The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-12

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Our wOHIsINGuEN.
OF all the peorle beguiled by dema-
gogues. the horny-handed son of toll II
the most Ingenious and unsuspecting.
The Carnegies turn him out to staryein
the winter until the Trust Ring
bears tine market by reducing the sup
ply. The Ring then raises the prices
sells at an enormous profit which Is
the result Of the benelceut system OF
protection, and then when they are
ready to open the factories again they
call back the workmen at the price de-
sred By the monopoli-s
Argue as you will, and preach proiec-
tion as You may, that is just the size
Of il. "aud the fact, who can deny
in the mcau time elections occur. aud
the vorkngmen vote for Carnegie.
Blaine, and Wanlmaker at the very
time when their chiefs discuss the
wrongs Of the laborisg men and the ty-
rannical oppression Of capital.
Tu the course Of time the working
men may, ont Of the sadness Of their
a1iiction, be taught 10y hardship to seek
other prophets than those who are the
Sponsors of their woes, and then the
simple piain fact will dawn on them
that they have been voting by the mil
lion to protect labor when all the
time they were selling themselves out
TO monopoly. and monopoly means con
troll of tine home market. with prices
fixed for the product OF labor to suit
the few favored monopolists to whom
the autocratic control Of the market Is
granted by the law that says that the
American worker shall not compete
with the workers in other countries, but
shall only labor for the home market.
Or. in other words, the law proclams
this monstrous wrong: You must make
cloth and cotton goods that cannot be
sold in other countries. You shall not
work for the hundreds Of millions of
people in the oriental countries and
work ON the principle Of competition,
which makes higher wages. But you
shall WORK with a small amount Of ma
terial imported with such duties or
produced here under such circum-
stances thatyou cannot make product
for the markets Of the world.
II you wish to make an article Of to-
bacco to ship abroad in Tin case, OF
put up meat or fish or fruit for the
foreign market, you must pay over one
hundred per cent. for the tin which you
have to import.
Therefore the margin of profit is
eliminated
Next is Protective Tariff though the
surplus is over SlOOOOO,oOO a year.
Aud the Constitution says that taxes
must be levied to support the Govern
mcnt.
What is that surplus for
Answer: To enable monopolists to
make goods and keep the people from
buying any other goods, and at the
same time to keep the people from get
ting the raw materials at the prices in
other countries.
Why should the American man be
made TO pay twice as much for his
clothes. from his shoes and socks TO HE
hat. as the people in other countries
nay?
SO much for the question as it
addresses itself to the consumer.
But why should our workiugmen
and skilled artisans not be allowed to
have wool, for instance, to make cloth
Of at the price that the EngIishman
gets it,
The answer again is, that the few mo-
ncpolisis run the country, and when
they can regulate the prices to suit
themselves they can laugh at the &C
cepted law Of supply and demand, and
put the bounty Of the privilege in their
royal pockets. 1t is exactly the same
principle administered in another way
that caused the old Feudal barons TO
be killed.
They laid tyrannical tribute on labor
and trade regardless Of principle.
They stretched a rope across q river
and made the merchant who wanted 10
pass by with d cargo of goods pay toll
ON the ground that their own peasants