The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-09-25
mcnt, and that means the end OF free goy-

crnmcnt.
And how much better OIL nre your pro-
tcctcd workmcn than the unprotected work
men Of Englands John Bright SAYS they
are not as well or. For instance, In Rarltan
New Jersey, The workmen in the wooden
mills, (protcctcd) earn from 50 To 90 cents
per day, and then they have TO buy their
goods at the corporation stores, and pay
high rent to the corporation for the houses In
which they live. A member of congress
gave an instance Of a case In his own dis
trict in New England, where children were
working In garnet ut fifteen cents per day,
while the 'protccted' manufacturer who
employed them made s75, 900 per year.
now THE WOMEN WORK IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Ex-Mayor Powderly. of Scranton, Penn,
gives the following terrible picture Of the
women who work In the Connelsyilic coke
regions Of Pennsylvania: "At one Of the
ovens he saw a woman half naked drawing
the hot coke from the chamber. She had no
covering on her head and very little on her
person. Her appearance was that of one
and hard work. Her attire consisted Of a
coarse chcmisc and pa'r OF cowhide boots.
In a freight ear close by stood another wo-
man slowing the coke rs II came TO the car.
She stood In the doorway and was dressed In
a rough, loose-ftting outer garment and an
apron. Her person from the waist up was
exposed. Her feet we're encased In pair of
heavy shoes, and her legs we're exposed from
the knees down. Other scenes were worse
than these. Is there anything in the pa ipcr
labor of Europe worse than this!'
PRICES or LABOR UNDER THE PROTECTIVE
TARIFF.
In Pittsburg skilled workmen arc working
coal mines, (protectedD, the miner earns,
when lie can get work, sixty cents per day.
In the Hooking Valley, Italian laborers, i'm
ported under labor contracts, ut 60 cents
per day, displaced the Americans; the
Americans were willing to work at 20 cents
per day; hut the mine owners refused TO en-
ploy them, told them they had 1900 foreign
ers ready to take their places ;and on July IA,
last, riots broke out among the Americans, and
$50 of Pinkerton's police had to be detailed
to guard the Italians. And this Is what is
called protecting American industry and
1t Is for this We are compelled to pay high
prices for everything we buy
ORR SURPLUS WHEAT CROP.
IA recent article in the New York $40,
shows that this year our crop Of wheat will be
SEQ. 900. Oo0 bushels: our old wheat on hand
40 200, 900 bushels, total 100000, 900; our
boosted home market will eat 255, 000 900
I,,,sI ats sIy, 1nJf fnr
next crop will require 10000, 900 bushels:
the reserve carried over to next year will be
5o,Goo. coo bushels, and this will leave us
2l5. 0uo, 600 bushels TO sell abroad, and we
have done everything in our power by our
tariff legislation to break up permanently the
market for this surplus, and hand itoyer to
Russia and India"
THE GROWTH OF THE COUNTRY NOT DUE TO
THE HIGH TARIFF.
''rut," saws Brother Jonathan, "sce how
the country has grown under high tariff.
the increase in wealth in the twenty-five
years since the civil war began is greater
than the total increase in wealth from 17s6 to
1861. and that is all due to the tariff"
No." says the farmer, 1.-THE country has
always grown with aceelerating rapidity. The
iuterts. on a million dollars is greater than
the Interest on thousand dollars. The ae-
erection of wealth by the labor Of 81, 900, 900
people is, of course, greater than
the accretion Of wealth by the
labor IF 5000 900 people. What at has
the tariff got to do with 1t. Imagine man
who would say, forty years ago | was worth
but Slo, 10000, and my yearly income was
but 100000, now | am worth
800, 10000, and my yearly income is 5000;
then wore a blue coat, now wear black
coat, ergo, my increased income Is due to
my black coat Laughter and applause.
This is gcneralizine with a vengeance.
rICKLEp OYSTERS As CURE FOR TYPHOID
FEVER.
il reminds me of the doctor who had an
Englishman for patient, sick with typhoid
fever. The Englshman had an unnatural
craving for picked oysters. "Well," says
the doctor to his friends, she is going to die
anyhow, SO YOU might as well crafty him by
giving him the OYSTERS The Engiishman
ate the oysters aud recovered. The doctor
forthwith made The following entry In his
note book. Mem: Picked oysters are
sure cure for typhoid fever The next day
he had another patient afflicted with tue same
disease, a Frenchman. '.Giye him picked
OYSTERS" said the confident doctor. They
did So, aud the Frcnchman died. Then the
doctor went home aud made this further en-
try in his note book: mem: Picked oys-
tiers are sure cure for typhoid fever in an
Englishman, but are certain death TO
frenchman." Laughter.
THE TRUE SOURCE OF Our GREATNESS
''Ths is continent" continued the
farmer, sin process of colonization, with the
whole world docking in to take possession of
ii. The real cause of high wages Is the gen
cral prosperity, the demand for labor, the OPP
portunities for growing rich, the sparscness
Of population compared with extent of terri
tory. If you could run another Mississippi
valley of vacant or half vacant land through
the heart Of Europe, the rush Of settlers to
generation or two raise the price of labor over
all Europe"
PROTECTION NOT NECESSARY To THE MANU-
rAcruREs OF THE COUNTRY.
But" says Brother Jonathan, ''you
must continue to suffer what you
call these wrongs for II you do
not all manufacturing will cease in this
country, millions of men will be turned out
to starye, and the country will he ruined,
and you with it,"
IL don't believe word Of it," says the
farmer, 'look al the growth Of manufactures
and of the whole country between 1850 and
1860, before this high tariff was adopted, and
under one of the lowest tariffs We ever had.
The United States census gives these figures:
The total value OF domestic mana
features, in 1850, including fish
cries AID mines. 81 ,ol9, LOG, SIC
The total value of the same for the
year ending June /, 1850, Was
over. INSTRUMENTATION. 1900. 900. 900
The product of pig iron I'm 1850 was 1891. SEQ
The product of pig iron in lsGowas l9,4s7, $50
An increse Of IL per cent.
The product Of bar and rolled iron