Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-24
THE PAUPER LABOR OF EUROP.


THE PAUPER LABOR OF EUROPE.
The explanations the APPEAL has given
as TO the trickery and legerdemain with
which the tariff bill now before Congress has
been gotten up, are sufficient TO convince
readers that protectionists are not pursuing
that simple, direct, truthful course that
honest aims, pursued by the use of honest
means alone, require. When tricks, and
circumventions, and deceiving language, and
misleading figures are bad recourse to, it is
because something fraudulent is going Oh,
and something has 10 be concealed. The
double-dealiDg, and one OF their favoriie
ways of arousing public sympathy, and
throwing dust into the eyes of the people,
has been by their professions OF a humane
desire to protect American labor from
the awful effects of 'the pauper labor
of Europe" People generally have
been led TO suppose that there was
something peculiarly horrible and destruc-
tive to the interests of our country and our
people about this pauper labor in Europe.
ton Of the foul deed of submitting our
American workmen 10 the competition Of
the pauper labor OF Europe. Any one,
knowing no better, would naturally suppose
that this psuper article, being SO pernicious
and altogether evil, would be carefully kept
away from contact with the American
laborer. Such, however, is not the tactics of
the monOpelist, for, strange TO say, the same
paper that in one column denounced any
affinity with the pauper labor in Europe to-
ward the labor of America, in another
column was calling for immigrants as pro-
motors. of the prosperity Of the State.
Yet these immigrants who are re-
ceived with sueh open arms, are them
selves ordinarily portion OF the pauper
laborer, of Europe. There is evidently a
hitch here, a touch of the same kind of
twisting, distortiDg, covering up, and mis-
representing that We find in the monopolists
reformed tariff bill. How can this pauper
labor that is so valuable in Minnesota, Da.
kots, and elsewhere be such deadly enemy
up TO the time of disembarking in New
York? But the European laborer earns so
little money at home, the protectionist says.
During the Confederate time our people
could readily earn n hatiul Of money, bot
when they went 10 market with it it took a
bsskstful OF money to buy basketful Of
food. The pauper laborer of Europe, when
at home, if he have no heavy taxation to
pay to make monopolists into millionaires,
no two and half cents to deposit for tax
every time he buys pound of sugar, for
instance, finds the purchasing power of his
money is great, as the purchasing power
of our national bank notes is greater than
that of the Confeder ate States. He has
fewer bank notes, but they will buy more
than ours do. The proceedings, trickery,
cheating and deception the prohibitionists
are manifesting in their reformed tariff bill
are opening peoples eyes 10 the nature of
the monopolists' alleged reasons why the
citizens Of the country should any longer
pay tribute to them TO degrade them into
millionaires. Let the same open eyes ex-
anime the clap-trap these men have 80 long
been passing off as indubitable truth, and,
among other things, let them ascertain what
reliance is really to be placed OF the bug-a-
boo story about 'the pauper labor of
Europe