The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
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through the House, out Inc 0Als'e0
would stand in the way with veto be-
hind that.
What are the facts? So far as can
be gathered certain enterprising Amer
leans have availed themselves or cheap
Ia Dor and japanese imitatlYeness 10
start an agency III San Francisco Tor
the sale of Oriental-made matches, but
tons. clothing, upholstery, and perhaps
some other articles. 1t is reported that
they can offer these wares at prices that
defy competition. They pay from oU
cents to SO a month for labor. Conse-
quently it is urged we must at once put
on tariff to meet this difference In
wages, or else the United States will be
| flooded with japanese goods" and our
manufacturers must go to the wall
Does it occur to these alarmiStS that
they are doing a very silly thing? Even
admitting that all their statements and
prognoSticat tons are correct, they are
none the less silly. The Mckinley bill
was made up with the avowed purpose
of enabling US to compete with British
or other European goods. Wages of me-
chanics in England run, say, from $50
to $40 month. This is on the assump-
ton that the Japanese have availed,
or will avail, themselves of modern ma
chinery and processes.
What is proposed by these alarmists
must necessarily be a tariff which to
save us from Oriental competition
would be absolutely prohibitive OF ali
European imports. The first question
then would be, How are we to get any
revenue from duties? Next would come
problems in connection with an enor-
nous overstimulation of domestic man
ufactures, a consequent scramble of
capital and labor to get in on the new
deal, overproduction, disaster, etc, etc
All this to escape a danger which is
mostly in the future and largely mag
| mary.
| AHLWARDT AND THE JEWS
Oakland Enquirer: Herr Ahlwardt,
the anti-Semitic leader of Germany, is
! coming to the United States, where he
thinks he sees a field for his agitation
against the Judaization OF indus
! tries" He was asked by reporter
whether he maintained that the cor
rupt commercial principles" of which
| he complains are confined to the He
brews, and he replied: Not now, but
! they are the OriginatOrS of uSury and
! speculative methods, and in every land
where this landlesS people SojOurns
! they have impregnated these methods
! in business circles If no stop is put to
them by well framed laws it will pre-
! cipitate a long series Of fatal panics.
One needs only to go back to the his
! tory of ancient Rome to find that about
j all the present speculative methods
were anticipated, and as for usury, it
is doubtful if it has ever been quite 50
/ bad since That the Jews introduced
usury methods into modern nations
may be true, but there was good reason
for it since the Catholic Church, by
! its rule forbidding the taking of inter-
est on money, for long time made bus
| mess a practical impOssibility with any
except those outside the pale of Chris
tianity. If the Christians fixed the con-
ditions so as to invite the practice of
usury (Which is simply loaning money
| at the best rates which can be obtained
! by the Israelites, how can the latter be
held historically responsible?
COURAGE IN ADVERTISING
Santa Ana Blade: The merchant
who commences a campaign of adver-
Using without the courage to carry it
through should be dissuaded from be-
/ ginnig at all. Like q military cam
paign, it is not, as the old soldier said,
! "all beer and skittles. There are re-
verses defeats and seeming losses in
the career of the most successful adj
Vertisers as there have been in that Of
J the most successful Generals The
chances of war are occult. The win
ming side can often show the great
scars and the smallest rOll-call.
But. lust as no General of any mill
! tary training or experience would give
up a campaign after one or two re-
verses. neither should an advertiser
feel discounted or discourse ea because
his first. second or third trial cost him
/ more than he received from it.
Here the chances of advertising are
occult. The weather is often the sole
cause Of a good and costly ads failure.
( MANY a bargain" sale has been
! ruined because of a heavy rain on the
advertised day of sale. Hundreds of
/ dollars sunk in newspaper space thaC
/ brought next to no returns. Does the
astute drygoods merchant give up bus
mess or stop advertising because OF
such a set back? Not much. He
knows that neither the ad nor the me-
dunn We're to blame.
AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY.
Riverside Press: In spite Of the tWad-
die of the foolish, who spend their ener-
gies in talk rather than in labor, no
country affords better advantages for
the poor boy who is intelligent and in
dustrious than this. Another evidence
Of this is furnished by the late Z. d.
Jordan, the Boston dry goods million
aire. who was a fatherIess boy that went
10 work on farm al the age of IA for
81 a month Socialists who denounce
lpIutocrats should say where they would
draw the line against small boys who
start in life with nothing but a capltal
Of American grit and American oppor-
tunities.
DEBS' LESSON.
Tulare Register: Eugene Debs has
learned something during his six
months sojourn at Woodstock Jail. He
has declared that he will order no more
strikes. but will take the cause Of the
laborer into politics. That is right,
provided that he does not turn the labor
vote over to demagogues or become q
demagogue himself profiting by the con-
fdences reposed in him. Blu it will be
a great day for labor when it thor
oughly understands that there is no
way of rfghting wrongs except through
the courts and the ballot and that no
man or any number of men have any
right to take the law into their own
hands to act summarily without form
of law Arbitration and Cancellation is
the true cure for labor troubles. Poll
tics can do little and strikers can do less
to right wrongs which laboring men
complain Of
A Raft of Rats Drawn by Fire.