The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-11


Bessemer steel trust On every 500 worth u
steel manufactured, pays 50 for labor. and
pockets only $40. The rubber shoe trust On
every dollars worth manufactured. j "a.
cents for labor and pockets 20 cents. We
have even . soap trust. For every dollars
worth 81 soap manufactured. there 10 s emit
for labor, and that trust steals 10 cents.
Their labor being free. This is from :
reliable table showing, the percentage Of
average duties; second, the bonus these du-
ties guarantee on each 500 worth Of pro-
duct; and third, the whole expense Of labor
on each 500 worth Of product. could
pile up columns with details Of this gigantic
robbery on : coniding public. This worse
than highway robbery could not exist, but
for u high tariff. To put this rascality
clearly before my brother farmers, | will
give : few extracts from the New York
World: "For convict labor, the employer
must pay the state something. II only Z cent
a day. For slave labor, the employer must
charge himself with the support Of the slave
and his family. For protected labor the
employerpsys not cent and charges himself
with nothing. He il paid handsomely for
using it. lmagine . southern planter, the
owner of one hundred slaves, receiving from
his state treasury Sac, 1913 bounty because
he furnished them with work -S44,a43 be-
ing for the support of his slaves and $422,-
los being for himself, to pay for his philan-
thiopy, in addition to having the product OF
their year . labor. But the sugar rsiners of
New York, Brooklyn. Jersey City or phils-
delphis, receive exactly this sum yearly,
under exactly the same condition, for every
100 workmsn employed. The cotton mill
owner, the wooden mill owner, the iron mas.
ter, the protected employer Of high snd low
degree receives a proportionate amount un-
der precisely similar circumstances for
every protected pauper in his public psuper
house called . protected industry. Is it any
wonder the protected employer is fighting
tooth and nail in this tariff campaign to pre-
vent the slightest encroachment on his pau
per labor, or even on his stealings." Not an
homes, argument has been made for it. They
decline to argue. They assert the most
ridiculous propositions and denounce as
liars and slanderers, paid with British gold
whoever gainsays them. They are combined
to rob us; shall we not combine to be robbed
no longer? They will march their pauper
laborers with its hordes Of ignorant aliens
(many Of them the outcasts Of Europe) TO
either vote for high tariff or be turned out
Of employment to starve. Shall farmers
vote for such IN infamous gang? Republi-
can only in name. Too long have we been
their dupes. Be no longer deluded by the
claptrap and driv vel Of 4 party dropping to
pieces with Its own ~rottenness. Over the
portal Of whose conventions is inscribed
No farmer need apply for Office. but only a
little sugar in their platforms for the clod-
h"ppers. Our brother srangers in, Mime
sofa, illinois. Indiana. iowa aud the south
srn division ofour allianor.t the agricultural
Wheel" are in tie fight against ~monopoly,
shoulder TO shoulder. Eserybseae
us the old battle crysossn
.cta las shelpiaa
against ri E1.s
80 greater
N1kiowed the land without
legal controi, until 10000 protected tariff
lords own body and soul ten million unpaid
workers supported by public charity and
dependent upon the lords whether they
shall be turned out Of his pauper house to
die Of starvation.
N.B.-The agricultural wheel has . men,
bership Of 100000 farmers. Their president
Mr.. McCracken il, q Scotch-Irish Canadian,
mas been in the United States from child.
hooi, afew years ago emlgrated to the south;
the wheel organization il similar to the
farmers alliance only in name, combining
and working with us against monopoly.
These our brothers and allies, the republi-
can platform insults with q contemplate
~allusion to the south.
In the Atlantic states, workmen who give
evidence or do anything to expose the con-
dition Of the workers in the protected indus
tries are discharged, being marked as black
sheep, cant get employment. Some work
men who took part IN a meeting a diressed
by Wendell Phillips, were sacked, ana had
to travel $50 miles before they could hnd
employment. The work girls who gave evil
dence before the congressional committee 10
New York lately were thrown out Of en-
ployment on that a~ccount, and public sub
scriptions have been made to keep them from
starvation or perhaps worse How true
Mans %inhumaniiy to mar causes man to