The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-21
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
THIS Greatest OF Ttndes Unions,

NATHAN GoFF. IT,
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tbs Greatest of Trades Unions.
Mr.. Blaine is making excellent speeches
on his triumphal tour. Even the men
who are opposing his election will find in
his short talks liberal education in pub
lie affairs. He has explored the whole
field, and he has the power Of presenting
facts in lights tho most striking. In
his Detroit speech, after touching upon
other salient points Of thetarlF question,
Mr. Blaine said
You have before you the Republican
party pledged to sustain the protective
tariii, and illustrating that pledge by
specific and consistent example extending
through the last twentv-three years. You
have on the other hand the Democratic
party,which in fiity.onc years, since 1888,
has never in n single instance voted for
protection md never controlled a Con-
gress that IT did not oppose protection.
ICries OF "Tha,'s s." shy therefore to
the laboring men and to the mechanics,
some Of whom may do mo the honor to
listen to me, your unions, your leagues,
all these associations which you have
formed for your own advantage and your
own advancement are well and proper in
! their way; it is your right to have them
and administer them rs you choose. But
3 you are not rs strong rs 4 rope OF sand
against tho ill-paid labor OF Europe il you
take away the protective tariff which is
now your background and support.
z Cheers.l So do not be deluded by the
idea that you can dispense with the pro-
tective tari!t and substitute for 1t your Ia.
I Dor unions. tRcnewed cheering.
A great deal OF time and money and
zeal have been expended to build up
!; trades unions to promote the welfare OF
the workingman. Through these unions
capital has more than once been brought
4 to terms; wages have been increased and
reductions have been prevented. The
1 margin on the manufacturers transactions
justified it, or the point could not have
been carried. Let us suppose that capital
! is always unfair, always unreasonable,
= always wants more than its share OF the
return, is never willing to admit labor to a
Just division in the profits Of the business.
Let us Imagine, what OF course is not true,
that labor and capital are sworn enemies.
Isn't labor content TO have one enemy to
/ fight? or does it prefer three 10 the
American employerwil it add the foreign
employer and his wrctchedly paid labor?
@ Remove the protective tariff and this is
what happens. The American manufac-
turer is ut once confronted by the foreign
manufacturer, and American labor may
save itself il it can. OF what use would
be a trades union rs against American
employers who could not operate their
works at all in the face OF fierce foreign
competition 2 The employer might be glad
enough to pay American wages if he
could get American prices, but American
prices he could not get.
The surplus products OF Europe would
be dumped on this market to be sold at
any price they would fetch. Our indus
tries would staggcr under the blow, and
our dsmantled workshops would fall into
decay. II every nottingham were atrades
union in himself that would not help him,
for his Industry would be dead.
Farmers and others not engaged in
manufacturing cmployments may think
they would profit by the industrial disas-
ter. So they would for time, and a very
short time. Soon tho upper and the
neither inillstones would begin to grind
them. They would see their own home
market disappearing rapidly, and they
would see the price OF every manuiac-
tured commodity go up as soon rs the
English manufacturers feel assured Of
their grip on the American market.
In such a country us this who shall
draw lines between labor and capital-a
country in which there are few who do
not work, and where every laborcr hopes
ut some day to BIO an employer? In such
a country how shall We distinguish pro.
ducers from consumers, where all consume
and few do not produce?
"America for Americans" in its later
and bettcrsen is n good watchword. We
arc fifty-six millions OF people, of all races
and tongues, gathered here to build such
a nation rs the founders OF the Republic
never dreamed Of. We ought TO look to
our own interests first. We ought to let
England so her own way and have free
trade il she wants it. We ought to say
once more, as We shall say at the coming
election, that honest. industrious, self.
supporting Englishmen and Irishmen and
Germans md Frenchmen-any Of them
are welcome, but that VIC don't want their
wares made on the other side TO come into
this country to take the bread out Of the
mouths OF American workinsmcn
We ought to let it DO known as our set.
tied policy for all time that we intend to
maintain on this free soil vast trades
union to protect ourselves against all
corners. Does any warm.blooled Ameri.
can citizen find himself uncomfortable on
this platform ? II so he is tho man to vote
the Democraticticket. tsEssi5ssi7f' NJ,
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