The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 8, 1888, Page 3

“to sit like Johnnie tariff Chiverey in a cave of perputual | therefore, as a tariff has any protect- gloom. But, gentlemen there is no | ive effect at all. it cuts down wages.” Labor does not depend for | r | its protection upon any tariff, or sys- | tems of tariffs. not result from any regulations on | earth touching duties upon imports terests decline from 2,700,000 to} boots and shoes asks no averaging of protection only 814,000—a loss of almost two- | denounces horizontal redue- | tions of the tariff. Ido not know ther the Mills bill comes within this denunciation, but I am in favor t, whether the reductions is hori- gontal, perpendicular, oblong, octag- os or triangular. If the result is wholesome reduction, I do not care whether the process is geomet- yical or otherwise. And I believe that the people will say “amen” to this proposition in Novyen.ber. has thrown out. of duties for their benefit, yet the industry maintained itself from the onset in New England and kept pace in its own growth of the coun- France tried to foster the man- ufacture of beet root sugar by a sys- tem of protection, but after eighteen the industry was as much inthe beginnmg. 3,500,000 sheep in 1867, while in 1888 she has less than 1,000,000. | From 1867, when the production of | wool in the United States was nearly | 170,000,000 pounds, the production | declined down to 1871 to about 150,- 000,000, but the superlative benefits of the high tariff on wool were shown during substantially the same period that by the fact that while our imports in 1867 amounted to only 25,000,000 pounds in 1872 they increased to the enormous Furthermore, gentlemen, being an | Amerienn citizen, being entitled to the benefits and rights of his citizen- | ship, shall the laboring man be ground down with unnecessary bur-) High tariffs do not benefit 2 | him one jot or one little. Beinga free | crowded into a box about two feet man, the one fact of his freedom | *!4T® and with not room to stand Labor depends solely for its employment upon questions | of cost, of supply and of demand. Any one who contends to the con- trary. is a charlatan public economy and the trust is not If a high tariff had any ef- fect upon labor in any given country, it is to expose its laboring people to the perils of importing cheaper la- bor from other countries. poorer grade of workingmen, who, as a rule, seeks to better his condi- tion by obtaining higher wages in some foreign field of industry. the workingmen of the United States need have no fear either of China or Dundee. Neither squallor nor ig- norance will darken their doors. is plain, simple truth that the labor- er is the creator of his own condi- From the very nature of things the laborer in the United States is bound to be paid better wages than are paid to men less _fa- in the name of common sense, are the industries of the United States to cease to be One hundred years ago the first tariff in matters of | ought to leave him at liberty to buy where commodities are the cheapest, | whether at home or abroad. It is a! wholly un-American system pean idilintithor hala vot Ameciean | the first three days,” he continued, commerce or American industry. To as buyers, the whole world ought to be open; as sellers, they should encounter no greater re- Reasonable provision for governmental expenses In so far as manufacturers are thus incidentaliy favored, none will object, but to wall up the Unit- 5 : ed States with a prohibitory tariff breathing until the well came so upon imports with the expectation that the cry: “We now create home market,” will bewitch the ears of in- telligent Americans, can only be advo- cated by demagogues and those who have not at heart the interest of their country. Commodities chasers where they are cheapest and any system which knowingly seeks to impose unnecessary obstacles in the way of the natural operation of this rule ought to be repudiated by every citizen of the United States. The revenue which the necessities of the government demand should be exacted from sources and by means the least harmful to the whole peo- When the necessity for taxa- tion no longer exists taxes, imposts and duties should be abated in prc- portion to the absence of the neces- sity for their further continuance. Such is the doctrine of the Demo- cratic party. Such is not the doc- trine of the republican party. No one is called to chose upon between free trade andhigh tariff. The issue is between a proposed modification of the tariff and the continuance of taxes which is needlessly extortion- But if I were to be adjudged between free trade and free whisky, I would be a free trader for the bal- ance of my days. Gentlemen, I thank you for the indulgence which my remarks have more solemn duty has ever rested upon vot- ers than rests upon them in this The welfare of the whole A policy is to be The republican platform further denounces the unfortunate Mills bill: «We condemn the proposition of the democratic party to place wool on the free list, and we insist tnat the duties thereon shall be adjusted and maintained so as to furnish full and sdequate protection to that indus- try.” The answer to this tirade is plain, simple and satisfactory. Pat- rick Henry said he had but onelamp by which his feet were guided and that was the lamp of experience. The experience of the American peo- ple in regard to commodities which sre equivalent to wool in political «onomic results is a complete an- qwer to their charge. I have read with most instructive results a speech made by Mr. Breckinridge of Ken- tucky, which disposes of the whole matter. He takes the experience of the people in ragards to hides and In 1872 hides were put upon the free list. Universal ruins were predicted. At that time we had 40,000,000 of people. 