The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-01-13

plows, harrows, moving and resping
machines and farming implements
generally have formed their combi-
nations and have actually invaded
the foreign market and sold these
necessary tools of farming all the
way from 90 to so per cent. below
the prices they have been charging
to their fellow-c ountrymen--tbe
farmers of the United States.
1t is not the wall of honest labor
in distress that is piercing the ears
of Congress and the country at this
time because of the Wilson bill. Nc
Kinley's extortionate rates have
done nothing for labor. From the
day the tariff of 1890 was passed to
this present time the plight of labor
has grown steadily worse. Never be-
fore in the history of the country
has there been such a continuous
record of cut downs in wages. sus-
pensions of mills, strikes, lockouts
and enforced idleness. If the Nc
Kinley act had been entitled ian
act to promote industrial depression,
decrease manufactures and distress
labor" it would have abundantly
verified its title, for it has accom-
plished all those things with truly
startling emphasis. Yet the trusts,
the selfish syndicates that are able
by reason of their complete control
of the home market to charge any
prices they choose to their American
buyers, even though they can make
handsome profit, as they do, by
charging two thirds or one half of
those prices to their European or
South American buyers, have been
thriving all the time. And here
they are once more disguised as hon
est American workingmen fearful
they shall lose their daily bread,
filing al the halls and corridors of
Congress with vociferous howl for
protection to labor"
A million men, perhaps more, are
at this moment on the streets with
out work, and nearly every man OF
them is discharged hand from one
of the highly protected industries,
out of which profits coun ted by mil
lions have been steadily drawn ever
since the tariff wall was built high
enough to enable the trusts to con.
troll the price of the raw material
furnished by American producers,
limit the amount of their product
and fix two prices for it to please
themselves-one very high, to be ia
ken from the pockets of the Ameri.
can people, the other as low as need
to be to beat the same foreign rivals
in foreign markets whom they false.
ly pretended they could not possibly
compete with at home without 80,
rs or 100 per cent protective duties
Labor's unemployed million is the
monument erected in 1898 to the
Mckinley robber tariff of 1890 II
has 'protected" the trusts and their
profits, bat it has mercilessly fleeced
all consumers, especially the farm
ers, and it has protected" million
of men into idleness aud want. The
Wilson bill is aimed to relieve this
terrible condition of things. The
grip of the trusts is to be broken
Necessary advantages to American
industries, enough to enable them tt
pay American wages and earn legiti
mate profits in reasonable competi
tion with foreign productions, are
securely maintained by it. The
new duties are, in the words of the
majority report, ''such as will no
destroy or distress any of our home
industries on the one hand, nor OF
the other secure to them an oppres-
siye monopoly of the home market
That is just and righteous prin'
ciple Of tariff legislation. 1t is de
nounced to-day, bitterly and fiercely
by the republican leaders. 1t wa.
not always so. Republican states
men did not always speak as tn,
political attorneys of the trusts
There was a time, not SO long ago
either, when the foremost republican
leaders Endorsed and advocated til,
principle Of the Wilson bill. Presi
dent Garfield, speaking in April
1870, in the House, of which he wa,
then recognized as republican
leader of front rank, said: II hold
that properly adjusted competition
between home and foreign products
is the best gauge by which to regu
late international trade Duties
should he so high that our manu-
facturers can fairly compete witt
the foreign product, but not so higl
as to enable them to drive out tn,
foreign article, enjoy the monopol,
of the trade and regulate the price;
as they please. This is my doctrine
ofprotectiou."
That is the doctrine of the Wilsol
bill 1t was the doctrine Of tb
highest American craftsmanship O
all parties-Henry Clay eanneiate'
it as clearly as James A. Gariiel,
and as Grover Clevrian'l--naiil th,
republican parry b,ssrnc he NJ Kin
leyized muihldece of.ht' monppo
lies founded upen the wo,ss' thsi
war tariff Of 1890
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