Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-23

of the country if wages were scaled dow
: to the European standard OF about &C
d so or 90 cents per day? Riot, arson
lplunder and bloOdshed would be the or
der of the day most unqnestionably.-
= Now, why is it that men yearn and han
L ker after the profits of European robbed
: labor? 1t is simply because they arr
i neither patriotic nor honest. Our gov
ernment and social system is cast in {
higher mould than those of Europe, and
the free trader as well as the better part
enjoy alike its immunities, blessings and
benefits, If skilled labOrer, he gets
the American price for his labor, vet he
bankers and vearns after the pecuniary
benefits of his brothers robbed labor on
the other side of the sea.
Boys, free trade is the NIoloch of evil
to this country, and should be classed as
the sum of all villainieS, since the over
throw of chattel slavery. Chattel slave
ry and the slavery of penury and want
are but a few removes apart. The apOS-
ties o: free trade will tell you that our su-
perior natural advantages in connection
with our superior smartneSS aud phySi-
cal ability supersede the necessity of
tariffs to enable us to compete with the
cheap labor of foreign countries. Such
trash don't come up to the requirements
of respectable lying-its only superla-
tive nonsense.
Boys, will give you simple illustra
tion of the difficulties that the Ameri-
can manufacturer labOrs under in the
worlds markets. Assuming that skill
ed labor costs so per cent more in Amer
lea than in England, and assuming also
that the labor cost of a chopping ak in
England is IS per cent. of whole cost,
and the whole cost is 90 cents per ak
hence upon the basis that raw materials,
wear and tear of machinery are the same
in both countries, it follows as plain,
incontrovertible fact that the English
ak could be put upon the worlds mar
ket for 22i cents less or cheaper than
the American ak, clearly chargeable to
the difference of the productive labor in
the two countries, and this difference
holds good through the entire list of
manufactured products wherein the la
Dor cost is as per cent. of whole cost,
the difference of labor cost is so per cent.
AS facts must exist in defiance of the
huge political warfare made upon them,
and figures cannot be forced to lie,
how in the name of reason is our
commerce to be extended except by seal
ing down the price of skilled labor or
through the door of reciprocity.
Boys, Grover Cleveland is the recog-
Eined leader of the Democratic party OF
tC day, and you will remember that he |
said in his last annual message to Con |
greSs that the wool tariff cost the aver |
age wool grower more in the way of the
enhanced cost of the cloth he consumed |
therefrom than the wool tariff benefited |
him. L submit it to candid world |
that this suggestion is the talleSt rOor-
back that ever emanated from any Chief |
Magistrate of the nation through state
paper, and defy successful contradiction;
but let us hope he done it innocently, not
knowing presumably whether an aver
age family consumed annually the
product of 35 pounds of wool or $500
pounds. 1t is susceptible of easy math-
ematical proof that the wool grower
with a family of five persons would on
ly have to raise 35 pounds annually to
come out even on account of the wool
tariff And he further said at the same
time, that the tariff on wool just raised
its price to the manufacturer the amount
of itself-that is, 10 or II cents per
pound, according to its classification in
the wool schedule. This is true beyond
cavil, Notwithstanding the WoodSfield
Spirit Of Democracy has been preaching
for years that wool would go right up to
so cents per pound if put on the free list.
Mr.. Spirit, you might as well try to re-
verse the laws of gravitation as to prove
your silly absurdity.
Now, what is the difference to the peo-
pie in the sense of a tax burden upon
them, of a revenue tariff that will real
ize S300,000,0 ,0OO annually, and a protect
i've tariff that will raise the same amount?
There surely is none; yet there are men
who will indorse the former method as
sound and all right, and denounce the
latter as robbery! Oh, We political hyp-
ocrites, who will strain at a gnat and
swallow camel.
Boys, when you hear it said that tariff
taxation is robbery it is direct i'm
parchment of the purest and wisest
body of men who ever sat in council, !
charged with the weighty responsibility
of shaping nations destiny, that they
so devised a system of taxation based
upon principles of robbery. Oh, shame
on such miscreants- them it seems
nothing is sacred. They stab at the very
heart of the nation in their wanton reck- !
lessness.
Boys, what do you think of wool
grower who will vote to put wool on the
free list Notwithstanding he helps to 5
pay the tariff on all products of iron,
woods, cotton, and upon sugar and rice, {
at the high rate of about from 20 to 100
per cent upon the two latter articles re-
spectively? If of sound mind must he
not be disciple of the doctrine taught |
by the SPIRIT Of Democracy, namely: That {
wool will go right up to so cents per
pound when put on the free list, not {
Cleveland says by sequence /;
that it will go right down in price 10 or 5
II cents per pound Now, if this wool ;
grower is not disciple of the Spirit, +;
must he not be an abject slave of the par !
ty notwithstanding by Sd doing he [
puts the saber to his own throat finan- I
cially, and helps to rob himself of what {
he is justly entitled to. This outrage /;
was forced into the Democratic plat
form by its Southern wing, who don't
care tinkers damn for the interests of
the Ohio wool grower and his rights, yet
they demand from 20 to 100 per cent.
tariff protection on their sugar and rice,
and have been getting it. Was common
Justice ever more ruthlessly butchered?
Yet this is the outrageous, humiliating,
and revolving price-or
sacrifice, rather-put upon your loyalty
to party, in free country, where every
mans voteis his own sacred property; |
and in the face of all this, our enemies ,
sneeringly ask us to assign single good
reason why wool should be protected.
Any common fool ought to know that
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