1887 we had over 60,000,000. In 1872 with 40,000,000 of people, we imported nearly $12,000,000 worth of leather and products of leather. In 1887, with over 60,000,- 900 of people we imported less than $11,000,000, which shows that as the population increased the produc- tion in leather increased in this coun- try, notwithstanding the fact that rawhides were on the free list. during this period the importation of rawhides increased from 000 in 1872 to 24,000,000 in 1887. On the other hand, in 1872 we ex- ported nearly $10,500,000 worth of the product of manufactured leather | and only about 765,000 hides. The result, as shown by the statistics, has been that the tanners of this ‘country have tanned twice as much | foreign rawhides as they did before hides went upon the free list; the manufacture of leather has been in- creased, over 100 per cent; importa- tion of foreign leather has been re- duced to a minimum, being confined I believe, to gloves and higher grades of leather not made in this country, and our own exportation of American product of manufactured leather have increased not less than 300 per cent. Ofcourse these evi- dences ruin; this proves that free mean empty workingmen; shows that “our Americrn system of protection” is the be-all and end-all of political eecnomy, at least such is the legitimate sequence of the repub- lican platform. But sucha conclusion will satisfy none but the framer of that platform. The fact is that wool is the one commodity which can go on the tree list with little or no disturbing consequence. other than the United States, which maintain a prohibitory tariff, admit wool free of duty. the very people who now are shout- . ing for duties upon wool, flooded congress with potent showing that it should at least be where republicans would place whis- ky. Our mills and people consume over, 600,000,000 pounds of wool. while our home production is only about $85,000,000 per year. is the wool to come from to run the which | Wbole of his imprisonment. “About u their nurses’ arms. They are old enough now to have reached the “lean and slippered pantaloon shocking bad taste to refer to the English in regard to any industry affected by our tariff. Butin 1566 Great Britian produced something over 257,000,000 pounds of ws: In 1874, wool having beeu ‘i her production amounted to 3° The ery is that the tus will lead to an increase in the pro- duction of sheep ir the United States. Ihave been taught that “art may err, but nature cannot miss.” There is a case in Third “Wheeler Criminal Cases,” where a revolver in hands of a white man was sought to be shown to have had some ence in causing the death of « black woman afterward to be born white, but Iam not aware of an instance in natural history which proves that an act of congress, even under an Amer- ican system of protection,” can be efficacious in the propagation of that commodity known to political econ- The next thing in order will be the growth and culti- vation of corn by act of congress. “Our American system of protec- tion” demands that whisky shall be free, but the experience in regard to wool shows that nothing short of corn planted, cultivaetd and gather- ed by act of congress can ever meet the insatiate requirements of the fra mers of the republican platform. Otherwise the crop will always fall The fact is that the outcry against “free wosl” is made merely to delude the unwary. hend that the result of the election in November will verify the state- ment of a distinguished writer. “I have watched political economy in this country for twenty-one years: and Iam perfectly certain that a great revolution in the minds of es on nose and pouch till demands the 3 ; ce eae eee must be}! 22d holding my mouth open L ue tender infancy of Amer ican manufactures. No such protection as is given by # War tiff is uceded to foster Amer- ican manutuctures. nature of things a tariff for revenue only will incidentally favor certain lines of mauufacture. trine of protection in shape of ex- orbitant duties as the fixed policy of American legislation is the veriest chimera that ever entered the brains of an intelligent people. the United States laid a duty of $30 per ton on bar iron. was that the manufacture of iron in the United States received a great impetus. From the very But the doc- find pur- line upon the tariff statutes ruthless- ly erased he would still get as good wages as he now receives, the con- viction of costs, supplies and de- mand still being satisfied. wards pear no relation to the tariff. He gets better wages than workmen in other lauds, he stands upon the soil of a free public, sheltere: and protected by the aegis of a constitu- tion ordained by the people for the government of the United States. He gets better wages because he performs from one amd a half to twice as much work as the average European workman. He equal of any man within the length and breadth of this great land. Free schools are open to his children; he may practice unhindered thereligion of his choice: he is shielded by the beneficient guardianship of a free press; his rights are jealously watch- ed by courts whose doors are