Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-11-17
LABOR Is MADE HONORABLE UN-
DER PROTECTION.

and history going to prove their unsus-
tanned, obscure sophistries. They fail
to prove that free trade benefits the
masses of England, while every fact
proves the English capitalist is enrich
ed at the expense of the poor, unhelped
laborer. Every dollar of wealth given
the mODeyed free trade English Lord
and manufactures is at the cost OF the
man who has but one pair of hands BE-
tween his family and the poor house, and
the woman who is trying against fate
to hush the cry of hungry children by
heavy, enslaving work, fit only for men.
Free trade is darkness, suffering and
poverty to the poor of England, who
never can improve, who never hope to
enjoy the comforts, riches and graces of
refined civilization.
In .merica the glory of our land is
the nobility placed upon those who do
service, the honor impaired to men,
women and children who work the ma
chinery,tend the mills,drive the factor
ies,manage the industries of toll through
mental and physical work The hands
of labor are strengthened, the Shout
ders OF burdens are made stout, the
bodies of sweat, toll land fatigue, made
vigorous through the generous
provisions made by protection
for the worker, insuring good prices
to the employer that he may be able to
pay good wages to the workers, and
thereby push for the benefit of all. the
mighty resources of America, handling
her coal. cotton, wheat. corn, iron, lead,
copper, gold and silver, wood, food, and
goods to enrich and reward the powers
of body and mind of all the laborers
especially.
The American workman Is as good a,
his employer, they are equals, mutually
working for each others success. The
laborer expects in time to become an
employer, his wages enable him to Lay |
carpets, fine furniture, pictures, and
every mark of high civilization. Such
homes of employees exist in Cheboygan,
they are numerous i'll Michigan aud |
the country. The clerks,
mill hands, and day labOrers are indie
pendent, free and growing into a higher
existence. The wOOdman in Michigan
receives large wages, whereby he can
if he will help himself to home, money
and ease in few years. Free trade
would change all this, the man depend
ent upon sweating face, and toiling
hands for living. could not have the
secure shelter, warm meals, good cloth
ing, rich environments he now has. Cap
tai can take care of itself. If manufac.
turing does not pay, mills will not run,
mines will not be worked, new enterprises
will not come forth; capital will seek
,ther avenues of employment, and the
workman will have to take starvation
wages or starve, as they do in Eng
and. ir5Ja, la iH .t.,a. o.
English labOrers come from Great
Britain. not because they love England,
Ireland or Scotland less, but because
hey love good wages and comforts bet
er, they come here to improve their con-
lition through employment and wages
hey talk of their mother country to the
lay, of their death as the glory of earth,
which they have right to do, but stick
o American work and american wages
il the same. Millions are coming to {
well the army Of iaborers.our land is te-
ng speedily settled. Shall we remove the
protection from labor and let it suffer:
his is what free trade will do if British !
interests can place the enemy in our ,
Slicy. .Id
The Republican party says no. 1t was
Orn to have "a government of the peo-
lie. by the people and for the people,"
{ has fought the battles Of the slave,
he poor, the weak, every day of its ex-
stence, and because protection looks
fter the interests of the poor, provides
or the necessities Of the laboring class,
nd gives employment, money, comforts
nd joy to. all who do honest work for an
onest living. This party of conviction,
urpose and resolve, maintains protec-
ion and opposes free trade as it would
rec whisky or any other idol of suffer
lg Democracy.
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