Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-19
From the Irish Rennhlic.
Labor aud Capital Not AntagOnistic
Tread this to all Free Tradersl


vested either in wages or material, he expects to
receive a certain per centage. This being the
case the higher the wages-which under protec.
tion is cash-the less the employer has to invest
in material which generally can be purchased on
time.
If the employer does not invest in wages he
invests it in material, hence high wages draw
more largely on his resources than low wages
This, with the well known fact that labor CON
stitutes from 80 to 600 per cent of all manu-
featured articles, brings us down to investigate
how much protection benefits the workingman
and how much the employer.
Let us suppose a case. A. b. has $50 900 and
is ready to 90 into business. He wants 100 men,
to whom he must pay an average of So so per
day. They work ten hours and turn out GER
tain amount Of manufactured material. In free
trade time, or before 1860, he could hire these
men for rs cents day, but in order that
our free trade friends won't find fault, we will
say 81 % per day for each man. Now these
men for 81 Is worked ten and twelve hours day
and did the same amount of work, if not more,
as the men of to-day, for men become more
slaviSh as wages decrease. What is the result ?
100 men at 50 50 per day.. ............... $3.50
100 men at 81 rs per day. .,.................. 125
Difference between the wages of 100 men of to-
day and in free trade times. =. ............ $125
Now, consider that this is the case in all man.
ufactured articles, that the cost of the labor
under protection is just 100 per cent. more than
under free trade. Here we have an opportunity
of seeing how much the employer and the
workingman are interested in protection. To
make it palmer, we will say that the miner who
digs the ore throws off 100 per cent. of his
wages each free trade day. The same is the
case with the man who works on the boat, or
the railroad which carries that ore to the blast
furnace. We will then have it at the furnace
less 100 per cent. of all the workingmen's wages
whose duty it is to dig and transport the same
Tho who tend the bla IrT1on OF
100 per cent. of their wages. The ore being
melted with coal bought less 100 per cent. of
the wages Of the miner. We have it in pig less
100 per cent of labor. The same rule applies to
the pudders and all the men who help to form
it into rails. 1t, therefore, does not require a
very enlarged mind to see that we would pro-
duce railroad iron much lower than the present
prices bv abolishng the present protective tariff
AS it is with iron, so it would be still more in
finer articles, which require still more labor
Thus, we will see that protection really means
high wages, for if you lower the wages 100 per
cent it will be better protection to the employer
than the present tariff
But the question will be asked, why are man
ufacturers so interested in protecton2 Simply
because they understand this question and
know that as the workingmen become comfort
able they consume much more, and thereby
create demand for manufactured articles in
proportion as they grow wealthy. Thus, the
consumer and producer coming near together
tend to mutually enrich each other. AS an evil
dence that the abettors of free trade understand
the question of protection in this light we CODY
an article from the Ryland Iron Trade Circular,
published in Birmingham, England, which we
hope will be read by every free trade Irishman
in the land. Here it is from the Birmingham,
England, Circular:
Notwithstanding the efforts which many of
our foreign customers are making to develop
their own iron trade, we, as yet do not seem to
suffer. The most important of these efforts is
that made by the United States of America
We have often called attention to the remarka-
BILE development of the American iron Grade, and
the possibility of the people of that great coun-
try supplying themselves entirely with their
own iron. America teens with the raw material,
and it only waits the hand of man to dig the
ore to smelt and puddle the iron, and to turn it
into all the varieties of the finished article, so
that America, no doubt, could supply the world
with the whole of its requirements, and COULD
thus close the English trade altogether; but as
long as the labor market in the United States
remains in its present condition so long will the
English iron trade maintain its hold upon that
country. American capitalists are not at all
anxious to invest in the iron trade, notwith-
standing their strong protective tariff, and then
while labor forms ninety per cent of every ton
of manufactured iron, and when this item ola
bor'O is of far greater value in the states than
it is in our own country, it is quite impossible
for the Americans to compete with us, even
with such highly protective tariff as they now
enjoy"
What more evidence do our Irish supporters
of free trade want than this. An English man
ufacturng journal acknowledges that as long as
high wages rule in America, so long even our
present tariff won't prevent them from under
selling us. Good lordl what would it be if we
had free trade? Figure, fellOw-workmen, here
is an opportunity for the 100000 Irish voters
in this country to do what; to place the United
States in the position "that she could supply
the world with the whole of its requirements,
and could thus close the English trade altogsth-
er." Irishmen, can you imagine this accom-
plished2 Can you realize the honor that would
come to people who would be the means of
doing it2 Can you feel what joy would fill the
souls of call who died for Ireland" that you
would be the means of completely bursting up
this devilsh empire? Then fall in and help by
your votes to give America such protection that
we will never see an atom of English manufac-
tured goods in this country.
Irishmen, who have felt the philanthropy of
English civilization, and who know with what
jealous eye England has always looked upon
the growing prosperity of this country. will
smile when they read the following kind advice
gratuitouSly given by the same Trade Circular
to the American people, in their interest of
course, particularly when we remember the re-
suit which followed in Ireland and India, when
those unfortunate countries adopted the same
advice and followed those very attractive pur-
suits" which resulted in starving and scattering
almost the entire people of these once happy
manufacturing countries.
Read the Pecksniffian advice of the Birming-
ham Organ:
"Neither is it at all necessary for the happi-
ness or welfare of its 1.-THE United States) people
that they should for some time at least turn
themselves into miners, puddlers or millmen.
In every new country, and especially so with
such continent as America, agriculture forms
the hrst and most attractive pursuit. With land
SO cheap that it is almost given away, with a
ready market for its produce, with all the nat
urai wants of life within their grasp, men will
certainly prefer this kind of life to the ex-
hanstiVe toll of the iron worker"
Heaven bless you, John Bull, for your kind
n ,,ar now You pudders at 81 per day, quit
your exhaustive toll, and 90 work on farms
at S2O per month, and raise corn TO feed John
Bnlfs serls, when you only have to work from
sunrise to sunset, vote free trade and Won will
then be where England is, as per Trade Circu-
| lar:
"The condition of workingmen in old coun-
tries is so different and especially so in Eng
| land. The extent of country is so small that
but for the manufacturing industry there would
be no outlet for the labor of the people"
Here is the secret, Irishmen; and here is inst
what the Irish labor league aims to impress
upon the Irish people of America, whose 2,OOO,-
900 votes can secure America in the preservation
and development OF her natural industry.
The same journal lays down nice programme
for us-"We can supply the wants of all new
communities with our manufacture and take in
exchange the raw produce of the American CON
tinent." Generous John Bull, your paIaver
won't go down. The United States are of age,
and eau stand alone; and if they could not, you
have sent out several millions Of Irish victims,
who feel and know all about your beautiful sys
TEN OF making, or attempting to make, all the
world raise potatoes and corn, that you may be
us workshop, thus keeping up your surplus
FUNDS 70 iced kings, queens, princes, and keep
your people beggars
The following is the closing paragraph of an
obituary notice in Connecticutt aper:-"The
writer of this sketch tried to console the af,c,ad