Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-09-21

mile. explains tho situation TO the farmer
and GET, b. wheat for that price, or
iruuapiV JOSS. because tho farmers mar
l'f as rc>tgctcd practically to the local
mIt. bGt where does Chicago wheat
com" from . Where j. ~ grown ana
what aw Of values determines its sell
lu- pic" r. comes from the reg ions
AZ tlr great Mort invest ii l. grown upon
the liri and fertile prarie> OF that
section. upon land that can be had al
most for the asking. or al most al cost
90 from - 70 ST. per acre, upon land
requiring no BARNARD TO make a crop,
ana where the straw Is burned Ii the
field - the easiest and cheapest way
Of getting rid OF Il. The price in the
Chicago market Is determined day by
daN. IT there j. not a corner In wheat
hY the uf'cc ut Mark Lane, London.
Hc farmer NJ Bradduck. after selling
bis Wh ct. returns To his homo and fam
iiy. lie had bought his farm at a cost Of
= 900 ltr acre. made u payment IN cash
upon -. from the savings OF wears 81
tai. and H. por. secured the deferred pay
Uenf~ hy q mort gag. hoping mat by ms
i"Ip~trv and labor upon his farm and
IFS favorable location he would make
MONEY and pay oil his mortgage at
maturity. He has sold his wheat at
ninety cents per buehcL grown upon land
which cost him 500 per acre. sown
and harN this wheat bv labor for
which hc had - pay from SD 10 s. :
per month and board. and after the
taxes upon the hand and his help are
Vl9. and other debts connected with
fine raising OF his crop are settled. lac
hud> that both ends viii not meet; that
The price he has received for his wheat
VII rot cover the cost Of production.
Discouraged. but not dishcartened. the
iHrner arises the next morning before
tne sul Is up: bitches UP his team and
IL
steel beam for some purpose on his farm.
and goes 70 the steel mill to bug 10: and
upon asking the price il told that he can
have 1t for 3.3 cents per pound, or at
the rate of So6 per ton; and ne Is FUR
tgcr Informed thar 3.3 cents per pound
tor steel beams is the uniform price 40
all the steel mills III the United States.
Now, the farmer protests that 3.3 cents
pr pound for steel beams appears to
linn t. be an cAorbitant price that
hiS boy works in the steel mill. in the
beam department, and that in figuring
over the cost of making steel beams last
night with his boy they could not make
them OUT to cost more than $50 or $50
pes ton at the mill; that SEQ per ton
gave the steel works a profit of $50 per
ton: and that he thought something must
lie wrong; what il was he did not lust
understand. but yesterday he brought
INTO town thlrty-three and one-thlrd
could only get ninety cents per bushcl
for il. or 1 IL cents per pound. the
equivalent of $50 per ton, and that this
price did not pay him the cost of raising
ii; in fact. he lost money on 1t instead
u1 making $50 per ton profit, as the
steel works did on the beams. TO meet
tie interest and pay the mortgage on
Why no should be obliged 10
Iaisc and sell seventy three bushels of
wheat. or over two tons, to enable HIM
10 purchase one ton of steel beams, cost
ing less than $50 per ton 10 produce and
make. The answer Of the sfecl-man was
that this condition of affairs all grew
out Of the pauper labor of Europe. and
The necessity of protecting home labor,
and to make q home market for the farm
cr's wheat, oats, corn, cattle and hogs.
The farmer being unable to refute this
unanswerable argument, paid 3.3 cents
per pound for his beam and departed a
Wiser man. In the evening the son NJ
turned, and. with the father. began 10
discuss the transactions of the last two
days, cndeavOring to ascertain why the
farmers wheat would only command
l IL cents per pound at the steel-works,
while the farmer had 10 pay 3.3 cents
per pound for his steel beams The
farmer feared he had made fatal mis-
take when he bought the farm. but he
had been Influenced in the purchase by
speech he had heard in the fall Of sS4,
delivered by very distinguished states
man, one Mr.. Kelley. at the opera house
in Braddock, in which that gentleman
ably set forth the advantages of pro-
lection To home labor, and eloquently
dwelt on the home market il would Gre
ate for the products of the farm, while
enhancing the wages of the mill-hands
But the son could not see the advantage
of MIR. kelley's kind Of protection, either
hc mil l. han Ii fox
the farmer. The price OF the latter's
product in the home market being rcgu-
lated by the price in Mark Lane, London.
he,Yas Of course trading in an open mar
Set, and took nothing whatever by the
so-called protection. As to his own
the tariff subsidy in the form of wages,
1t was so small as to he inappreciable
and to count for practically nothing as
AGAINST the prices he was made 10 paw
Tor the fairfield" necessaries Of life but
considering the employers share. and the
lfe. he was not so surprised that the
boss, as alleged in the newspapers,
could rent Cluny Castle. in Inverness
shire. Scotland, to spend his summers
in; and as he believed that the net prof
MS OF Carnegie Brothers, on the two items
throwing out Of account all other items
of their production, were, on 30. 600
tons of steel beams. $1,000 900, and on
1o2,99s tons of steel rails, at $40 per
ton, 81. 929, $50. or a total profit on these
two items alone of nearly So, 900, 900.
the son. with an eye to facts and figures.
declared his extreme amazement at the
proposition OF Carnegie Brothers to re-
dlce wages 10 per cent, for the wage
workers of that establishment thou chit
they might deoently leave this pitiful
percentage in the hands of that labor in
whose name and for whose alleged bene-
ut they receive the enormous bounty ex
torted from the consumers Of the United
states upon these two capital articles:
ana that while the employees not onlv
Thought they were justly entitled to this
10 per cent. they were yet fighting for a
principle dearer to them than mere dol
lars and cents. It was n principle in
Nolving not only the treat economic
problem of this age, hut of past ages.
and must be the great problem of the.
future-a fair division between labor
and capital: and if the wage-worker at
carnegie Brothers works could be forced
into sublugation by Pinkerton special
detectives. their just rights denied them.
ana the imported pauper labor of Europe
could he utilized as a means for the sub
yerSion OF their rights. he could see very
ntfie hope IN the future for the wage
worker IN this country.
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