ for your share of the investment. The
man TO whom you pay 81 is so slug
! EiSh. So unintelligent in his work, that
( he produces only 50 in results. You
pay him 81 and you have only 81 left
/ for your profit. Now which is the
( cheapest laiborer, the man you gave 81
or the man you gave 81? (Applause)
/ 1t is clear as daylight that the man
you paid 81 is the cheapest la borer. SO
it is with the American workman. The
greater prOductiveness of the Ameri-
cam laborer when compared with the
foreign laborer makes him the cheap
est laborer on earth to the American
/ manufacturer. (Applause.)
PrOductivenesS of American Labor.
I am proceeding without much refer
/ ence to authorities, because [ take it
| ann dealing with self-evident truths.
But Of course you viii want some evil
de1lce to the truth of the statement
have made. have it on hand and
1T is an the more valuable for THE rea-
son that it is the testimony of a pro-
nounced pr0tsolo.0nisit. Charles S. Hill.
the sltatistician in the state department
! In a report he made in 1882, made some
important statements. ! quote from
the argument he made before the tar
iff committee that year. He said our
manufactures in 1882 amounted to S.
0O0O0.OOO, produced by 5,250,00O hands.
and that for the same time the product
Of England was $4,000 900. 900. Just one
half of what was produced here in
America, produced by $3.50 600 hands.
50 that While there was a difference in
the number of men employed only of
$4,000, yet there was produced by Amer
lean WOrkmen nearly double. or iuSt
double the amount that was produced
In England by practically the same
number of hands
Nov as the American labor was
001llo
had received double the amount of
wages paid to the English workmen.
and justly so. Who says we need pro
tectl0n 10 enable manufa cturerS to
pay the difference in cost of labor be
tween England and the Omitted States7
| ny, you American Workmen produce
double what THE English worknen pro-
duce. Is not that enough to eduaMze
the cost of the products? (AppladsaN
Here the fraud begins. But it does not
end mere. by any manner of means.
Let me read some more testimony to
you l give You the testimony of Mr.
William NJ Evarits.
In 1873 Mr.. Evarts, then secretary
of state, in his report ON the state of
labor in Europe, delivered MAY II
1873, pages 36-7-S of that report saws.
The average American workman does
from one and One-half to twice as
age European workman Then again.
James G. Blaine. in his report in 1881
to the department of state ait Washing
ton, sad: THE hours of labog. i'm the
Lancashire mills are 36 per week. in
Massachusetts per week The hr111,s
Of labor in other New England mills
are from &c to GO per week Undouht-
eddy the wages of American Iahore1-s
are greater, but THAT is PARTLY due to
+1,af,- 4,
go on with book after book and read
TO you evidence in support of the fact
| have stated that the American manu-
facturer gets sufficient IN production
TO equalize the difference in wages. he
cause the effectiveness of American Ia
Dor more THAN equalizes the cost of
production.
How They Rob the People.
But there is another fact to which
wish to call your attention There
should be some proportion between the
difference IN tariff schedules and nha
difference in cost of production as he
tween the two countries But there is
not. and ! want TO give You an illus
tT7ariOn of how the tariff works. and In
order TO do so I Just take a small e,--
ample upon the subject Of steel rails
Inc cost of ton of steel rails in the
United States is $1159. in Great Brit
ain the cost is s7.S1 The difference in
the cost is SS.7S Now the contention
of the pr3tectionist IS not that tha
manufacturer wants to grow rich. not
TO build himself up in order to entel.
the charming circle Of the we-s ltr1v
classes in the United States. but the
purify of his motives raises him above
such sordid considerations as that
He simply wants to benefit THE Rahor-
ing class. He wants the protection
only IN order that he may be able no
pay the higher wages demanded bv
American wiog-l7men.
How much protection doas he want
on 4 ton Of steel rails in order to meet
the difference in wages? Why. the diff
ference between the cost here and in
England. In other words he wants
S2.1S But what was the dr,-v nm a
ton Of s7teel rails under the Mckinley
bill? Sl3.44. (Applause) That's all
he can go to work and pay THE off
ference in producing steel rails S2 e
and h has 50 Sc left. What doe he
do with 1t? Haughter1 Does no dis
tribute It among the worlsingmen en,-
pi0yed by hin? Not much Andrew
Carnegie builds castles in Scotland
ADplaUSe) Hs gives fountains to
S7.ra;ford-on-Avcn ard gilt edged gifts
TO the peoole Of England: he travels
around With the titled nobility. and
that too by the in-gotten wealth that
ne took from the people Of Anar'ca
1'1der The rr0sl'eyt of benefittfng them
Great applause.)
0pportunity To Steal.
Now. as it is in respect to this r.
d.ustry. so it is all the way down the
ln.AT L.