The St. Johns herald., 1888-09-13
4 Chance for Blaine.

SttFitsfe ~to meet t~ffttif III a iCfiIL uic- cussion oil tariff reform as repre- sented by the Mills bill, the New York World gives him an elegant chance. to air his eloquence in its columns, as follows:
 To Jas. G. Blaine, Augusta, Me Sir: You are engaged in deludipg the wnrkmen of this country into T belief that protection Is the bull wark of their high wages, and that 1t is the cause of the difference be- tween wages in this country and England. You appeal solely to their ignorance of economic facts, their fears of the threatening fu- ture, their passion with an increas- ing hard condition, and their race prejudice against whatever is for eign
 The World challenges you to app peal to their intelligence, and to submit to five hundred thousand Democratic readers open to oonvic- ton any facts and any evidence you can offer to prove your asser- ton true. f1&1
 7TlIe World particularly chal lengcs you to explain how much ol their high wages in unprotected in- dustries Is due to protection and how much to its intrinsic worth ; whether the lowest wages paid in the protected industries of one state is the best, that protection can do for the protected workmen of the whole country and how, apart from intelligence and skill, protection can prevent the reduction of wages of the protected white worker in
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 the New England cotton mills to the level of the wages paid to the protected colored worker in the southwestern cotton mills, which is now less than the wages paid the white English or Scotch 'pauper,"
 The World particularly challenges. you to show by facts and reason how l,rotection can preventthe high wages paid in ans protected indus try in any one Slate, from falling 10 tue levelof the lowest wages paid the protected worker in that indus try in any qther state; how it can. prevent these lowest wages frot going any lower; and how much higher the lowest wages in protect ed industries are here under pro lection than they are in the same industries, on the average, in Eng land, Scotland or Wales under free trade"
 Its readers are Democrats, intel ligeQt Democrats, who prefer to vote right than te be postnlasters. They number enough in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to control the vote of those states and decide Inc presidential election. lis cul- umns have been open to every Re publican who had n fact to present to their attention. It has invited the editors of the twelve leading Republican newspapers of the coun- fry to give its readers their reasons for desiring to check imp 'rts. and it now offers you an opportunity to convince five hundred thousand .Democrats that what you say about protection being the bulwark of our high wages is true and not p1liticaI claptrap, intended merely to fool the boys.
 No Republican paper in all the land dare open it's columns to an argument in favor of the Democrat ic p plsition on tariff reform, or per init its readers to even know what it is. The Democratic readers of the World want to know, and the World wants them to know, all that can be s;Iid in advocacy or defense of the Republican position.
 If you do not accept this chal- lenge yeu-know what the readers oi 1 the World. and all intelligent Re