Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-17
WORKISGMGN FOR HARRISON.
An Organization That States Unanswera
bIs Reasons for Suppcrtipa, Him.

bis Reasons for Supporting Him.
The New York Aaa aud Express, refer
ing to the campaign in Brook yn, says:
The workingmen of BROOKLYN have or
ganized for the furtherance OF protection.
and their club is called Home and
Country Protection for Workingmen."
The platform of principles shows that the
workinsmen underst0nd what they are
about, aiii what the protective tariff law
MEALS 20 theA. They declare that the
stability ami prosperity of the industrial
institutions OF the United States are Sc
r1ousy threatened by the declaration of
President Cleveland's message TO Congress.
the Democratic party platform and the
passage by the Democratic majority of the
House of Representatives of the Mills
tariff bill" This is the manner in which
the Republican party expects to hear the
worklngmen talk, for it has confidence that
their long experience with the beauties Of
protection has taught them that high wages
and general prosperity depend upon the
system which recognizes home institutions
and American citizens as deserving of the
first care OF the Government Some of the
argument in The constitution of the club is
admirable. For example this strikes us as
very fine:
The labor field of q country includes
the whole OF every country where the ma.
tons laws fail alike on ali sections thereof
Each nation requires freedom within its
borders where the people make the laws;
and protection from without-from all for
eIgn countries whzre its people have no
voice in making the laws For instance.
the people OF the United States want free
trade between all The States and Territories
OF the Union, because they make the laws
that rule them, yet they want protection
from England and all other countries be-
cause the people of the United States have
no voice i'll making the laws of England
or any other country outside their own"
And this is better still
FOurth-Th4re is no free trade existing
between the people of one country and
another in all the world. Only between
the inhabitants OF country does it exist
AS the world is constituted there would be
no justice or equity in free trade between
the people of one country and another
The laws, obligations, conditions and
opportunities of one country NAV be en-
tlreiy different from the other, and are
generally so. For instance, it would be
glaring injustice for our country to let the
productions OF China and Japan, where the
wage is from to cents per day of Rus
STA, Germany and Italy, where it is from 20
to 40 cents per day, and France and Eng
land, where the wage is from 45 to 20
cents per day, to enter our markets here
free from duty. This would place the
foreigner far above our own citizens, as
it would let him untaxed on our markets
to compete with our own people who have
to pay high rates and iaxes, maintain and
educate their children. serve on juries, and
are liable to be drafted into our army or
navy, and if need be, offer up their lives TO
protect their Government"
|! is apparent that the workingmen un-
dersand their part of the tariff problem.