Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-10-12

piucc III tussld WHERE the people
are miserable and starving, and
will match it in Pennsylvania
Show me community in Europe
where the poor have lost hope and
are only waiting for death to re-
lease them from their sufferings,
and | will match it in Pennsyl-
vania. New York Evening World.
Besides Judge Gresham, Judge
Thomas M. Cooley, who stands at
the head of the legal profession in
the west, and Hon. Wayne Mac
Veagh, of Pennsylvania, who was
Acknowledgement under Garfield,
have left the Republican party and
come over to the Democrats. These
men represent nearly all of charac-
ter that was left in the Republican
party, and their reputation of it is
not only ominous of defeat for Ben
jamin Harrison, but affords reason
for hope that Republicanism will
soon be an abated nuisance in our
national politics.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
To say that a tariff for revenue is
free trade is about equivalent to de-
claring that working for wages is
free labor.-Boston Globe.
The only infant industry of
America we ever knew to fail for
want of protection was the manu-
facture of blocks of five. The
strong firm of Dudley, Clarkson &
Quay started up i'll that enterprise
in 1888, doing a rank business, till
the free importation of the Austria
liam ballot system began, which
knocked them out in 1890. How
ever, the matter of its protection
is now under consideration in the
form of force bill.-Yale Demo-
crat.
Mr.. Charles Herber Clark says:
II believe we are going to lose the
votes of a large lumber of working
men who belong to the Republican
party, because they believe they are
not getting their share of the bene-
fits of the protective policy. They
are victims of colossal system Of
lying" So they are. They have
found out by experience what the
shopping woman discerned instinc-
lively; and the colossal system of
lying may we'll tremble for the
wrath to come in November.-Phil.
adelphia Record.
How many of the farmers who
clamored for the anti-option law
are aware of the fact that the prin-
cipal advocate, Mr.. Washburn, is at
the head Of the English syndicate
that own the great Minneapolis
mills that turn out 10000 barrels
of flour per week? These mills
wished to control wheat sales and
50 millers were allowed to buy 'fu.
lures" but nobody else.
The Mckinley bill protected
wool ! cents per pound more than
did the act of 1888, yet wool fell in
1901 from the price of 1890 and
more still in 1892. The people can
possible stand high priced clothing
but why be cruel to dumb beasts
Where is the protection to the
sheep?
The tariff Oh coal imported is rs
cents. This tax is levied for the
benefit of working men--to ell.
nance his wages! Republican pa
pers talk about the pauper wages of
Europe. Let's see: the lowest
wages paid in English mines is
quoted at twenty-five cents per ton
This, with the tariff of seventy-five
cents, ought to give American labor
one dollar per ton! That is the con-
clusion to draw. But what do we
find. That in the Tennessee mines,
at Rockford and Dayton, for in
stance, the wages paid are 30 cents
and 374 cents per ton of 2,100.
The same coal the owners sell to
consumers at S1.75 to $3.50 per ton
of 1000! This is a fair illustra-
ton of the benefits Of protective
tariff to the laboring man!--Big
Rapids Herald.
Protection is unequal i'll its effects
and will continue to be unless it
excludes all things living and dead,
organic and inorganic, and protects
alike the professions, the trades,
etc, until, in short, it does what
Providence has designed never shall
he done--shut up each nation,
each people, within a triple Chinese
wall to suffer u living DEATH
Amr. Industries.
With free wool the American
manufacturer could produce the
finest wooden cloth, and the Uuited
States could export millions of dol
lars in value of merchandise where
they now import millions. This
means more work for the workmen
and higher wages.-American In
|dustries.
The Mckinley Bill protects the
rich man and invades the homes of
the poor with an oppressive system
of taxation unequaled in the civil
lied world.-American Industries.
The war upon the protective tariff
trusts is for principle. Victory will
benefit all men alike, not one more
than another. The defense of the
trusts is to retain their present
right to plumber the people. Vic
tory means to them $60O,000,000
divided annually among ID 800 men.
He who thinks the trusts can be
beaten easily has never known the
influence Of money massed as they
can mass it.
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