The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-03

government? If a foreign manufacturer
ships to New York one hundred dollars
worth of blankets, blankets worth one hun.
dred dollars in London, and upon their
arrival he pays five per cent. insurance,
five per cent. transportation and sixty per
blankets are unloaded that they represent
Five per cent. Insurance ....... S 90
transportation .......... ......-..+"..... 8 90
Tariff. 60 90
Iotai $40 %
To this of course must be added the profit
Of the seller, say 10 per cent, making S1S7.
Now when the blankets are sold to the
man who uses them the consumer for SIS7
they can't be sold for less without a loss)
will any sane man say that the consumer
don't pay original cost, freight, insurance
and tariff? If any man says no, then
civilization Is a failure and the public
schools ought to be abolished. You can't
humbug the people any lOnger-their eyes
are opened. Instead Of removing this
tariff, thereby making these blankets cost
500 less than now, our republican friends
solve the problem by giving US free whisky.
Col. lngersoll, the great republican orator,
Harrison. He sends aifriend a bottle Of
whisky accompanied by the following
p%anegyric:
INGERsoLL's WHISKY PANEGYRIc.
SEND you some OF the most wonderful whisky
that ever drove the skeleton from y feast or paint
ed landscapes 10 the brain of man. 1t Is the min.
gled souls Of wheat and corn. 10 1t you will end
the sunshine and shadow that chase each other
over the billowy fields, the breath Of June, the
carol OF the lark, the eve Of the night, the wealth
of summer, and autumns rich content-all golden
with Imprisoned light. brink II, and you will
hear the voice of men aud maidens singing the
Harvest Home mingled with the laughter of
blood the stsriit dswns, the dreamy, tswny dasEs
of many perfect days. For forty years this liquid
10y hss been within the happy slaves of oak, long
ing TO touch the upe OF man.
MR.. TooLE's OBSERVATIONS.
My observation have been that some men
have drank it and seen stars and garters
and even snakes. Some men have drunk
it and seen homes sold under the hammer,
but few have seen the joys and experienced
the bliss painted by the poetic fancy of Col.
Ingersoll. The democratic party are not
prohibitionists neither can they stand free
whisky. AS long as we must have a trritf
Tor revenue. let whisky and tobacco help to
and at a meeting in New York to ratify
the nomination of Harrison and Morton, he
says: Mere liquor does not make drunk
enness. The moral question of the whole
thing is to have the burden of government
rest as lightly as possible. Temperance
think that if the Mississippi river ran pure
whisky and the banks were loaf sugar, and
the flats grew mint, and the bushes were tea
spoons and tumblers there would be any
more drunken men than now. L am per-
fectly willing to have those who wear for
eign velvets and drink chatua yQuem pay
the taxes, but l do not want the fellow who
drinks the domestic article
TAXED N CENT.
For some cause the silver tOngued colonel
has been pulled off by the republican com
mittee. This statement which he makes,
however, is in the keeping with the repub.
lican platform. 1t is the embodiment of
political evil; 1t Is a m0ckery and an insult
TO the Intelligence and moral sense of the
people. You want free salt, cheap cloth
picks, cheap shovels, cheap farming and
mining machinery, cheap articles for
household and kitchen use. The republi
can platform declares that no part of these
excessive war taxes laid upon the necessi-
tles q life shall ever be touched, but that
whisky shall be as free as the water in the
Mississippi river so far as government
taxes are concerned.
THE TARIFF AS 1T AFFECTS WAGES.
The republicans will never cease telling
us that tariffs make high wages, and thrust
ing under our noses the antiquated state
ment which they call argument, thai wages
are higher in this country than they are in
Europe. Does anybody deny that wages
are higher in America than in Europe?
These repeated assertions of plain histori-
cal facts remind us of
.old fashioned folk no. met with every day,
Who say an undisl uted thing in such q solemn
way"
Wages have always been high
er in this broad and free new
country than in the old oppressed
and overcrowded countries of Europe.
They were twice as high here as in Eng
land before the revolution Of l776. They
have always been relatively as much higher
as they are now alike under no tariff, low
tariff and high tariff.
THE ONLY ARGUMENT
/! eyer heard in favor OF a protective tariff
is that 1t excludes competition by the for
eign manufacturer, whereby our manufac-
turer IS enabled to enhance his price and
thereby to pay enhanced wages of those
employed In the protected industries. Let
us see il it does. The greatest projected
body can deceive you about the price of
labor in that state. The miners of this
country for the same labor are getting five
or six time the amount paid in Pennsyl-
vania. You Know that the tariff has moth
ing to do with fixing or maintaining the price
Of labor, If 1t did, wages would be the same
in the same branches of employment in
every town, city, county and state because
the tariff Is uniform in its operation upon
the same industry all over the United
States and the territories. The case seems
to me to be past argument, but let us see
- AN VoLho u
HE ENHANCES HIS PRICE
by an amount exactly or approximately
equivalent to what it costs the foreign
manufacturers to put the goods upon the
American market. In fact he adds every
time to the cost of the foreign product in
the market abroad, the items of freight, In
surance and tariff rates in order to deter
mine the amount at which he will sell his
Own product. 1t Is immaterial how many
or what comparisons of wages are insti-
tuted either among the states and ~territor-
les, as between each other or as between
them and countries abroad. The irresista-
BILE conclusion is that the rate of wages Is
not determined by its relation with other
countries, but solely by the internal condi-
tions of the country itself, the demand for
ing emplOyments ana Ine 0rganizaIiun If
labor in union for self defense. Where no
union exists and the supply of labor is full,
wages are low. have said there is moth
ing in this matter of
COMPARISON OF WAGES.
1 make the statement here and challenge
contradiction that there Is a greater differ
ence In wages in the same trades and occu-
pations between the different states and
territories of the Union and even between
the different towns In the same state, than
there Is between this country and England.
Did you ever know q manufacturer to pay
higher wages than he Is compelled to ? bid
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