The Wahpeton times., 1891-04-30
Most Any School Boy Should Have
Known Better.

CduSe HidleIlalS are lllSnef mere. IOI
instance, carpenters in England re-
celve Sl.25 Il day--%hile here they
receive all the way from two to three
dollars day. Then hands employed
in saw mills, the iron and glass
workers, the plasterers, etc, get
about twice the wages here they get
in England. The Democratic party
is anxious to place our working men
on the same plane with English
workmen.-- North Dakota Globe.
The tailors in Wahpeton who vote
the Democratic or free trade ticket
ought to go to Europe where free
trade is appreciated. Journeymcn
tailors in Germany get sixty cents per
day in England they get from $1.00
to $1.25 per day. In the United
States (Wahpeton, for instance) they
get from two to three dollars il day.
1t would help tailors wonderfully to
have free trade in clothing in this
country. They could then work for
the same wages German OF English
tailors get. Tailors. Of all trades
men have the least excuse for being
Democrats North Dakota Globe.
England is an old country. "Pro-
lection starved men, women and
children to death in England 500
years before Columbus discovered
America. England got her bad
name in the matter of her wage sys-
tenn under protection, latter being
fought by the liberals there for
500 Straight years, and monopoly's
grasp was somewhat loosened only
40 or so years ago, since which time
the conditions of mankind have been
and are daily improving in England.
Protection-to extent of oppression, is
the cardinal plank in all Europe's aris-
stocratic notions of government, to-
day; it is older than China, whose
selfish leaders 60OO years ago built
the famous wall to keep out inter-
ference from the outer world, and
look where it landed that country.
England has the most liberal CON-
mercial and wage systems of any
of the European countries, and is
therefore the most advanced of any
any of them in material prosperity,
and is queen of the seas to-day.
Times have been flush in America
simply from the fact that God gave
and reserved this unparalleled and
illimitablc hemisphere of wealth to
the world to such an age and people
as ought to enjoy and protect it's
privileges. The Republican party is
thing sprung from the ruins of
war waged, largely, between Demo-
Gratis and miscellaneous people; is
a mass of greed and sellishness
actuated by class interests, and
while its beneiiciaries have gotten by
immense odds more than their share
OF the fruits of this country's devel-
opmcnt, they cheekily and inEa per-
verted and w1lfully untruthful claim,
point to protection" a; having
showered all former and present
blessings upon this country-as if it
were in league with God Almighty.
1t is the first flush of developement
of this rich country which has made
times and fortunes easy--in spite of
the thieving tariff imposed upon this
people. Protection, as promulgated
by the gang through Mckinley, is a
curse. McKinley's style of protec-
tion has no more to do with the reten-
tion of good wages than has the man
in the moon.
II America got free raw materials
free wool--American tailors would
have more to do than they do to-day !;
and the price paid for labor is regu :
laate by supply and demand, every
time whether In America, any part
Of America--or elsewhere; and now,