| Show HEWITT HEWS the tree of protection a and u a makes tho the Splint splinters era fly by eastorn assil iresa press to the Ille herald raid april 30 the morn ing hour was dispensed with and the th 0 use went into committee of th the whole ole cox of new york in the chair on the tariff bill dingley averted the prop bious laid laia down by cox hurd anil and others that the decline of american commerce was the result of lie the pro tariff If hewitt ewitt INY NY said that after listening iu to the eloquent speech delivered yesterday by the gentleman from ohio 0 ili lie had doubted if it waa worth w while hile for him to take up the thread of that great argument but ho lie had concluded to try to gather some stray sheaves of w heat wheat from tho the great field over which the gentleman had bad passed his devouring sickle he lie had been charged with inconsistency on the tariff question ho be had no apologies to make for having progressed reused out of darkness lar kness into the open sunshine of troth truth but he lie would havo have had apolos gies to make having readied reached conclusions which contradicted those ho he beld years ago if it he lie should fail here and everywhere to announce them with that frankness which belonged to an dionest man and a faithful kept rev howitt hewitt then took up the subject of protection protection in connection with the laboring a classes and said there waa was stagnation everywhere in protected industries the testimony taken by the senate committee on labor was absolutely unanimous that first the wages of working men in ili this country were not sufficient to give them even decent support for their f families a mili es and second there had been a steady degradation in tho the condition of the laboring classes during the last twenty years owners of tho the great coal mines of pennsylvania had recently met in philadelphia and sol solemnly emillY come to the conclusion that the they might keep up the price of coal only by suspending work for nine days in ili a month keep up the price of coal to the tile workman worman to lie barter farmer to everybody eve ry who earned his living 1 ing by the sweat of his brow and then tell him he lie was protected by the tariff could there be a greater mockery to justice take ironworks the iron work Last year dwor thirds of the furnaces of the country were iu in blast this year nearly two thirds were closed and wages of iron workers had been reduced ile way was among the unfortunate manufacturers who had been forced to reduce ho he yas Y as compelled to offer them the choice between no work or ivor avort at atleas atless less gaea than they ought to get kelley pa thank you most profoundly fo To most heartily for in darsin dorsing in my y doctrine that production lias has so far outrun consumption the world over that the proportion in ili which the joint production of labor and cap ial xo should uld be distributed be readjusts cd ed the lord delivered him into my hands replied hewitt the tile gentleman says protection has been unable to prevent overproduction over production that is the point of his remark I 1 go further and say that protection creates overproduction that this Is the end and conclusion of protection you have a limited market walled in by the tariff what can you do with your surplus nothing but pile it up tip as us long as money lasts and then stop and then these protected working men are left to starve he ile then went on to consider the tile 1 manner auner I in which the condition of or la a borers could be improved trade unions I 1 ions he lie contended were the shield and armor anderl and protection D tec on of work borkine iniz men mel and they were r all the protection he lie needed but in this country trade unions were paralyzed paralyze dby by protection they were at war with each oilier other under tinder the protective tariff trade unions must be feeble and must finast finally die lie in an over stocked market wit with doors open to foreign immigration giat on trade unions were absolutely powerless workmen bad no means of 0 fl bringing owners to terms except by their labor associations and labor associations failed every time in an over market passing on to the discussion of the condition of working men in ebig england lie gaser asserted ted it had improved steadily with the era of free trade he lie did not claim this improvement was due entirely to free trade but free trade had made it possible for trado trade unions to organize and go to the master and say you contribute capital administration ma management manae ement that ia is worth a certain percentage the rest belongs to ua us and we intend to haye it and aliey had got it hobe he believed the tariff must go applause to have it go at once would ruin him would ruin all manufacturers and would dislocate tho the labor engaged in manufacture congress had no right to inflict this wrong lie the reform must bo to made slowly tile steady progress would convince the t e workings men that congress was on the right road he lie would begin by b y putting raw law material on the free I 1 list st a and nd by raw material ho he meant those articled articles on process of manufacture had been applied he lie would let the duties remain after the process of manur manufacture had begun ana and not before then lie would say to the people 0 I 1 we havo have begun the we work rt of redemption judge yon you this treo tree by ita its fruits have you steady wages more of the comforts of life isyou if you have let lot us no go on with this good work if it turned out otherwise lie would pause he was not bigoted and prejudiced as once he had been would you bo be in favor of repealing the conspiracy laws inquired drumm 11 1 I 1 would absolutely replied diew itt they area are a disgrace ce to tho the nation I 1 would go the very end I 1 in n giving the laborer the same rights before tile law as lio lie has before his god I 1 would deprive irive the working man of not one of his is rights and my against the protective system is 19 that it robs him film of at least lie should have committee rose anil and tile hou o took recess until IS 8 A tile ilou House se evening session will waito to and hay ofner of new york s spoke p oke against again st t the laii tariff ff bill bil 1 I 1 adjourned |
