Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-10-31
A LABORER SPEAKS.

An appeal to the dinner-pail brig
ade and men wit caloused
hands. When you are solicited
to support the Republican ticket,
ask the person who solicits you
the following questions:
Whya million men have been out
Of work under the. high tariff? Why
Pennsylvania miners only get 500
per month and pay out Of that
81 80 for tool sharpening, powder and
oils? Why slate-pickers, Z to 10 years
old, are working under the rod in Penn
sylvania? Why Pennsylvania opera
tors pay s5 a month for company
houses when English operators get a
cottage for $50 year? How protec-
ton protects workingmen when Ital-
ians and Hungarians come in duty
free? Why the poorer American
spinners get 81 90 and the poorer
English spinners 81 20 week, though
the American makes two and three
quarter yards OF cloth to the English
mans two and a half yards? Why
the condition Of the miners has for
some years been growing worse in
Pennsylvania and better in England?
Why is the very occupations which
we tax ourselves TO protect, the English
have, as a rule, the advantage? Why
workingmen earn higher days wages
in unprotected than in protected in
dustries? What good is a protective
tariff to workingmen when American
factories pay only 81 80 wages for a
piece Of ingram carpet on which the
duty would be $2l? Why we sold
only $776, 900 woolen goods to coun-
tries where England sold over 81 ,000-
600 in 1885? Why saving bank de-
posits increased IA per cent per year,
from 1915 to 1865, under high tariff?
Why, during this period OF high pro-
tectiye tariff we have more million
aires and more paupers under that
system than were ever made in
civilized country on earth in the
same time? Why the working peo-
pie OF London, 30 years ago, marched
en- masses TO the doors of the Parlia-
ment House and with the cry OF
Bread or Blood" compelled the re-
peal OF the English tariff? Why
Daniel O'Cannell, the Irish liberator,
united with Richard Golden in pro-
nouncing projection a fraud2 Why,
formerly, under a high tariff in Eng
land there we're bread riots, the peo
pie staryingand the aristocracy alone
amassing wealth? Why wages in free
trade England are almost double what
they are in potectionist Germany.
France, Italy, Spain and Russia.
Why free trade England is in the
market for the surplus of the American
farmers. which amounted last year TO
$523, ,000,00 Why there is more
money in free trade England than in
any other country in the world. Why
English capital builds, railroads, iron
mills and steels works in protectionist
America. Why England is the leading
commercial nation of the world, while |
the commerce of the United States,
before high tariffs were adopted al
most equaled that of England, is now
OF comparatively small account. Why
the cost Of labor in yard of cloth or a
ton OF iron or steel is greater in Eng
land than in the United States. Why
the wool product in the United States
is decreasing year by year under high
protective tariff. II high tariff makes
high wages. why have the workingmen
Of this country, those in the protected
industries most OF all, been com
pelled to strike for better wages thous-
ands OF times within the last fifteen
years. Why, II the tariff protects, has
labor found it necessary to organize
for self-protection. What section OF
the tariff law constrains protected
manufacturers to add the tariff to the
wages Of their operatives-do they in
fact do this?
Wokingmen, to slumber is to awake
in chains. Eternal vigilance is the
price Of liberty.-Mechanic. in Council
Bluffs Globe.