Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-07-14

secures the cooperation of one Of
our great political parties, which
was created to put an end to human
slavery. He inoculates its members,
albeit only small proportion of
them belong to the working class,
with the belief that protective
tariff is safeguard for American
labor, and that by increasing its
burdensome exactions the wages of
those who toll with their hands will
grow in the same proportions. So
masterful are his methods and those
Of his coadiutors that they kindle a
flame of national enthusiasm for their
creed, and win the assistance of many
sincere and good men, who feel a
species. of religious fervor as they
fight for protectionisan in the con-
viction that they are thereby fight
ING for the good of their fellows.
yn3er their efforts a wall too high
to scale is built around the steel and
iron industries OF the United States,
and competition from without is en-
tirely eliminated. During the Yeas
Of national railroad building the
price of rails and the cost of rail
road construction were run up to
enormous figures, and every man
who travelled or shipped pound Of
freight was charged more for the
service on this account. When they
complained they were greeted with
the comfortable assurance that they
were paying tribute for the support
of the poor, and that, unless they
were unpatriotic enough to want to
see the pauper labor of Europe in
our factories, they would offer no
resistance to the system. By such
arguments the conspiracy has sue
ceeded, and the wealth of it's pro-
motors rolled up day by day. Car
neyie, the head center of the
movement, has left his competitors
behind and is numbered with the
moneyed powers of the world. From
his humble beginning he has come
to dine with kings, and has con-
structed monuments of stone to pre-
serve his name wherever his
capricious fancy has suggested to
him the desire. So far as he and
his fellow-proprietors are concerned,
there is no criticism to be passed on
the merits OF the plan.
But what abeut dignited Ameri-
can labor-how has it Jared? By
getting early to the FORCES, and bend
ing over the hot fires till sunset, it
has kept itself from starvation.
Sometimes it has gotten good pay
and steady work, and then again it
has been laid off for long stretches
of idleness. Now when the crisis
is reached, and the taritf-born booty
of the Carnegies has reached a posi-
ton of impregnability where it can
laugh at its victims, the mask is
thrown aside, and a reduction of
wages below the point of existing is
ordered all along the line. When
the wretched creatures who have
looked forward to no happier fate
than a lifelong succession of pain
fully toilsome hours protest, they
are cut off in a mass, and the un-
checked hordes of starving peasants
who are admitted to our ports with
out governmental interference. are
drawn on to take their places. There
is protection and plenty for every
one except the workingman. The
market for every known commodity
is artificially stimulated by the bar
riers which are set against the en-
trance of foreign goods. The labor
market alone is held open, with the
completest freedom of trade for
every hungry foreigner to compete
in.
Is it any wonder that humanity
downtrodden by such shameless de-
vices, frightened, Infatuated, should
lose sight of the respect which is
due property and the law, and resist
the movement for it's final subiec-