The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-03
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produce for her benefit the raw mater
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'But the best laid plans of mice or men,
Gang aft aglee."
In 81 as wei as '93 the south wa:
in the saddle and controlled the Dem
ocratic party. A few years before d
a Democratic senator from South Caro-
lima declared that workingmen in
New York or in Philadelphia were mo-
entitled TO higher wages than work
men in Paris, Liverpool or Munich.
Tariff reduction was the means en-
ployed then as well as now to bring
the sinall-fisted farmer and the greasy
mechanic to the degraded conditions OF
Continental Europe. One fact is worth
more than all the theories and plati.
tudes which eminate from the brain
Of these tariff smasners. Pig iron can
be made in Birmingham. Aa., for SIC
per ton. In Pttsburg, Penn, on ac-
count Of the higher wages paid 10
workmen, it cannot be produced for
less than Sl2, but the hardy and i'll
paid sons of Scotland can ship it to
| Philadelphia and lay il on the wharf
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well as those who escaped from the
blighting curse of European monarchy
are forced by the tariff smashing DEM
ocracy to produce pig IRON for eight
dollars a Ton, must not all the wages of
| the employed be lowered? If an injury
done 10 one is the concern of all, what
opinion must all right thinking people
entertain of those who persistently labor
! fa,. +la oe IL Tho
| question may be asked, if we had fifty
| or one hundred dollars per capita in cir
culation, would it enable our workmen
to make pig iron for eight dollars ton:
Last fail we were repeatedly assured
by theorists that protection did not in
crease the wages of workmen, it was
their organizations that enabled them to
exact from their employers higher wages
than We're paid to their competitors In
Europe. The workman today finds
that labor union is unable to secure for
him the wages that he was formerly ac
customed to receive. AS proof of the
prosperity enjoyed by American work
men prior to the Inauguration Of Grover
Cleveland statistics prove that one-half
of all the carpets in the world We're con-
sumed in America, and 80 per
cent OF them were purchased by
the ''horny listed" sons of toll,
This one fact proves that thirty years of
protection enabled the American work
man to rise to a higher sphere of COM
fort and personal independence than was
heretofore enjoyed by his industrial
predecessors IN any age or country.
transatlantic intrigue and aggression
with its shiboleth of tariff for revenue
only SO bewildered the American
masses that they declared by their votes
last November that the English system
of raising revenue was UNNECESSARILY
superior to the American system. BY
the gods on Mount Olympus such people,
regardless of any explanation which they
may or can make, are Americans only in
name.
A reduction OF tariff duties will GER
talrly increase importations, and that
increased importations Will not lessen the
demand for American labor is as mon
strous proposition as the assertion that
creation was accomplished without a
creator. In this utilitarian age pros
perlty cannot be secured without keep
ing money as well as men at work. The
owners of money will not invest it in
any industrial enterprise for the aIl-suffi-
clent reason that the finished product
may sell for less than the cost of its pro-
duction. Under tie threat of tariff re-
duction, consumption is lessened and the
farmer is forced to take less for every
thing he has to sell.
The English system of "taritf for
revenue only" is an acknowledged fail
ure when tested by its results even in
the land where it iginated-once
"merry England" The wages of English
miners We're lately reduced to the star
walton point, and the only reason given
by the mine owners was, coal was too
dear. Germany and Belgium coal were
being shipped to Liverpool and sold
cheaper there than the English COM
modify; therefore English miners must
endure semi-starvation, as cheap coal
cannot be produced without cheap labor.
1t is an accepted axiom that the Eng
lIsh system of "tlritf for revenue only"
must necessarily bring all people down
to the level of the lowest, and that God
in His mercy may preserve this republic
from the baleful results of this anti
American system is the sincere prayer
of Yours truly,
ONE OF THE MACS
Glen Mary Farm, Delano township,
August 81, 1898,