The herald., 1897-05-06
that while tarif taxes benefit him they
do no good to the laborer in his mills:

that while tariff taxes benefit him they
do no good to the laborer in his mills:
''The business OF today is not what Il
was twenty years ago. don't think the
chances of the average man are as good
will again have the wages and the op-
portunities Of fortune-making which we
have had during the past thirty years.
The world is continually growing small
er. The telegraph has annihilated time
and the railroad and the steamboat have
almost conquered space. Look at the
changes! When was young the Lon
don merchant sent his ship to India for
1t would be six months in going and six
months in returning by the way Of the
Cape of Good Hope and he waited year
for the result. The merchant Of today
wants hundred thousand bushels Of
Indian wheat. He writes a cablegram
and sends 1t to the office and goes home
to his wife and family. When he returns
to his business the next day he finds
reply stating that the wheat has been
purchased and is now being loaded.
''Twenty-eig days later it is at the
London dock, having steamed there via
Suez canal Such things as this have
changed the relations of the people Of
the world. They have sharpened compe-
tition and sooner or later they must 10
some extent result in the leveling of
conditions. Today the labor of the whole
world is practically on call, or If it is
not so now it soon will be. There are
millions in China and India who will
work for cents day, and the result is
that they can farm and manufacture
more cheaply than we can. They will
more and more every year work for the
world, and do not see how, with such
competition, wages here can materially
rise. They will rise in the poorer coun-
tries of the world as the foreign demand
increases. They are doubling in Japan
and India now. while here wages are
falling"
Yes, yes; "the labor Of the world is on
CALL" like wheat or pork millions in
China and japan who are ready to work
for cents a day."
While Mr.. Gary is in for tariff on cot
ton fabrics, he suggests no protection for
those who work in his mills against these
cent fellows from far Cathay.
But the queerest is to come. In spite
of this competition of 5-centers on call,
this cotton spinning statesman thinks
the Dingley bill will make it all right.
Hear him again:
1--WE have in the mails the best of busi-
ness thermometers. Last month the
postoff1ce receipts were per cent below
the average. This month we are per
cent above it. The mail of all the large
cities has materially increased and there
is evidence of business revival. This
revival has come to stay. 1t will steadily
increase, I think, and after the tariff bill
has passed there will be an improvement
III every qudTttT. by OCTOBER an era OF
good times will begin and it will be an
era that will last for some years to
come"
Then you are in favor of protective
tariff, General Gary?"
Il am, indeed" was the reply. what
we need is to make our own goods at
home. We ought to do our own work
and not pay other nations to do it. AS
it is now, we import more than $500, 900 900
worth of goods year. To make these
goods here would require from 6000,0 900
to 100000 men. This increase of the
laboring class would have to come from
the farms. 1t would take great amount
to feed the new workmen. Farm prod
ucts would rise and business would be
good the whole country over.
'Laboring class from the FARMS"
Bless your soul. general, it will come
from those millions on tap at cents a
day. Or, if not, it will come from other
millions on tap in Italy, Poland and
who will work for so cents a
day, and then where are your American
laborers from the farms?