The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-28

LABOR AND PROTECTION.

refer Cooper, the eminent business man
and pailanthropist said: Il have noticed in
my own business life, extending over a
period of nearly seventy years, that every
reduction of the tariff Cor, the tariff for
revenue only pIan,) has brought wretch
eoness and ruin. 1t is the natural effect
from such a cause. Nothing is more GER
tain than that the advocacy of free trade
comes from foreigners who want to break
up our industries. They have done it
several times already, and they want to
do it again. The I2borers of the OLD
world get barely enough to keep body
and soul together, and that is the condi-
ton in which the advocates Of free trade
:. are trying 10 place our laborers."
John c. Calhoun in the National House
of Representatives, in 1916, said Capital
employed in manufacturing is calculated
to S-1nS together more closely our widely
spreading republic. 1t will greatly in
crease our mutual independence and in
tercourse."
Adam Smith, the great political econom-
list said Whatever tends to diminish in
any country the number of artificers and
manufa cturers tends to diminish the
home market, the most important Of all
markets, for the rude produce of the land.
and thereby still further to discourage
agriculture"
contained
some of the vital political principles sup
ported and defended by the Republican
party, and enforced whenever the party
had the power TO enact the necessary
legislation. They contain the essence of
what has now become known the world
over as the american doctrine of Pro-
lection to Home Industries" a doctrine
which teaches that a nation rich in all
that is necessary to promote the happi-
~
stronger and greater if its people are
kept busy supplying their own wants.
The Republicans believe that every dol
Ian sent TO foreign lands TO purchase
ar dcles that can be produced al home is
a dollar taken from the wages of some
American workingman. A practical illus
tration Of this viii be found IN the re-
ports of the treasury department at
Washington, D. c., recently published.
From these reports we learn that during
the first six months the present DEM
ocratic tariff law was in force, the amount
CT goods imported from foreign lands
were S50,0o0,090 more than they were dur
ing the iaSt six months Of the Republican
tariff law. The Republicans believe that
this increase of $4,000 600 represents Just
SO much money withheld from American
WOrkingmen who are vainly seeking work.
and that it was needlessly spent for the
bereht OF foreign labOrerS who have no
interest in our government pay nc taxes
for its support, and who will if it be-
comes necessary to do so, fight against
our government in defense Of their own.
How long will a nation continue prosper
Gus and great which sends its money away
10 purchase articles its own unemployed
woTkingnen would be glad to produce?
The workingnen of America are the most
intelligent and progressive class Of work
ers on the earth. They live better, dress
better, read more, build more. churches
and free schools, and more Of them own
their own homes, than the workingmen of
any other nation. This happy condition
has resulted from the Protective Tariff
policy adopted by the founders of our
nation among them Washington, Hamil-
ton, Adams. Jefferson, Madison Monroe,
Franklin, Ca -hoUn, Webster, Clay, and
jackson. and many others. and re-adopted
and enforced by the Republican party.
Cheap men are a curse TO any country,
free Trade means cheap men. The DEM
ocrals say Free Trade will secure US the
markets of the world. The truth is we
can never secure the markets OF the
world until the wages paid to American
Workingmen are re- ced to the amount
paid to foreign workingmen. How can
the American miner who receives 81 for
mining q ton of iron ore compete with the
Spanish miner who receives 10 cents a !
tom How can the American rice Iaborer /
who receives $50 d month compete with |
the Coolie 1aborer who receives S12 a !
wear? How can the American working |
girl who receive Is Gems a day for weav-
ing sA!, threads into cloth compete with |
the Chinese girl who works for u cents a