Evening star., 1896-10-22
"WHAT REDUCES PRICEs.''
The Democratic Committee Says MIR.
Bryan Has Been MisQuOted.

The Democratic Committee Snys Mr..
Bryan Has Been MisQuOted.
The democratic committee has given out
frcm Washington headquarters a state
ment concerning alleged quotations from
Mr.. Bryan's speeches. made by the repub
lican congressional committee. The DEM
ocratic committee asserts that the extract
given out by the republican committee and
published in The Star of Monday was mis-
quoted and mutilated, a sentence being torn
in half and quoted as a whole sentence
and a meaning added to 1t by the republi-
can committee which any one who could
read the sentence could see was not ap-
propriate.
Following is the bulletin of the republican
committee published Monday:
''In a speech delivered in Congress March
16. 1888. he said-and over what he then
said when he compiled this little volume
before referred to he placed the subhead
What Reduces Prices? But you must at
that has multiplied thousand times, in
many instances. the strengh of a single
arm, and enabled us 20 do today with one
man what fifty men could not do fifty
price down in this country and every
where No suggestion there that the
crime had anything to do with the case.
The farmers know that the planters, the
Cull1VaIOTS ana Iu6 TcdpSTS WHICH Inventive
genius has given to them have multiplied
many fold the products OF the soil. and in
evitably reduced the prices OF their pro-
ducts. So much for his position on this
subject, before and after taking a presi-
Dental nomination.
The bulletin given out by the democratic
committee today says:
'"rhe following is the text of Mr.. Bryan'a
speech, from the Congressional Record
March 18, 1893:
"'What reduces prices?
The gentleman from Massachusetts, (Mr.
Walker) told US that steel rails had fallen
in price because Of a protective tariff.
L will append to my remarks (Appendix
E) schedule given by Mr.. Carlisle in an
article in the Forum, in which he shows the
price Of steel rails in England from 1871
to 1882, and the price of steel rails in this
country during that time, and the amount
consumed. This shows what the English
men paid for them, and also what the
American paid for the same amount OF
rails. And when you add up the difference
you find that in these ten or eleven years
the American people paid $3.50, 10000 mere
for their steel rails than the English reo-
pie paid. And yet you say that protection
makes them cheaper.
During all that time they were cheaper
In England. Is your system such a one
that it will take hold Of price and pull II
down in this country, and. then, not salts
fed with that, go over to some foreign
country, grab the price there and pull ii
down? And. then, not satisfied with that
Will 1t pull down the price III foreign coun-
tries more than 1t pulls down in this coun-
try? Some one has said that the onion
is q vegetable that makes the man SICK
who does not eat 1t. Gaugh.er.) 1t would
seem that protection does the greatest Cood
to the country that does not have it. IRE.
newed laughter.)
Until you explain what 1t is that reduce,
the price Of steel rails and other manu-.
featured products, not here alone, but ali
over the world. you cannot attribute it tc
protective tariff. but you must attribute
1t rather to the inventive genius that has
multiplied thousand times, in many in.
stances, the strength Of a single arm, AND
enabled us to do today with one man wha1
fifty men could not do fifty years ago
That ia what has brought the price dowr