Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-26
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
Facts About Wages.

dtts EAHout NhstS.
The Young meu's democratic club of !
Boston has issued little slip containing
twenty reasons why it is not true that
high tariff makes high wages" The slips
are Tor distribution among the working
men, who are particularly liable to the
attempted scare BY the republicans. b..
low are the twenty tariff reasons
l. Because to say that wage-earners
rs a body can increase their wages by
paying high tariff taxes, which fall
mainly upon them, is TO say that a man
can increase his wealth by picking his
own pocket
.. Because the value of wages consists
not in money. but IN tire articles which
money buys, and the express object of
high tariff is to make these articles dear
thus decreasing the real reward OF labor.
8 Because the high tariff policy, while
taxing the wage Garner upon nearly ev-
erything that he has to buy. gives him no
protection upon the only thing he has
to sell. We have free trade in human
labor
4. Because wages represent the wage
earner's share of what he himself pro-
duces, and are high or low according as
his production is large or small,
5. Because the wages of even the one
wage Garner of ten claimed to be pro
tected' are determined by general causes
rather than by the tariff.
s, Because il a high tariff raises
wages at all, its first and greatest effect
must be in the protected" industries,
whereas the rate of wages is considerably
lower in these industries than in the un>
protected ones.
:. Because the high rate of wages in
the United States is due to other causes
than high tariff, such as the extent of
unsettled territory, the large returns of
agriculture, the extensive use of i'm proved
machinery, the intelligence and energy of
the working population and the greater
efficiency of their labor.
s. Because al least nine wage earners
out of every ten in this country are en-
gagged in occupations not subject to the
competition of foreign importstions. so
that the rate of'wages which they receive
cannot be in any degree dependent on a
h;ob ,o-;F
q Racersa bic,h # man, ra,, MN
,erisIs raises the cost If Observation-Disclosures,
restricts the market for goods and pre-
vents the manufacturer from paying as
pz,ariaIs wara fraa
~ Racsnoe Tho ratio of ,,ar,o, ;uo-oo,oa
f.s,ar in this conn,-g il ~ ian, IS
,,ar;oa r,..,,,.o,, 1Sz6 "a ,oen ~ :. IN ~
ever since nnder bigb tsrifT Jun - !" a'
II Racansa wscss wsre b;ob IN tho
Inited Ststes comnsrad win thoss rsid
!, other co,rtr;.s baforo !, 80 hot =
bigb tariff mr. spv otbar tariF
10 Recourse china hoe er;ore5 for
tborsends If ,.ea-s tho fnu hsaast ~
t;,,t - ....l.. - VI
for skiIlad ho, ara On oar,,s ~ 80
C,hinaa 60 80. 80 enu
,,,a,,as has -. - -
wsga.asrrars
II Becsnse there ar. GREATER differ.
e,cas hetvean r.,,ss of D,of,ae mid in as
rer.rt ,,ar,s of .b;s ,l,,rt--o III 49, -
IN. sarno h;,,h ,ar;s ,han ha,,,,o,'r' 5000
of ,,soes H. Nsssaaf,s',ts ~ ~ -
land
IA. Because the rate of WAGES has in
creased from ~ To 1ttu nor cent in Emo,
land since she abandoned rho bigb tori {,
motley and h4causc bar wooas orc from,
80 to 100 ner cent HIGHER Than in the
high tariff countries of continental En-,
rome
IL Because biph tariff fostars trpst,
and other comhinstiors of ranitaI fo,
raising the price Of everything hp, l.bor
and dastroys tho, ,o,,,r,,;,;a7, e. Ia,a,
hetwaen different ar,riorars .hioh 10 III,
great aoenrv in raisipo, its u,aaas
~ Racsnsa If ,he T1.nmfsc,Tror r..rl,
believed that Li,b t.rifT comneI,ad hin
10 nav hipb wsoes he would he a Iou