New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-02

SILURgAM.
WHY RISK YOUR HEALTH ny DRINKING I'M
| PURE WATER WHEN YOU CAN GET THE siLuhIAH'
| THE FAMOUS WATKEsIIA WATER. AN Abso-
LI-TEGY PURE AND HEALTHY MINERAL SPRINt
WATER ~ io-GAi. TANKS AND I.-GAL. BorrLr'o
| AT MODERATE COST?
BELL. POLITE & co..
PI.ATT AND II W. 27TIisT.. y. \.
February Blue AND GRAY out to-aay Rsan Ssr 70
the world are 4ftoooco pounds, Of which =, the the
United States produces l.ii3o0oOD pounds 90 no.
youch can anybody vouch for these nsur eS.
but the prGPGSn Of prod sS onethrd and
the OF the word, England ncIuded Two s n,c
We have 7oo0oC50 when leaves i.isooooco for the
Of mankind. We use all our manutactu re n or
half the whole globe outside OF ourselves, England
Included and compared as market VIII tne o rest
repeat compared with England herself l 6.s as ga
As compared with the rest of the world Engls .S
| included. are equal as market 10 ,ioWGDv;
tbn Enrlisbman. and the cold facts OF mathematics
su.pass the spasns or rhotcrs
THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD"
Instead OF increasing this market by leaving It to
| the steady Increase % wages. which the figures or
| the Aldrlch report conclusyey show. and which
have not only received the sanction Of the member
from New-York the Secretary Of the Treasury. ana
| the Democratic Bureau OF Statistics. but the sane
pr cm 81 % Sr wae and 50 lessen The market
ami then divide that market with SOMEBODY e.se.
M S@a an o" the chance OF getting the markets OF
Who have these markets Of the world now'
| There j. hardly a spot on N" gone where tnNe
generations of English men Frenchmen or Germans
o ' fra nIa '7 DO o g5u npbSse hat With machinery
nearly as good as ours and wages az nall these
| mon are going TO surrender to us the markers OF
| the world? Why. the very duties YOU kasp On
show ;hat you do not believe II, II W. Sanho,
"" pay freight. the expense % Introducing goods.
10 70 add to the intsres,ins impossibi,es Of this
contention. the orators the other side say they
~ he d,pc f he S :" h ros fo here
and cost OF production in England be not equalzed
| by the duty then our COS, OF production must go
great component part Of cost Of production. must
! 20 down also. II you say this will come out "
| patton; for your own political economists teach you
| that the profits In protected Industries can never
| be greater than in other cupations and will not
long be less. Let Il be noised abroad that
way it VIII be- swamPeh WITH eompe tn so ha,
overproht is the sure precursor OF no profits at all.
| CIVILIZATION AND DARBARTsM.
But al these questions of wages are to be met,
says the gentleman from New-York (Alr. Cockran).
| by superior civilization and he accuses me Of
| 'confcssiny that civilization at the highest level
! is Incapable Of meeting the competition OF civEa-
| ton at its lowest level" daughter on the Demo-
Now it is great truth that civilization can sue
| cessfuly meet barbarisn. but il do it with
heard this and similar eloquent outbursts about our
| superiority. and therefore inevitable conquest of the
Inferior Survival Of the superior That is nc' the
way mat the great naturalist put 1t. Survival OF
the fttest' his expression; survival OF the nt-
test 30 survive: not the superior. the lovellcs,
| not the most Intellectual but the one who fitted
| best into the surroundings. Compare the strong
! the superiority of the bull? Yet IL YOU drop them
both into the Atlantic Ocean. which would you taks
Flo II 90
tie swan either in grace beauty or p5we .re W" II
both were dropped from a balloon hung high n air
graceful swan. II had lob to dig on the railway
| would not be my friend from New-York. but
not grown up TO 'he wages Of his adopted country.
But let us make these Illustrations a little broader.
tered Congress- one Denis Kearney began on the
sani lots to address che world on the Chinese lie
said these people we're of a lower civilization In
from New,York 0Ir. Cockran) he SAID IL was "clv-
ilzation at It's lowest level" Indeed, to be strictly
accurate. he used stronger expressiors He de-
nonncea The Chinese and instead OF relying on
above us. the emblem of freedom on the earth be-
ne .n ' o ne b aci ear Wanted by law and
mas got 1t az last and with our consent:
facts he will be sorry that he was no. here to tell
these misguided men that. having seized the light
ing guilty of his mistakes. be- able 10 beat
the chinese without law because OF their lower level
to the gentleman from New-York I do not dare to
record
the Chinese? Because they knew '0 that oH II theS
swarmed here In sufficient numbers the law OF wages
chinese had the same wants and been. therefore.
| forced to demand the same wages. they could have
worshDpsd their ancestors here without let hin
drancc II was Just because the higher civilization
| could not contend on free field with fhe lower
that the higher civilization had to put brains into
| the scale and protect itself. IT, then. protect
| ourselves against Chinese labor here. why should
we no. protect ourselves from lower level of la
| Dor as represented by imported goods? Lower
| priced labor can compete with our labor. whether
it take the form of goods or OF imported Cinnamon.
LABOR on THE FREE LIST"
But says gentleman having heard some
| other gentleman say H. having been struck
bv its epgrammatic point. but labor is on the free
! list" Well. that sounds conclusive. does 1t not?
Yet what nonsense Il really IL when you come
| to look ut II. Does the Enelishman. when he comes
like to see any immigrant who has been here long
| enough to know his bearings, who does not demand
| as good wages as the rest That Is what they come
| here for
only last week the Hungarians and Poles and
| Savs in Pennsylvania were trying to break up all
work In the coal mines because our native citizens.
under the s..ress of the Wilson bill. were consenting
| to take less wages Obviously. these gentlemen
| did not bring their rate OF wages with them Why
| did forbid the importation OF contract labor?
| because the price of 1t was tanned by the wage
! scales OF a land a lower level OF wages.
Let restate this: Men In America dema nd
high and higher wages because their surroundings
erect what be Injuries into necessities Men
who come here soon affected by these same sur
roundings, ana soon under the necessities
| But Cinnamon. because they sequester themselves
| from these surroundings. and bales OF goods. be-
cause they cannot have the labor In them subjected
80 our Influences. ought 20 be under the restriction
| ON all fouvs and have the goods prohibited like the
| Chinese. only mean to convey AN idea.
| TAXEs. GOOD AND BAD.
| But is it Il dreadful business to tax people?