The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-10-17

DemOcfatlc OTulOfS nave uI lH6J hNeu I
upon a subject upon which they all 8
agree and parrot like they chirp the
same song. They have found out TINT
the Mckinley tariff does not protect
labor. Wonderful discovery! How
would they have the tariff to protect
1t? Would they insert clause in the
bill that labor should be twenty-iiveI
or fifty cents day higher than it ever
was before, or would they bunch it and
advance 1t twenty-five per cent, adj
valarem2 This would be about as sen \
sible as all the arguments they use
against the Mckinley tariH. They must.
set poor estimate upon tho intelli-
gence of labor II they think the work
Ing people of the country do not.
know that labor is protected by the
tariff. and that they do not know how
IL is protected.
Mechanic who wrote u letter to
the Every Evening for light upon this
subject, seemed to have the Pist OF the
whole matter. He knew TINT before
tho war under tariff for revenue only
he got 80 a week for labor, but after
the war under protective tarIIfhe gets
el6 week. He has the whole theory
in nut shell. LaJor is not a manu-
featured commodity sent out from
workshops in boxes and bales and
rushed upon the market, and there
fore cannot be protected like ton Of
ateel or bale of cotton.
Labor has soul hi 1t and will Of
Its own, goes whittier it will aud comes
when it is ready. Every intelligent
laborer Will laugh at the idea that
labor though not specifically protected
In the Mckinley tariff Is nevertheless
ably protected Indirectly and in tho
only way it can be protected. How is
Il protected By increase OF manu-
factories. BY creating u demand for
labor Every new factory In the coun-
try that employs more labor increases
the demand for labor ami correspond
ingly increases the wages Of labor
Every new piece 81 machinery order
ed from our machine shops,eyery new
boiler, every ship every car. every toI
of sheet iron every roll Of leather OF
box Of morocco, every new carriage
every web ofcIoth, muslin or calico,
turned out from our manufactures
that were not tnrned out before
createsa demand for more labor, and
this demand keeps up tho wages o
Indianapolis from States that hav
labor commissioners show that large
outputs have raised wages.
The Mckinley tariff provides for ouj
manufactured products being mad
at home instead OF abroad, and in
creased manufactures require incrcas
cd labor. In this way lab u Is pro
tected by the tariff, and without thi
protection Every Evening mechanic
who now under protection gets q
week would have to fall back to Il
SO week that he got before the Wi
uudor tariff for revenue only.
We have home lesson On prote
ton right here in Wilmington, Ih
hosiery industry has sprung up With
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