Nevada County picayune., 1888-08-22
ACATECHiSM FOR MONOPO-
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nopOllSlS, says tle llobcStd d' Democrat, ask the person wno solic- its you the following questions: Why 1,OO0, ,000 men have been out O. work under the high tariff:
 Why Pennsylvania miners lost l2S days work in 1880 and III days work in 1885.
 Why they get only S20 a month ald'pay out of that S2. 90 for tools. sharpening. powder, and oil?
 Why some Pennsylvania laborers work for 50c a day.
 Why slate-picNers, : to 10 years old, are working under the rod i'll Pennsylvsna;
 Why Pennsylvania operatives pay S. month for company houses when English operatives get cottage for $50 year?
 How protection protects working men when Italians and Hungarirns come in duty free:
 Why cotton operatives in Massa- chusetts work sixty hours, and in and in other New England states sixty six and sixty nine hours week, while English oper tives work only fifty six!
 Why the poorer American spinner get only s7,07 and the poorer En- g,ish spinners s7.20 a week though | the American makes 24 yards of cloth to the English S2t?
 Why the condition of the miner for some years been growing worse in Pennsylvania, and better in Great Brtaini
 Why ''in the very occupations which we so tax ourselves to protect tie English workman has, as a rule tie advantage:'
 Why workingmen corn higher day wages in unprotected than in protec- ted industres?
 Why the importation of woolen and worsted clothes is increasing at a fearful rate, while our weavcrs are thrown out of employment ~
 What good is q tariff to working men when American factories pay oaly ST. wages for a piece of in- grain carpet on which the duty would be S21?
 Why wool averaged 2Sc in high tariff times and 32 in low tariff years though the blankets were much high e under the tariff:
 Why blankets are taxed v per cent aud thread lace only 30? Why nee essities bear heavy duties, and luXu- ries light:
 Why saving bank deposits increas- ei IL per cent year, lS45-GO. un der low tariff, and only & per cent d year, ls60-Ss, under high tariff
 Why. when the republican tariff commission recommended at least 20 per cent reduction, the "cOnference bill" raised the average of duties so that they were 46 instead of 43 per cent in 1885.
 Why, as Ralph Beaumont said in q Knights of Labor meeting, during the D years we've had this protec- nion we have made more millionaires aId more paupers under that system than were ever made in civilized country on the earth in the same { me before:
 Why, while England had q high tariff its wage-workers were no bet ter than SO many slaves.
 Why the working people of Lon don thirty years ago marched en nrasse to the doors of parliament house and with the cry of bread or blood" compelled the repeal of the English tariff:
 Why Daniel O'conneil, the ''ir- 1 ; h Gharator - uuitod with Richard tobden in denouncing "protection a, fraud:
 Why formerly under a high tari if l in England, there were bread riots, the people starving and the aristo- cracy alone amassing wealth;
 Why wages in frce-trade England are almost douple what they are in rotectionist Germany, France, Ita- ply, Spain and Russia
 Why free-trade England is the market for the surplus of the Amer ( an farmers, which amounted last year to S523, ,0oO, ,00O;
 Why there is more money in free trade England than in any other country in the world;
 Why English capital builds rail roads iron mills and steel works in { protectonist America: