Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-10-17

wages are lower 1lere imam anywhere on
the continent,s Austrias protection is a
little less than1n Russia, and her wage
rate is a little higher. Germany's tariff
is somewhat lower than in Austria. and
wages are somewhat higher. In France
the tariffs less than in Germany and
wages are higher. While Germany is be-
fore our minds, and as the agents of high
taxes have nosed around in every nook
and Granny for crumbs of comfort for
their victims and found a statement of
Bismarck TO the effect that as the
United States had, as be supposed, been
greatly benefited by protection. it would
be great thing for Germany. too. Here
is what the chamber of commerce reported
after a years trial of the American svs-
tenn:
The high duties have greatly enhanced the cost
of the necessaries of life, while instead of wages
raising predicted, they have either remain
ed stationary or declined, and the condition of
the German workman has materially deterior-
ated
A little rejection and less partisan poll
tics would enable Mr.. La Toilette or any
reasonable man to see that the wages a
man receives represent the value which
his hand or brain, or both. produces for
his employer, minus a margin of gain to
the employer What A receives as wages
from B is part of the value which
A has created out OF the materials
which r places before him. There
is no other place under heaven for his
wages to come from, except from the
value which his labor adds to the materials
upon which he puts forth his strength and
skill.
Why is one imam paid more wages than
another man in the mine, the mill. the
factory? The answer comes from every
school boys lips, "he is more valuable to
his employer. Z b gets more out of AS
labor than he does of C's labor. A no
doubt is the cheaper man to his employer
at 81 per day than c is at 81 per day. Is
A more protected than c.? Not at all.
Is either one protected? Not that any one
knows of. aud the man who says protec-
tion raises thelwages either knows better,
or should know better American labor
may as well face the fact that in its skill
ard strength, applied to the resources of
continent the soil of which has drunk
their fathers Blood, that labor might be
free, lies theiTs sole protection. Protection.
sO-cailed, does. not, has not, cannot raise
wages. And the wage earners see it. They
see that makes their wages less by increas-
ing the cost of what they need to live upon
Not only this, put it increases the cost of
materials which they work up into fin
lshed goods, making it next to impossible
to sell the goods in the worlds market,
hence keeping their labor (for the goods
contains their labor from the market
They see it. and they will have their
rights-the farmer will have his market
not only to sell in. but to buy in. The
peope are not blind to the fact that pro-
tectlon cannot, n the lucid lingo Of La
Toilette, Il e4sifyn American industry.
but that the Omnipotent Hand which Gre
ated the earth, made laws for industry in
the rivers, lakes, valleys, forests and noun
tains, IN the zones of climates which di-
versify the globe, and we do but waste our
money in salaries paid to congressman
who care more for politics than they
know of geography.
Think, Mr. Editor beg of you, to
think,-what our grants in congress
have done and are doing for MS Take,
as a sample, copper. 1t is universal
necessity to civilized man, and in the
north of Wisconsin nature laid away mil
lions and millions of tons of it, recurring
little to be done but to lift it to the SUI
face. One would naturally think a country
so favored would be rich Is it so? Or
ganized vilIainy through a corrupt con-
gresS has made it cheaper for an Ameri-
can to buy American copper on the other
side of the globe than to buy it in his own
country. Would an American buy cheaply
the ingenious and wonderful, labor saving
tools which his countrymen produce let
him live in Mexico or Europe! Would an
American citizen, through whose veins
flows the blood of the revolutionary fathers.
get the full benefit of the square miles of
cotton. whose white waves throw back the
kiss of the sun here as in no other country.
he must cross the ocean to that land which
gave up possession to his fathers only
after eight years OF bloodshed!
When the people know that half doz-
en- men can part their coat-tails before the
blazing fre-placeS of the millionaire's
office and then and there decide how much
coal for tweIve-month the people may
have and at what price; and at another
place under similar surroundings the same
number of men can and do decide how
much iron and steel The people may have,
and at what price. and when Mr.. IA Fol-
lette and his fellow ''giantr" decide that
our people must not have the tin they need
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not need; and when the people see, as they
are beginning to see, that from the blank
ct in the cradle 10 the cotton in the shroud
our statesmen have decreed that they
need protection. 1t is about time to
snuff out the light in the torch of Liberty
Enlightening the World, phil the ban 1age
off the eyes of Justice ard unsheath her
sword. F. NJ. DYER
NIFFLIN. Wis, Oct. 8.
NrKTSLEN IN MICIIG