The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-12-31
Long Labor Sernn n.

American Economist
The text is long, perhaps longer
tran the sermon, but it Is decisive and
suggestive 1t is a petition or resoiu-
ton adopted in late Sunday meeting
of the Trade and Labor Assembly of
Chicago, and reads as follows:
TO G,orer Clcreland, President elect Of the
United States:
DERA SIR:-The Trade and Labor
Assembly of Chicago, Il delegated BODY
representing the organized artisans
and mechanics OF this city, desire TO
support the Call made by various
Journals and citizens for an extra ses-
sion for the repeal of the Mckinney
law. The verdict Of the people az lhis
last election was SO emphatic ana over
whelming against the further cohtih-
uance of a national policy that re-
STREETS and preys on the consumer
through a monopolized market staIseS
the operative into subsection auu ieS
allzes brigandage under the Sulse ol
American patriotism, dcOauciies .ne
conscience of our citizens ana polSonS
the atmosphere of our public life to
such an extent that OH the eve OF every
impGrtant election the honest citizens
trcmble i'm fear that the result Will be
determined by the venal use OF money
extorted from a credulouS people,
through laws enacted by corrupt men
who seek to despoil their kind, ms
national and social crime has been held
IN bv its beneficiaries as blessing TO
American workingmen. The gauilt-
faced women, the starving chlluren
and desperate men at Homestead are
a REPUTATION of this claim. We, there
fore, as the representatives OF orSahiz-
ed labor in Chicago, declare TO you
with all the solemnity OF serious men
and women that inaSmuch as the oiilE
protection we secure as lnuuSsfial
units comes by virtue OF our own OF
carnations and the degree OF !ntelll-
gence and fraternity we cultivate
among ourselves; we therefore request
that this legal and arbitrary Protec-
ton be unqualtiedly repealed. AS
workers we have no fear or our Eu-
ropean fellow workers. We care living
in an age of steam and electricity, ag-
encies which bring nations nearer 10
nations and man nearer to man. 1hey
are the factors of communication ana
intercommunication, which constitute
the fiat of the God of nature, OF inter
nationality of trade and of lie. we
therefore ask you to aid III hasteninS
the time when Free Trade. carried on
by free men, will be the ruling policy
of our nation, and when the custom
house will only be remembered Ill MS
tory as having protected baron TOO
bers, through whom we advertised our
stupldity. coWardice and shame to the
world.
This passed by IS to % votes. The
small vote makes the claim OF
representing the organized labor
among million citizens question
able. but it is clearly seen that these
ATE men who do indorse its reckless
statements first. The talk OF policy
that rreys on the consumer, debauches
conscience ard gets LAWS enacted by
corrupt men seeking to despoil their
kind, is refuted by the plain fact that
the consumer was never so able as now
to buy his goods, and that under pro-
tective laws the wages of workmen, III
proportion to their costs of living. are
the highest in the world, and higher III
this country than ever before.
To- r,rci, lcsielation ga ma tionol and
social crime:" Were Washington and
jackson and Lincoln, all Protection
lists, upholding criminal system, or
blind and foolish men,
The talk of "gaunt-faced women
&c, at Homestead is absurd, in view
of the truth that the real stril ers were
small company of men earning from
6 to $40 day, while the host who
Joined them had no lowering of wages
to complain of.
Is it stupidity and cowardice and
shame" and subsection to ''robber bar
ons, to earn by honest labor the best
wages in the world under the Protcc-
tive Tariff If SO why not try Free
Trade England, where wages are so to
SO per cent lower, and where the en-
Iloyer, the s.robber baron" gets a
larger proportion than here of the pro
ceeds of labor?
Had the Homestead strike occurred
in the old days of the real robber bar
ons, instead of a few Pinkerton men,
who had better never have been sent
there, and were easily driven away,
the strikers would have been raided by
knights clad in steel and riding on fine
horses, and by their fierce henchmen,
their miserable homes burned, their
wives. and daughters grossly insulted
and they plundered and bound and
scourgpd into submission. That was
the old fashion, as history plainly tells
us.
Yet granting the earnest sincerity
Uf most Of the voters for this docu
ment, it shows that they have been
cheated by Democratic Free-Traders
All the way from Bayard of Delaware
sitting in his elegant home and talk
ing idly of the fall of plutocracy,
down to the whisky soaked demagogut
at the dirty saloon, the false lessor
has been taught that Protection wa
robbery, and the Republican party tn,
tool of the plntocrats, while the truth
is that the Homestead Land act, tn
tNti-contract Labor act, and the Anti
trust act were steps led by Republican
legislators, voted for by Republican
congressman and by some Democrats
all for the freedom and uplifting OF la
hor. no acts of such Importance and o
like tendency ever having been passe
liz tile Free Trade Democracy.
Tne pity is that the results OF "ha
they Lllnd.y rave Toy viii come, tirs
and heaviest, on the heads and home
of these deluded workingmen. Ii
Free Trade or low reeeaue Tari
come: and suppose, IN two years, til;
there Will be ten per cent. less wor
and zen per cent. lower wages-an
this is no alarmiSt panic cry, but
p,ndarata estimate iuirinr nv oil