always open for their enforcement; means of travel and communication cheap,speedy and well conducted—he is in short, an American citizen, sur- pounded by the benefit of an Ameri- can citizenship and the land which gave birth to Thomas Jefferson and offers no premium to the chop sticks of China, or the squalor of Dundee. The workingmen cannot be deceived by false notions of public economy. “A tariff,” says a distinguished friend of labor, ‘is simply a barrier to ex- change; every such barrier directly If a flood of goods comes in from foreign countries, a flood of our goods must go out to pay for them; and a flood of wages must go to the workman to pay him for producing those goods. tariff stops the foreign goods from coming in, it necessarily stops an equal amount from going out, and so throws out of employment all the men engaged in producing those The things which we were importing were things which we wanted. The things which we were exporting were things which we did not want and could not use. whole country is poorer because we have refused bread and kept a stone. “The men thrown out of employment on our exports will be employed in making the things which we used to import, ‘suppose they are; still they are no better off. They only change one employment for another. are worse off. They cannot produce as much value in a business to which his illustration. It was believed that with a protection of $30 per ton iron could be profitably manufactur- There was a headlong rush into the manufacture of iron. capital were withdrawn from other pursuits and employed in making But the result did not verify the expectations of those who made Assuming that at that time the annual consumption of iron amounted to 80,000 tons, which the United States produced 20,000 tons, it has been demonstrat- ed that upon this commodity alone protection cost the people of the United States $2.400,000 per annum, independently of the loss caused to the United States by reason of capi- tal and industry in England having been turned to pursuits of agricul- ture and the like by reason of the inability to sell iron to the protected At least two-thirds of all of the iron made in the United States is now made in the west. century ago iron manufacturers in the west were “protected” against those in the east by reason of the ex- penses of transportation. completion of railroads this “pro- removed. Yet the results demonstrative that the infant industry of the west did not thereby come to an untimely end, but, on the contrary, waxed fat, until now the “parent” industry has wholly ceased to have any supremacy. Laws of supply and demand. con- ditions of favorable location, superi- ority of product and all of the nat- ural processes of interchange of com- modities determine the growth of in- That growth could be forced by tariffs, or systems of tariffs. “It must be a process, not a spasm; a healthy growth, not a sudden swell; and development of trunk and limb, not a whitewashing of the bark. “The gods, says an old Greek, ‘sell all good things at the price of labor.” The rich man who bought the study lamp of Epictetus for 3,000 drachms, in the hopes that it would light him into the very adyta of philosophy, awoke the morrow morn a_ sadder, but not a wiser man.” omists as sheep. the experiment. above all the American farmer has for twenty-seven years been swindled, oppressed and sucked dry of his hard earnings by the blessed protec- tion system, which to him has prov- The farmer who has perhaps twenty sheep, and all the wool he raises may amount to only $40, is politely and evidently asked to pay not only the $40 he gets for his wool, but $20 more money be- sides as a pure and simple tariff to to the tariff-and-trust oligarchy if he buys $100 worth of woolen goods for himself and family during the The old Mumbo Jumbo of home protection is played out, and the presented solicitude for the workingmen and higher wages as a fraud and a sham. The country needs cheaper woolen and cotton clothing, and will have it without the gracious leave of the protection people is at stake. adopted which will either prove an earnest of serener years or which will plunge the American people in- Ee to lamentable financial confusionand| yfrs. Cleveland is 24 years old. In this hour of urgent | She has not discarded the bustle and to his | that article has another chance for Let each citizen be clad with | its continuance. So says the New the armor of intelligent inquiry free | york Sun. from passion and without prejudice; let him gird himself about with the{ yard, Sott, or Callouscd Lumps and panoply of truthful information; let| Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavin, reduces wages. need let none be recreant him enter upon this conflict as the} Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, Etc- disseminator of doctrines whose ut- | Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warrant. terance and establishment must re- ceive the approval of every civilized a people upon God's footstool and all} How the new territories do grow. will then be well, for the day of this | Washington Territory increased in campaign is even as St. Crispian’s population during the last year over ie that outlives this day and comes safe home | responding growth. Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named, ft t e of —Demoerat. Not long ago And rouse him at the nam Ye Gentlemen, I hope you will pardon Rheumatism and Neuraigia Cured in| 1 '03 days for 75 cents by me for having tresspassed upon your indulgence in presenting these views. Bear with me a little longer and I will be done. The issue is squarely presented between unnecessary taxation on the one hand and on the other a modifi- It will be said: The Indiana Chemical Co. have di ered a compound which acts with ious rapidity in the cure of matism and Neuralgia. to cure any and every : x Inflammatory Rheumatism and Neuralgia readily takes fright. in 2 DAYs, andto give immediate reliet | of Augusta, Ga., were greatly alarm- in chronic cases and effect aspeedy cure. ee _ , te ht of On receipt of 30 cents, in two cent| ed a few nights ago by the sig) t 0 ‘ill send to any address the | q Chinese lantern tied io a kite that s wonderful compound We guarantee it! Superstition allied wi case of acute WORKINGMEN ARE BEING MISLED. does not advocate free tra Again the republican party seeks ANDERSON’S EXPERIENCE. The Man Rescued from the Nebraska Well Describes his Feelings. Johnson Neb.. July 30.—John An- derson, who was imprisoned in a well nine days and was released yer- terday. says that when the boards ‘and sand closed over him, he was sascabat nD ti, ginal Sa 3 i fereet. He could not get on his knees or sit down, but had to stay ina crouching position during the “I got along very well, but after that I began to want water badly. The fourth day when it rained I heard what I thought was water slowly dropping. Feeling around I found managed in this way to get about a dozen drops of water which gave me much relief. Ihad no difficulty in near being filled by sand, caused by the diggers above. I had breathed the air over so much that it had be- come impure, causing me to feel a smothering sensation, but about this time the rescuers got near enough to me to let in air from above. By having a good supply of chewing tobacco I did not suffer so much for food as might have been expected. From the beginning I could hear considerable that was said and done above. I heard the wagon when it started to town for lumber and heard some one say “the man is dead” and they were trying to pull my box out. When they began to pull I knew there was great danger of the boards giving away and-crush- ing me, and for my own safety and to give evidence of being alive, I cut the ropes and heard the exciting talk that prevailed when it was dis- covered that I was alive. It was music to me and from that time on I was hopeful of being rescued. About the sixth day I felt something crawling on my hand and found it to bea fly. I thought from this that an opening had been made from above. I was correct, for soon @ wet rag was passed to me. In reaching it to me it became covered with sand, but no honey ever tasted sweeter than that rag- As soon as possible water and a piece of bread were given me and I was truly thanke ful. From this time on I began to gain strength and by helping my rescuers the time passed quicker than one would suppose. Whenmy feet, which are badly swollen, are better and I dare eat a square meal I will be all right.” English Spavn Liniment removes all Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Stifies, Sprains ed. Sold by W. J. Lanspowx, Drug- guist, Butier, Mo. S-iyr. 20,000. The others have had a cor- Rheumatism and Neuralgia cur “Mystic Cure.” Do not suffer money on other remedies. cov- | lutely never tails. ly | pown, Druggist, B Rheu- a d by your home druggist | Was poised in mid-air. They were means of | moved to cries and tears, and they are unused to which they’could at their own trade; and therefore they canuot earn more wages. very reason why 2 tariff has been put to mislead workingmen by the falla- argument that unnecessary taxes upon importations operate to protect American labor against the pauper labor of foreign lands. Dun- dee and China seem to be prolific | 4) om as well and as ch as this is the Why has not the tariff pro- duced the requisite number of sheep? | trade. In 1867 the tariff on wool wa: president does not advoca Each strives to bring about reat- | a reduction of revenues, so that the to the public instead of putting it out as a patent medicine, it | being much less expensive. ——_—_—_—__——— ladly refund money if satistaction is not | A Voluntary Statement. ‘en. THe INDIANA CHEMICAL Co, 2 : Crawtordsville Ind giving our discovery We will a This led, aceor az, to the ultimate ter of some 400,000 sheep. wool product was vastly diminished and many woolen mills went into ! gto} people may be reliev ed from unneec- | upon the imported goods is that our a ' country is not yet ready ‘the republican party, now first avow- ‘ed. is untenable from every stand- is nothing stylish about} tu: and ambitio: | : : Conugressizan Scott of Erie. He | wears a three dollar hat and clothes sources of pauper labor to the fever- | | ed imagination of republican leaders. | riean laborer has his »; hours filled with portentious warn- { ings against paupers from Dundee. | He is asked if he wants to be deg point of public econe s ‘ case, Workimen ely The effects upon the sheep interests were not ouly fa from being: salut policy. E MERA ‘such things ca | they could at . bat they were Ohio lost fully on of all ofJour sheep from duce as much va Sackien’s Arnica S and the value sarily linits we wants squalor to dese- ie and ignorance to He is invited by “1868 guffered a loss o pass beivre ine ae industry i settled here, anu ment to ss many 1867 to 1Sss. thought it a celestial warning. The writer ot thi elder and only b gether we were al