Daily Republican., 1886-05-04
why Cannot Wsrlkmen Sec nj

A despatch from Berlin, Prussia, OF /
May 2, says that the exports from
portion OF Northern Germany TO
America during the first quarter OF
1886 amounted to 81, 25e, 900, against |
IS, Szs. eco during the same period In
1885. The exports from Southern and
Western Germany during the same |
period also exceeded those OF the corre- |
spondlng quarter last year. Naturally
the inquiry should be, why are these
exports made to this country? and pro.
oeeding further the next inquiry should
be. Why cannot American industries
supply the wants these exports fill?
Thk Il o q aestion for American work
men 10 ponder over. Many Of them
are out Of employment and thousands
ara out on strikes for higher wages-
How can they expect an increase OF
employment and an increase OF wages
with one section Of Germany alone
shipping exports TO this country Mt the
rate Of $l1, 250, 800 per quarter? Thrs
is 90 much labor taken away from
American worizmen. The heaviest
shlpments from Germany to this
county are steel and iron, and yet our
own mountains, hills and valleys tenn
With coal and iron ore. Why then
these exports from Northern Germany?
oimply because labor 10 cheaper in
Germany, a0d steel and iron can be
manufactured there and shipped 60 this
country cheaper than 1t oAn be manu-
factured here, and this even after pay
ing the tariff duties imposed by the
United States. Yet in the face OF all
this what do we see In our American
Congress7 Let American workingmen
look and see for themselves. Who has
spent nearly the whole of the present
Congress In an attempt to lessen the
tariff duties on imported goods that
they may be brought into the country
Mt q still lower rate to undermine
American labor and American indus
tries7 1t Is certainly known by every
laborer In the United States that fol
every skipload of exports landed on oui
shores there will be just that much les'
labor In this country. Who are they
but Morrison and Carlisle, backed uf
by nearly the whole Democratic party
In an efort to reduce the tariff Only
q handful OF Democrats led by Randall
by solid Republican vote Of Congress
this dastArdly t1sult to American labo
will be averted by the defeat Of tb
free-trAders. The most hUmNiatinI
spectacle Is to see 80 many thousand
of American woEkmen now oat OF
strikes for higher wages, voting solldl!
for the party that favors England ant
German manufactures more thai
American home manufactures. b.
their actions they say, In substance
we want work and we want NOR
wages, but rather than break with on
party that favors foreign manufactures
and labor more than Us we will con
tinue voting away the labor that shout
be ours to foreign laborers.
When will American workme
arouse to their true interests? NJ
until they learn to break with the
political parties b easily AS they brea
with their employers Not until the
learn to march out from party thI
Expresses them with the same freedom
that they would march ont from a
employer that Expresses them. NJ
until they leran to vote for themselv'
with the same freedom that they woul
strike for themselves. Not until the
learn to vote against free trade as freel
as they talk against it.
Do not American workmen see thi
1t Is not to their interest to have Il
tariff on imported goods reduced? L
they not see that the Democratic par
In Congress, with the exception OF
score of Randall's followers, is 6ghtii
to reduce the tariff? Do they not kno
that their interests are to have the tar
raised instead of lowered? KNOWN
these things, how then can they su
port a party whose actions and fr
trade principles are at variance wi
their own interests? Let workingm
ponder on these things and be cons
tent.