Yaple And The Tariff

The opera house was crowded at the democratie meeting last Thursday night. The speech of Yaple was a masterpiece, devoted entirely to the discussiou of the tariff. He held the close attention of the large audieuce for an hour and a half, and was frequently greeted with vociferous applaose. We have heard old residents of both partios say that it was the most polished, eloquent and convinoing speech every delivered in Ann Arbor. No synopsis or epitome can do justice to it, but the readers of The Demoobat who were not fortúnate enough to be present may get a drift of the argument f rom the following report: The questions foremost in the minds of the American people are taxatiou and finanoe. The republican party is pledged to protection and the democratie and Greenbuck parties are opposed. Tariil is a tax whioh this country imposes upon imported goods. For whatever purpose it is imposed, whether for reven ue or for protection, it is always a tax. If imposed to aid individuals in business it is called a protective tariff, and its effect is to permit an inorease in the prices of corresponding goods of domestic maufaoture. I deny the right of this government to tax one man for the benefit of all, and I equally deny the right of this government to tax all men for the benetit of a few. The system tends to establish monopoly, which dictatea to you and takes away your God-given right to buy where you will. I am in favor of a tariff whioh shall be sullicieut and not more than sutticient, for revenue. Wheu the tariff is beyond a suttit ient amount for revenue the hand of the ttvx-gatherer becomes the hand of the robber. Our proteotive tariff is an infringement on every man's right of exchange. Protection is a blow aimed at oommerce. What is commerce but a system of mutual exchange for gratification. You may be a blaoksmith and do nothing but shoo horaes, but you set down to your table and partake of the fruita of every clime. No nation ever achieved greatness without commerce. The people of this country will not trade with the people of other countries unlesa they want to. Tear up your rail roads, siuk all your ships, kill all your sailors, destory all means of exohange, and you will have achieved the 'uil idea of a protective tariff. lf p rotee - ;ion is a good thing, why not build a sand-bar acrosa the mouths of all our rivers? The French and Italiuns spent millions to pierce theAlps and then placed custom-officers at either end to spoil the effect of the grand work. The Alps are protectionists; the tunnel, a free trader. Protection is a two-edged sword. It not only prevents importations, but exportations also. We cannot buy unless re sell. The home market is too small lor our farms and mauufacturies. To jring trade we have only to tear down ;he wall that shuts out trade. The very law whioh gives to manufacturera control of the home market shuts him nto the home market. We practically LUillI UlctULUiü lUi UUr UUIUB WHttül. VÖ lave a capacity for flve times our home market. The manufacturera have the advantage, they cao close down and raise snees. Farmers, why dont you do that? Simply because you cant. If you shut down your faetones in tüe spring, they are down for the yaer. Protection is igaint the manufacturer in this country. Jonsider the woolen industry. The ;anff on wool enhances the prioe on naterial and our faotories cannot afford o put in the finest machinery to compete. The counters and shelves of your merohants are fllled with woolen joods of Uujilisli manufacture. England manufactures $120,000,000 worth of woolen goods; America 540,000,000 worth. Proteotion enhances ;he price of the pound of wool you sell, )ut il; also enhances the prioe of the yard of woolen cloth you buy. National anks and monopolies are fishing. Their aait is a little tariff on wool. W til the larmers bite? Manufacturera of patented goods ara not benefited. I wish to refer a moment to our patent laws. They noed revisión to protct innocent purchasers. A patent is monopoly, but ininitely better than a tariff. An inventor jives to the world somethiDg new. It is a blessing to all classes alike. A tariff on the other hand does not benefit the whole. A patent expires by limitation ; i tariff does not. Yet a farmer is today íravehng over this state denouncing our patent lawsaud defending the tariff. He denounces the tarifi on bis reaper and defends the tariff on bis pound of wool . 3ome people are protectionists when they iiave anything to sell, but free traders wheu they waut to buy. We are the richest nation ander the sun in national resources, and America ought to be the gieatest manufacturing nation. Where ire we? Our ships are rotten. Our factories are many of them idle. The gathering army of trarups omens ill to our republic. We are reaping the benefit of England's old story. When England took away her proteotion she bagan to enlarde. Break down our wall of protectiou, au'l Yankee ships will carry Yankee notions to every natiou under the sun. The great trouble with our protection frieuds is Anglo-phobia. They hate Englaud. They wout even speak tlie niother tongue because it is English. Dont they know that oiir act is in the very language of the English statues. England was the tirst nation to adopt this system and the ragged old coat of protection nearly choked her to death before she threw it off. What is the effect of protection on agriculure? What is the best fertilizer of the