The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-16
PROTECTING AMERICAN INDUSTRY.

Every intelligent man comedies that
the agricultural population of this coun-
try is plundered by the Protective tariff;
and that our earnings are annually swept
away by our being compelled to pay in
creased prices for the manufactured arti-
cles we purchase. But the answer al
ways made to US is that we must sacri-
fcs ourselves for the good of the artisan
population who manufacture those arti-
cles.
''Wuat! the high-tariff advocate ex-
claims, "wouldl you reduce our labor
force to the level of the pauper labor of
Europe? No SIR. this is the peoples
country; the laborers country; every
thing must give way to the happiness
and prosperity OF the workmen in the
factories. In order that they may be
weli-fed, well-clothed and well-housed,
you western people must submit to pay
two prices tor articles of home manufac-
ture without a murmur. The man who
objects to doing so is demagoge and a
scoundrel," &C., &C., sc.
Now England especially has made
herself illustrious by the magnanimous
manner in which she plead the cause OF
the working people. True it is, in some
places they introduced Cinnamon, and
got themi to work for about one-half
what white man could live on. True
it Is they forced tender little children in.
to the factories at an age which forbade
all hope Of education. But over all
these trifing incidents rang loud and
clear the demand of New England tor
high-wages tor the workmen.
Vel, the canting humbuggery of these
pretentious clamors OF humanilarianism
are aptly illustrated in the following dis
patch:
STARVING TIE FALL RIVER OPERATIVES ro
| TEaMs-TBE SENTIMENT As EXPRESSED BY
| THE MANUFACTURERS BIZ TELEGRAPH.
New York, August l0.-A letter from Fall Riv-
| er, where gfteen thousand mill operatives voted
themselves thirty days vacation rather thar
| submit to ten per cent. reduction in wages
states that the action of the grocery and provs-
ion dealers in refusing credit will speedily h
felt, for the available funds Of most OF the EN-
ployes must be nearly .xhaustei hit while i
Is not the policy OF the municipal government
to allow actual starvation, charity will be dis.
pensed very sparingly, and that the feelings O
the community is SO decidedly against the op
eratives that they will resist all measures for re-
lief not absolutely called for in the light of hu
manity. Meanwhile the mill ow ners are deter
mined to maintain their position and s-tte for
ever the principle that their business is not II
be at the mercy Of help; that they have beel
governed by operatives too long, and they nov
propose TO manage their own business in thei
own way.
Could anything be more heartless an,
cruel than this? Starvation is to argu
these protected" workmen, God he'll
themD int, obedience and the munici
pal authorities are to "resist all meas
ures Of relief" until death itself is immi
nent.
So, while we are plundered, the work
men in whose name the plundering
done are to staxve; and a few cunnin
knaves are to make themselves rich q
the expense Of the farmers Of the we!
and the artisans Of the east.
4 How long. oh farmers! will it be er
the wheat raisers OF the Mississippi Va
l ley will be reduced to the condition of th
; operatives Of Fall River and tho co;
: miners Of Pennsvlvans?