Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-05-16
TEE yErERFF EES.

more nor less than a free trader
are driven to the most desperate
straits to disguise their piratical de
signs, under perhaps the more re
specable, but scarcely less danger
Gus shibboleth of Tariff for Reve-
nue. only. The most efficacious
method of exposing their nefarious
purpose is the publication of the
so-cslled arguments of some OF the
leading organs ofthese nihilistic dis
turbers of the most perfect revenue
system that was ever devised since
the organization of Provisional
government in the Garden of Eden.
In pursuance of this policy we first
direct the attention of the intelll-
gen. readers of the APPEAL to the
following revolutionary and treas
enable outburst of the editor of the
Empire City Battle Axe.
Listen to the miscreant:
The leading manufacturing in
dustries Of the country are protect
Ell by high duties on foreign manu-
features coming into competition
with their own, or in the yernacular
OF the day, they are protected
against the influx of the products
Of the "pauper labor of Europe"
and while enjoying this advantage,
they import the European pauper
Iaborers themselves, (on account OF
cheapness), 10 the exclusion of our
own citizens, native and naturaliZed.
Vow the American laboreI should
he protected against this practice.
For OF what avail is it to tax the
products of European .'pauper L.
bor", ii the "paIpers' themselves
are allowed to be imported, and |
preference given 10 them on account |
Of the cheapness OF their labor as /
compared with that of our own citi- |
zens? The evils can be remeCied |
in this way. Let the government
impose tax on manufacturing cor
porations who employ non-citiZen
laborers. equal IL per cent. TO the
duties on their protected products.
For instance; ii the duty on the
foreign product Of "pauper labor"
is 40 per cent, the corporation that
employs foreign ''pauper laborers"
should be compelled 10 pay tax to
tine government OF 30 per cent. on
the day wages paid by them to the
.'pauper labore." himself. Such a
tax would operate real protection
OF American labor; whereas the
protection ut present is all for the
benefit OF the manufacturer, and
none for the benefit of the citizen
laborer, who is left exposed to
ruinous competition with "cheap
pauper labor OF Europe, and must
ii employed, at all, work at the
same cheap rate.
The following is from the vulture
quill CT Editor Medill, the principal
conspirator OF the notorious and
disreputsble Chicago Tribune:
"Protectionl When / hear the
word ask, whom does it protect
and who pays for it? and l fail to
see who is benefited by it beyond q
few monopolists, not equal to ten
per cent. of the population OF the
country. The tariff constitutes a
great Chinese wall between the
American producer and maDufact-
urer and profitable foreign trade.
Only small portion OF our cotton
crop, for instance is consumed at
home. The great bulk Of ii is ex
ported to Great Britain, and thence
under the name of English goods is
sold at good profit all over the
world. Why shouldn't we manu-
facture these goods at home and
sell them to foreign countries?
Simply because we levy such a
high import tax upon every article
which is factor in their production
that Great Britain easily undersells
US and the home consumer has to
pay the enhanced Price beside"
Next in disorder comes the ra-
wings of the maniac, whose hands
are temporarily unmanacled to in
flict the following blow npon
labor through the col !
umns of the Tuscarora War Whoop:
Parading lists of the low rates of
wages paid to laborers in Italy, in
with the rates paid in
This country, and insisting that but
Tor a protective tariff the laborer
here would be as poorly paid as in
Italy, is one of the weak and silly
devices by which Protectionists seek ,
% deiude the people. Why don't !
hey compare the rates OF wages in
China Japan, and France, Gall
countries almost to tie