Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-30
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and 81, 1855, 925 ISL kept to
home market There were
~ engaged in making it
pplying the home market
supplying the surplus for
tas fair, proPortiopately,
sunt OF labor il required
60 81 worth of grain-it
. a. there has been q fall
ired the labor of 1,Si6, 22s
&C the 1923, 073, 1913 sur
t year and exchanged for
IT'S. II the other products
petroleum and other in
in the same proportion, and
ne way or the other can only
then 2, AL, 051 persons were
axe the WHOLE surplus ex-
our imports is to deprive
the 2, AL ,05l worknien Of his
)loyment.
.ck" our imports is TO deprive
their employment in the exact
lie check. A CHECK" of 10 per
means that 10 per cent. of these
zen, or pa, los, shall be deprived OF
ing. A CHECK" of 40 per cent.
ans that 976, 420 persons shall be dis
larged from work. A CHECK" Of about
Oper cent.-tbe least that the most liberal
reading of the Republican platform can as
sume-nesns the discharge of 1855, $40
persons now engaged in profitable and nm
protected employment.
WHY SHOULD OUR EXPORTS BE DE-
sTROYED?
There are 2,44l, 05l of our bread win
ners engaged in profitable employments,
and the Republican party in convention
assembled sOlemnly declares that they
shall no longer be permitted to continue at
their present labor; that their work must
cease! Why? What motive or explana-
ton can be given for such an absurd ana
prepOsterous demand?
Go back to the table showing the pay
ment they receive for their products. The
Republican platform admits all that are
not manufactured and excludes all that
are. Manufactures is the KEY to this eX
traOrdiusry proposition.
Last year our 2,4il ,05l bread-winner5
who made the surplus exported, received
payment for il mainly in manufactured
foreign goods. This payment when re
ceiyed by the producers entered into direct
and open competition with the American
manufacturers OF the same kind OF goods
The total value of the foreign manufact-
ured goods thus entering into competition
was $4l2, 279, on. A large part OF the re-
manning $3.50, $40, SOL Vas partly manu-
iactured-sugar, for example.
The doctrine laid down by the Repnbli-
can party is that il is q crime for one
American workman To enter into competl-
ton with another American workman, If
he can beat him.
The American workmen engaged in
making here products that can be made
cheaper in Europe are acting correctly
and wisely when they enter into cOmpeti-
tion with these agricultural surplus.
makers, because they cannot beat the1
and must have protection" in order to
hse-says the Republicans.
The unprotected 2,44l, 051 American
surplus-mskers can produce American
grain and meat, send it to Europe, receive
payment in European manufactured goods,
paw fine on them averaging 81 per cent +,
and even thsn undersell at a profit the
protected" American manufacturer en-
gagged in the protected American indus
tries.
This is wicked, the Republican doctrine
says, because 1.-THE logger and harder q
man has to work for dollar the better
the man is of"
OUR PROTECTED INDUSTRIES.
In all the United States there are, ac-
cOrding to the highest official estimate,
905, 535 protected" workers in about ii,
500 protected mills, whose products enter
into competition with foreigu labor. Over
80 per cent. are in fiitesn industries. Here
il the list: