Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1894-07-02
rhe eProtectIonn RIddIe.

The Republicans never tire Of telling
as that reducing the tariff on wool Is
ruinous 10 the farmers. They cannot
but admit that cheap wool will benefit
three-fourthso the people, II we except
the protected" manufacturers Of the
article ia whom their interest is In reality
conferred. The men, women and children
who work in the wooden mills are poorly
paid and End Il dificult to cover their
nakedness with wooden blankets and
clothing In winter, yet the men who own
and run the mills are piling up their
millions all the time under a high pro-
tective tariff. How is this
We have yet 20 see this FIRST case where
high protective tariff is Of any advan
tage to the working people employed In
our mills and factories. There never
has been time when employers would
not get labor at the lowest price they
could, without regard TO their own peo.
pie. and the biggest part Of the shut
ting.down" business has been done TO
influence workingmen to vote against
tariff reform. Thousands have been
fooled by it who, II they had known the
truth, would have continued their loyalty
to the Democratic party. The cause Of
the closing Of many factories has been
reproduction caused by limited
market our goods being as effectively
prevented, by the Mckinley tariff. from
leaving the country as they would have
been II biockaded by the warsblps Of a
foreign nation.
How Is II that In low-tArih England
sheep are so much more profitable than
they are in this country Why Is II that
they are worth one-third more there than
they sre here and are esteemed rs the
rent-payer on account of the profit
derived from themi VIII the Repub,
iicans tell us why It is that the working
people employed In the wooden and cot
Ton mills OF the country are the poorest
paid Of any class OF wage earnersl II
nigh protection is necessary TO allow
them to live, how Is Il that mechanics and
others ia unprotected industries earn SC
much more money every week OF theil
lives and are in far less degree subject
to the wills and caproes Of thar EN-
ployersi
This country, with probably the high
est tariff In the world, is shipping sheer
10 low tariff England because the prices
they bring there are nearly double th'
prices here. The cause, says I
competent authority, does not lie in
The over-productlon Of sheep IN
this country and their scarcity In Eng
land. which, with $4,000 square miles
has 90, 49, 600 sheep. or 500 to the square
milo, while the United States, Will
$500. 900 square miles, has only 45, Ois.
on sheep, OF about thirteen sheep to the
square mile. England has, relatively
forty times as many sheep as this coun-
try and sheep growers should demand
an explanation OF these things from the
high tariff advocates. They should also
demand Of the highly protected manu-
facturers why they have reduced tbs
price Of wool in this country below that
OF any other country in the world, IL
spite Of the highest tariff in our his
tory.
Is 1t possible that the working people
Of this country, the most intelligent OF
the face Of the earth, can longer b.
fooled and browbeaten by those VII,
pile up immense fortunes out Of over
urotection2 The people spoke on thi
subject in the Congressional elections o.
two years ago and there will likely be
roiteration Of their speech in the cominl
Fall elections.