Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-26

wages and better net results than the wage
earners does in Europe? That is. can you
I'VE better? cap you gain a home easier
can you educate your children better? can
you lay by surplus in case of sickness or
old age easier in this country than they can
10 the most crowded portions OF Europe?
There can be but one answer to this
question, and that is Yes. We see it every
where; we see it in the healthier condition
OF our wage -earners; we see it in the way
their wives and children are dressed; we
see It IN their homes (of which they very
often own the title deeds); we see
1t IN the deposits in the savings banks
(Which are wholly the net results
to wage-earners). In the United States
there is due !, 3,4l6,013 depositors 81, ,235, ,247,-
371, an average Of 1851 80 to each depos-
ltor. We see it in the fact that those who
are able to get away from labor oppressed
Europe are emigrating to this country.
All these are hard facts that the free trader
cannot get away from. Free trade is very
pretty theory, but II is mainly professional
men who advocate it, and If is gratifying
| to some to preach that all the world are
brothers" and that consequently we should
| not protect the labor of our own neighbors,
our own citizens, who build our villages
into towns, our towns into cities; who con-
sumo our own raw products Free trade
may be charity to foreign operatives, hut |
for one believe that charity begins at home
| first; that my own country is entitled to
my first regard; that the interest of the
| age-earner of this country in my interest;
! that his success is my success.
| | also believe that what European man
utectureTs want US to do is not for our in
! terest to do. When every European paper
/ hailed President Cleveland's message with
delight, as tending toward free trade it
convinced me that ii was not the best in
terest OF this country that he should be
reelected.
When the London Times thinks the best
use they can make of Irishmen is 10 help
them TO emigrate TO this country and Join
the Democratic party, snd thus help break
down our protective tariff, that makes me
think that our tariff is great benefit to
this country, and, of course, range myself
| on the side Of a protective tariff. The
Mills tariff bill " that is indorsed by the
ST. Louis Democratic Convention and
President Cleveland, keeps about eighty
| per cent. duty On sugar (about $50 600, 900
to collect annually, about 100 per cent. on
rice, the very articles that you pay large
percentage of, and reduces the duty or
articles where your wages enter largely
into the cost of production l cannot
think that the Mills bill is for the best
interest OF cur wage earners, and copse-
quentiy oppose it and the President who
favors it, although l voted for him in 1884.
/ The United States is the largest consum-
ing nation per capita OF any on the globe,
| and the reason of it is that our wage
esrners are better paid than any other. and
1t Is clear to rly mind that the operation of
protective tariff is the reason of it. If we
should reduce the tariff on articles into
| which labor enters largely in the cost, the
| forces OF steam and electricity, which have
| so reduced the time and cost of importing
goods into this country, would without any
doubt, bring the cheap labor of Europe
In direct and immediate competition with
our own labor. England has the csmv-
Ing trade on the ocean in her own hands;
l 90 not want TO have them convey our
raw products 10 Europe in their vessels at
t1e expense OF OuT producers, and there
convert them into a manufactured product
with her cheap labor and return them to
u.s. when II will surely have the effect of
reducing the price of labor that produces
the same articles in the United States. All
these are potent reasons TO nv mind why
we should oppose the reelection of Presi-
dent Cleveland III 1888 | append letter
written by Democratic merchant of this
city that IS very suggestive On this subject.
70 my friends aud readers | will say
have no axes to grind, am no politician,
want no office; am an American, selfish
enough to wish for my own country's best
interests, " first, last and all the time" in
preference to that of ans other, and there
fore am in favor of protective tariff.
| II. K. THURBER,
OF ThurbeT, Whylsnd g. Co., New York
CITY.