Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-05-10

For work-The Ante-election Cry For
extraordinarily Is an Insult.
The destructive free trade policy Of
prostration TO which the country has
been subjected since March, 1893, in
volving in its course an unprecedented
volume of ruin and wreckage, the clos
ing of factories and the idleness of labor,
suggests the imperative necessity for the
adoption of some course that viii ade-
puately protect American labor from alb
solute want and from further competi-
ton in the labor market which the free
trade party has so dIsastrously caused to
be oversupplied.
1t has been the policy of the American
government for upward of a quarter of a
century TO invite labor and settlers from
abroad. This policy has built up the
country TO an unprecedented degree.
The large number Of new arrivals created
a greater demand for our home products
and manufactures, stimulating both.
Our lands were opened up and settled
upon. The country grew greater and
richer just go long as protection was af-
forded TO the products of our lands and
looms.
But the very moment that the shadow
Of free trade overcast our system of pro-
lection the condition of the country and
of the people began to change. The ter
rible effect of the fear of the free trade
policy of prostration was shown in a
few short months by a million idle la
borers scattered throughout every state
in the union. Even now those men who
have been fortunate enough to again Sc
cure work have done so, in most in
stances, at a reduction of wages. Their
earning power has been lessened, but
through no fault of their own.
Immediately before the presidential
election Of 1892 the question of protec,
ton to labor was worked for all it was
worth by the New York Herald, that
free trade organ deluding the voter:
with n of Its many catchpenny cries
But nothing has been done to assist labor
The old election cry was forgotten NOR,
than a year ago, and the free trade party
which The Herald represented and advo
i Gated, Immediately upon it's assumption
of administrative authority began t. de
" grade and ruin labor by imposing its pol
icy of prostration to American labor anC
industries. So great has been the injur,
wrought upon labor by this policy o
prostration that The Herald has beer
Il compelled to aid in the alienation of tn,
distress wrought by its party by tn,
charitable distribution of free clothing.
What does this free clothing meani /
means a direct insult to honest labor
Men are not begging for clothes. The,
: are begging for work. The Herald ant
Is ilk dragged American labor down t,
oeggary in the interests of foreign labor
But they have done nothing and advo
lated nothing for American labor sine,
November, 1892. Their ante-election ut
erances have vanished like vapor. La
Dor can no more believe what they sa,
Or promise and does no. believe them
Why does not The Herald now prepare
nd publish an act to prohibit immigra
ion in the interest of that American
abor which 1t loves so we'll Mt election
lime. but which it merely uses at othe
/ lines as an advertising catchpenny t.
id coppers to its Golfers?
ug Labor needs now more than ever it ha
one the strongest form of protection
he ruinous policy of prostration ha
uined and Frustrated American labor
he immigration of foreign pauper
hould be absolutely prohibited. We d
OF mean to restrict immigrants VIII
ONE here apply supplied with means t
sttle down on farms in the west or else
there, and who will make good citizens
ut we do mean the absolute, entire
borough and complete restriction an,
rohibition of all paupers who come t
ompete directly with the surplus @
american labor that we do possess-suc
aupers especially as we now see til
srge ocean steamship lines are arrang
lg to bring here from Russia and elst
here at reduced rates of passage money
Let American labor be rigidly pre-
scted, we say, and let this protection b
romptly given, as it is so urgently need
I. This is the first political duty OF tn
our. 1t is a duty that comes long b.
lpre the enforcement of the policy G
6 r~ostration.