The sun., 1893-10-19
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These calculations are made upon the sup
position of the actual material costing alike
in both places and will in the main hold good
In the Immense list of articles Of everyday
use there are very few where the labor ts more
than so per cent. of the total cost, 80 that in
actual experience the higher schedules of pro-
lection prevail, but here, as in other features,
the so-called protective podcyi is fallacious be-
cause in those very articles where more labor
is expended the less protection there is to
labor; and on the contrary the less labor the
more protection in corresponding ratio, all OF
which goes to prove that this care tor the
workmen is magnificent humbug. the manu-
facturers appreciating that not upon ary
other ground could they make their claims
were to ask outright for themselves for that
which they now get under the guise Of pure
philanthropy, how @quickly the whole pro-
qo on with many interesting deductions from
the study of these figures, but will only re-
fer to one fact which has come under my ex-
periehce, viz, the very great ease with which
the average American manufacturer switches
off in regard to his capacity to manufacture
according to the requirements of the moment.
To-day he is interested in the export busi-
ness. and his song is the familiar strain of
wonderfully adapted labor saving machinery,
superintendent workpeople, improved meth
DDS, etc., which enable him to turn out many
times the goods in given time as the Euro
pean maker, and with less force of men, so he
can successfully compete against all creation,
true. Tomorrow he will be heard before the
Ways and Means Committee stating with
equal feTFor that he cannot stand up despite
all his advantages, against the pauper labor OF
Europe, and Insisting that in order t9 keep his
iactary going he must have 81 TO 100 per cent;
bonus to distribute am6ng his workmen, and
fortelling dreadful disaster II he does not
get it.
always requires great versatility and 1ngenu1-
ty on the part of its adyocates to support IT
and believe the intelligent portion of the
people of the United States are beginning to
unds srstand it and will condemn it; and have
6i itvyfF ho
lieve that without governmental protection
our manufacturers can hold their own In free
competition with any one, and that they will
in the end win in spite of pauper labor or any
thing else; but it looks to me as though at the
present they were exercising their brains to
get as much the start of others as possible by
outside assistance, and br gging when it suits
their purpose that they can come out ahead.
Mckinley Couldn't Wait.
The Republican campaign in Ohio
was to have begun at Akron on Sept.
II. but Gov. Mckinley couldn't wait.
| He began it at South Salem on Sept. 5,
not far from Chillicothe, the home oil
| the Hon. Lawrence Talbot Neal. Fiji
teen hundred people from Chillicothe
| came to hear Gov. Mckinley, presum.
ably for the sake Of enjoying better
| the smashing of his arguments which
| Mr.. Neal viii do when the Democratic
canvass begins at Newark in few
days. Gov. Mckinley spoke in his usual
| tariff-shedule manner, attributing all
| prosperity to protection and all advers-
| ity to the Democrats. He read from
| divers English newspapers, which, with
| q soundness of information uncommon
| to English newspapers discussingAmer-
| lean politics, exulted over Mr.. Cleve-
| lands election as over the death OF
| protection; and then he read what is
much more pertinent and important, a
letter written by the Hon. Lawrence
Talbot Neal last fall. "We stand,
| wTote Mr.. Neal, ''unalterably commit
| ted to the overthrow of MeHipleyism
| ia its every shape and form.
| That is where the Democratic party
stood last fall and whore it stands to-
day. The only difference between the
situation then and the situation now is
| that then the Democracy was asking
the people to authorize the destruction
| of protection; now, the authorization
having been given, the Democracy is
beginning the work, which will not be
| completed until there is no trace oi
| protection in the statute books of the
| United States. Mr.. Neal and the Demo
cratic party of Ohio and of the United
States are unalterably committed tc
| the overthrow of McKinleyism, an6
stfll mean TO overthrow il; and they
have the power to do SO. Governor Nc
Kinley will find that Mr.. Neal and the
Ohio Democracy will meet him directly
and without evasion. The Ohio elec
tion is to decide whether Ohio is fol
or against the destruction of McKin
leyism.
Pulverize protection! Vindicate the
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