Evening journal., 1892-08-12
TWO OF A KIND.
rning News SAYS:


TIE Morning News says:
Do the Democrats believe that the free
entry into this country of foreign manu-
featured goods would increase the salaries
of the men who work in the mills and
workshops Of the United States where
protected goods are manufactured?
The New Castle correspondence of the
EVENING JOURNAL yesterday contained
the following item:
A near sighted citizen amused crowd
of spectators at a merry go-round on
Battery place last evening bv the ques
ton; How do those ponies run around
there in such a direct circe2'
The minds which conceived these ques-
tions evidently passed through the same
if any, process of ratiocination. Itwould
be as easy for ponies to run around
there in such direct circle" as to pro.
vide for the free entry into this country
of foreign manufactured goods =
where protected goods are manufac-
tured One questioner is purblind, the
other is near-sighted. One reasons in
circle the other the thinks he sees ponies
going around in a direct circle.
If the first question were simple and
not so mixed as to attempt to state its
own answer it could be readily answered
yes" Take off the five last words and
ask if free trade or lower tariff would
increase wages and we say Eyes, I'M
doubtedly"
Any legislation that would take the
restrictions from commerce, any legisla-
ton that will increase trade, that will
enable merchants to buy and sell where
they can buy and sell TO the best advan-
tage viii increase prosperity and, of
course, exert a directly beneficial inhu-
ence on wages and salaries. The more
trade a country does the better aud surer
pay those engaged in all employments
in that country must obtain. The proofs
are, the prosperous trades here from
which the prohibitive tariff has been re-
moved or decreased; the steady increase
in wages in England since the prohibit
tive tariff was removed the steady stand
still that wages are at in China and Ger
many, both protected
Free trade is necessarily stimulated
trade; like freedom of manhood, which
impels and stimulates slave to earn his
own living and establish himself in home
of his own, it makes country more
prosperous. That proposition is true in
philosophy, and in history. We have
facts under our noses to prove it,
To the above question fairly asked: VIII
free trade increase wagesg The cate
gorical answer is Eyes.
History, philosophy, political economy
and the facts Of the gu nine, silk,
leather, Shoe sugar and other trades in
this country from which the tariff has
been removed prove it,
The facts also prove that protection
does not increase wages. 1t is impossi-
bic to find a man whose wages have been
raised by the Mckinley bill. Wages in
the protected industries have been de-
creased, instead, while the only wages
which have been increased have been in
unprotected industries
Another matter pertinent, just here, is
how comes it the business of Congress
to attempt TO regulate profits, wages,
salaries?
How can Congress do any of those
thingsg Has not Mckinley tried and
failedY
When the Typographical Union at
tempted it with the News, they were
thrown out" How can Congress do
something for the iron trade when the
members know nothing about the trade
which the Typographical Union failed to
do when they knew all about the busi-
ness Of the Newsg
The protectionists wish to make the
stockholders in this country pay them
better wages the Typographical Union
expected the News to pay higher wages.
Why did not the community Join with
the men and concoct some scheme to
force the News TO employ them at higher
wages, and collect a hundred per cent.
more from its advertisers and subscrib-
! ers TO reimburse itselfg
There is only one correct principle of
taxation; that is tax for the expenses
{ of the government economically admins
: tered Anything more than that. any
e tax for a private purpose, is robbery
: under the form Of law. The govern