The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-04-23
Ms

eli Perkins" addressed talk to the
workingmen OF that state. VIA: he
said is so timely and interesting that it
is reproduced in these columns, al
though the election III Little Rhody is
past:
To Riodc Is'Cnd T0ykingnen:
| want to talk with you a moment about
your coming election. Mr.. Cleveland and
cX-GovernOr Campbell told you on Satur-
day that the tariff is a tax. Ii is in En-
gland, for there they put tariff on neccS-
stiles; here ii IS on luNurleS. They do ii
TO RAISE money 10 support the government.
Here III America these necessities are all
free.
While in BRUSSELS, Belgium. last summer
| saw some skilled iaborers making spiral
car springs. such as we use Oh our freight
ears. They received 80 cents per day,
White our hlarkSmIthS receive - for the
same work. asked the Belgian proprlc-
tor why he dIdn pay more. lie said: !
am handicapped. When | get 500 worth
OF ear SPRINGS into New ork harbor-for
sell my ear springs in AmeTica-I have to
salute your Yankee flag and give up $50"
Where does that so come from ~ !
asked.
1T comes off my mems wages - he said.
But suppose America had tree trade :"
Free trade" he exclaimed. 'Why, /
would Hood the Yankees with ear springs.
| would treble my works tomorrow.
Bat wouldn't that break our steel car
spring makers up" | asked.
" eS. for 4 While.
How long? ~
why. till your men worked Tor 60 cents
per day, as our men do
The proprietor of Il factory III America
makes little more than the proprietor OF a
factory III Europe, but his men earn twice
as much. This is caused by 4 protective
-l,I,.I
Dor out Of our country. Thc freight from
England 10 America as only 10 cents per
leo pounds +, If there We're no other pro
lection than this freight then the stuff that
YOU make would be worth Just 10 cents per
100 more than the stuff that tEey make.
Now, worllmen. use your brains in this
election. Don't let those educated idiots
fool You.
TN. nails, cotton cloth, silks and carpets
are cheaper now than before the Mckinley
bill passed. Why? Because we are MAX
ing more OF them here Ii we sent ali our
money to Europe tor these things who
would pay wages here?
The cloth for a piaIn suit of clothes does
rot cost Il dollar more mere than it does III
England, That suit is made MP for 50 in
Germany. here the WOrkmcn who make ii
receive about =. This is the ''Iobncr
tariff Protection Will not raise Your
wages. but it viii! keep them where they
and the free trade of Mills will make you
as poor as the foreign workman.
How many times in England last sum
mcr did | see the carpenter. mason, har-
ness and wagon maker. the blacksmith
and the locomotive engineer, working for
$50 per day. and eating bread and cheese.
while you. Rhode Islanders, are getting
80 To 81. 80 for the same work and eating
-OaS; beef and pie.
In writing from England last summer
my copy was set uD by printers for II
cents per thousand. while the typesctterS
who SCI VI tins little talk for the Press get
30 cents per thousand in protected Amer
lea. MELVILLE ID. LANpON.
2lS West End Avenue. \. \.
What y Democratic Paper Thinks of the
Democratic Majority in Congress.
The Springfield Union has not alto
eether uniair hit at the Herald for re-
ioicng over the election of tariff re-
form Congress year ago, and now
looking with CompOsure at Its defeat IN
treating some other measure. The
truth is that we are'in this respect in
something of the condition of the farm
er who prayed for rain, and when he
found il coming down in floods was m
Clincd 10 think that Providence was
OVERRIDING the business in It's answer to
PRAYER We have mad more Democracy
in the present Congress than we eX-
pectcd or ever asked for. If fortune
had sent not more than half the ma jor-
itv that there is in that body, We should
have been better gratitied, especially t
ii was to come in the quality that has
poured in from some of the Southern
and NpStarn statas - Root4n Hsr0IH