The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-07-06
[From the New York Evening Post (Rep.)
The RUIN OF RADICAL RULE.
THE RICH MADE RICHER AND THE
POOR POORER-WHAT A LEAD
ING REPUBLICAN NEWsPA-
PER SAYS OF THE REVIVAL
OF SLAVERY IN NEW EN-
GLAND.
Ought net the WOrIkingman to be PRO
ted Also?

Several hundred Chinese iaborers have
been brought across the continent, to Mas
sachusetts, to take the place of white
workmen in some of the shoe shops in that
State.
Leather is protected" againse foreign
competition, hides are protected, shoe
thread hastings and elastic fabrics are pro-
tected,' oils and chemicals, all the materi-
ais used by the currier and tanner. are
protected" The morocco manufacturers
are to be protected in the bill now be-
fore the Senate. All the machinery used
IN the manufacture OF boots and shoes is
made irom protected iron and steel, the
clothing manufacturers who supply the
shoemakers are protected" The fish
and potatoes they eat are ''proLactcd
| But the men and women who make the
| shoes are not protected" On the con-
trary, they have been robbed for a term
OF years, and now they are to be kicked
out and Chinese put IN their places. For,
while every kind of material or tool which
has been nsed by the Massachusetts, shoe
| maker has been made unnecessarily dear
to hlm by the tariff, in order that some
body else might enjoy a monopoly, the
Cmnaman, who Is now imported to take
the place of the Christian New England
shoemaker, comes in duty free. The tar
if does not touch him, it makes every ma
terlal oflndustry dear, but it cheapens, it
pauperizes labor
That Is what Is called protection"
Why are these Chinese brought to Mas
sachusetts? ? Because they promise to
work for less wages than New England
men and women can afford to- Why are
wages lowered? Because the tariff, franz
ed IN the interests of monopolists makes
a no Il, = J.. ! nv
people of the United States now have few
er boots and shoes to wear, in proportion
to their number, than they had ten wears
ago, and the exports of boots and shoes
has almost ceased
Yet there is no branch of industry in
| which there have been greater improve
ments, or a more complete substitution of
machinery for handwork A workman
can now do at least twenty FIVE per cent
more work IN a day, and of much better
quahtp, 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
We have this strange result coming
! with Improvement and invention, the peO-
pie less well shod the workmen more
poorly paid, if wages be measured by what
| they will buy.
What do the high tariff monopoists
care Their pockets are full, their wealth
| IS increasing, their sons and daughters live
IN luxury, their agents are in Congress
crying out for a yet higher tariff, and they
have been cunning enough to persuade
the President and the Republican maiori-
ty in Congress that "the country is pros
perous, because they, the monopolists,
are getting fatter daily.
Meantime, these high tariff monopelists
defy the people, the workingmen and wo-
men. Strike, if you dare, they say, we
will import Chinese to take your places
And yet they have the face to tell the ig-
horant and unthinking that "protection''
means high wages and prosperity to the
workmen.
Was it for this that Congress guaranteed
| the bonds of the Pacific railroad, and gave
1t millions Of acres of land-that the high
tariff monopolists might, when they had
starved and robbed the white workingmen
and women as long as they would bear it,
bring in the pauper and heather labor of
China to fill the workshops from which
Christian men and women have been driv-
| eh.
We are to have Congressional election
this fall. VIII any man say that the peo-
pie should vote on any consideration TO-
a candidate, whether Republican or Demr
ocrat, who would perpetuate this shame
ful and injurious system of high tariff pro-
lection.