Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-28
baltimore Sun special.


father the want of principles, which
hey representa- The Wilson Tariff bill
has no more to do with the present bust
ness depression than has the man in the
moon. 1t is the bugaboo which the
tariff robbers have set up, but it is fit
only to scare old women and children,
and no false halloo Of the character now
Ginning in the public ear should have
the effect TO bulge one-thousandth part
OF an inch the progress of tariff reform.
Not meeting held in any part of the
country against the pending measure
but has been inspired by the monopos
lists, and the speakers have to u large
extent been composed of the men whose
enormous profits are threatened.
The monopolists have invented new
crime and provided for it summary
y punishment. The crime consists in being
Democrat, and discharge is the penalty
What wonder is it, then, that employees
4 sign the ready-made petitions which are
handed them2
1t has been demonstrated so often that
Republican legislation and not projected
Democratic legislation is alone RESPONSE
bic for the evils which are upon us that
it seems an unnecessary insult to popu.
lar intelligence to reiterate the over
whelming array of facts and arguments.
During the three years the Mckinley
tariff has been in force the manufac-
= turers have grown richer and richer, but
their employees are no better off than
they were before. The employers have
N accumulated immense stocks which they
hope to dispose of at Mckinley prices,
# and if the Wilson bill hal never been
heard of reductions in force would have
been just as heavy.
NQ How can it be told what will be the
effect of low tariff until il is tried I?
Since the tariff Of 1916 the people of the
Y United States have not been permitted
TO try the experiment, and now, when
v they have expressed by million ma
jority their desire to make the venture
the "infant" industries still howl in
AN mighty UNISON" Great stress is laid
N upon the fact that in Connecticut, New
ss Jersey, and perhaps one or two other
States, alleged Democratic manufac-
tuners, who fare sumptuously and are
" clothed i'll fine linen have announced
their intention to leave the Democratic
party on account of the Wilson bill.
Godspeed them; their room is infinitely
better than their company. Ii these men
are Democrats for revenue only. let them
~ WhVio tuC1 DClOHS. ~ ID ltOTG IMAM
probable, that according to Republican
information, all these men began their
farewell to the Democratic party in
1883, and since then have only been
celebrating anniversaries.
ENGLAND AS AN OBJECT LESSON.
Tho .workingmen of this country
have for many years, at every recurring
election, been treated to heavy doses OF
the ''pauper labor of Europe" and fan
cifully drawn comparisons between the
English and the American laborer. Eng
land has practically been free trade
country for nearly half century, and
to-day there are not bakers dozen OF
people in the whole United Kingdom
who want any change. The tariff does
not enter into politlce in Great Britain.
Suffrage is comparatively unrestricted
there. Certainly there is no country in
the world where liberty of expression is
freer than in England it is doubtful
whether even in the United States it is
as free. The English workingman is
very independent sort of body;
he never hesitates on the slightest
provocation to air his grievances
real or imaginary. He has had life.
shines experience of free trade, and he
whisper in favor of restrictive tariff
He knows that under the opposite
policy England has grown to be the
greatest commercial and manufacturing
country in the world. Such an object,
lesson as this is worth more to him
than all the tine-spun theories and
sophisms of all the high-tariif adyo.
Gates who have ever existed. The
United States, through its unexcelled
natural advantages of soil, climate and
productions, the ,ir ues, industry and
energy of its people, has grown and
prospered amazingly. 1t has done this
IN spite OF tue incubus laid upon it BY
the granting of bounties amounting L
untold millions to a few favored classe,
possessing no merit but that of greed
and audacity. What mind could
picture its career but for this burden.
A Republican ex-member of Congress
a man of high character, great aDilit,
and wide reputation, said to me day
or two since: "Unquestionably thu
Mckinley tariff is responsible for ou
present troubles" This gentlemen wa
member of the Reed House of Repre-
sentatives and voted for the McKinle,
tariff against his own convictions, simply
from sense of party fealty. Said he
"Itold Mr.. Wilson to stick by his bill
and not alter one line of it, to FOLLOW
Republican example and put it through
with dispatch" Most sage advice
THE UNEMPLOYED.
The scare and panic which high tarii
influence is seeking to create among tn
workingmen is given q more luci,
aspect by criminal exaggerations as t,
the number of people out of employ
ment in the United States. The mum
Der of unemployed is enough and to,
much, Heaven knows, but it is no
nearly so great even as fixed by some o
the more moderate estimates, and il i
silly to claim any very large proportion
of the number as dependent upon sucl
interests as are affected by lowering tn
tariff. walking delegates" who tot
not nor spin themselves, have come Il
the assistance OF protection mathema
ticians, and between them they fgur
up three million 'wage-earners" as gu
of employment, while business esti
mates, disconnected from politics o
protection, estimate the number as con
siderably less than one million. This i
appalling, but insincere as are the mo
nopolist manufacturers and ruthless a
have been most of their deductions
they are not responsible for more tina
fraction Of the host of unemployed
Investigation will show that it is com
posed largely not OF skilled, but of un
skilled labor. The constantly increas
ing tendency to urban life draws year
TO the towns vast accessions of the rurs