Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-06-25
REPUBLICAN TRUTHS.
The Tariff and immigration.

1t is probable that very large num-
| Der of immigrants have come to this
country because OF the protective tariff.
| A large part of the skilled laborers in
| tho varied industries of the United
States are foreign-born. The marvel
! Gus success Of our manufactures is due,
| in no small measure to the experience
and skill which immigrants brought
with them to put into American indus
tries. 1t was the very best capital
they could bring to Amcrica---bctter
than money, because the results OF
what may be called generations OF ex-
pcricncc and skill in any branch of
manufacture could not be purchased.
The United States has never had too
nany of this class of immigrants, and
40 anxiety ID he wasted about such
Immigrants in the years to come.
They have always received good wages
and have expended the resultS OF their
labor in the support OF families, and
have, for the most part asSimllated
with the people to which they came.
But the great bulk of immigrants who
are coming to this country now from
italy, Hungary and other sections of
Europe are not skilled laborers. They
have not been drawn here to obtain
better compensation for skilled labor
and to make homes. Unable TO pro-
cure more at home than WI support
;he most miserable existence, they
come to this country to secure in the
2Ommonest cmployments the means Of
wages and the wider field of employ
ncnt which the policy of fostering all
Industries has helped materially to Gre
lte may have something to do with
heir coming, but when they get here
they crowd into sections of the large
cities, perform mental service, and live
in filth and wretchedncss while labor
ing to scrape together a few hundred
dollari to take back with them. They
60 in drOves to work in mines and at
railroad building. They impoverish
rather than add to the prosperity of
the country. Mr.. McAdoo leads one
to infer that if the country should be
put upon the free trade basis, so that
labor in this country would not be
paid more than in Europe, the evil of
immigration would cease. Therefore,
he argues, if we would stop immigra-
ton, repeal the protective tariff The
remedy would doubtless be effective for
the reason that fever could be got
rid of by giving the victim few grains
OF str chime to end his life. Immi-
grafton is not yet such serious infic-
ton that it is necessary in order to get
rid of it, to put the wage earners of
Wis NO''htl y oll a. INNtI w ItI luOSc VI
overcrowdcd Europe. Mr.. McAdoo,
and those who applaud his remedy, re-
mind one of the quack DOCTOR who al
ways threw his patients into convul-
sions before treating them for the dis
ease, for the reason that he was death
on fits" The country can dcbar the
degraded from Europe as we'll as from
China. but it will never say to men
and women who have trades and intel
ligcnce, You are not wanted" But
the admission of Mr.. McAdoo that pro-
lection has maintained in this country
such high compensation for labor
that it is the only country in all the
world to which hundreds of thousands
hasten 10 better their condition is most
conclusive testimony in favor of the
benefits of the policy of protection.
Upon that admission his article is
based, indianapolis journal.