Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-09
Chilly gress ala 9akotaiaa
TARIFF FOR PROTECTION.
why q Non.poiisicai. working-aian
Journal VIII support HI Republican
Candidate for prehtdenf

Journai Will support the Republican
Candidate for President.
The Ooiliery Engineer: Both the
great political parties have met lii ma,
tional convention, adopted their plat
forms and named theig candidates.. As
far as the candidates are concerned,
neither party could possibly have
nominated ADLER men, or man better
fitted for the high Offices for which they
are named. President Cleveland, aside
from his tariff views, has boen "a model
president, and his companion ou the
den ocrstIc ticket, the Hon allen @.
Thurman, is one of the ablest as we'll as
one of the purest statesmen 10
the country. Iu the choice OF
their candidates, the republican
party has done equally as we'll.
General Harrison, the candidate for
president, is q nan of great AGILITY, sid
a man whose character for honeetJ In
tegrity, aud moral worth has never been
Questioned. His record as a statesman
is elean, and in the long years Of his
public service IN war and peace, nc flaw
can be found in his character. His
craftsmanship is of the highest oid1r,
and ne ranks IN the eyes OF every think
ing American, regardless OF party ~ties,as
an exceptionally able man. The Hon.
Levi p. Morton, his associate on the
ticket, il also d man OF clean record and
great ability.
Both parties have, therefore, in the
field exceptionally strong lichets, and
their candidates, gauged oy the scale OF
personal WORTH, are of such q character
that the fight must be made entirely on
political principles and not on person
i~alities. This is as it always should be,
and We are glad that In ,hls campaign
there will be no personalities INDUCED
in.
The only issue OF importance bet weeU
the two parties Is the tariff question,
and this. is q question that is Of the Of
most Importance TO the coal interest Of
Americ ). Shall we have @ tariff for
proteci ion, or shall it be for revenue
only
It is not tie province of a echnicel
journal to take nstt IN partisan poliucs
but as tho iseus 10 this campaign is cns
of vital importance 90 every man en-
gagged in the mining OF coal, 1t Is no
more than proper that ss the fapresen-
tative journal OF American coal miners,
we should take q stand and express our
principles. The democratic party has
unquslifediy indorsed the Mills bill aud
has placed itself on record as being In
accorl with President Cleveland's ex-
pressed views on the tariff question.
| Thn hltaan = oark, hoe 1no1oyn1
itself as unqualIfiedly IN favor of o pro-
~tective tariff, and is on record as being
opposed to Presidents OleyelAnd's tariff
Views. Therefore it is obligatory on us
to indorse the sentiments of the repub-
that the mills, %furnaoee, and factories OF
America must be placed on o par, or
more nearly on q par, with those of
Europe. where labor is SO poorly paid
khat we, as Americans, denominate 1t as
.the pauper labor of Europe"
1t Iaeans that the running expenses
OF our mills furnaces and factories must
be reduced, and this means the reduc-
tion of wages and the driving of capita
out OF what will be, under its provisions
improbable business. American work
men will not work for the palsry pit
tances paid labor II the free trade coun-
tries OF Europe, and the result will b.
the decentralization of American indus
tries.
In this general demorsl z4tion tn,
coal trade Will suffer as severely as an.
other. Goal is the lever that starts tn
manufacturing establishments. Shu
them down, and the coal interests mus
suffer. When we say coal interests, W,
mean The miner, the laborer, and tn
coke makers, ss we'll as the coll;ery
owner and colliery official. Many G
our readers are foreign born cisizenl
They know why they emigrated t
America. They came here to escape til
evil effects OF free trade in .their nativ
land. The English for instance d.
not come here on account
governmental oppression, for they wel
almost as free of that in England as the
! are nere. They came TO America to ef
cape the poverty and privstion the
were subjected to in their native land b
. the governmental policy OF free trad
Protection enables our employers to pa
their employees better wages than q,
paid in sny other country. Protectic
Z has made MS what we are as a nation
: and the majority OF the American pet
pile, Irrespective OF partisan polite
desire o continuance OF the protecti
tariff. Cor English exchanges mentit
every once IN a while that certa
branches of industry in Great Brlta
a are picking up, and their prospects iot
brighter owing to the probability OF
reduction of American tariff fees opel
ing mp markets for them. Are we reat
to open our markets to English man,
faaturers and enable them to unders,
our home manufacturers and close o
home mills and factories for want
business? We say, decidedly, no.
" In this connection we republIsh I
following tables of wages. The fiji
Z from the sixteenth annual report of Lab
by MIR. Carroll ID. Wright, of .Bosts
On page No. lot he says: "In the I
of 1888 We started upon IN original
. vestigatiop through personal egents
tho bureau, in Massachusetts and Grt
Britain, and through these agents
have gathered from original sour,
(meaning by original SOURCES the pa
rolls OF great manufacturing establis
ments, the official wage lists agreed u
on IN England, so far as England is &C
cerned. between trade societies o
. employers, and from other relial
sonrces) the rate OF wages paid in
following twenty-four industries, VIII,
are common to Massachusetts and Or,
Britain.
Average Wee
Wages Paid /
.ployes
lndustrtes, 1851 Macs. CT b
Agricultural Implements .....B1o.25 s,
Artisena' tools ...... -. II. 81
II mr. 0hna1 11Ke 81