The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-08-17
Because II Didn't suit HIS Partisan
PurpOse.

Why did not Mr.. Blaine point his
large audience OF industrial citizens to
the steamer City of New York, that is
American only in the name that is
borne on her flag, and tell them why he
returned in the best ship that ever float
ed on the sea, in which there is not
dollars worth of American labor or ma
ierial, and on which an American sea-
man cannot be employed and the Amer
lean flag dare not be unfurled, although
the vessel is wholly owned by Ameri-
cans.
And why did Mr.. Blaine fail to
present. with the pointed object lesson
or the British built, British manned and
Br tish-hagged steamer that is Ameri-
can only in ownership, to tell his Ameri-
can workingmen who so enthusiastically
heard and honored him. that when his
high war tariff policy was first accepted
to meet the extreme necessities OF the
government engaged in a gigantic war
American ships carried three-fourths of
our whole commerce on the seas of the
world and now carry about one-eight of
it? Nom could tell why we haye no
American ships and no American COM
merce under American flags and no
American seaman in international
trade, so concisely as Mr.. Blaine and
why was he silent on pregnant, practical
| facts which stare both commerce and
LABOR in the face, to indulge in glittering
rhetoric =?
And when Mr.. Blaine rose to accept
! the grateful homage of American labor
ers in New York he was clad in British
clothes; British woolens were in his
garments 4; British labor had made
them ; British linen glistened from lis
shirt front, collar and cuffs; a British
necktie gave grace to lis toilet, and
British underwear and hose added tC
his comfort. And why did he not point
to own apparel and make it an object
lesson in favor OF American labor ? He
knows that we have matchless skill in
! American labor that we have the best
machinery of the world of American
invention and American construction,
and yet he and most of his thousands OF
hearers were clad in British fabrics
| which are taxed from 40 10 so per cent
ostensibly to protect our labor.
Mr.. Blaine must know that American
laborers have free schools and free news
papers that they read, think and acl
for themselves, and why did he not de-
\ clare for American labor and American
mills making the woolens we wear, in
stead of taxing consumers over 60 pei
cent. and giving British mills and
! British labor the advantage in ouI
American markets No man could have
told In clearer or more fascinating die
tion why he and his hearers were large
| ly clad in British garments while de
nouncing British policy and British
industries, and why did he rot do it
II he had simply said-'Eugland gives
tree raw materials to her mills and la
Dor, while we continue war taxes OF
our mills and labor aud deprive them o
their home markets." he would hav,
told the whole story.
With Mr.. Blaine, and probably on hi!
/ magnificent British -buil., British
manuel and British-fl4gged American
owned ship. came Britons, Huns, Ital-
ians. Portuguese, Poles and other FIRE,
! trade imported cheap labor to enter tn,
race with legitimate American labor in
our highly protected and highly taxeC
! American mills. While the British
clad multitude was shouting huzzas o
| welcome to British-clad Mr. Blaine ant
he was eulog;Zing American labor tha
his tariff policy overtaXes and under
pays. q very Babel OF confused tongue
might have been heard at Castle Gar
den. free trade imports of cheap labo
to steal the labor OF our mills and mine
and drive the legitimate America
workingmen into idleness and starva
tion, and why? Solely because MI
Blaine's high war tariff taxes protec
monopoly only and oppress and degrad
| legitimate labor.-Phild. Times.