The record-union., 1895-02-16

InlllS are h1Shly prontable and pay large
dividends 10 their stockholders.
England and the United States used to sell
cotton TO Japan. There is another city in
Japan where this thing has been going on;
they opened out with $50 sptndles in Osoka
and these $50 have now multiplied to $780,
600. We are now living in q new era. The
colored man who said The sun do move
made q mistake the world is moving, and
we are living now in o very peculiar time 1t
is the dawn of something that will bring
forth q new future, the new civilization
whatever it may be. Perhaps the world as q
whole, may be a gamer. But we must pass
through series OF events that may be the
most memorable in the history of humanity.
Our agricultural labor-saving machinery
was taken from here to European factories
remodeled and put into the hands of the
cheapest labor countries of the world. In
1854 and 1883 happened to be in Europe,
and went through a number of great plants
where they manufactured these machines.
1t never struck me as anything curious
whether the plant was in Vienna, il Berlin,
in Ohio or Michigan, but after considerable
thought the question came up, what are these
machines there for? They were not sold to
the United States; they were sold TO these
cheap labor countries and # you get the
statistics for 1898 you find S1,60O,0OO
worth Of agricultural machinery was sent
from the United States 20 Argentine and u
much greater proportion was sent from Eng
land TO the same country.
These machines in the hands of the labor of
tnese cheap countries have made q terrific
difference in our economic conditions here
" hat Will be the conditions when manufact-
urlng machinery also shall be placed in the
hands OF the cheap labor, over Al 900, 900 in
Japan alone, anu so many more millions in
emma. and with absolutely no restriction
Whatever? Our labor must then come down
20 Their level. This is NOT question of meet
ing German, French or English competitiOn
but it is this new world condition that free
trade England Will meet pretty soon. After
lneSe cheap labor countries have absorbed
their own markets, they are going to the open
gates OF the world, and England will be met
with the skill Of the japanese using machines.
ms IS one reason why am not in favor of
tree trade. But, If We are to have protection,
let US have 1t exactly as every honest prOtec-
ZIONIST believes it is to-day, and that is, ''pro-
tectlOn 10 American industries against the
cheapest labor countries of the world" so that
Ihe man VINO raises wheat, corn, cotton, to-
bacco, or other agricultural staples shall be
protected against the cheap labor coun tries of
the world as we'll as the man that makes hats
necktleS, shoes and cutlery is protected from
TIE WoTIdS competition.
THE RELATION OF THE FARMER TO THE
NATION.
Now, can projection as it is, remain with
safety? Absolutely. no. Why? Because, sup
posing the income of q farmer owning strip
OF land has teen say 81, 900 a year, but which
at present prices is reduced to $500. He runs
along with the same expenditures rs he for
merry did. and he is pulled OF OF the land the
same as stump is pulled out from the
clearing. VINO is this great farmer, and what
purpose does he serve? l have heard men
speak OF this blessed farmer" calling him
Natures nObleman," and morn V-handed
son OF TOLL and a lot more such rot as that
40 not see any more special merit in the
FARMER than IN the shoemaker; and yet, the
farmer IS absolutely necessary to the perpe-
tuIty of this republic. Why, the rapid-moving
factor IN the economic or political life of this
naiIOn, IS the clty-the teVeriSh StOckbToker
ana the Worklngman and the lawyer all up
to high pressure. and they want this ana
they want that, and they keep rushing along
and mere comes the slow poke out here on
the farm. He is more slow and deliberate
because he talks to hogs or other animals
ana he Is very sluggish, and when this rest
less, feYerlSh city man comes along and wants
something done in hurry it takes n Ionsr
while TO get the consent OF this man OF the
farm; lie slows up the speed; he Is the gov
ernof OF the BODY polite. But drive these Off
nom the land into the city and you produce
a new condition absolutely, and there is no
power ON earth to tree us rom the curse that
Will come upon this nation: and then the
cities viii run along madIy; then things will
not pe safe; and then we Will want more and
more Soiu!ers; ny ana by we viii still call
him President, but he Will be q kim
NO man can deny that the present svS-
tenn OF protection is unjust, and l defy any
honest political economist any honest man
any man capable of reasoning 10 retute it,
II the proposition that l advocate is lust
would II not make Il man from California
snGme-taced to continue advocating the pres
ept one-slded, unjust protective SYSTEM
protection that may benefit Massachusetts
to the injury of California?
