Speech #520040099

Then. making it $2a day. we have $80.000 as the total wages of those men for making the ties for a 9.000.000bale crop. It has been time and again declared upon this floor that the McKinley bill laid a protective tariff for the benefit of the workman alone. never in the interest of the inanufacturer. that the great underlying principle in fixing the rate of such a duty is to have it just cover the difference between the liberal wages paid to the American workman and the pittance dealt out to the pauper labor of Europe engaged in producing the same article. Let us see how far this principle was observed by the framers of the McKinley bill in fixing the cottontie duty now under consideration. The result will throw some light upon the good faith of the assertion that the principle stated was the controlling inaience in the adjustment of the other schedules of that bill.