Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04

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protected against ''ruinous competition,
etc " You know men hire labor where it
can be found the cheapest, even to the
point of importing under contract the ig-
norant, degraded laborers of European
cities, crowding out the American lahorer
and his family. Go into the protected"
regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio you will
need an interpreter, for so little is known
of the English tongue that men are known
by number, not by name.
Don't taunt the democrats with fear to
vote to repeal the contract labor law until
you are dead sure that that law is enforced.
Don't forget, too, that to the chairman of
the ex-nat,onaI republican committee,
Benjamin Franklin Jones, belongs the
honor of being the first man to import
under contract the ''pauper labor" of Eu-
rope.
Again, if 1t be so largely matter of
labor, why is it that the law which like
highwayman, demands tribute of US when
we buy protected goods, does not con-
tain some provision enabling labor to get
this tax for you know it is for labor's
benefit that it is levied and if he does not
get it he Twill quit beaten
When, because of the tariff we pay a
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''quit beaten, then we want labor to get it,
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How comes 1T that IT our labor Is so
costly that our products can be sold at all
in the worlds markets, and further how
Is it that American refined sugar sells in
London 20 and p pounds per dollar,
American plows, shovels, cultivators,
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anvils, vis"s, kettles. scales. wringers,
shears, bolts, augurs, bits, nails, screws,
circular, scroll and hand saws. forges.
sewing machines, mowers and binders,
are selling in foreign markets cheaper 10y
II to 30 per cent. than to our own peo-
pie.
Let me quote: There is no middle
ground. the issue is made. Sir. we wei
come it. Nor will we permit it TO he OBJ
scured. or lost sight Of or changed. or
shifted to other ground" Now. don be
alarmed. it will not he changed or ..lost
sight Of" the democrats and thousands in
your party have been waiting for lust
this challenge to arrive 1t has come in
time. The Mississippi valley. an
empire in extent in the
past twenty-five wears has welded
unmeaSu. ed wealth at the touch of labor
Where is that wealth? 1t is no longer in
the soil. nor vet is it in the hands of the
people. An impoverished soil and an
acrrieved people are the souvenirs oflthese
long wears of republican protection"
Nicely hidden under tariff laws has the
snoilation been carried on. until the west
is forced 10 borrow money of the east
which has crown ike Ieecb bv divertin,,
10 itself the wealth dug out of the soil bv
the western farmers. The tariff has placed
the western farmer in the position
of the broken gambler. who horrows
from the faro dealer for further
vspf,,re ,t his table. Like nm asp among
leaves the tariff has lain hidden under
s,,cl ,,bros,s as ..rrotection IN infant in
a,str;.s ~ ..sac,,r;tv AGAINST manner
] ,abor :, ..bo,ne market America for
Americans " etc but II won't do. the
st,r, b.r5 If nacessitv has shaken the
voter ont Of his letbarov. and he is awake
With f,cs to,,-,rl tba r;sino SIM
or course = sreecb on the tariff by a
ranubI;can rorI5 NOT no comnlete without
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