The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-28
TARIFF ROBBERY.
Protected and Unprotected In
dustries.
Hlgh Protection lObs Labor and 8rlRgs
on PaHios With General
Ruin.
Then let N pray. that come n mayi
As eClnS IL Will for q that
That man % man the world Ger
ahan brithers be and q THAI

Criminals, no matter how great their
crimes, always have something to say In
defence of themselves or in extenuati0n
of their crimes. Highway robbers even
do this. But cranks like Guiteau and
the tariff robbers are the only ones that
ever have the audactty to steal the
livery of heaven to serve the devil, and
under the mask Of philanthropy and In
the role of benefaetors to perpetFate
their colossal robberies against the toll
ing millions; and the marvel is that
these unmitigated thieves, after despOil-
ing laborers OF the fruit of their labor
for near a quarter of a century, still
succeed In making the tOiling masses
believe that their internal robbery is q
blessing to them.
And still more marvellous Is the fact
that men Of means and ability, having
large manufacturing establishments
and to whom this Internal robbery
only submit complacently to ii, but
actually favor 1t, and moreover labor
necessarily to make their employees,
who are robbed by 1t from the cradle to
the grave, vote to perpetuate the villain
GUS scheme Of plunder.
This Is so in this city, though there Is
not single industry here upon which
the tariff is not an incubus and q curse,
unless it be the Steel Works, and that,
we believe, Is no way benefited by 1t.
Upon the manufacturer OF agrtcul-
tural tnlplem ments and engines the blight
Of the protective robbery falls with
crushing effect. Intelligent men in
this line OF production recognize and Ia
ment 1t. Men like Lewis Miller, of
Akron; Michael HaTter and his partners
At Mansheld; the principal men
In the Peerless Works of this
city, and many others that might be
named. But IL seems that In the main.
IN this city, manufacturers either.
through ignorance or prejudice, failytO
realizs the robbery that Is constantly
ro6bing them and their employees and
prominent among them Is the flrn of @.
AultmRn B. Co. Year after year they
have been compelled To reduce the
wages of their employees until now the.
wages Of f1some Of their employees are as
low and even lower thau before the war,
yet with unabated vigor and renewed
energy they are hugging their fond de-
lusiOn and seeking 10 Perpetuate the
upon them and obs their laborers. And
yet, marvellous TO say, they claim TO be
the special friends Of laborers.
CANTON PROSPERITY.
Now, the prosperity OF our city de-
pends upon the prosperity OF It's Indus
tries and the labOTers therein employed,
and hence the question As to how our
industries are effected by the tariff rob-
berry 10 Of the highest Importance to our
citizens.
A few years since. under and after
years OF high protection, every industry
ofRnY Importance, except one In this
city, became bankrupt and threw its
lAborers out of employment. One fact
cannot be denied; that is, that they did
not fail for want OF protection. And If
the terrible disaster was causod by the
tariff robbery and the robbery continues
will not the disaster come again, and
with even greater force2 SO this gen.
eral bankruptcy of Canton's industries
II 1t does not open the eyes Of all TO the
fact that the tariff robbery Is an injury
70 the interests of Canton, ought at least
induce all, especially the laborers who
suffer the most in such disasters to I'm
partially consider the subject OF the
tariff robbery. In discussing this Ques-
tion, owing to the mystiacatiOn In which
1t is involved by the efforts OF the tariff
robbers, it is necessary TO recur as 1t
we're TO elementary principles.
Now, outside of the primeVal soil, the
original growth above and the substance
below, land which are wholly useless
without labor applied) there Is and can
be nothing that Is not produced by la
Dor. Hence, in the very essence of things
there is nothing to materially benefit or
''prOtect" laborers. but the products Of
labor.
ROBINSON CRUsoE.
Take Robinson Crusoe alone on his
taland; he could not have, OF use, or en-
Joy anything but what his labor pro-
duced, and the only possibility Of bene-
htting him would be that OF increasing
the productive power OF his labor. Now
suppose, instead OF one, ten men on his
island. They could only have or use what
their combined labor produced, and If
there were ffty millions OF inhabitants
instead Of ten 1t would be no less true;
Ehey could divide among themselves
only what their labor produced. and
hence, their material cOQdition would
depend solely upon the aggregate pro-
6uced to divide among themselves
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
But there is another factor, viz: capi
tai and labor unite in productions; and
by the union of capital and labor In
every and all branches Of industry, the
aggregate Of products Is produced, and
o& this aggregate of products, capital
and labor each receives share, labor re-
oeiVing its share in wages, and the
money received representing It's share
OF the aggregate products produced.
The amount OF money received by labor.
Il wholly immaterial, the money Is only
the measure Of it's share Of the aggre-
gate products OF labor; the real thing is
the share Of the aggregate products OF
labor received for the money. It would
not make shadow OF difference whether
ahs iabOrer In one year received for
wages $1,000 and in another 800, II In
the former year 81 900 procured him
only the same share 500 procured him
IN the latter year. Now labOr's share of
the aggregate of products produced Is
dependent solely upon the amount pro-
dnced, and the share taken by capital
you can give nothing to labor but the
products Of labor, for there is nothing to
give that Is not produced by lafOr, and
hence. whatever labor gets is simply
the share OF its products that capital
does not get, and hence the only possi-
BILE way to benefit the labOrer IL By in
nreasing the aggregate OF products so
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