Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-01
How PrDtect.an Benefits minnesota.

Tariff League BuiletIn, The history
oil The Scandinavian population in the
United States is q complete refutation
of the claim that the. lnboring class are
not benefited by protection. The i'm
migration OF all nationalites to our
shores stamps the assertion as false.
Let us take this single instance: Dur
ing the last ten years more than
$1,000 ,000 per year has been sent in
small amounts by our working classes
to their friends In Great Britain, while
no considerable amount OF money has
been RENTED by the corresponding
class on the other side Of the wa3er to
their friends here. And the same thing
10 true, perhaps even in @ greater de.
gree, OF the Scandinavians Of the north
west, 1t protection WAS injurious to
the farmers OF Minnesota they could
mol prosper as they have done during
the past twenty-five years. On o visit.
to the northwest q year or two ago /
travelled from Minneapolis to Chicago
With q number of Seandinaviens who
were on their way to spend tie holidays
IN the old country, In Chicago / wit
messed q procession of 800 of them in
carriages, with bands, etc., on their way
TO the station TO take a special train en-
route TO their old homes, all to return
gitbin q few months. Again I saw in
this very house a bargaet which could
not have cost lees than $40 apiece at
which the guests were all of the Scsndi-
nnvian race. 500 OF them in all. l was
told that every one Of their number had
come TO this country within the past
fifteen to twenty five years, comparative
ly poor. Imagine it you can the same
S.ass of people in the old countries living
under free trade who could show like
prosperity. Why, it is an undisputed
fact that farm machinery is from 10 to
30 per cent cheaper here than in any
other part of the world. How then can
protection rob the Minnesota farmer
This West hotel refutes the assertion
that protection makes living high or
robs the laboring people of their lust
shares OF profits. The chief OF the house
ASSURES me that the scale Of wages
ia more than double that paid in
similar houses in Londons three
times greater than in Paris and four
times greater than the wages paid in
Italian hotels, and yet / can testify that
its rates to guests are cheaper shan any
hotel OF a like character in Europe. The
working people in American hotels re-
oeive as much benefit from a tariff for
the protection of American labor as the
working people in American mills. /
say this in REPUTATION Of the argument
that protection projects a limited class
OF laborers. 0ne thing more; our league
insists that the quantity OF wheat rent
to Liverpool fixes the Liverpool price,
rather than thas the liverpool price
fixes the price IN America, and with the
increased production of wheat in India,
Russia, Australia and South America, if
the American farmer continues to ship
large Quantities to the English markets
the time is not far distant when wheat
will not be worth it's cost Of production
and transportation from Minnesota 10
Liverpool. The Minnesota farmer
should seek to create q home market by
encouraging all sorts OF manufacturing
industries to come to the northwest,
T.. A. HARTsHoRN.