New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-11
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said that this Is done for moral OF Si"''"iS i'"
sons but this explanation Is insuihcleh'.
1T is a monsrous invasion of the let-alone doc
trine 10 say that il is economically correct Tor
government TO interfere with the number OF hours
that a man or woman should work either IN mines
or factories. Surely. under that doctrine people
should have the right 10 sell their LABOR Wheh anu
how they please Yet the English Government Is
interfering In this precise direction. anu the Tree
trader does not live in England who Is hardy
enough 10 rise UP and demand the repeal OF these
acts because they interfere with individual Tree
dom or the doctrine OH which free trade IS
founded.
Let US come a little nearer to free trade. There
is no form of protection so extreme as pouhty'
Yet England has fostered and built up her snip
ping by a system of bounties. under the name OIL
mail subsidies which has been OF the most eN-
IRENE character.
81 shall give elsewhere a table which shows In
detail what she has done in this direction. 1t is
enough TO say here that from S4S TO 1882 inclusive
England spent In mail subsidies Sl9O.O2','S' II IS
perfectly idle II is worse than begging the ques-
tion to say that these are not protective ooui'''S
because they are called mail subsidies. 10 pre'ehu
indeed that these subsidies are not protection III "
high form is not merely eubterfuge. 1t Is pure
falsehood Such vast sums for such a purpose are
an absurdty on any other theory. II PROOF were
needed of their true character 1t may be found IN
the discussion which arose when under the last
Administration entered on policy OF man S""-
sidies and the encoura cement Of American steam
ships as an auxiliary naval force. our measures
were identical with those Of England; the ftepupn-
can party adopted them as measures OF protectIoh
~ develop our merchant marine. and WouId not
have enacted them If they had not been OF that
character"
After citing a number OF other pertinent exam
pies Mr. Lodge devoted some attention 10 the laws
against the introduction OF alien contract laoor
and the Chinese exclusion laws all OF which AZ
he nonted out are designed to protect American
labor and American standards OF living against
foreign labor and lower standards OF living ana he
continued
"How do you make It agree with the doctrine or
buying in the cheapest market TO exclude the I'M
nese laborer from this country?
"In China as the cheapest labor market and the
greatest reservoir Of pticed labor in the world
on the theory Of free trade. we should nave ''e
right TO buy labor; and yet everybody Is asre'u
that II is we'll to put a stop to IT by law w nat
becomes Of the precious theory OF free tTaue III te
face OF a fact like that? We right TO exclude
the Chinaman who brings his cheap labor with
him and lowers our standard Of living ana de-
grades our working people II II Is right 10 DO So
then ly what theory do you admit free oil duty
the product OF this same Chinaman maze III MS
own country to compete with our product mere +!
The product brings It's rate Of wages with II just
az much as the man. and ocean freight TO longer
gives protection.
Passing from the action Of the Government 70
the action Of individuals, Mr.. Lodge continued:
"Everyvlabor union that is formed flies in the
face OF the doctrine Of free trade. But none the
less men are going 10 form them. They WELD to-
day q vast power. they will keep growing and
they exist because they represent the instinct OF
human nature unite for se!f-protect!on. No ffec
trader dares TO denounce them as infracions OF
his theory His theory. then IS either false or COW"
ardy when 1t faces "A trade union. In reality II -
both.
CT hat Xiseacrp repeating what
another wiseacre has said, will reply. You admit
labor free while you cry for protection against
manufactured goods II is almost az easy 10 an
swer this statement as TO make 1t. In the first
place IL is not true that We admit all labor free
Some we exclude absolutely. like contract and Chit
nese labor In the second place. the labor that We
do admit free comes from Europe. and the immi-
grant from Europe does not bring his rate OF
wages with him. on the contrary. few weeks or
few months make him as anxious for good wages
as his American brethren. our standard OF living
becomes his and he ceases to lower our rate of
living and modes OF life The European Immigrant
does not bring his rate OF wages with him. but the
bale Of goods from Europe does bring It's rate %
wages and the bale OF goods is not susceptible 10
the influences OF association or TO standards Of v-
ing The bale OF goods brings It's rate OF wages with
it and keeps II. and works in that way toward the
lowering Of all American rates
DAWN or \ NEW ERA.
is entering upon a period. and he set forth his
views In support OF this belief with great force.
Among other things he said:
THE temperate zone in which experience shows
that the most highly civilized races to which we be-
long can alone thrive and multiply, is very nearly
absorbed IL there is still much 10 be converted 10
the uses OF man, the limits well within sight
| over against us are the crowded masses ~ the
| tropics Relieved I'm many instances by the rule 81
our superior races from the effect Of the wars
famines and foods which formerly decimated them.
| they are multiplying with enormous rapdity.
in Natal. for example. when the English first
took possession the proportion Of blacks to whites
was something like three TO one. To-day, under the
| strong British rule and after a large British I'm
migration the blacks to the whites as ~ to l.
The same rule holds good everywhere and tho
crowded masses Of the tropical regions becom-
| ing ever more crowded. They have standards far
| below ours They live under conditions OF climate
and habits impossible TO Millions Of men in
India subsist from fourteen 10 twenty dollars
| a wear and those men in India we'll In Japan
are beginning TO manufacture closing TO us theii
| own markets and threatening our markets with an
| Industrial competition which Is deadly II you dc
not shut 1t out. You may lower wages and reduce
| costs beyond the widest dreams OF the free trade
| orator. and In this temperate zone. where we anc
| those like us dwell. you never meet that trop
cal standard OF living.
| Are We to sit down with great civilization
and bring about free trade in order to be gradually
| overwhelmed by the labor OF the tropics after
| desperate struggle with the overcrowded people Of
our own race in Europe? Are to be told that III,
| law of supply and demand Of buying in the cheap
| est and selling In the dearest markets eterna
| truths and that everything would be right II W,
| only adhered TO them? Are TO accept thcs,
| shattered dogmas OF fifty years ago and yield with
| out a struggle TO the ruin of our labor and The
| degradation OF our standards Of living?
| Every fortunately there is a sound instinct in tn,