The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-08-19
RANDOM THOUGHTS.

commencing to pick up their ears,
and are looking into the future with
some little show of anxiety. The aux
iliary parties, are also on the move,
but it seems as if they were undeter-
mined which way to strike. Of the
two old parties, it seems as if the
lesser had driven the last nail in their
coffin, by their advocacy of free trade,
which in the minds Of rational think
ing men, is sure way Of depicting
the National Exchequer, and stagnat-
ing the industries of now prosper
GUS nation. Free traders are wont to
hold up the prosperity of England, as
an example. And why? Is there
anything in free trade principles, that
will lessen the burden of the Door
mechanic or laborer? Is there any
thing in the great fallacy of free trade
that will insure the working man,
better wages for their labor, or guar
antee them shorter hours? These
questions should be most thoroughly
considered by the working classes of
this country, with a view of main
tanning their own welfare, as also that
of the most prosperous nation on the
face of the earth. Where is the la
borer in the United States who is re
ceiving only $1.25 per day, that would
be willing to work the same number
Of hours, and perform the same
amount of labor for SO cents a day.
For example: Can a workingman,
with wife and three or four child
rem live and enjoy life better on $1.25
per day at the present time, than he
couE IN so cents per day under a
free trade government, even though
the cost of living were reduced one
half. There are thousands of skilled
mechanics who cannot afford the lux
ury of meat more than once week,
and thousands of laborers that are
on potatoes without any &C.
compartment, except occasionally
meat, milk or coffee. The foregoing
state Of affairs actually exist under the
free trade rule of England. Where
the family is a large one. the girls and
boys of ten or eleven years of age, are
Of necessity compelled to seek en-
ployment in the large factories and
with the small pittance they receive
TO help maintain the family. The edu-
cation, (if any, they have received is
soon forgotten amidst the humdrum
life of these factories, and illiteracy,
vice, and misery is the grand ont
come.
What consolation, for parent, to
nave children that can neither read or
write, or what ambition has the cbild9
What citizen Of the United States.
either business man, mechanic or Ia
'orer, would willingly exchange lots
With his more unfortunate brother
across the ocean. OF course it is not
meant, that all of the laboring classes
II foreign countries are uneducated, |
'ut that they are limited il, acquiring
IN advanced education, unless they |
ire fortunate enough to be the child /
zen of gentlemen OF some favored
one, or some more ambitious person
Who will devoet all of his or her extra
ime i'll acquiring an education. The !
vorkingman Of our own country, can,
mder the present system Of govern
nent, earn sufficient wages to clothe
md keep his family more comfortably,
While his children can attend school
md receive an education that will fit
hem to fill the most responsible pc
'itions, thereby lessening the burden
# their parents when they become
I'D and feeble.
Look at the immigration to the
United States from foreign countries
md you will find that all belong to
either the middle or poorer class of
xorkingmen. Ask these same i'm
migrants why they left their native
and, which is represented as being
he paradise of the poor workingman,
md they will answer by saying, that
n America the wages are much bet.
'er; work is more plentiful; living is
Almost rs cheap, and their children