Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-11
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FREE TRADE s. ROT.O
How a Man VIII Get His Things Cheap
But Labor Must Pay the Difference.

But Labor Must Pay the Difference.
from the Indianapolis Journall
Mr.. Bigham, Democratic candidate for
the Legislature from this county, is dis
tributing an electioneering card with the
threadbare lingo printed on it which
British free trader invented so years ago.
Every Democratic whipper-snapper who
has not sense enough to tell why he is
free trader resorts to this petty jargon, as
if it were something new and really worth
reading. We give Mr.. Bigham the bene-
fit of his plagiarism, and add to it the
logical result which he and all his con-
freres always omit. Mr.. B;gham's card
ends as follows:
Behold, then, the happy laborer, as he
rises in the morning and puts on his fan
mel shirt, taxed 50 per cent. 1t is, per-
chance, cool, and he puts on coat taxed
81 per cent. He cannot go out without
shoes, taxed 30 per cent, and the hat he
puts on is taxed 90 per cent. He draws
water in a bucket taxed 65 per cent, and
washes his hands and face in tin bowl
taxed 35 per cent, drying them on cheap
cotton towel taxed As per cent. But still
more happiness is in store. He sits down
to breakfast and eats from plate taxed so
| per cent, with knife and fork taxed So
per cent. The sugar he puts in his coffee
is taxed 80 per cent, and he seasons his
| food with salt taxed 40 per cent. He
looks fondly at his happy wife and child
ren, who share with him his protection,
and then he goes out and fills his pipe with
tobacco taxed 102 per cent, or lights a
protected cigar taxed lis per cent, and
proceeds to his highly protected labor.
The days work being done he reads a
chapter from the family Bible taxed %
per cent, and kneels to pray on an humble
carpet taxed 81 per cent At last he lies
down and wraps his weary limbs in sheet
taxed AZ per cent. and sinks into the arms
Of Morpheus under blanket that is taxed
104 per cent. The Democratic party is
the only avenue of escape from this unjust
system of taxation, which menaces the
prosperity of our country and home"
Mr.. Bigham should have added, 81 am
therefore in favor of abolishing the tariff
on imported flannel shirts woolen goods
shoes, hats, buckets, tin bowls, cotton tow.
els and cloths, plates, knives and forks
sugar, salt, tobacco, carpets and blankets
This will enable me to buy the above i'm
ported articles very cheap. | want tC
buy them cheap. l prefer to rob the la
borer of my own country of his goot
wages rather than be compelled to con
tribute to the wages being paid to him
When this is done the happy Mr.. Bigham
when he rises in the morning, will put OF
flannel shirt made by pauper labor at 81
cents day. If it is, perchance, cool, ht
will put on a coat made by pauper labor a
81 cents day. He cannot 90 withou
shoes, so he will put on pair made BY
pauper labor at 40 cents a day. He put
on a hat made by pauper labor at SO cent
a day. He draws water in bucket mad
by pauper labor at 30 cents a day, anC
washes his face in tin bowl made by pau
per labor at 40 cents day, and dries it OF
a cheap cotton towel made by pauper labo
at 20 cents a day. Mr.. Bigham il
still not happy, until he sits down at
breakfast and gazes upon plate made b,
pauper labor at 80 cents a day, and eats will
knife and fork made be pauper labo
at 80 cents day. The sugar he puts il
, his coffee is made by slave labor, an,
this makes him happy, for it reminds hin
; of the good old Democratic days An,
the salt that he seasons his food with i
: produced with labor at Is cents day
Mr.. Bingham looks fondly at his happ
wife and children to think that American
workingmen are reduced to the starvin
. wages paid to pauper labor, and goes ou
and fills his pipe with tobacco produced b
the unpaid labor of the black man. An
the days work being done, he reads
chapter from the family Bible which wa
5 printed and bound by the pauper labor {
t Europe, and kneels down to pray on hi
carpet, which was woven by some unpai
f pauper, and thanks his God that he has re
, duced the American workingman to tn
. level of the pauper labor of Europe A
/ last he lies down and wraps his wear
r limbs in a sheet made by pauper labor q
20 cents day, under blanket that
made by pauper labor at 3S cents da,
and while sleeping he dreams, and in tn
dream he sees the millions of artisans an
laborers of America whom he has reduce
! u to starvation passing in ghostly forms bt
= fore him. He awakens to say, "This, il
i deed, is the happy Democratic season 70
! which | have so long prayed"