The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-19
How is the LabOrer Proteoted9

Inc only place on the lace VI Iuo
earth where the laboring man is as re-
spectacle as the kid-glOve millionaire is
the United States. The only place
where,he can achieve.the highest hOnors
and climb to the Hottest stations is
here. 1t is because our law has pretec-
ted labor. Go to free trade England
and see him humbled and impoVerish-
ed and spat upon-and not a ray of
hope that his condition may be better,
and the absolute certainty that his
children must be drudges and slaves
/ until they die. What immOderate folly
it would be in us to abolish the tariff
laws that protect our laborers and give
them a chance to rise above want.
Theorize as you please, these great facts
stand out in bold justification OF pro-
tective tariff. II we inaugurate free
trade we enslave the laboring people.
Remember it, ye sons Of toll, when you
come to cast your vote.--Pulaski CIT
ZEN.
Will the CITIZEN take it amiss II we
ask for the law protecting laborP We
know the law protects the manufactu-
rer, but we want information asto the
other. We have heard it stated time
and again that there was no law pro-
tecting the wage worker and we have
never heard otherwise until now.
Lawrence Democrat.
The tariff laws are purely for rev.
enue. When you see it SAID that
the law protects this or that thing
or person it necessarily means that
it incidentally protects. Protection
per Sc could not be afforded by law
because it has no warrant in the
constitution, and the most ultra
protectionists say 80. We grant
you, however, that the incident is Of
tentimes the object of the law.
The tariff laws are purely for reve-
nue., but the laying of the tariff
frequently produces results of more
Importance than the amount of rev
enue involved. The law is not
made to protect the manufacturer
nor the laborer, but the effect OF
the law protects both. We grant
you further that different and dia-
metric results can be predicated OF
the same facts, so abstruse and
hard to determine are the princi
pies that underlie. There is per
haps more sophistry and apparently
sound philosophical bosh written
and said about the effects of the
tariff than any other subject. We
might theorize and deduce and cor
olateifor month and not find the
truth, but when we let the problem
= work itself out in actual experiment
we learn the truth. Free trade has
ground its grist in England, ane
protection (incidental) has produc
ed its results in the United States
Compare the actual facts and re
suits and they will explode as il
with dynamite some of the most ar
tistic, learned, rock bottomed dem
onstrations that have exuded from
the bushels Of brains that have
wrought upon this problem. We
have stated the prime facts Of diff
ference in the beginning article
above. Laborers in England art
? ground to powder. Women whee
coal in the mines clothed only fren
the waist down. Children Of labo
= rers work and suffer from the era
, die up. Men labor and strive anC
suffer from boyhood to old age
all for a pittsnce. Wages are 81
terribly low that an extra penny il
never saved and there is "perpetua
bondage" written on the besmeareC
{ brow of every common laborer. A
, man and his wife and children, nc
matter how high their aspiration:
nor tender their feelings, once
caught in the tolls Of labor and pow
erty are forever doomed to misery
If you doubt these facts, send ter
cents to Jas. r. Osgood & Co., Bos
ton, for "Protection and Free
Trade" by Robert L. Porter.
How is it in this country? II
needs No answer. This is the ha-
ven of the toiler. Our incidental
! protection is his bow of promise
The pick man in the mine may be-
come the Mackey millionaire, land the
tailor may get off his bench into
the presidents chair.
Have we answered you? II is
the effect Of the law that protects
the laborer. The letter of the law is
for revenue.