Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-04

labor fellows will combine as it were ana
send us a hov.se complete, foundation walls
and cellar included. This thing must not
be allowed, Mr.. Editor. It would be an
eternal shame to allow a blacksmith in
England to beat our local blacksmiths
down to half price in their greedy endeavor
to get the job of shoeing Mayor Ames'
horses.
If such things should be allowed when
Mr.. Washburn wishes to build another mill
all he would have to do would be to tele-
graph to some cheap fellow in England to
know what he would ship him the founda-
ton walls for,and he would say half-price.
Then Mr. McMullen would have to go out
of business, or else the men who work for
him would have to work for half-price.
Now you inform us that Mr.. Weshburn will
see that no fellow in England is allowed to
ship into Minneapolis any ready shod
horses and ready made mills covering an
acre of ground. Isay amen
do not believe in allowing any such
cut-throat competition. I had all along
been under the impression that our dis
lance from the labor market and the scar
city of labor and the vast field of unde-
veloped country which we own and are i'm
proving SO fast was the cause of prices
being kept up to the present desirable
standard, but am convinced, Mr.. Editor,
that it is Mr.. Washburn and protective
tariff.
Although we all know that he did sell
US out in his Minneapolis and Saint Louis
sale we fully realize now that it was part
of his grand scheme to protect himself
and his neighbors afterwards.
We will all hurrah for Washburn and a
DR.. Ames tells US is the reason we are so
prosperous He says the good crops and
our vast export business bringing money
into the country causes cal ital to ;accumu-
late and in the desire of the capitalist to
make his money earn something he goes
to work and builds railroads and large
stores and dwellings.and that this causes a
great demand for laborers and conseq uent-
ly they are scarce and can demand good
pay. Such nonsense. It Just shows what
people will say when they think other
folks will believe them
Any man can see just as you do, Mr.. Ed
itor, and if he is candid or got good sense
he will admit that protective tariff is at
the bottom of all of it. tell the farmers
to vote for Washburn, for if they do not
and Ames is elected he will take the pro-
tective tariff off of rain and we will all be
washed away by the British rain down to
the gulf of Mexico.
But here is something which I have tried
to make tally with your and my doctrine
on protective tariff and cannot for the
life of me make the thing ft. Up in Win
nipeg where they have free trade with Eng
land the bricklayers and plasterers and all
kinds of men get twice as much as they
do here.
This statement is being circulated around
among my neighbors and 1 find that unless
we can privately concoct some plausible
answer to this statement that we, US and
Washburn, are all liable to be left.
Now, Mr.. Editor, we must do something
say something or other, it does not matter
much what. Tell them that free trade
protective tariff for revenue only, is what
is doing all this good for Winnipeg and that
Mr.. Washburn, will do all this if he is sent
to congress.
As for me need support of some kind
for the tide is strong. 1 hope you will
come to me with yoCr statistics and
speeches in congress and with all the other
ammunition you have got, for if you dc
not 1 shall have to surrender. Yours with
respect, CONFIDING REPUBLICAN.
N. B. 1 shall write to the GLOBE on the
same subject but shall keep stiff upper
lip and not let them see we are scared.