The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-11-11
PROTECTION DEMANDED.

Over 10000 more emigrants landed at
Castle Garden in September, 1886, than
In the same month Of 1886 Most of
these emigrants are Italians, Huns and
others who have been working for 20 to
GO cent per day In foreign countries.
Forty Thousand of them came over dur
Ing last month. They will find their
way into all our mills and factories;
they will build our railroads and supply
our sailing craft with crews. There Is
DO department of trade that they will
not enter at wages far below those paid
our American wOrkmen. They do not
invest capital, erect great factories and
compete with our manufacturers in
making public commodities cheaper for
the people. Very few Of them take up
farms and assist In developing the coun-
try. Almost the entire horde Is poured
into our shops and factories to underbid
our wOrkmen in the matter Of wages.
They live on the cheapest and sometimes
the filthiest food. They care little for
social, intellectual or commercial pIO-
gress but they come over here to drag
our unprotected workiDgmen down to
their own level. The manufacturer who
resorts to these foreigners when his EN-.
DlOyes ask higher wages, is protected by
high tariff. He can crush the ambi-
tion and advancement Of his employees,
for they are not protected. Fellow citi-
zen are you q shoe makerp Do you
want six cent Italian to come to your
shop begging for job? Are you a
mOulderp Do you desire to have men
Offering themselves for so cents
day to your protected employer
Are you railrOaderp Do you want
Italians to supercede yOup Are you
carpenter? Do you desire to compete
with the pauper labor of Europe, right
at your own doorP Are you a machinist,
fireman, bricklaYer, stOne-cutter, or
street railrOaderP Do you not think 1t
time that you were protected from the
pauper labOreTs who come over here to
undersell you In the labor market, as
monopoly ID pleased to term it2 This
Is question for every man Of you.
Will yOu permit yourselves to be
dragged down to the level of the emil
grant labOrers who are hOcking to this
country In unusual numbers because
our iron industries are unusually pros
porous, because our factories are gener-
ally rejoicing In extraordinary prosper
TYP Forty thousand cheap and ignor-
ant labOrers per month! Fellow work.
ingmen, isn't 1t time you had some pro-
teotive legislation Isn't 1t time you
cut party tiesp Isn't 1t about time you
stood together at the polls and voted for
men taken from your own ranks? Who
is likely to protect your interests in
Congressp Will Amos Townsend and
Geo, W. Grouse, men who pride them
selves upon their prominence as aristo-
Gratis and men of wealth, who associate
exclusively with men Interested In pro-
noting psuper competition in "the labor
MARKET" who have not the ability to
make presentation of their desires list
ened to with respect in the national
Legislature, who have never had one
thought or ambition In sympathy with
your own in all their lives? Or will you
be better represented by FOrsn, the ex
cooper, and Dorsey, the mill man? The
next Congress will be compelled to con
slider measures for the protection OF
workingmen. The wOrkingmen must
themselves determine whether they
shall be represented In that Congress
by men from their own ranks CleVe-
land Press, 26.