| Show 8 protection CAN GIVE NOTHING TO workingmen WHILE IS ON THE LIST the I aberer now compete of alio world low price stimulate alioth anil example of steel hilll pool buo ouo of the best speeches made iu tho bouso while ho bill was being discussed was made by juliu C bell of colorado with facts which aro indisputable and logic which ii able lio exposed many of tho fallacies of ilia exposure of the absurd claim hut protection helps alio work ingman ia especially good beio is part of it but our friends upon the other rido say that ancy levy a tariff for alio llio benefit of tho I 1 say to you that auy tariff bill I 1 care not from whom it comes that doea not contain a provision for prohibiting tho free inflow of immigration from foreign conn tries is of tho rights of labor and is opposed to ho of all applause protection is always niad in alio interest of others now observe how it is asked in behalf of the poor laboring man just enough to cover alio difference between the european scale of wages and our own what hypocrisy 1 who ever beard of he laboring man getting rich manufacturing the statisticians clearly figured from tho census of 1880 that about per cent on our dutiable list would cover tho difference between tho european wago ailo and ouis or that about 18 per cent ad valoree valorem covered tho entire labor cost of our list of 1880 whilo tho manufacturer then asked for alio poor laborer his G per cent ho got for himself at the hands of congress six times 0 per cent Is thero any reason why a high tariff affects wages injuriously yes by enabling employers to build up a vicious trust system for tho manufacturer and against tho laborer tho high farih makes the manufacturer complete mas of the jn the review of II 11 G dun co in their weekly review of trade dated feb 13 it ie stated no other event of the week approaches pro aches in importance the disruption of the steel rail pool in two days bays the report after it a greater tonnage of rails was probably purchased than the entire production of the last year reported at tons and instead of 8 in december and 25 in january 17 is now tho alico at which works east and west aie seeking orders and further says tho report tho carnagio company has been selling at 17 chicago delivery these sales will employ many thousand hands with an important decrease in the cost of track laying n renewal of railroads now ray friends let me ask you was it the rising or lowering price hat employed cheso thousands of men our frield mr hopkins of illinois tells of the benefits of a higher duty on iron and steel did tho steel rail pool need more tariff what is the difference in giving the manufacturer n double profit through a high tariff or through a pool do they ever sharo tho profits of the pool with labor no will they ever share the profits of a tariff never it takes no political economist to answer these questions if the united states manufacturers can reap twice the profit under a high tariff by limiting themselves to the homo market and running halt time why should they run full timo and invade foreign markets they never will they will sit down comfortably and sell their limited supply of goods for increased profits making them more than whole while the laborer tramps the country in search of work just lie now docs under the trust system it is unfortunate that tho humdrum of thoi tariff lias been sounded in tho ears of the people until many of them really believe that foreign trade is unimportant it not a curse why did the breaking of tho steel rail pool put so many acu to work it was because the consequent lowered price for iron and steel brought most liberal orders from abroad as well as at home suppose the tariff had been prohibitive and we would have been confined to tho homo market would tho manufacturers have made so many goods no but they would have doubled profits on aliat they did make tho people could not have bought many because of lie increased price who would havo suffered first the workmen because they would havo had fewer goods to make secondly the consumer because ho could not havo bought u many at a price who would have been benefited tho manufacturer because he might have made and handled leea goods made a double profit and really have gained as lie would have biad fewer to handle for tho sanio profit this bill will increase tho manufacturers profits on ho individual articles but will lessen the power of the people to buy or use his ware it is tho poverty of tho buyer not tho producer that must bo relieved before things will thrive the manufacturer has every facility to produce but no facility to sell it is lie consumption that must first bo and that will stimulate production there aro but a few crumbs in this bill to aid the oppressed fanner of the interior or lie laborer but thousands of things to further oppress him higher augar salt higher lumber higher clothing higher products and absolutely nothing to raise alio price of labor a high tariff on labors products limiting the demand tor his labor by narrowing alie market but throwing the ports wide open for the free importation of other laborers from foreign countries to freely compete with hie work 1 hoa rt j |
