The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1870-07-05
TEE RUIN or RADICAL gUxr
The RiCla Made Richer ana the
Poor POOrer--Vvhat a leading
Republican Newspaper Says Of
the REVIVAL Of Slavery i'm New
England

tOoA VViSi.. VR1t a Leading
: Republican Newspaper Says OF
the Revival Of Slavery in New
England.
From the New York Evening Post, lRep.)l
OUGHT NOT FHE NORWEGIAN 10 BE gro
r TEcTED' ALSO?
Several hundred Chinese Iab1fers have
been brought across the continent. to
Massachusetts, to take the place Of white
workmen in some Of the shoe shops in
that State.
Leather is ''protccted'' against foreign
competition; hides are ''protccted :" shoe
thread, hastings and elastic fabrics are
protected; oils and chemicals, all the
materials used by the currier and
tanner, are protected" The morocco
manufacturers are to be "protectcd'' in
the bill now before the Senate. All the
machinery used in the manufacture of
boots and shoes is made from "protect
ed" iron and steel; the clothing manu-
EacturerS who supply the shocmakers are
protected The fish and potatoes they
eat are ''protectcd :"
But the men and women who make
the shoes arc not protected" On the
contrary, they have been robbed for q
term of years, and now they are to be
kicked out and Chinese put in their pla-
ces For, while every kind of material
or tool which has been used by the
Massachusetts shoemaker has been made
unnecessarily dear to him by the tariff
in order that somebody else might en-
joy monopoly, the Chinaman, who is
now imported to take the place of the
Christian New England shoemaker, comes
in duty free, The tariff does not touch
him; it makes every material of indus
try dear; but it cheapens, it pauperizcs
labor 6F ais~ ~ i5 .ea'f-faazi.a
That is WHAT'S called "protection."
Why are these Chinese brought to
Massachusetts Because they promise
to work for less wages than New Eng
land men and women can afford to take.
Why are wages lowered? Because the
tariff, framed in the interest of monop.
olists, makes all the materials Of indus
try dear. The people of the United
States now have fewer boots and shoes
to wear, in proportion to their number,
than they had ten years ago, and the ex-
ports ef boots and shoes has. almost
ceastd. as a'
Yet there is no branch of industry in
which there have been greater improve
ments, or more complete substitution
OF machinery for handwork. A work
man can now do at least twenty y-five per
cent. more work in day, and of much
better quality, than he could ten years
ago; yet he gets no greater comfort for
his days wages in fact, not as much as
he did then. ss'r 9'i 'H
We have this strange result coming
with improvement and invention: the
people less well shod, the worknien more
poorly paid, il wages be measured by
what they win buy :" oisla g
What do the high tariff lnonoplists
care? Their pockets are full; MetJ
wealth, is. increasing; their sons and
daughters live in luxury their agents arc
in Congress crying out for yet a higher
tariff ;,and they have been cunning enough
to pursuade the President and The ne
pub'tcta niGorit8 III Congress that "thc
country is prosperous" because they,Me
monopolists, are getting .fattcr daily.
Meantime, these high tariff monopo
lists defy the people, the workinomen
and women. Strike if you dare, they
say; we will import Chinese to take your
places And yet they have the face tc
tell the ignorant and unthinking thai
protection means high wages and pros.
perity to the workmen
Was it for this that Congress guaran-
teed the bonds of the Pacific railroad,
and gave it millions Of acres Of land
that the high tariff monopolists might
when they had starved and robbed thc
white worlklngmcn and women rs Ions
as they would bear it, bring IN the pau
per and heatAen labor Of China to fill III,
aeorkshops from, arhich Christian me,
and pomen haze been drirea?
WE ARE TO HAVE A. CONG RES
|. .SIONAL ELECTION THIS FALL y
Will any man say that the people shoult
vote on any consideration for a candi
date, no matter whether he is Rcpubli
can or Democrat, who would perpetrat,
this shameful and injurious system o
high tariff protection aehich is difcin.
Christiqa ,Neto England werhnpen ant
aeork,cogaen from the shops phe1e the
seek 70 earn their Icing, and. putting Il
Their places The paapea' 1a.'Ja,fans o
Chnaa 5' - 'a
| Make the material and tools used Il
the shoe manufacture. free; strike thef
out o. the tariff, where they produce nj
revenue that we cannot easily spare
land not only will wages rise at once, bu
1.-THE business, one of the largest ant
most important in New England, ant
one, too, which has never been protect
/ ed, will revive at once, and the foreigl
trade which the tariff has lost us will b
regained, while the operatives will re
ceive proper wages. Let the Crispil
societies combine with the shoe mand
factures in New England to demand thi
Of Congress; and let them refuse, thi
| fall, TO support any one for Congress
who will not pledge himself to insist, il
| Congress, on the immediate repeal 0
all duties which make the manufacture
of shoes dear, and thus lower the wage
of the operatives. No man has q righ
to call himself Republican, or to b
supported by Republicans, Yho woul,
perpetuate for day this gross wrong t,
New England workingmen and women
EgThe general public, that reads s.
much concerning the doings in th
Courts of Fisk, jun, is led to imagin
| That he is indeed the soul of all tles