The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-23
mun NJ Y. "WORLD's" CHALLENGE
TO THM 'uNCRowNBD KING"

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challenge to the "Uncrowned King
Mr. Blaine must now either accept the
broad Offering of 1.-THE World" and
prove at least the sincerity OF his pro
fessions, or decline and no matter what
subterfuge he offers for his declnation,
the true a viii be that he does not
believe his own htterances and he will
stand convicted of the charge made,
that she is engaged in an attempt to de-
lude the American workmen:"
AN OPEN CHALLENGE.
TO JAMES G.. BLAINE, Augusta, Me-,
Sir:-You are engaged in deluding the
wSorkmen OF this country into the bellel
that Protection is the bulwark of their
high wages and that it is the cause OF
the difference between wages in this
country and England. You appeal
solely to their Ignorance of economic
facts, their fears of the threatening
future, their passion with an increas-
ing hard condition, and their race pref
udice against whatever is foreign.
The World challenges you to appeal
to their intelligence, and to submit TO
its five hundred thousand Democratic
readers open to conviction any facts
and any evidence you can offer TO
prove your assertion true.
The World particularly challenges
YOU to explain how much of their high
wages in unprotected industries is due
TO Protection and how much to its in
trinsic worth: whether the lowest
wages paid in protected industries OF
one state is the best that Protection
can do for the protected worKmen OF
the wG0Te country; -H8w7 Fe
from intelligence and skill, Protection
can prevent the reduction of the wages
of the protected white worker in New
England cotton mills to the level of the
wages paid to the protected colored
worker in the Southwestern cotton
mills, which is now less than the wages
paid the white English or Scotch pau
per-"
The World particularly challenges
you to show by facts and reason how
Protection can prevent the high wages
PAL. in any Unprotected industry, in any
one State, from falling 10 the level OF
the lowest wages paid the protected
LMQEker in that industry in any other
| State: how IL can prevent these T0WeSJ
wages from going still lower; and how
much higher the lowest wages in pro
tected industries are here under Pro
lection than they are in the same in
dustries, on the average, i'll England,
Scotland or Wales under Free Trade"
The World is a Democratic newspa'
per. but it is not a political or party
organ. 1t is Democratic because 1t be-
lieves Democracy to be always and alb,
solutely right. 1t supports men and
measures when it believes them to be
right and opposes them when 1t be
lieyes them to be wrong. 1t has no fav'
ors to ask, no axes to grind, and ne
other object than to faithfully serve its
readers by obtaining for them the ex
act truth on all questions that arise
1t does not believe the Truth will huri
any one who should not be hurt.
Its readers are Democrats, intelligent
Democrats who prefer to vote RICH
than to be postmasters. They numoe
enough in New York, New Jersey ant
Connecticut to control the vote o.
those States. and decide the Presidential
election. It's columns have been opened
to every Republican who had a fact t.
present to their attention. 1t has in
vited the editors of the twelve leading
Republican newspapers of the countr.
to give its readers their reasons for de
string to check imports, and it now OF
fers you an opportunity to convince hV
hundred thousand Democrats that wha
YOU saw about Protection being the bu
wark Of our high wages is true and nc
political claptrap intended merely I
"fool the boys"
No Republican paper in all the Ian
dare open its columns to an argumeI
! in favor OF the Democratic position q
/ tariff reform, or permit its readers
: even know what it is. The Democrat
readers of the World want to know an
the World wants them to know all TIL
, can be said in advocacy or defense
: the Republican position.
If you do not accept this challenI
YOU know what the readers Of Il
World, and all intelligent Republica.
l. among theirfriends, will believe