The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-10-30
Same questions for protectionists.


Mr.. Blaine has been through Pennsylvania
talking of the beauties of Protection" to the
mechanics. miners and others engaged IN
manual labor, and the opponents OF a tarin
for protection have distributed among the
same people cards bearing the following:
ASH Mr.. Blaine, when he talks about the
blessings of protective tariff;
Why million men have been out of work
under it?
Why Pennsylvania miners lost rs days
work in 1884 and Ill days work IN 1850
REPORT of Pennsylvania Bureau OF industrial
Statistics.
Why they get only $40 month, and pay out
of that 81. SO for tools, sharpening, powder and
oil? Petition of Clear6eld county miners to
Gov Pattison, April, 1886.
Why some Pennsylvania laborers work for
so cents day.
Why he talks about child labor in England,
when slate pickers, Z to 10 years old, are
working under the rod in Pennsylvama!
Henry George in North American REVIEW,
October, 1886.
Why Pennsylvania operatives pay 80
month for company houses, when Engiisn
operators get cottage for $50 year!
How protection protects workingmen when
Italians and Hungarians come in duty free?
WHY cotton operatives in Massachusetts
work 60 hours, and in other New England
States Sc and 90 hours a week, while English
operatives work only Sc? [Seeretary Blaine s
Reports ON Foreign Labor, 1881.
Why the poorer American spinners get
81. 07 and the poorer English spinners $40
week, though the American makes q yards
ofcioth to the English q? [Secretary Blaine's
Reports on Foreign Labor, 1881.
Wby wages under the high protective tariffs
of Italy and Germany are about half what they
Gtcraa fradaf ENGLAND.
Why the condition of the miner has for
some years been growing worse in Pennsyl-
vania and better in Great BritainT Henry
George in North American Review, October,
1886.
Why SIN the very occupations Which we so
tax ourselves to protect the English work
man has, as rule, the advantageT Henry
George in North American Review, October,
1886.
WHY workingmen earn higher day wages
in UNPROTECTED than in protected industries
Why ''the importation of wooden and
worsted cloths is increasing at a fearful rate,
while our own weavers are thrown out of EN-.
ployment?" Memorial to Congress OF 40, 600
Pennsylvania wooden operatives, 1886.
What good is a tariff to workingmen when
American factories pay only $3.50 wages for a
niece of ingram carpet on which the duty
would be $21? Memorial to Congress of
&C, 900 Pennsylvania wooden operatives, 1886.
What is the use of tariff when Lynn shoe
factories, paying nearly double day wages, can
produce for 33 cents labor pair of shoes
costing so cents to make in England.
Why wool averaged % cents in high tariff
times and 81 cents in low tariff years, though
blankets were much higher under high tariff?
Why we sold only S776, 900 of wooden goods
to countries where England sold oyer Sll5,-
O0O, 900 in 1885?
Why, with navigation laws and protective
tariffs, only II instead of 80 per cent. las OF
old) of our commerce is carried by American
ships?
Why blankets are taxed II per cent. and
thread lace only 80? Why necessities bear
heavy duties and luxuries light?
Why savings bank deposits increased IA per
cent. a year, 1860, under low tariff, and
only per cent. a year, 1e60-85, under high
tariff?
Why, when the Republican Tariff Commits,
sion recommended at least 20 per cent. reduo-
ton, the conference bill'' raised the average
of duties, so that they were 4G instead of 4s
per cent. in 1885?
"Tell the truth, Mr.. Blaine 1t is better
to be right than to be President"
Said Ralph Beaumont in Knights OF
Labor meeting: "For twenty-five years view
had this protection Mr.. Blaine offers us,
and we have made more millienaires and more
paupers under that system than were ever
made in a civilized country on the earth in the
same time before"