Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-25

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Dncle Sam to shake his fist In the face OF
foreign competition and say you can't
cross the border unless you pay m an
amount that will enable my partner Mr..
Sugar or Mr.. Wool to charge my laboring
people with whom I am not in partner
ship, an exorbitant price for what he has
to sell and thus make him rich at the ex-
pense Of his customers" The Republican
party Of to-day is made up of the men
that Uncle Sam thus fayors, and Of the
men who are Republican because Of the
influence Of this favored class. The gov
eminent that helps n subject to the det-
riment Of another is false In theory,
damnable In practise and unholy in the
sight Of God. If this government wants to
do the good Samaritan act, there are mil
lions, yes millions Of p~oyerty-stricken
men, women and children scattered all
over this broad land who r crying for
the bread that has been snatched from
their eonvulsive grasp by the worse than
murderous hand of Republican protec-
ton, and who have for years appealed to
it in poverty, restitution and death, but
whose walls of distress have been I'M
heard, unheeded in the halls Of national
legislation. The over-crowded tenements
Of the cities, the cherries cabins of Penn
~sylvania miners, the p0orhouses, the iails
and the %grayeyards of the country are
filled with the victims of this merciless
master, protection. Poverty drives men
to the commission of every crime, robs
women of their virtue, peoples hell with
fallen humanity, and the parent of pow
erty is protection. 1t is true that such a
condition does not exist in Montana, and
that it does not is due solely to the won
derful extent and value Of Dur natural
resources; but that 1t does exist all over
the east, no one will deny. What must
be the condition Of fair Pennsylvania
when it took hundreds Of Pinkerton
rifles for months to keep her working
men under the subsection of their mas
ters. Pennsylvania, the home Of Pig-Iron
Kelly, the father of protection! Republic
can Pennsylvania, the cradle Of Ameri-
can liberty and likewise its sepulchrel
The Democratic party does not ask
that the working man shall receive any
more consideration than the rich man,
but it does ask that there shall be no dis
tinction; it does ask that both
capital and labor shall be fairly
treated and that neither shall be pro-
tected at the expense Of the other.
But in what manner can capital and
labor both be protected by a tariff revi-
sion ?
the tariff from his necessaries and thus
increase the purchasing power of his
money.
Give labor to the unemployed and re-
munerate it better by such a revision of
the tariff as will increase the demand for
labor by increasing the demand for what
labor produces. Better remuneration and
labor for all will of itself increase con-
sumption and aid in this REIMBURSEMENT
Of domestic economy. A system that will
attain these objects must be beneficial to
the capital which 1t employs. And in
tariff revision If a business or pursuit
shall be discovered which can't exist
without pauperizing labor or running
some other business, that business or
does not deserve 10 exist; and
rather than that it should exist 1T would
better for the government to invoice
Il, pay its proprietor his investment and
throw the business to the dogs.
We subjoin a comparative statement
or January to September, 1888 and 1885,
II failures of wooden manufacturers
which ia taken from Bradstreet and which !
s reliable and worthy of your careful
consideration. The statement:
The record stands forty-six failures Of
Voolen manufacturing concerns in 1889
to August 29th, as compared with
hirty five in a like portion OF 1888. But
smparison OF the aggregate liabilities
an increase OF far more than 80 per
ent., the proportion Of increasei in number,
he liabilities OF failing wooden manufac.
uring institutions this year amount to
6 1870, 900, as compared with $2,4aO,0OO
Ist year, aud the total assets to $5,173,-
90, against 81, 1856. 900 in eight months OF /
SSS. The liabilities Of the seven failed
DOL dealers in 1889 aggregate approxim.
$l,766.900, and Of the six named
1883, $3.50, GEO. The total assets Of ,
dealers specified a. failing in 1889 ,
'gregated 1881, 900, and In 1883, $751;.
10. 4
The cause of these failures still exists
i'd this record must go on until the 9
use is remozed--a record of bank i
ptcy, idleness and the long train of f
lis to which they give rise. These b
anufacturers say the cause is "pretee- g
n" Let us apply the heroic treatment q
tariff revision" Amen, to tariff reyi- q
n.
j.. III. McQUEENEY.