SupposIng we have Tree trade; supposing it
would be long time before enJerprising
-AL4LCA lNstt4S NOulu 20 10 Japan ana n
manufactures. At the rate, as has been stated
in the san Francisco CuU of the 10Th inst
ana which has been stated over and over
again, where these new industries are heinz
built up there is no power that can f3revanf
Asoka and this other city here with Il very
big name reading from becoming the Man
chester and the FAN River com bined. maDu-
featuring Tor the word. There is absolutely
no limit TO IT, The point OF least resistance
the power to SURVEYS given TO the Can
casian in so tar as he is the inventor and TISer
"a hi,
vented and the fellow on the other side biys
one anu can operate II with Just as much SIKH
as the Caucasian, and when he has learned %
Ltaue, Lnen the power 10 survive is with The
cheapest labor When Golden wrote; when
Adam smith wrote and Golden talked free
trade, they did not have this new problem,
we nave thought OF the brown and yellow
men as interiors, as something where there
was d wide dividing line. 1t NAV be a design
OF the Great Designer 10 lear the mask from
on our lace ana say, The brown and yellow
man Is my child as well as your and at is tn
be his time to be lifted upland in this cen
eral leVrIng we snail meet the world face
TO face, as We must ultimately meet it II is n
competition such as the com petition against
Germany and France is not to he
with. would not like to see it
come now; l would like II sIave il off for
some time to come. Why? Every wear TINT
our Nation lives it becomes wiser and greater
and letter. IN peaceful progress we may
make strides that may not alone bless. US but
bless the whole human race and get mn 10 n
OF new inspiration some new in
yentlonS whereby we probably would not
fear competition, but which in now oDenIn
the hoodgates is threatening to overwhelp5
U.s.
THE INTERESTS OF LABOR,
Let US see if it is in the interest of the work
iugman TO maintain the tariff as il now is
There never was q time in the history of mis-
Nation when the wOrkingman vino is receTy
ing his DC pay and has a steady iob-remem-
Der these Two things-was better off. lie re-
ceiyes his 50 day; protection gives it to
him; the labor union secures it 10 him. He
receives his 50 to-day but for it he demands
Jour bushels OF wheat, instead of the two that
he formerly received. That Is all right for the !
fellow VINO has the job. But what about the
fellow who has not got the job?
Now, lnasmuch as the price of the product
has come down to half, the purchasing power
Of the great customer OF inanufactI7res has
come down to hall, and the result is that |
there seems 10 be a whole lot of these fellows I!
out OF JoD. There are two things that pre- !
vent the lowering OF wages-protection and |
the trades union. The result is a whole raft !
Of men out OF work, and these people have no |
money 10 buy. This labor must be out run. |
ming around for job which they cannot |
find. 1t IS all right for the fellow that has the |
job, but the question is, whether a system |
shall be perpetuated for the sake of the fel- |
low that has the job, and for the sake of the !
fellow in Massachusetts, so that he NAV
profit by this kind OF protection.
WHY PRODUCE a SURPLUS?
One paper has said, in San Francisco, "Whv !
we have Il very easy remedy for this thing. |
and and England will pay no mora for the |
surplus than she can buy it for from the |
cheapest DOR countries Of the world. then. |
because or THIS surplus being sold that way |
all the rest for home consumption also sold |
that way don't let US have a surplus: simpIy |
eurtail down and produce something else.
and then we Will be all right" Well that is |
remedy. If we have no surplus this tariff
wall is g tine thing. Then here is your wall
Tor agriculture. and here is your wall for man
and we have protection yorkino to |
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