The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-05-03

has never sought to cheaper anything.
1t has never debased men, nor thrown
the products of American labor into
open competition with the products of
the less paid labor of other countries.
Listen and / will give you an illus
tration of how industries are built,
how market for labor is created by
Protecting the products of labor and
how good wages are insured by the
Republican party. When Mr.. McKin-
ley was preparing his Tariff law of
1890 he looked over the list of impor-
tations to see what was being pur-
chased abroad that our people could
produce. He discovered that large
quantities of pearl buttons were be-
| ing imported. He next inquired if
clam shells existed in abundance any,
where in this country. He learned
that they were plentiful in the Mis-
sissippi River, in the Wisconsin River,
in the Arkansas River and in other
places. He therefore put in the Nc
Kinley bill provision to the effect
that if any foreign producer desired
to sell dollars worth of pearl but
tons in the United States he must
put little over 25 cents in the treas
ury. Section 429 of the Mckinley
bill placed small specific duty and
in addition an ad valorem duty of Is
per cent. on pearl buttons. What was
the result? Men purchased button
machines. This gave little employ
ment to the iron miner, to the smelter
and to the machine maker. They
then employed men to operate the
machines and more men to gather
shells. Thus the industry was estab-
lished, and there is now paid out in
wages in the button industry in one
little town of 10, 900 inhabitants in my
State more than three quarters of a
million dollars per annum. Other
towns along the river do the same.
| What do these men do with these
millions of money? They spend it.
They spend it for food, for clothes,
for lumber. They spend it for neces-
saries, for comforts, for Injuries, and
a little foolishly. What do the farm
ers who furnish the food do with thei
share? They spend it also. VIVA
tor? For clothes for their families
What do those who furnish the clothe
do with their share? They pay i
out in wages. What do these wag
earners do with it? They again spen
} it for food and clothes. And thu
on and on it goes, blessing every one i
, touches ard being transferred in bless
) ing still to others.
Take the silk industry. We gro,
no silk. 1t is not necessary, there
r fore, to protect the producer of "a,
7 silk. He is not among us. Some time
) by the aid of the Agricultural De
partment, which is engaged in work
ing out the problem of how this thin
. and that thing can be grown by US t
+ advantage, we may seek to develo
2 the raw silk industry. If so, then
A Tariff duty will be placed on raw sill
r Now raw silk comes in free of dut.
| But the foreign manufacturer of sill
: must pay into the treasury from so
= rs cents out of every dollars wort
5 of finished silk product he brings I
= this country. What is the result
There was imported last year owe
$50, 200, 900 worth of raw silk, an
3 there was paid out in wages, in man
ufacturing this silk into thread an
5 textiles, more than $50, 000,0 j
wages.
What was done with these wages
They were spent, or at least expenc
) ed. Everybody spends or expends al
, he receives. The man who owns tn
factory spends his share, and tn
, laborer spends his also. The manu-
facturer may expend part of hi
share in building another factory, o
he may spend it for Injuries. H
, spends it for something, and thoug
} he spend it for fine estate on tn
, mountain side, with macadamize
, roads and beautiful towers and foun
tains and lawns and gardens an
greenhouses and stables, yet it goe
: for wages and the people who get i
, spend it for food and clothes and GOV
, er, and on and on it goes, in blessing
and still to bless.
, So successful has been this plan o
, building industries that our factorie
} turn out finished products equal il
home market value to the products
of all the shops and all the factorie
of any other three countries on TIN
, map.
1t is estimated that England
, France and Germany produce an ag
gregate of l4,OOO, 900, 900 worth o
} manufactured products per annum, o
, which they consume about 80 per cen