Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-07-11

our oltizsns, whether ito the manuer
bornn or by adoption. From now on until
tho election, the high tariu orators will
shout themselves hoarse about British Iron,
British steel, British cotton and woolen
soodp, etc, but not one word OF denuncia.
tion will they utter about the British
workmen who are landing on our shores
by thousands, along with tho countless
multltudes OF Huugarians, Poles and
Italians. The failure Of every strike during
the past year, whether made by organised
labor or not, is evidence sufficient TO show
that the labor market In glutted. Al the
inception Of the Reading strike last spring,
Henry Clews, the New York banker, when
asked his opinion ss to the situation, 70.
piled: GAS long % immigration keeps up,
capital controls tho situation, and We can
beat them" To-day there are q hundred
pins for every hole vacant Foreign manu-
facturod goods are the buRbears Of Ameri-
can manufacturers. Foreign workmen arc
tho bugbears Of tho American workmen
The manufacturers control their end of the
line by prohibitory tariff, which
keeps out foreign prcducts The American
workman will not rest content until he
controls his eud Of the line by prohibitory
tariff, which keeps out the foreign work.
man who makes the goods They have
lesrDed by bitter experience that all en-
ployers are high tariff men when they sell,
and free-traders when they buy-especially
labor They have learned, too, that all
existing laws have been made by capitalists
for tho benefit Of capitalists, and that they
will not, OF their own volltion, kill the
goose that lays the golden egg II they
want relief they must organize . party OF
their own, and ss they are In the vast ma.
| jority, tho labor dog will then be able 10
| wsR the capitalist tail, and NOT, a. now,
have the tall wag the dog. A plethora oi
labor means cheap labor, just sH q
| plethora Of foreign made goods means low
| prices for our homo manufacturers. This
10 question that must bo met, and at once.
| Candidates are now In the field from presi-
dent down to congressman, and IN q few
short weeks they will DO running around,
hat In hand, soliciting the sufirages of these
very isporing mon for continuance OF that
| system which is rapidly making our coun-
try commonwealth OF millionaires and
beggars" II we must have high tariff
| extend Its provisions 10 as TO embrace al
our citz,ns. Don't give us one law fol
tho rich and another for the poor. wha
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gander, In this case especially. Eighty
cents day for laboring man II
your furnaces and rolling mills ISM
high tariff wages by any means and whei
the laborer complains, to DO told tha
"pienty of mon arc willing TO take you
place at that price," doesn't impress tn,
laborer very fsvorably with the bsautie
Of high protective tariff. He reasons from
effect to cause, ard he knows at once that
laborers were not so plenty he would &c
better wages. 80, gentleman OF Congress
don't waste your wind altogether on higl
tariff which affects onl ly the product OF labor
and benefits the manufacturer alone, bu
expend little Of your sage wisdom on tn
laborer himself, and give him that protec
tion 10 which, as citizsn, he ia 80 justi
entitled. Close your doors against foreigl
immigration, and you have panacea 10
Nihilism, Communism, Socialism an,
Strikism, aud the relations between capita
and labor will be cemen,ed In bonds OF irol
for all time to come. AMERICAN.