The herald., 1894-03-21
A MARKET FoR GOODS. NOT FOR LABOR,

The San Francisco Gall 9 few days
ago pointed to the fact that the German
papers advise German operatives not to
emigrate to the United States. but re-
main at home and produce goods that
will find a market in this country under
the new tariff. The Call looked upon
this as a strong point in favor of the Nc.
Kinley tariff. The HERALD, on the other
hand, maintained that it proved the
eoundness OF the position we have al
ways held, that prohibitive tariff with
out restrictive legislation upon immigra-
tion, was an inducement to over-supply
the labor market. and thus enable the
protected manufacturers to profit in q
double sense. The Mckinley tariff gave
them monopoly of the home market
for their goods and enabled them to cut
down the wages of their operatives at
will. Wages could net be main
tanned in the face of an over
supply created by the induced
extraordinary influx OF labor from
Europe. The Call admits that a pro-
AlUlLlfO bAIlA OpOIAbCo IA blllb why Wlicu
it claims thst our objection is only good
as against the laxity of our immigration
laws and not as against the Mckinley
principle. We submit that any law that
operates to lower the wages of American
operatives and fills the country with a
great surplus OF labor is a most ruinous
and damnable law, and if the end Of re-
tanning the home market for goods can
only be attained by flooding the country
with an over-supply of foreign labor
the end costs too much. The Call says
it has always advocated a reasona BILE
restriction upon immigration, but of
what avail is such advocacy if it insists
on a tariff policy that is inconsistent
with restriction? We repeat VIII at we
said before, policy that places prohibit
tive duties on foreign goods is unfair
to American labor unless it also places a
limit to the importation of foreign labor
20 make these goods.
We now zee the effect in this country
II the high tariff policy in the millions
OF unemployed who are creating uneaai-
uess all over ths country. The high
tariff policy Of the Republican party has
flooded the United States with plethora
Of labor, and now when the pinch comes
we dnd ourselves burdensd with armiea
OF men for whom there is no work to do.
This importation Of great masses OF for
Aign lAborers has been going on for
twenty years. Congress made stsgger
at restricting the svil by passing law
prohibiting tho entrance OF laoOrsre into
the count.y Whp came under contract.
But this Law sac Intellectual. They
came IN Aordss trcm pArts @! Europe
that had never ssRt ns sOy voluntary
immigration before. Th9 Law WAS skill.
fully evAded, bat eys!ybody EnoWs that
THESE hOTdss o: .shorsrs did not gss TO
sh!a country .: themselves. They Wsre
imported, and iAs parpoFe of thoir i'm
portAtiun ~AS we'll undsrstood; it was
TO loWoI The scsle OF wages in tho coal
and iron m.nss snd in the factories, the
mills. and tEs s1tsnsir0 workshops OF
this country.
The Mckinley bill wAg th.nsa upon
the country by iNlss and lying preten-
oss. It's advocates declared Is WAS a
measure to protect American labor and
81 maintain American wagee. Its
trainers knew that its protective feature
would practically operate only at one