Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-09-04

knowing this truth tney protect tnell
own labor, and, as Garfield said; 1--WE
egislate for the people of the United
States and not for the whole world, and i,
is our glory that the American laborer is
more intelligent and better paid than hi'
foreign competitor
A recent writer in England commenting
on the effects of free trade asks: Where
but in the large towns of Great Britain car
we find such hideous bots upon civiliza-
ton. such reeking miseries as the saloons
of Manchester and Salford?" OF Scot
land, Chambers Journal says; No alb
jectiveness in any city of Europe sinks tc
the dismal level of rags and wretchedness
observable in the fetid alleys of Edinburg
and Glasgow Our prosperity is the re-
suit of our we'll paid labor, the distress and
suffering If England. result from her pau
per labor.
No greater truth was ever uttered than
this: The true gain of every country is
ample wages to the laborer The laboring
classes are the nation They are the pro-
ducers and they are, moreover, the great
est consumers.
THEIR EXPENDITURE MAKES THE GREAT
HOME MARKET"
Sir Edward Sullivan, in recent article
on the evil effects of free trade in England,
explains the cause of labor, male and fe-
male, being so depressed there; EN-
ployment, not cheapness, Is the main
spring of national prosperity and content
ment. The way to make nation happy
and prosperous is to give everybody an
opportunity of being employed, The
idea of supplying population of $4,000,
| 600 with everything at a lower price than
they can produce it is probably the most
| preposterous nonsense that ever entered
| the human mind. ~
Free trade means untaxed foreign com
petition. Foreign competition means
competition in cheapness; competition in
cheapness means competition in cheap
labor; competition in cheap labor means
competition in flesh and blood, and COM
petition in flesh and blood is slavery.
THE unrestricted competition of the
world is fast making the condition of
English labor impossible. Cheap clothing
and cheap food are of no value if human
labor is cheaper still Excessive cheap
ness is of no value to the community
without employment. Employment means
cheapment. Those who have employment
can buy" He continues in the following
FREE TRADE MEANS CHEAPNEss TO THO
RICH.
The iders. those with fixed incomes:
but longer hours, lower wages, harder work
to the workers. The workers are twenty
to one to the idlers, and therefore, free
trade sacrifices the interests of the nineteen
to the interests of the one"
One conclusion Sir Edward Sullivan
draws is 50 well proven by the highest
statistical authorities to admit of no doubt:
After forty years of experience of one
sided free trade, yhe condition of labor in
the United Kingdom is very alarming;
many industries have died out or removed
to other countries; in nearly every in
dustry English. labor Is undersold 10y for
eign Labor in most industries four DAYS
is now considered weeks work" That
is the condition brought by free trade in
England.
Our female student" may have seen
that picture.of Washington at Trenton, n
j., passing under a floral arch bearing the
motto: The defender of the mothers
will be the protector of the daughters. y
That system which defends the home pro-
tects both mothers and daughters A
more modern motto is: "What is Home
Without Mother?' But what home can
that be? what home influence can there be
where the mother has to leave her newly
born babe at creche early in the morning,
to remain there all day while she labors
hard wheeling coal at the mouth of the
pit, or wheeling sag from the blast fur
mace, clad Ia the cast off clothes of her
husband brCteer or SON.? or treats the
heavy Oliver twelve hours a day making
spikes, earning from 81 so to 81. so week
The object, aim and purport af our gov
eminent was never more clearly or concise
ly stated than by Major Mckinley. of
Ohio, in his mastery attack oh the Mill
bill, May Is, 1888. He said This gov
eminent is made for Americans, native
born and naturalized, and every pound,
every bushel, every ton, every yard of
foreign product that comes into this coun-
try to compete with ours deprives Amer
can labor of what Justly belongs to it.
We cannot compete with foreign
nations without the restraint of tariff
unless we have equal conditions and equal
labor cost. To do this we must introduce
European conditions and European
methods into the United States, ETC.,
etc
The mass of our American working peo
pie know these facts. Those of foreign
birth know their truth from actual expert
ence IN their native and adopted countries
and this question will be again as it has
been before decided as Garfield said: "By
100000 republican friends, with
thoughtful fathers with wives and child |
rem about them, with the calm thoughts |
inspired by love of home and love of
country, with the history of the party and
hopes of the future and the knowledge of
the great men who have. adorned and
blessed our nation in days gone by, there
God prepares the verdict that shall deter |
mine the wisdom, etc, etc. 1t is by the |
voices and votes from our American homes |
filed with ouI working classes - fathers,
mothers and children-that the American
protective tariff has always been sustained
whenever the question has been fairly sub
mitted Wendell Phillips said "The
accumulated intellect of the masses is |
greater than the heaviest brain that God
ever gave to single man." Mr.. Blaine
said Of the tariff issue; 1T stands forth
as that issue that presents bread 10 the
hungry. clothing to the naked and general
prosperity to all the people. The