soil; piaster No, No. It is the foot of the man who owns it. English farmers are not owners. It is not free trade that has troubled Ireland. She has never been troubled muoh anything that was free. I wish to God that the land of O'Connel was free. Irish farmers are tenant farmers. What is the matter of Ireland? It is not free trade, but English proteotion. Suppose that Michigan sustained the same relation to this government that Ireland does to England, and suppose that we were not allowed to manufacture lumber, salt or any other or-our aiapie ínauatnes, woula we be ruined by f ree trade. What was the cause of the Revolution ; was it tipping lea inio Boston harbor? No. It was English protection. The student of history will bear me out when I say that the prosperity of Scotland was dated from the treaty of unión. This treaty gave Scotland free trade. Would you read the history of protection? Raad the hiatory of Ireland. Would you read history of free trade? Read the hiatory of Scotland. But proteotionista say íf you giye us free trade it would flood this country with foreign goods. Well, if foreign paupers want to give us their rich goods we are toóla if we don't take tkem, but they won t come uniese we pay for them. A Hood of goods to this country means a üood of exporta froin our shores. Protectionists have a horror of everything cheap, except cheap labor. To-day you will flnd a protectionist sitting down ín every fence corner figuring Erices on wool to teil you how much you ave lost on wool. How has it aflected the price on woolen goods? It is leather in the shoe, not the shoeraaker, who is protected. The leal her is increased in price but the shoemaker is lowered. When capitalista combine they cali it business. When labor combines they cali it conspiraoy. Protection protects labor, but it don't protect the laborer. Our labor is the best, the most effective labor in the world. High wages does not mean high coat of labor in produc tion. Give that attention. It is a pivotal point. High wages means iutelli gent labor. The world over the country that pays the highest wages produces th cheapest. For a yard of woolen we pai eighteen per cent, for marterial and aixty three per cent, for labor. Lngland pays a higher per cent, for labor, but has the advantage in cheaper material. Wha do you mean by cheup labor? You maan ignorant. unakilled labor. What do you mean by high priced labor? You mean edúcate d, skilied labor, A few years ago ;he south had f ree alave labor; commerce was free between the slates. Was the abor of the north af raid of the cheap abor of the south. It was the cheap lave labor that made her dependent ïpon the norrh. There is a difference etween the importation of labor and aborers. Suppose Indiana had low wagea and cheap pauper labor. Suppose iichigan had a high pnced labor. Now uppose a wall were built between these States which would allow the passage of abor but not of laborera. Would Indina continue to send in goods through nat wall till Michigan labor carne down ;o the Ie vel with her own? Then af ter a time you must suppose Indiana would end goods through that wall for nothng, for the resurces of Michigan for jay inent would become exhausted. This fould not be true. Not a dollar's worth would go through the wall without payment. Now, suppose that the wall would lot admit the passage of labor, but of aborers. What would now be the result ? Vo or three men to every job. Laborers would be foroed to compete, and then a eduction in prices. I may De wrong, ut I have sworn an oath to fight that nfamous system until American labor ïas as good a market to buy in as to sell n. The average wages of laborera in the manufacture of Michigan salt, last year was $1.27. per day. The tariff on the roduction was $1.50; enough differeuce o be equal if the Canadian laborer had worked for nothing, boaided himself, nd paid 37 een is a day for the privilege. '. favor a gradual but certain reduction of tariff to a tariff for revenue only. The eal way to build up the laborer is to give him a share in the protits. I favor evenue laws that will give him a chance ;o compete with capital. A reduction of axation would hurt no one; it would eave money in every home of toil. I ave been aooused of attacking every inUBtry of my State. I seek for my state hat prosperity whioh will bring progress ,o every tíreside. I oppose a system that would take from the table of industry a oaf of bread and add to the feast of Shyock a pound of flesh. I want no monojolies built up by clasa legislation. I want no smoke of factories that blackens uined homes. The pocket book of the nillionaires is not the only Michigan inerest. The man who representa a wife nd little ones is a greater interest in hie country than the pocket book of a ozon millionaires. The republican arty passed the act to import labor under contract . The democratie party wipped it out of existanoe. The average of wages of protected laborere is lower han of unprotected laborers. The laorers of protection are only about one eventh of our laborers. The only protec;iou the great maas of other laborera ïave is the ruising of the price of what hey buy. In Philadelphia and other sities, nurseries have been built by pubic charities, for the care cf children while tlieir mothers were at work in the actories. I believe it is a crime against ;he law of nature, for the employment of married women in our faotories I want ïo woolen which haa been woven upon he looms and spindles of blighted inants lives. Take them, oh protectionist, ;heae are some of the fruits of your accursed system. Lower that tariff law md it would be imposeible for two or hree men, stitting round a table, sipping wine and smoking cigarets, to put up the rice of coal and to put down the price of labor, with one stroke. We do not want one law for one branch, and another law for another branch, but one law for the whole tree. A protective ;ariff is treason to democracy. