The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-30
BEATEN IN DEBATE.


The Democrat. have completely siulti
fed themselves when they declared that
they wanted the Chinese excluded because
We cannot compete with their cheap labor,
for by this admission they abandon their
whole theory Of free trade. If the Demo
cratic argument is good for the exclusion
Of cheap labor 1t Is equally good for the
exclusion OF cheap goods made by cheap
labor. James @. Blaine in the United
States senate and Wendell Phillips, ad-
dressing the workingmen of Massachu-
sets. were both logical and consistent
when they argued that American labor
must not only be protected against free
trade I'm products and commodities, bu.
American wages must be protected by the
exclusion of Chinese cheap labor. Wages
were low in China because the Chinaman
sought only the qualification of the lowest.
most inevitable wants. Flood us artif-
ciaiiy with barbarous labor and you drag
down the American home to the level of
the public opinion Of China.
The Republican party accepts Mr..
Blaine and Mr.. Phillips plea against the
importation of Chinese labor or any kind
of human freight, and il accepts their
plea for protection. for both rest upon the
clear right of government to defend
society by appropriate laws. We enforce
restriction against free trade on products
and commodities on exactly the same
hrosd ground that we enforce restriction
on the purchase OF human labor. The
Republican party is consistent with its
policy of protection to American labor
and wages when il seeks 10 protect Amer
lean labor and wages against the unmiti-
gated evil of the importation OF human
freight or contract immigration.
The Democracy in this debate gave their
whole free trade" argument away when
they accepted the plea of protection
against the food OF Chinese cheap labor
and yet refused TO accept the logical con-
sequence OF this concession that If Ameri-
can labor needs to exclude a food of
exclude q flood of cheap goods that Is the
product of cheap foreign labor. The
Democrats again cut the ground from
under their whole theory of free trade in
their wool schedule. They were willing
to support 40 per cent. OF protection for the
manufacturers OF wool, but nothing for the
men who produce one-half of the wool
that goes into those products. The Demo-
Gratis dwell mournfully upon the low price
of wheat. bat how will 1t help the wheat
growers TO ruin the wool industry and
other industries that give employment TO
millions of men. TO drive those engaged in
them into raising wheat and other agri-
cultural products9
Mr.. Wilson argued that putting lumber
on the free list would preserve the Amer
lean forests; did he put coal on the free
list TO preserve American coalf Mr.. VIII
son also said that the high duty on wool
had.rednoed its price aud then in the next
breath he says that the high duty On
wooden goods has increased the price of
those goods. Along the Canadian line the
Mckinley Law put q duty on Canadian
farm produce, including wheat, that more
than equalixsd the cost OF bringing wheat
from the West. and put the great New
England markets fer food into the hands
Of the American farmer. Mr.. Wilson'S
tariff ahoEshes those duties and hands
New England's food market over TO the
Canadian farmer and the Nova Scotia fish.
ermen as free gift
The American farmer has about 500, =
otoo0o Invested in sheep. The Wilson
tariff proposes To admit wool free Of duty.
The American wool grower canno. COM
pete With Australian wool growers, who
pay penny an acre for sheep saIk and
hire cheap labor that Is SO dlsgepuiabis
that il knows no other outlet and lives
Without wifs or child; 80 the American
sheep farmer must slaughter his sheen.
The Wilson bill makes hemp and sax free /.
50 the American farmer must grow il In
competition With The Russian lahorer, who
underse..x even Irish labor ST the Belfast
mills.
In return for the surrender OF the home
maskss 80 the foreigner. the American
farmer is offered cheaper imported wares,
which he hss no money 20 buy. This
sectional ,aFld offers these imported
articles en less favorable terms To the
Northern farmer than 10 the Southern
PLANTER, tos ths-hoep-iron Cor cotton bales
coHses IA free While ths hoop-lron 90 60
round sai,k-pza is 10 pay daty. The
Philadelphia Press ia exposition OF the
complete logical lsmene<s ana intellectual
poverty Of ths Democratic debate SAYS:
~ hea Mr.. wilson proposed 20 postpone
Tree wo04 tail August aua reduced eoosens
tals hecsiaber Ia order that Sool grasesa
niEhs gst letter prices fer tAis spvlnx's
pros lct and that manufacturer misht get
tbe h~nees ~ tise existing tariff Ter nearly
ysaF. he eat the ground out f-ogn the
Democratic srE4ntsaL L. IS the free
traders eoatsu3, tree wcos wta help tie
aoo4 grover By stimulating aanutaeGas-
shs &ud elH gns : larger market, sky dr.zg
= II, A. TIES eonseEds thelr policy wla
tss SETTER iQT sne manufacturers hy givlax
sAssa 8 sseaass As.a, y ~ gss Apply II al