The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-10-29

talk III extremely ii becoming and that y, i
for al Irish American ienrnal Is is re-
pr4heI,salble Does The t]itizen believe 3
that the Irish Anne rican citizens lack pa
triot1sm after shed: ling their blood GO.
.piously on every battlefield Of the repub'.
lie In defense Of our institutions, because
ninety five per cent OF them ara Demo !
crats and will vote for Grover Cleveland
and tariff for revenue only Is the patriot
ism OF the Irish race in America concen-
trated in a handful OF Irish Republicans
who are shouting ont against British
free trade and for protection to Anleri-
can Industries? We will not question
the patriotism and intelligence of our
friends On the other side. They can adj
vocate what they please. We will sim
ply say that they labor under a big delu-
sion il they imagine that they are the
salt of the race and possess more brains
and patriotism than the great, over
whelming majority of their countrymen
combined. The Citizen is also wrong in
it's assumption that this country has
grown wealthy because Of its high tariff.
1t has, on the contrary, grown rich in
spite of the tariff There are, to be sure,
a number of mushroom millionaires like
Carnegie who have piled up their wealth
by the aid of the tariff, but such men
hoy nf f>f
the community at large. 1t is not true
that the weather. these men Lscome the
greater will be the foreign immigration.
TIL immigration will largely depend on
the wages paid to the workingmen in
factories and on farms. The total num-
Der of men engaged in protected indus
tries does not exceed one million and
nineteen times as many are employed in
non-protected Industries and derive no
benefit from the tariff. The men en-
ployed in manufactures are not paid
higher wages on account of the tariff as
was saen in the Homestead affair, but
they are obliged to organize labor asso-
citation to compel the employers to give
living wages. The only way to protect
American labor is by placing tariff on
the immigrant as we'll as on loreign
goods, for labor is paid according to the
supply and demand for it in the market.
Thomas G. Sherman, of New York, con-
clusively proved to a Minneapolis audi
ence the other evening that there is no
truth whatever in the pretense that
wages are raised or were ever raised by a
protective tariff. On the other hand, he
showed by referring to the past history
of this country that wages have always
been high when importations from
abroad We're large, and have always been
low when importations were small. The
reduction of the tariff to revenue basis
will tend to increase the importatlons
and advance the wages, and the home
manufacturers will be stimulated to pro-
duce more goods at less profit to realize
a certain dividend on their investments,
and to do so they must necessarily en-
ploy more hands than now. There is
sufficient God for reflection in what we
have said to engage the attention>of our
esteemed friend o. The Citizen for few
hours, and it he undertakes to argue the
tariff with us in q rational, common
sense way we will guarantee that he will
soon change his opinions and harp less
on British free trade and lack of patriot
ism in the Democratic party.