The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-11-28
FROM ONE OF G. CLEVELAND'S
CABINET.
White LabOIers to Be Driven Off
the Planet-Chinese Wages
for Americans.
(From the Gaming Nation.)


perhaps the negro is intended a la
borer to manufacture the cotton as we'll as
to hoe it, There are reasons to believe that
eventually the yellow race of the East will
prove formidable competitor in this line
of business. If SO, it may be necessary to
overcome them by the use of the black
laborer in the South" SO writes Hon.
Hoke Smith, secretary of the interior of
the United States, in the August North
American Review. For blunt brutality |
have never read anything worse from any
pen that had attained any reputa ton. This
is American craftsmanship! l have been
laboring under the impression that chattel
slavery was abolished but if this express
ion does not bear the impress of ownership
if the negro is not spoken of in the first
and last sentences as one would speak of
horses. cattle even inanimate life, then
l don't understand language a little bit.
Think of man in the cabinet of a repub-
lie talking about its citizens so many
beasts. His expression is exactly a
parallel with the tone of slave driver.
ut may be NECESSARY to overcome
the Chinese cheap labor by the negro.
What then will be the fate of the white
labor of the country? When black men
are harnesSed to compete with the China
men in manufactures, where, O where will
be the Anglo-SaXon workers? Will not
that which affects one affect the other?
Can you conceive of a part of the laborers
in manufacturing receiving 10 cents a day
and others doing like work getting decent
wages? Will not the competition that will
overcome" the Chinaman overcome the
white American as well? If one manu-
facturer can employ help al 10 cents a day.
or at a price that will starve Chinaman
those 6mDlOV
labor must not get it as cheap or break up
in business? And if Cinnamon can make
cotton goods. and they are doing it by ma
chinery, can they not also make wooden
goods and iron goods, and all other kinds
of goods? Most assuredly. They now
building railroads. telegraph and machin-
cry. and American workers must compete
with them. or with negroes, as per Hoke
Smith, who can be used cheap? Keep
the goods out by a tariff? Yes, but tine
manufacturers will continue to press down
their laborers until they can compete, and
will take advantage of the tariff to COM
pei Americans to pay such prices will
not admit large qualities. There is no
avoiding this fact. The working people are
looked upon as so many slaves by the cap
itasts They say They act SO. They
believe it. They want to reduce laborers to
the dependence of Cinnamon so they will
be too poor to protest against oppression
This country can't consume the goods it's
artisans make, and they can't sell
them to any other country if China makes
them, unless they meet China prices and
China wages, tariff traff. Hoke
Smith saw that his statement included the
white labOrers of this country, even though
he did not dare to express It in plain
words. The last fought against
cheap slave labor. But even blind
man can that the fruits of the war
have been lost. Labor today is cheaper
than chattel slavery, and here is man.
high in the councils of the nation, who adj
vocates still cheaper labor! Such are the
kind of men who occupy high places when
the people are ignorant or bigoted-blinded
by party zeal educated into them by the
rulers who profit off their credulity.