The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-01-11

| SppbN VIM III lSuSlbuNl MODi l COsl, Al
| III 81, $500, n there the retail " can
| buy direct from the manufacturer,
| would cost here the two profits. ard
would be- sold at s 81. With but one
profit aud the tar II they would co
SO O6. AT this price the working
| people OF the great cities can some
| times buy with cash ~ spare and lob
lots" but usually, as they buy AZ the
nearest store, ard often on credit
| they nay the same prices thu farmers
| do, aud get for 1872 the same flannel
that Is re Il ID abroad y; $500. As
la IA the tl4nnCl is Concerned the
workingman' wages must be $40
here when they are 81 IL abroad, to
have the same purchasing power. Ii
he bought direct from the importer
he must pay 5000 Instead Of the So =
CO. and his $40 would buy AS much A.
S. "a then.
II, then, he buys these goods across
the counter in town that has wool
en- factory, tn Y are sold in open com
petition with the dome tic fabric,
both IA to price an1 qGality. 1t soils
OIL the loom to the ghborhood, and
from thu very wOrkmcu that the tariff
DlOAtCLS CNnClS tNtlO 81 VIZ VI lltst
profits. Wages abroad of but So TO
our SIS h We equal purchasing power
of this flannel.
Who is protected here, the flannel
wearer or the flannel alcr? The tau
i'll averages AZ per cent, that of the
flannel is 6S per cent The average
purchasing power of money here and
abroad is in that proportion, AID the
dollar, worth to buy with, 100 cents in
f Il md. is here worth ouly - cents
in purchase 1T every Commod ~ that
is competed with by foreig n maui
factdrcs that pours over the walls
of the ta,iti. SO protection makes
the Establishments hall Crown aud the
Frenchman's three francs equal III
value there TO the { lin on Which cur
protects have stamped the legend for
our nsiderstlon, an God we tCust.'
What organ of the protects dare
say that the difference il wages is
greater than this? l. it not pl in
that the wagc-carner's IN adlcum is
the same il Intrinsic value every
whore? The cOa' that raises sieNm
| ha9 lt- price regulated by the symc
| law. for labor. like coal, is hut mar
k tabl commodity. We're coal tree,
ii must s'ili be higher here if the
mircrs hCld to the American standard
of living, for still the mi4er must
have wages that ensbla him to pay.
beside the natural price, tn, add d
tax OF tn tariff This miner csc 4pes
the tariff tx. His waves forbid him
| to be consum r Tie foreign S AL
dad of living is imported With h III.
The accepted andard fixes every
whore the rat as wages. Every i'm
pnItAtiDn from where this stauda q
is lower, deb lses the level CT Amcri-
eau labor. For such thu protects rake
the world, and ,ntract labor i'm
ported is all the projection the wage
earners of America get from the
tariff
In voting this tariff thu patriotism
aud al ruiSm OF the farmer were alike
played upon by the demNgogue The
prot eli II is the same IN { The oak
gives the grass a, It's roofs.
But as yet the farmers here can
employ themselves, Their vote can
noI ne so controlled. Because lawyers
leg slate for the cou try, "A d repre-
sent their clients, not their c0nst tn
ents. the farmers do'l1r has not been
so d based. Are not these the same
breed rs of old, who Glade men with
burdrus gri0vous to be borne. and
themselves would not touch the bur
dens with one OF their fingers'
Senator Whiting suggests n chang
that the farmers should select theil
own lawmakers q; their own class
Why not! Legisl lAtion for the far
mcr's interest can injure no one. II
canuo' be protected, but it can have
| fhe hurdnus laid on / LIT ID