Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-03-02
WINSTON, N. c., THURSDAY MARCH 2 1882

and yet absolutely the ratio Of the
cost of wages to tie total cost of
production was / 1-2 per cent.
less than under the tariff of 1916 :;
and since that the slight increase
that has been made does not near
keep pace with the increase in the
tariff. Who has received the in
creased price paid for manufactures
under the hiffh tariff since 1861
According to the census, that in
crease ds9 not go into the pockets
of the laeorers. Where did it go ?
think can tell where it went.
think it went into the plethoric
pockets of the manufacturers them
selves, and with it they have set up
newspapers to advocate the cause
of "Amer;can labor" with it they
swarm this building with LOBBYISTS
in behalf of "American labor ;"
with it they have built these lordly
mansions surrounded by landscape
gardens and all objects of taste and
beauty which make the comfortlcss
surroundings and the plain homes
Of the unprotected look so pictur-
esquely shabby in the far oft con-
trast. That is where l think this
increased taxation has gone. =
According to the idea of the
protectionists no man is a laborer
and an American unless he stands
at a New England spindle, or in a
Pennsylvania iron-forge, or at
some cotton or wooden loom these
are American laborers, ard no one
else, and those only are entitled to
the protection and the fostering
care of their government. The
masons, carpenters, railroad hands,
toilers III the cotton fields of the
South and in the corn and wheat
lands of the West, teamsters, mill
ers, shoemakers, ditchers, hod-car-
ricrs, personal servants, printers,
plasterers, wheelrights, draymen
etc, these ard all other workers,
too numerous to mention, who fill
our land with srosperity and fur
nish seven-eighths OF our trade
with the world-these. all so far
from receiving any protection, are
taxed heavily as inferior beings on
every thing they eat, drink and
wear, to support the "American
laborer" and to prevent his being
undersold by a foreign pauper. So
in tact and in truth, if protection n
was honestly divided between capi.
tai and labor, it would only "pro-
tect" very small portion oil
"American labor and that pro-
lection would be at the expense Of
the great remainder. 1t is, there
fore, false claim. To show the
utter hypocrisy Of this cry of the
capitalists, let us refer to tho man
ner in which they supply their de-
mand for labor. They do not Sc
lect from the small protected class
of their own countrymen, but they
select from the whole labor-class
of America and the world and
they pay no more than the market
price fixed by this universal COM
petition. There is no restriction
tariff or duty whatever uppon the
labor market where they seek thcil
supplies. "Workingmen," says the
| Senator from Vermont, "including
!, every ship-l load Of cmigrants, have
found acceptable employment"
: Why, Mr.. President, is not ev-
cry man who works by tie swea
OF his brow a laborer 2 Have no
) these men who are excluded from
: the category OF American labo
glnen us all our wealth and all on
, prosperity, feiIed our farests an,
bullded our railroads and dug on
} canals and made the land to "blos
som as the rose ~
The Senator from Maine the 9th
er day astonished me, not so lnuc
by what he said and by what IL
!, saw, but by what he did not Sc
:. and did not speak. And he did nc
J, have the excuse tor not seeing thcs
, facts that Capt. Cutie rendered t
Mr.. Toots when Mr.. Toots cam
and asked him if he could see So
! ellis. "No, slr, said Capt. Cut
- tle, "ycu cannot see Sol. Gills.
T. "Why or wherefore p s'Bekas
. he is invisible Laughter.
!" These facts were not Invisible t
the Senator. He said it is our dn
;. ty to protect American labor, an
" showed the difference between th
: labor of America and the labor
!. Europe. The European laborel
>. are politically inferior beings, NJ
= invested with any of the privilege
~ and franchises of the country
:. which they live, but here. accord
, ing to the constitution, said I'll
- Senator, the laborcrs are the go,
- - crnors, they are the govcrnmen
= So it is, Mr.. President, l agrt