Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-03-02


be taxed 35 per cent. on his shoe
leather, and Is per cent. upon his
iack-knife, and 100 per cent. upon
his flannel shirt, and almost as
mach upon everything else that he
uses. in order that the wages of his
brother laborer in New England
should be such as shall enable him
to do all this, then [ will take my
departure from this subject and
agree to hold my peace. When he
can sho v me the law or equity or
policy for making one laborcr feed
another and educate him and his
children, then IS the controversy
closed.
American labor! Certnnly, sir,
am with You for American labor;
let rs protect American labor and
pnt the Labor er as high i'll the scale
of intelligence as possible ; bat do
not require the poor negro, making
cotton in the South at S10 q month
to pay at least one-half Of that ten
to the New England man that he
may have carpets on the floor and
a piano in the parlor, that his child
rem may 90 to school and all may
learn to read and write. This is not
the kind OF protection | want That
brings the whole subject to the
condition | indicated in my open
ing remarks. That is class legisla~
ton that is unjust legislation that
is unequal legislation ; that is un
constitutional legislation ; that Is
dishonest legislation, and that is az
there is of it. | want al Ameri :
can labor to have Il fair and even
chance. [ want my own poor
workingmen at home protected, not
only against foreign paupers, bnt
also against domestic brigandage.
The foreign pauper is in fact the
| SPECIAL favorite of the manutactur-
els, WHO discriminate III his behalf
whenever they can rosslbly y make
anything by it. In the first place,
they invite him here aad give him
a homestead on the public domain
if he will settle upon if, while they
| deny this to eleven millions of their
own conntrymen who cannot take
the iron clad oath. citiZens of the
States through whose ins'I utn entail
ity chiefly that domain was acquir-
cI. In the next place, we see by
the reports of tie consuis that there
| Is c considerable and c)nstantiy iii.
crcasing trade with nearly all the
countries of the world il American
manufactures the meaning of
whic'. is that they arc selling their
goods to foreign peupers in com
petition with Britis;l manufactures
at about one-hr!f the price they
sell the same goods to their own
coIntrymen at home. American
labor is taxed that foreign paupers
may have our goods cheap. The
most distant and the most savage
peoples enjoy this privilege over
us. The cannibai who dimes on
Sydney Smiths missionary, knocks
him in the head with a hatcllct for
which he paid nothing but the cost
of production, cuts him up with 6
free jack-knile, for which our owi
people would have paid G5 per cent
and salts him Gf he uses the condi
ments) with the salt for the produc
tion of which we have paid 5G pei
cent. If the missionary disagree;
with him, he has free drugs for hi.
medication, OH which we pay ;
duty Of from % to 100 per cent
AS tior the inhabitants Of the Sand.
wich Islands, we have a treaty o
absolute free trade with them !; anC
those deserving people are furnish
ed at half price with all they nee(
of goods, the manufacture OF whicl
is paid by for by the taxation 0
the American p o lie. They arr
, all paupers according TO the pro-
, tectionist idea, but little removed
: from barbarism, and yet for In
sake of helping our manufacture
to market we let in their sugi,
, Tree, 10 D.Cdk wow IL tllS SiiSti III
tcrcst Of louisiana, which is TIN
: product of American labor. Il
:, the face of these facts the cry Q
protection to American labor be
7 comes the merest sham, the verles
] can't that ever was employed as th,
, slogan even of a party faction 70
the deception of mankind. Th
l men who employ it take advantag
c OF the laws of political econom
II by purclashing everything the
5 use, even to their labor. in tire un
It restricted markets of the world
5 and violate those laws openly b
II forcing their own countrymen
: buy from them only. and shuttin
e off by an act of Congress all poss
: bile competition. Already the
/. Use CHI APP Canadian labor, and to
e m orrow they would fill their tacto
ries with Coolies and pig taile
Chinese to the exclusion of Amer
e can labor if they were not fearfl
o their establishments would b
e burned over their heads. Ava