The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1884-01-11

duties injnre The American working.
man n asked . New York Herald repre-.
sentative the other day. or Mr.. william
u. Mann. the weIl-khown manufacturer
Of sleeping cars. who kas for many wears
been an extensive employer OF labor.
and ID intimately acquainted with the
condition OF the working classes.
"On the contrary" WAS the PROMPT
answer, they would BE- decidedly better
on | see from the papers that wsges
ere growing less slI around here. Strikes
are threatened in the conl and iron re-
gions, and IN other places employers are
discharging their men because they can
not afford 70 keep the works going. Nov.
these poor fellows who are going on .
strike have no projections against the i'm
portation Of laborers who come 81 a.
compete with them. Manufacturer
never grumble when they zee shipload
after ehipload OF immigrants landed q
Castle Garden 10 swell the great crowd
|of Iaborers who are competing one will,
the other for . chance 10 make living
All our manufacturers are very glad q
see this sort o. free trade 60 on. Bnt II
il is suggested that the American laborer
be allowed TO bring IN wooden blanket,
free OF duty, Congress IL besieged i'm
mediately with host Of patriotic wooden
manufacturers who insist that the inter
ests' Of American industry demand Z
high tariff on wo0Ien blankets. The re-
suit y that while every man. woman and
child has 70 pay double The value OF 4
w0olen blanket IN this country II order
70 protect some man who pockets the
difference, wages ere 10 no way protected
against the competition from other coun-
tries. IL w0rkingmen could once ges
this matter straight IN their minds the,
would sweep this whole protection idea
out Of the country
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN woRKrsonKx
"But are not the American working
men better Of for receiving higher w.
ges. although they may pay more for
their goods. than those OF Europe7"
"But they don't get higher wages. II
has been my business 70 study pretty
closely this wage question, not only IN
England, but 10 every country OF Europe.
know that the EngIish mecnanic has Z
more comfortable home, better suit OF
clothes, more leisure hours and more
loose change il his pockets than HE mate
IN America in the Same grade Of work.
This q not random talk, but The roal state
OF things. AK the 1rst workman you
meet ID any Of our shops and be will
tell you how well OF he u. Compare
his condition with an Englishman's III
the same grade Of work and you conldn't
get them 20 chsnge places. The genius
of our institutions encourages : high
grade Of living. We have none OF the
distinctions OF classes that mar European|
society. "A man here - measured. not
by what bis great grandfather was, but
for what he Il intrinsically. We should,
BY every means il our power. foster this
feeling. But our tariff disc0uragcs H.
The workman who seeks 20 give bis
family the comforts his Deighbors en-|
JOY u hindered BY enormous dutiee onl
al sides from which his transatlantic
neighbors are exempt. IL be wishes to|
buy new shaw for HE wife r. be seeks
70 adorn his walls with pictures; if BEL
wants carpet for bic floor, be finds that
the cost or everything be touches IA
made artificislly dear by protective
tariG.
WHAT THE rARIrv HAS DONE.
snow, what has the tariff done for the|
Has il given him steady
work Look at the condition OF our in-|
dustries to-day and you can answer that
quickly enough Has II given him more
comforts than he would have had other-|
wise On the contrary. the condition.
Of the American laborer IL worse to-day|
than Il was before the war under 81 ell
most free trade tariff. The fact o, thcI
cost or living has gone up fully one-I
third since 1860. while the wages % la-|
Dor have not advanced but small froc-|
tion perhaps one-tenth.7
snow, on the other hand continued
NJ. Mann, "Who do the places belong to|
which our millionaires have raised n thc|
Iast Ten years2 Who are ne men that|
have forced into painful prominence the|
popular adage that the rich ere groWine|
richer. and the poor poorerr Who areI
the discouraging speclacle|
Of increasing luxury amid increasing
With the exception OF feWI
Wall street railroadcrs, you will find thai|
this little tax here, and that little taxi
there have been the means OF raising for.|
tunes to the lucky owners Or privileged
mills and factories. The sudden acquire
ment Of wealth BY host 81 manufactur.I I
ere in protected industrics u thing WE'LL
known. Every manufacturing seclionI
of the country can count Up . few euch|
who II few years have rolled up capital
enough % enable them 70 retire and|
build palaces II which % spend the re-
nainder Of their days. Now have work |
Ingmcn any reason for gratitude 70 these|
While The mills were proo-
percus these same capItalIsts wore loud