The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-09-22
Republicans, Can You Controvert
These Propositions.

Soap is protected SO in every 500 worth manu-
featured. For producing 500 worth OF soap the
laborer gets s..
For making 500 worth of linseed oil the laborsr
gets So and there is sS5 worth of protection in siJ
worth of oil.
The labor cost of 500 worth of envelopes ST. hut
envelopes protected SO in every $40 worth man
ufactured.
Paper bags are protected SIC in every 500 worth
produced, and for making 500 worth the labt rel
gets only sl5
In making 500 worth of nails SD is spent in la
but the manufacturer of nails is protected So on
every 500 worth produced.
In making 500 worth of pig iron from ore manu-
acturers paw SIS for labor but they get tariff pro-
lection Of SIS on every 500 worth Of they make
Salt is protected $50 in ever 500 worth prod iced
ana the labor cost of every 500 worth is SIS.
Wool is protected 81 in every 500 worth prod1c-
ed and the labor involved in its production is moi
over IS in every 500.
People who labor in steel mills get S. for the labor
of making 500 worth of Bessemer steel, and YET
there tariff protection ofSi6 on every 500 worth
of Bessemer steel.
worth produced and not cent of it goes TO anybody
in this country for wages, as we do not make tin
plate at all.
These are correct figures and true statements;
plainly stated in PLAIN way, easily to be
derstanded of the people What do they mean?
That the tariff on soap might be reduced SIG on
every 500 worth made, and that amount saved TO
the consumers without touching the wages of opera
tves in soap factories; linseed oil $50 the $780,
envelopes So on the sl00; nails S11 the 500: iron
SO on the $780, steel 81 the 500. All these
auctions could be made and these sums saved to
consumers, and enough tariff protection would be
left TO maintain the present prices of American
labor because these sums are the tariff taxes charg
ed on these fabrics and above the labor cost of
producing them;-that is, S13S could be saved every
lime 500 worth of these seven articles are used by
the people, and the workingmen in the factories
that make them get the same wages they do aow
And while q tariff tax equal to the labor cost of
producing these articles is maintained there can be
no free trude in such articles.
Now in the Mills tariff bill all these articles ne
cessaries of life or indispensable in business are
protected far above the labor cost of producing them
in the United States except tin, salt and WOOL which
are made free. Under the Mills tariff BILL American
manufacturers might pay double the wages they do
to their operatives, and still be protected, while to
the consumers land every operative in factory is
consumer of the products of other factories there
would be saving OF, say SOS in 500 expended.
Tin, salt and wool are put the free list in the
Mills bill. Why?
Wool is made free to enable our wooden industries
to double their home product, to give increased
wages to labor. increased profits TO capital and 20
per cent. cheaper woolens to consumers.
Tin is made free because we have no labor engage
ed in its manufacture and because tax upon Il is
q needless tax upon the common necesSaries of
every workingman of the land.
Salt made free because is used in every family
bred an extortionae monopoly trust that robs every
table in the entire country
The Democratic party, through its tariff legisla-
ton as embodied in the Mills bill, holds that the
wages of American labor should be fully protected
the protection of wages of workingmen, are simply
projection to monopoies which employ free trade
cheap labor and give American labor high taxes and
low wages.