The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-11-03

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10 wages 50 per cent. of the value OF the
manufactured product, In this country, Is
not only fool but q falsifier.
Now, II these high taxes which republi.
cans say workingmen must keep on paying
in order to get high wages are such a good
thing, let workingnen ask themselves
these questions, the authority for each
being given:
Why, under the benign Influence of our
war tariff, are one third our wage earners
out Of work one-third of the time ? MASS
Labor Rep, 1887, p. 294).
Why did wages In Great Britain 60 up
between 1872 and 1888 8 per cent. while
they went down In Masssch usetts during
the same period per. cent? MASS. La
Dor Rep. 1885, p. 143).
Why did the cost of living here increase
l41a per cent between 1860 and 1878,
notwithstanding the tremendous improve
ments made In cheapening the cost of
production? Mass. Labor Rep, 1885, p.
467.
Why are wages In free trade England
from 80 to 100 per cent. higher than they
are In any protected country on the cOnti>
uent Of Europe? GUS. Consular Labor
Rep, vol. / ; p. 1879.
Why, In spite Of the fact that land and
food are cheaper here, does II cost family
spending $500 q year 1913 dollars year
more to live In this country than In Eng
land on precisely the same scale? Mass.
Labor Rep, 1885, p. 15D.
Why was the average annual Increase In
Mass achusetts savings bank deposits from
1850 to 1860 10 per cent, and from 1870 TO
1880 only per cent? mass. Savings
Bank Rep, 1887, p. 6l8).
Why did wages In Massachusetts ad-
vance from the high tariff decade ending
with 1890 70 the low tariff decade ending
with 1860 SO Fer cent, while they advanced
from 1859 to 1888 only % per cent? Mass,
Labor Rep, 1885, pp 142, 1866.
Why Is II that In Maryland wages In the
manufacturing industries declined from
average per hand Of SSsS:7s In 1870 TO an
average of only $685. In 1880? Qet
Bien. Report, Bureau Of Industrial Stalls
tics, 1886, p. 33.
Why In the same state did the number
of women employed increase In 1880 1922
and children 4,026. while the number of
men increased only 12,637?-(Ibd).
Talking Of fools, what can be thought Of
the mental condition Of man who makes
such a statement as this:
Farmers will do we'll to remember that
we're 1t not for the tariff Canadian farm
pre- ducts. Indian wheat and Australian
and South American wool would sell to day
In New York and other eastern cities for
less than the rates farmers are now getting.
This is not assertion, but sober, solemn
fact.-RepuUican.
The statement Is 30 utterly absurd and
deliberately false, that either the writer Is
a fool or he thinks the farmer bigger
fool than he is
What can be thought Of the mental con-
dition Of man who makes such a state
ment as this:
The home market is the best in the world
and Is rapidly increasing. Republican.
For the past seven years the average
consumption of wheat by all the population
of the U. s. was only 259,COO 900 bushels.
Give the farmers one half, and they are
half the population, and the rest eat only
129, 100000, while the average export was
l36, 900, 900; that is, 6,5OOOO0 more bushels
of wheat we're eaten by European paupors
than by all the non-farming population of
the US.
What can be thought of the mental con-
dition of a man who makes such state
ment as this:
The republicans cut II down the duty
on sugar to Al per cent-Repwb!icdn.
They did cut the duty on ra,o sugar to
Al per cent, but the dury on refined sugar
the only sugar the people eat-they cut
not one cent. The benefit of every cent of
the cut goes to the sugar trust, and not one
cent to the consumer; and by making mo-
lasses free they actually would give the
sugar retiners free raw sugar, while the
consumer would pay to the sugar trust the
same duty Hey pay no,o. ls 1t any wonder
the sugar trust is republican and contri-
butes its funds to elect Harrison?
What can be thought of the mental con-
dition of a man who makes Mr.. Hegeler
of La Sale say:
That "with a great reduction of the
tariff the weaker works would have to stand
idle" and with certain full free trade we
the M. u H. works. should have to stop,
too."--( Republican,,
Without explaining that, Mr.. Hegeler
further said;
What have argued has reference to
large reduction of the tariff, not the be-
ginning of reduction, as proposed by the
Mills bill Instead Of opposing moderate
reduction of the tariff, such as is proposed |
by this bill, vel mean employers and
engaged in protected industry
ought to he thankful, If the reducing of
the tariff is done gradually; unless we are
sooner or later to draw down upon US the
wrath OF the nOn'protected industries,
when the latter have found out more
definitely than at present that for years
they have been misled-by many wells
N meaning men. | Allow. c. Hegeler, In
: open Court" Nov l, 1888.
What will be thought Of the mental
of the man who says: