Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-14
! EEKLY CITIZEN.
SATURDAY. JULY I4, 1888


the msn who works for wages-is more thsn all others benefited by Protection eud. therefore, most interested io main
 tsining and periectipgi it, BY working rasn is meant not only the man, but his ssmily and dependents. Indeed, the families of workingmen are the chef hsnef.isries of the existing protective svsto.a. If the different classes of the people of the United States and of Eu- rope are compared, ss regards their men tsl and physical condition, their habits, nodes of life, social surroundings, theIr elevation n the scale of oiuillzsslon, lt
 IS manifest that the widest distinc!icn will De found io exist between the work ipCmen of the two countries. lt will slso be found thst this distinction is Ike greatest, the most striking, between the familie. of the workingmen of the two
 countries. As the social position Of any
 class is higher. in proportion to its hd- yancsment the distinction between the condition of that class here and abroad
 becomes less marked. The rich in both countries have the same advantages
 eDjcy the same privileges. Their famI- lies have tke same comforts-indulge in the same luxusies. Descending the
 scale, distinction gradually appears. The middle class in this country is bet fer oS, has more comforts and advsn- tages, than the same class in Europe. The women and childron of this class
 iu She United States enjoy almost all the privileges which gre accessible to any of the most favored in the community. 1T Ee go lower in the sOcIal scale. in Europe, ths women and children. no Iets than the men, give evidences ot in-
 feriority in all the traits of womsnhood and manhood. h this country the We men enjoy the advantages conferred by comparative relief from working for wages and are permitted Co devote themselves to the care of theiR homes and their children. The men possess the dignity of independent ciiizeus. Their children mingle with the child reR of their more fortunate neighbors h she school and st play. while tbe more active and ambitious have sn oD-
 porsunity to advance, limited by no.h- ing but their own powers and their own determination. Go still lower. and the
 distinction becomes still broader. BOtt
 men ond women. snd theig children, ID
 Europe, are literally slaves of toil and
 hunger, working hOpelessly and Bln- lessly, looking forward to the grave cs their first and only res5ing-place. The family bonds snd relations barely exist, and thst motive. which ia this lend ID- spires the hours of toil-the hope Os ad- yanceIneai, 1T Iot for tSc parents, at least for the children-hss little # any
 force. Here, then. do we find the P'e
 eminent advantages D. our American
 protective polIcy. It protects the work i1gnan md his family. It saves them from degradation and dIstress. It makes ths family relation, ir all its attractive qualItieE, possible. It eleyates the wives and children of the vorkingmsn. II reheves them, or mos! of them, from the need of working for their daily bread IL makes home-lite possible. It Gfto-ds to children leisure for sarly educstion, and thus opens up to them endless op- portuuisiee. The rich and the middle clssses get some Of the benefits of Protec- ton. As compared with the poor snd She working people they get but h;tle. and they would bs nearly as well of un- der free trade, while the condition of the poor would become indescribsbly wretch cd. Our American worsingmen Tko have never contrssted their condition with that of their competitors under low wages and insufficient work abroad, cannot, and do not, realize the perlis oi free trade. Let them read about .hsi' fellow-Eorkmen on the other side ot the
 water. or talk with one who has been fore ed to leave bis native land by starvation wages and the hopeless destlsutlon oi his family, and they will comprehend She danger which nov threatens them
 Free-traders are accustomed to dTell on the advantages conferred by PFotes
 ton upon employers, the manufactures and proprietors. who pay wLses' hoping to excite the envy and hostility Of work ingnsn. They do not mention ihe inn- uitelv greater advantages Of those Wno are employed. As Q class, the employ ers of labor here make no greater profits tbsn those of the Old World. Compe- tition is active. The ambition of our people is ever alert to seize upon every opportunity for increasing their wesilh' and no industry is long allowed 10 return unusual profiis. II IS soon overTun TIih competition, and its profits speedily turned to losses. But this same spirit of competition, sure Co level down proh'i of employers, IS the safeguard and tht promoter of high wages for the era- ployed. Stimulated by Protection, II strives to set every man at work, snd II competes for labor as well as for profits. The demand for workingmen advances their wager, and go long ss enterprise is encouraged and protected against foreign interference. so long will r con tiaue to demand labor, and thereby sus- tsin wages. Reverse the process. check and throttle our indusrrieF, discourage enterprise, and workmen must surely so begging for work; their wages decline, aud, becoming insufficient for She sup- port of their families. the workman s wife must come 10 his aid and jon ln the daily struggle, and bis children
 suffer from neglect. Poverty and dis treas take She place of comfort snd pros
 perity, and in time degradation and despair, hopeless and inevitable, become
 the loi of the American workingnsn, ss II Is and has for centuries been the lot
 of hls tellow-vorkmen in Europe Work 1reroa,, bava tbap tho e,...k,.a =,taraas