The record-union., 1896-10-22

No man, said Mr. Boutelle. dares dis
pute that statement We have fought
that battle on the field Of political econ
cmy, and have swept the enemy before
us II that were the question that was
before the people to-day we would not
be gathered as we are tonight. for the
verdict would have been rendered in
advance. But a change has occurred
since 1892. Everybody knows what it
is. 1t can be plainly stated. That's
where we Were, here's where we are"
And anyone who has sense enough to
see that clearly can just as clearly see
that the way to get back is to climb
just as fast as we can to the conditions
and the legislation that made US what
we were.
| INJURED INDUSTRIES.
| When 1t used to be the custom for
State Governors to go to country fairs
and tell the farmers about the rotation
of crops, and that sort Of thing, he had
been often amused, for what they said
was not at all limited by what they
knew. So he should not attempt to tell
In what way the Wilson-Gorman free
trade tariff Act has injured California.
They know it better than himself, and
there is not one in this State who does
not know it. It has injured everyone
in some way. It has injured other
sections Of the country in other ways.
Those people who depend on the active
prosperity of the country know that
something is wrong, and they know 1t
is because the American people are not
doing their work for themselves.
Whether the WilsonGorman free trade
tariff bill closed our wooden mills and
opened those Of England, Germany and
Australia to supply our markets, or
whether it injured the fruit business or
the farmers. it has thrown the Ameri-
can people out of employment
| Down in the Piscataquis Valley he
had observed some of the most benefi-
cent effects of the Mckinley tariff law.
1t is an agricultural region, but under
the stimulus of a protective tariff the
people had been encouraged to diver
sify their industries. Here the song of
| the spindle was more beautiful to him
than the song Of the bird. When he Wis
tied this region during the operation Of
the Mckinley bill every one was con-
tented and happy, but few months
Ilater everywhere was silence and des-
olation. What brought about that
change? Do you need anyone to tell
you?
| GOOD THING FOR ENGLAND.
| Mr. Boutelle spoke of a recent trip he
made to England and of his visit to the
| Bradford factories. There manu-
| facturer of wooden goods told him he
had been furnishing a large amount of
| goods to Americans until they enacted
| that wicked Mckinley tariff law, and he
| was surprised to see that a sober and
| intelligent people could SO ignore the
| plain principles of sound political econ
| omy as to pass such a law. Why, he
| had to shut down his mills and run on
half time. But he was glad to see that
| the Americans had at last come to their
| sober senses and undone the mischief
| of that law Now his mills are running
again on full time; he is sending large
Equipments to the United States and has
the foundation laid for another mill
This English manufacturer, said Mr..
Boutelle. could see no relation between
| the starting of the looms in PiscataQuis
and the stopping of his own, nor in the
| stopping of his mills and the starting
Of those at Piscataquis. Why. in the
1
Kinley tariff law there was paid out in
| the United States in wages to the en-
ployes of wooden mills $50, ,000,O Last
year there was paid out in wages to the
operatives Of wooden mills but SAG, ,OOO,
900. And those $4O.OO0.0OO that be-
longed to the workingmen Of the United
States have gone where? Do you need
anyone to tell you? Where have those
dollars gone? And, mind you, those
were good American 10O-cent dollars
the kind Of dollars established by the
Republican party; not the kind that
| paid out to the worker on a Saturday
night are 100 cents and have shrunk to
53 cents by Monday morning.
Oregons lumber interests have been
stricken by this tariff legislation and
the California wooden industries have
been ruined and the sugar trade dissi-
pated. The people Of the United States
ought to be as prosperous to-day as
they were in 1892, but the people can
only be prosperous when the wage
earners are employed at the highest
possible wages.
COMMON PALACES.
OF all the many fallacies that are
afioat to-day there is none SO false as
that the wealth Of this country is in the
possession of the wealthy men. The
wealth of the American people is in the
bone and sinew Of the producing
| classes. and the actual wealth is in the
possession Of the working classes. There
isn't a man in the United States who
doesn't know that the prosperity of the
country is greatest when the wage
earners Of the country are most pros
porous. What we want in this country
is restoration of employment.
He had heard 1t limited lately in GER
tain quarters that what we want Is
| more money. But as the American
people do not expect to steal money,
| what they really do want is an oppor-
tunity to earn money. And an Ameri-
can Congress elected by the Republican
party is going to re-establish prosperity
by giving them the opportunity that
they desire. When that is done they
| won't spend any time discussing the
currency question.
| TOUCHING UP BRYAN
There is & gentleman in this country
said the speaker, who, presuma bly, at
this very hour, from the tail board Of a
railroad car or the top Of a drygoods
box, in the glare Of a few kerosene
torches, is trying to persuade the Amer
| lean people that the tariff question
! isn't so very important just now, but
| that what is needed is to elect him
| President and a Congress that will set
the United States up in the Wholesale
business of coining counterfeit money.