Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-29
WHY DID THEY DO SOP
workmen Already unemployed for
Bacik ot Free wholesome Thoughts
from Iha plnXV.

wOrlynaen Already Unemployed for
Lack oi Free wholesome Thoughts
from Ihe floxv.
Editor Gdsstte: Notices, according to
tho New York Herald, were posted in
Higgins carpet factory, on West Forty
third street, that the force is to be re-
duced one-half, thereby throwing 600
people ont of work. Already the bene-
fits of protection" have been expert
enoed by the workers in that protected
Industry. iii Er. Cleveland was elected
it would do away with that industry en-.
tirely," but If Harrison was elected q
boom would be immediately started, and
consequently large number of Rigging
men voted against "free trade" They
were studying markets not maxims But
they failed to study markets with that
care and intelligence which due regard
for maxims would have enabled them to
dc, and their calculations have gone all
askew. One half their number have been
discharged since election. Only q few
weeks before their discharge, they marched
and shouted for protection to American
industry" So far as they are concerned
only their ignorance calls for pity. It
they want to vote and suffer for protso-
Alpkl IOE b&AG bGbGnb VI A1tAOPOAlEt5. ~ ID
tl1sir business. But, unfortunately,
they have helped to make theie more in
telligent and thoughtful fellow workmen
suffer with them. Nothing could be
palmer, than that free wool would make a
greater demand for labor in the carpet
industry. Every worker in that industry
knows that part of the wool IS of neces-
sity imported, and the tariff on it
incfe ,sea the price of carpets and dimin-
ishes the demand, thereby reducing the
call 70. labor and decreasing wages. Yet
some OF thess very sufferers voted against
freeing wool. They wanted protestion
and now they are enjoying the kind OF
"protection" they voted fer. Add to
these the 15, coo also discharged in coal
mines near Pitisburg and thousands moro
all over the country, and sst the Farmers
that voted for protection in order to
increase home consumption OF their
products, il they think coo, coo of idle
isborers will increase consumption more
than IL they had steady employment at
remuneratiye wages.
Again the old farmer to the Republican
candidate for Congress ~ worked all
summer and put my hRy in the barn and
in the winter fed it all to my steers and
found in spring could rot get any more
TO, them than / conld have gotten in the
fall. SO you see my hay had gone into
dividends TO the Asmours, SRifts and
men Of that sort II cost me to plant,
raise, harvest and deliver my wheat 80
cents per bushsl, but ! had to sell to
Old Hutch ct GO cents per bushsl and
after he had cpxnered it he could make
those protected idle woIkingmen pay for
IL ct the rate Of 81 so or S2.00 per bushel.
how much protectiou had the farmer or
labor in my wheat2 It is very nice
for the daughters of Carnegie, Jay
Gould or Lorillard TO ride behind
O pair OF blooded horges, with ooachmen
in livery, but how about the western
farmers daughter who drives pair Of
ponies herself 70 hoe harrow, raising
corn TO feed these biooded horses OF
those highly protected onse3 No English
silks, no French made glove-hid shoes
for her. Her share OF profession is
sboddy homespun md cowhide shoes.
The highly protected farmers raises the
pork and beef for about IS or SO SO per
hundred and the idle protected working
man, II he can consume at all, can con-
sumo them at SIS per hundred. But as
both farmer and workingman have got
what they voted for, they have two yeaia
in which to acquire experience before
they can make change"
JAMES B. WELcn.