Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-05

because c makes us so prosperous that
everybody comes over nere and erlngs
the cholera. They say the tsrlH i
| tax and the poor man pays Il. They
say our tariff makes wages high and
that brings every old paupeT aud an-
afcblst over here tnat w. don't want
| say they aye free traders. Read
their plank Five hundred and sixty
four voted for that Next they sre
| protectionists. Read their rejected
plank Three hundred and foTsy-two
voted for that. Now these men are
proof Ia our favor 90 far as they advO-
/ cate tariff TO make up for the ditfsr
ence IN the price OF labor. Bal they
20 further and cay that tnere are
enormous add tons which fall with
crushing weight upon the laoorer.
Let's see IL that tariff Is toe hlgh;
IL II was much nigher than the dif-
ference between the labor employed 1t
would be prohIsltory. lie ity Why. for
the year ending June /, 1892, We I'M
ported s2l6 sls.6l5 in waoens, cottous,
etc., and sc29 200, 900 OF iron and steel.
la 1892 under the m0nsirOus tariff sys-
TEN We imported si70.2Z7 .55i IN WOOL
ems and cottons. $40 900, 900 less. That
$40, 900, 900 our lsDorlng men produced.
An, they cay manufacturers are get
ting immensely rich. How much are
they making
Earnings OF Manufacturers.
Senator Allison shows that the aver
age earnings Of the wooden manufac-
turers OF Massachusetts, is not over
| per cent and IN Connecticut only
| per cent. and they gave work TO hum
| dreds of thousands of men. and pay
them twice the wages that the men
receive IN England for the same work.
| Getting rich. There Is one class or
men getting rich faster-the money
lenders. Who goes therey The unem-
ployed. Under protection you fur
nish your house. under free trade you
take the furniture To the pawn shop.
| Will things be cheaper? What differ
| ence does that make II you have moth
ing with which to buy | saw man
once who said he had seen the time he
could have bought half of Chicago for
pair of boots. "Why didn't you
huyy' said some one. 81 didn't have
the boots" All. but they saw, you
have got wages way up and the Swedes
and the Polocks and the Dutch and
everybody else are pouring IN here and
| degrading labor. Now that charge IS
not to be laughed down. Neither
party favors any law restricting the
immigration of the industrious and
worthy. Further, both parties alike
declare against allowing the VICIOUS
and paupers 10 come.
/ So, then no matter which party is In
power, any workingman, not VICIOUS,
| not q pauper aud not Chinaman,
can come here and have q home. II,
then, there will be less immigration I'M
| der democratic rule 1t must
be because the man who thought
| of coming looks over here
and makes up his mind he is just as
well OF where he Is. If the Swede, who
has brother here, gets letter which
shows him better Oft, that Swede Is
coming. Now. democratic policy, if 1t
| puts the two men on q level, must
| make the one here worse of than he
IS, for he has no power over the other.
| Are you going to make us any worse
OF? Why, we are so bad OFT, that we
are oussing everybody.
Strength of Labor.
You tickle us by telling US how you
| are gong to take the starch out of
| these fellows who are riding around in
a tallyho, but you don't tell us that
| when you have put out their fires and
| that when the great wheels stop we
| are the ones who will suffer most.
| You remember how they made Sam
| son work: One day they got together
IN the temple to see him show mis-
| strength.
And Samson said unto the lad which
held him by the hand. "Suffer mo
| that may feel the pillars on which
| the house stands, that may lean upon
them," aud Samson took hold of the
two middle pillars upon which the
| house stood, and on which ii was borne
| up, and he bowed himself with all his
might, and the house fell upon the
lords and upon all the people that
were therein. and they buried Samson
| by the side OF his father.
| Your strength Is IN your vote and
you have the power to pull down half
| the manufactures in tins country.
| You can bury everybody as Sam
son did, but you will be the
worst sufferers. The man Of money
can go to Europe, that Is the
fashion. When the manufactures are
IS idle AS q painted ship upon painted
sea. what will you do? What are the
! iocked-out men doing at Homestead
| Echo answers: What did Hugh Nc
| Luckie say was the cause of that lock-
out? He was one Of the leaders of that
strike. Congress called him before the
investigating committee, and he testi-
| fled: al attribute the reduction IN
wages of the men At Homestead to the
o iuctIon in the tariff. If congress
had not reduced the tariff on steel bill
let's 81 per ton, the company would not
have reduced the wages" That was
his testimony. Powderly is the great
labor leader and yet he is q republican.
Good Things To Know.
Sometimes it 10 . good thing to know
what others say abDut us. We get ex-
cited and 1t is sometimes we'll to listen
to those who are out of the struggle.
What does Sir John Mcdonald say?
He says this duty comes out of the
Canadian farmer treferring to articles
imported from Cauada). Has the duty
on tin plate raised the price? The
Gum Hardware company are demo-
Gratis and yet they will tell you tin
never Was so cheap. France has honored
no man more than NJ. Theirs. What
does he say? France has her con-
sumers within herself" What does
Blsmark say? sit is my de-
llberste judgement that the pros
perity OF America is manly
due to her system of protective laws"