Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-29

Boards operate Is full OF interest Ior inc
American artisan. A case or two in point
may be cited. Last spring the Toronto
papers contained an account ofthe arrival
in that city from Winnipe, Of an EnRl
pauper, seventy years old, with his wife.
The matter was Investigated by the Mayor
Of Toronto, E. F. Clarke, and it was dis
covered that the old couple had, in the
first instance. been sent from England to
Australia by the Poor-Law Guardians Of
Sheffield. The Australians, however,
sent them back to Sheffield, and the
uardiaus then sent them to Winnipeg in
the middle of an Arctic winter. The Win
nipeggers sent them to Toronto and Toron-
to shipped them to Buffalo In May last q
number of left-handed Iivsters were sent
out to Toronto by the Guardians of Leeds.
In the minute subdivision of labor prevail
ing in England these men had been trained
TO use the left hand only in the boiler
shops, and were quite unable to work with
their right hands. The Toronto people,
having nothing for them to do, sent them
to Cleveland, o., where they are probably
to be found to day, bearing witness in their
own persons to the fact that neither the
American nor the Canadian artisans are
protected by their
RESPECTIVE PROTECTIVE TARIFFS.
1t would be easy to multiply instances
Of this kind. At the present moment q
plumbers strike is in progress in Toronto,
and the protected employers are bringing
plumbers from New York City, Detroit
aud ether places in the States to "beat"
the strikers. There is also trouble among
the shsnty-men in certain lumber districts
in Northern Michigan, and the protected
l1mbermen there are fetching choppers and
drive men from Lower Canada
to 'beaf' that strike: 1t is
Labor Council of the Province of Ontario,
where protection is seen at its best, is solid
against the fraud upon the workingmen
that is involved in protection. The tariff
has increased the cost of the necessaries of
life in Canada by about 25 per cent. 1t
discriminates against the poor man by i'm
posing specific duties on the coarser and
heavier kinds Of cloth, while the broad
cloth, which weighs much less, pays no
more. 1t has even increased rents, By ex
alting the price of iron and other building
material. But it does not add cent to
the rate of wages. In these few trades in
which wages have risen the rise has bsen
due, not TO the Canadian tariff, but to the
efforts of organized labor itself, struggling
against the free importation OF foreign
hands.
Sir Jshn Macdonald, the father of pro-
lection in Canada, is kept in office by the
money of protected manufactures, At
recent general election he summoned them
together and told them he was farmer
shaking apples from tree for the benefit
of q number Of
HOGS GRUNTING BENEATH.
This coarse simiIs Implied that the
manufacturers were tbs hogs, yet they
took it in good part and yielded fat in
abundance. The days OF Sir Johns
regime are drawing to close, however
What the great msiority OF Canadians de-
sire il commercial union with the States,
/. e., the obliteration Of the customs
line between the two countries. Eng
land will doubtless resist this measure,
since it would give the whole trade OF
Canada, as far as her import OF manu-
factured goods is concerned, to the |
Americans bat her opposition will not
amount to much. Commercial union would
be good for Canada, because it would give
us cheaper goods and supply US with mar
ket for our natural products, which are now
taxed on entering the States. American
goods are cheaper than Canadian goods, not
because of a higher tariff, but simply be-
cause, owing to the vastuess of the Ameri-
can market, the American manufacturer is
able to introduce q specialization or sub
division of labor and machinery into his
factory, whereas in a small market like that
of Canada tfe home manufacturer is unable
to resort to that process Commercial union
would be good for the United States because
it would give the American manufacturer
q market Of five million customers. There
are q million Canadians in the United
States. OF these considerable proportion
will cast presi 1entisl ballot for the first
time in November, and 80 per cent. of
these will vote for Mr.. Cleveland. They
will vote for him because they know from
the experience of Canada that high tariff
benefits the few at the expense ofthe many,
and also because they believe that Mr..
Cleveland and his party are more likely to
enter into an arrangement for the establish
meat of commercial union than the Repub-
Ecana