Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-10-17
A LABoRER SPEAKS.

An appeal 10 the dinner.pail brigsd
and men with calonsed hands
When you are solicited to supper
the Republican ticket, ask ,h'
person who solicits you the fol
lowing questions:
Why million men have been ouI
of work under the high tariff? Why
Pennsylvania miners only get $50 per
month and pay out Of that $3.50 for
tool sharpening, powder and oils
Why slate pickers, Z 10 10 years old.
are working under the rod in Pennsyl.
vaDiai Why Pennsylvania operators
pay S. a month for company houses
when English operators get "a cottage
for $50 YEAR, How protection pro-
tects workingmen when Italians and
,Hangarians come in duty tree? Why
the poorer American spinners get
800 AID the poorer English spinners
$3.50 week, though the American
makes two and three quarters yards a
cloth to the Englshman's two and
half yards? Why the condition OF the
miner has for some years been grow
ing worse in Pennsylvania and better
in Englandf Why in the very occu-
.paiions which We tax ourselves 10 pro
.tect, the English have, ms rule, the
advantage' Why woIkingmen earn
higher days wages IN unprotected
than in pro ectcd industries? What .
good is protective tariff to working I
men when American factories pay
only " 30 wages for piecs Of ingram I
sci? Why We sold only $776 ,00J |
wooden goods to countries where Eng
land sold over $4,000 600 in 1852
Why saving bank deposits increased
ii per cent per year, 1915 to 1860, un-
der low tariff, and only one per cent "a
year, ls60-lSS5, under high tariff.
Why. during this period Of high pro-
tective tanH We have more milliunaires
and more paupers under that system
than were ever made in civilized
country ON earth in the same time?
Why the working people of London,
ahirty years ago, marched en- masse to
the doors Of parliament house aud with
the cry Of Bread or blooJ," compelled
me repeal 81 the English tariff? Why
Daniel O'Conn'll, the Irish liberator,
united with Richard Golden in pro-
nouncing protection frauds Why,
formerly, under high tariff in Eng
land there were bread riots, the people
starving and the ari,tocracy alone
amassipg wealth. Why wages in free
trade England are almost double what
they are in protectionist Germany,
France, Italy. Spain and Russia. Why
free trade England is in the market
fof the surplus Of the American farm q
ers, which amounted last year to
1928, 100000? Why there is more
money in free trade England than in
suiy other country in the world WHY
English capital builds railroads, iron
mills and steel works in protec,ianist
America Why England is the lead
ing commercial nation Of the world.
Ahile the commerce OF the United
States, which, before high tariff
were adopted, almost equaled that of
England. is now of comparatively
email account. Why the cost Of labor
an a yard OF cloth or ton uf iron or
steel is greater in England than in the
United States. Why the wool product A
in the United States is decreasing year
by year under high protective tariff
II high tariff makes high wages, why
have the wurkingmen Of this country.
those in the protected industries most
Of al, been compelled to strike for bet
ter wages thousands of times within
the last fifteen years. Why, IL the
tariff protects, has labor found il nee,
essary To organize for s,lf-protection. 4
What section Of the tariff law con.
strains protected manufacturers to add O
the tariff To the wages Of their opera.
lives--,lo the" in fact do this?
Workingmen, To slumher is 10 awake
in chains. Eternal vigilance is the al
price ri Observation-Disclosures in Council :"
Bluffs Buff. Globe. :,
j.