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures are but branches of oue tree. Whatever injures one, injures all. If agnculture ia eaten into by a worm, all lauguish. We want one law for all fellow citizena, we have no more precious interest thau the wellfare of our laboring men. One man ia wuim muiMiLtuMB ui jum. 1.11e goverument of God is a democracy. 'l'he laws of man, if in harinony with the laws of God, wijl not increase the price of pig iron while reducing the value of men. TLe wealth of Michigan is not in her mines but in her people. Elévate the jeople and you build up the state. I believe that the country should consol the currency of this country. I am in favor of a antional currency and cpposed to a monopoly currency. The iight on national banks is only just begun, but the people never were whipped and never will be wiped. Which side are you on, young man and old man? Are you on the side of the party which. under Grover Cleveland, bas begun to build up a democracy in the United States or are you on the side if the party of monopoly and class legislation. Henry Ludholz took a run down f rom Lansing Satnrday and remaiued over Sunday. Mrs. David Binsey was in Monroe yeaterday, visiting her daughters May and Millie. The supervisors has fixed the value of equalization at $30,000,000, the same as last year. A. O. Crozier will attended a session of the grand lodge of I. O. G. T., in Muskegon, this week. Matthew Simpson, the artist, in the employ of A. Sorg, is doing Home fancy painting on glass. The city band give a concert one week froni to-night, at Beethoven hall. Hop af ter the entertainment. Bessie, daughter of Dr. O. H. Johnson, has heen awarded the cup oflered by the literary class of '81. A series of socials, the first one this "evening. will be given at Masonio temple by the K, T., during the winter. The Mexican Typical Band give entertainments to-night and to-morrow night, at the Grand opera house. The Stimaon Bros. expect to open a fresh stock of groceries at No. 9 North Main street sometime nezt week. O. O. Sorg, Rev. Mr. Bourns, Isaac Crawford, J. S. Sanford and Bev. Dr. Haskell were in Detroit Monday. Mrs. Lovejoy and her son Newell, have returned to the city after a year's absence, and will spend the winter here. Cara are now running to Owosso on the Toledo road. Next week trains wil be run between Toledo and Mt. Pleas ant. The land league meeting, which was I to have been held laat Friday evening in ' their new huil, was postponed until tonight Maud Granger appeara next Tuesday evening m the play of "Lynwood," at ;he Grand opera house, for the benefit of Compauy A. Mrs. James Cordley was buried Sunlay. Her age was 89 years. She was ;ue mother of Richard Cordley, the cele rated preacher. Rev. Fr. Fierle has refuaed permiseion ;o the Iriah land league to occupy the ïall in the new Oatholic school building. L'horo is aaid to be fun ahead. The young men of our city should consider it an honor to vote for ao talented, Sensible, and eloquent a candilate for governor as the boy from Mendon. Republican candidatea are wearing long acea over their impendmg doom. Demcrato candidates look happy, wellcnowing they are marching on to oertain viotory. CErastua F. Mason of this fifth ward, las been elected one of the auperintend ents of the poor in place of L. Davia, rho haa faithfully performed the duties or aix years. A. A. Crozier of the city, lit '85 has eceived an appointment in the department of agricultura at Washington, as assistent botanist. He passed a firstclass examination. Our grocers are not very sensible in elling apples at 60 to 75 cents per bushei, when the farmers are turning tbeir ïogs into their orchards to get rid of iheir large, unsaleable crops of apples . Private L. H. Salsbury'a appointments are as follows: Ypsilanti, Oot. 23; Saine, Oct. 27; Chelsea, Oct. 28; Milan, Ooi. 29. Hon. C. R. Whiman will speak at Saline, Oot. 27, and Chelaea, Oct. 28. Hagen fe Taylor have opened u grocery n the old church building on Washingon street. As this ia the year for young men in the political world, so this is the 'ear for young men to branch out in uisiness enterprises. The university orchestra of 11 piecea, will play for Mande Granger at the opera ïoose, Tuesday evening next. This orchestra containa Home of the finest mnsioiana in the state. They have arranged a very Öne program for that evening. "Lynwood," by Mr. J. K. Tillotaon was Irst brought out at the Union Square Theater, New York last season. Miss tfaud Granger takes the part of Lucile. Che play ran 12 weeks. Miss Granger ;hinks that Lynwood is one of the strongest plays on the stage. Tbe junior lits olected the followiag class offlcers last Saturday: President 3. E. Clark, Hamilton, Mo.; vice-president, Laura E. Whitley, Coldwater; aecetary, L. B. Lee, Brighton; treasurer, ?. M. Sesaiona, Ann Arbor. jno. Greusel will represent the class as historian at he semi-centennial exercises of the university in June.