Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-19

policy is palpable, but the absurdity is
equally positive, though not so palpable,
in every case wherein nations discourage |
the industries for which they are best |
adapted in order to create others for
which they are less fitted.
"Protection, therefore, does not pro-
mote native industry, but simply dis
places it from profitable to improbable
work. We have dwelt at some length on
this topic because the fallacy of the pro-
tectionist proposition is not Immediately
obvious, and many honest inquirers have
been temporarily misled by it. The key
to its solution is in the fact that just in
the proportion that country curt3ils its
| imports, in that same proportion it cur
tails its exports. To sum up, the truth
is that protection discourages native in
dustry, by closing profitable channels for
its exercise and substituting for them un-
profitable ones"
From the circumstances of the case.
then, and from the facts of history, we are
brought to the certainty that the lower
ing of the tariff will not lower wages
and, on the other hand, the making free of
raw material must advance them.
There is another principle which oper-
ates against the laborer, that it is well to
considerable tendency that always ex-
lists of the over-strong to take advantage
of the weak. You protect your manu-
facturer so that he becomes very rich, as
Carnegie has or others. You have given
him a weapon and a most affective one,
the power of wealth, to wrest from his
, employees their fair share of the profits.
Do you think he'll use it? Do you think
he does use it now? "To him that hath
, shall be given, and from him that hath
not shall be taken away, even that which
he hath"
, Were the claim that they wish to pro-
tect labor, made by Mr.. Blaine and 9TH
err Republican speakers 1--WE do not think
Mr.. Stewart made it, he is too honest,
, any more does he that tariff makes a
. thingl cheaper. He says he has heard
+ Mr.. Eaton say so. He doesn't say so
a
says soda ash went down after a tariff OF
!, s. a ton was put on it. He doesn't say
, it went down because of the tariff; he
, won't; he is too honest by nature, and
q from nature Mr.. Stewart is an honest
: man. He has made an ingenious plea fol-
!, his side, about as well as it could be done
! for he is able as well as honest, and ht
n won't do any more) sincere, they would
Il place their tax on labor; keep out o.
J. make difficult to come in the vast immi
6 grafton which now seeks our shores, ant
q that would seem to be surely lowerin.
the price of labor in this country toward
a European level.
q My own attention was recently called t.
= the effect of this immigration upon labo
= in Vermont, in conversation with Mr.
Morrill, of Swanton, who owns the Ma
p guam House, including 600 acres of eX
~ celent land with it, and another larg
: farm in Swanton of 400 acres. He tol,
- me he had been accustomed to hire mel
Il by the year at about SIS per month t.
l, work on his farms. This labor cam
"a largely from Canada, but was to be ha,
IA in part at Swanton. AS work was plen
~ ty and laborers not over plenty, his EN-
# ployees were pretty independent and an
= noyed him occasionally with demands TO
holidays, etc, so that about five year
r ago he went to New York and hired a
f., Castle Garden fifteen newly-landed em
a grants, mostly Germans, who could no
a. speak English, at $40 month by tn
"a year; the first months wages to be deduC
~ ted for expense of their passage to Vel
r. mont He said the men gave so goo
e satisfaction that his neighbors arrange
n with him the next year to 60 again t
g. Castle Garden and hire for them. Tn
o. arrangement was, that he should hav
10 SIS for each man he hired; and in tn
n whole now he had so hired and brougf
" to Vermont over 300 men of different nj
r. tionalities and all at same wages, SO
p month by the year, the first month
r. wages deducted for passage to Vernon
r Mr.. Stewart quits the laborer and pay
" his respects to internal revenue, which
ce he says, he is opposed to as contrary I
be the spirit of our government. Does /
e. mean by this that he is in favor of takin
H. the tax off from whiskey?
of He says the Republican platforl
t. doesn't mean free whiskey. viii he tie
is us what he means, and then after he hi
he done that, what the platform means? "
he are quite anxious to get his exact answer
n to these questions. But he says he
d. chiefly opposed to internal taxes becau,
they make possible the existence of II
on whskey trust.
he Mr.. Blaine says that trusts are largel
on private affairs with which no one has an
)y particular right to interfere. 1t strik,
er US that if there is any trust that we ca