The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-10-22
Continued.

W - u - y ~ uH1zA -
tory of the desperate calamity howIers,
who have been turned loose upon US by
the republican committee.
THE TARIFF AND THE woRKINGMAN,
One reason that republicans advance
why we should return to that In
iouitous Jaw, the Mckinley high tariff
bill, is that the workingman would be
benefited II is wonderful how close
to the heart of the republican polit-
ician are the interests of the working
man during a political campaign. The
iaborer may live in howell at other
times; his children may want for food
and become pinched with hunger, and
he is no more TO the average monUpollsy,
than the dog running in the street.
But let campaign open and the re-
publican politicians constant thought
is the poor wOTkingman, who cries out
for nigh tariff that the Workiugman
may enjoy high wages2 Nine times
out of ten it is the manufactures or
monopolists, the men whom the tar
if really benefits. 1t is the Pullman,
who cuts down wages one-third and
continues his enormous dividends on
watered stock Ii these men are la
boris friends why don't they raise
wages2 If they are the friends OF
labor, why do they reduce the wages
of old and faithful employees when
ever men come along who will work
cheaper? The monopolIst demands
the Mckinley law because it helps
himself. He uses the hand of labor as
the monkey used the paw OF the cat,
TO null tho chesUuutS out OF the lire.
The truth will bear frequent repetition,
and 1t is the truth that the price OF
labor, like comm )diUies, is governed
by the law Of supply and demand.
Labor is not protected. Labor must
conDete with all creation. 1t must
meet the Chinaman. 1t must meet the
crowds of people who are continually
coming from out of the darkness of the
old world into the light and prosperity
OF the new. The argument that the
mouopolists must be allowed to take
by taxation, more money from the
people III order that he may pay his
men more, is ridiculous. Pullman
makes enough money to pay his boot
black 5000 per day, but does he do 1t?
No! He even c0mpelS the public to pay
the wages of the pOlters on his sleep
ing cars. Capital does not divide It's
Irofits with labor. The tariff is not
The source Of good wages, wages are
higher mere than il Europe because
our men mingle brains with muscle.
Our workingmen produce more IN a
gwen length of time. Besides, labor Is
scarcer. The fact that wages are
higher here than in England where
there is tree trade, is no more of an ar
gument in favor of the Mckinley bill
than is the fact that wages are higher
in England than they are in Italy
where there is protection. If
protection makes high wages,
then the labOreTs in Russia should be
contented and happy, for Russia has
long enjoyed high tariff. Ii protec-
ton makes wages high, then the
Chinese ought not to be compelled to
work for two cents day, Tor China
has protection with a vengeance. II
will not do to say that wages are low
in China because the Chinese are ignCr
ant. for you never saw Chlnaman
who could not READ and write the
Chinese language. The tariff gives no
protection 20 labor. The tariff builds
marble palaces for capital. gives it silks
and satins and DIAMONDS while it
throws TO LABOR crust of bread.
The tariff furnishes trips TO Europe
and palace cars to capital, while 1T
hands TO labor lock outs and strikes
and oppression. Democracy would
strike the shacKles from LABOR and give
it a chance. 1t would take the labor
er's children from the factory and coal
mine and place them among the books
of the school room. 1t would take his
wife from the field and place her by the
fireside. Democracy is the friend of
labor, the tariff is its oppression.
Why should the democratic party be
the enemy of labor when the great
urn of democracy has ever been borne
upon the shoulders of our workingmen?
Why should the demncra ic party be
charged with being the enemy of la
Dor. when it has always battled
against the arisCCcratic tendencies of
its opponents. The callOused hand Of
honest toll, rocked the cradle of the
democratic party III its infancy and
from the ranks Of labor it has drawn
its warmest defenders.
The charge is falsel The democratic
party has ciia M .oned the cause of la
Dor and it Wal, never cease the fight
until the masses, who toll with brains
and muscle shall be redeemed from
the thrsldom Of soulless ard grasping
monopolistic creations OF republican
legislation. 1t was left for the last
democratic congress and a democratic
president to write upOn the statute
books the national law-requiring con-
tractors to give bonds to secure labor
ers and material men in all contracts
of the United States.
Equally false is the charge that the
democrats party would do anything to
injure the nation or the people. Demo
cratic comprise more than one-half the
population. They have homes. They
are home loving people. Their FIRE
sides are cheered by women as grand
and graceful as that radiant example,
the uncrOWned queen of the White
House. Democrats have. little children.
as tender and as fair as any that God
ever sent into the world. Democrats
have hear and about their hearts
their wis nd children have woven
tie tendrils Of love that bind them to
their homes a. with bands of steel. Can
you believe t. en- that they would be |
so insane to advocate a policy |
that would 1r-ng misery and distress !
into their ho.las and plant grim want |
by their hea' sAstones? The American |
people ma be cradulous, but doubt |
whether t. s. believe that.
THE FARMER - THE TARIFF,
Next to The WorkIAgman, the farmer |
is the partlcuar charge of the high
tariff adv0case The protectionist says
he has been gi7en h. the tariff price
less boon. tie has been given the |
precious privilege OF paying high prices
FOR all he buys and of selling his crops |
year after year for less. The protec-
ton orator pulls the wool oyer the
farmers eyes and makes of him the
family dray horse. The history of the |