The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-11-01
PROTECTION.
what n Does for frroDs How " Up
presses the Poor

W |
presses the Poor.
REPRESENTATIVE Joseph W. baococH,
of Wisconsin, chairman OF the repup-
lican congressional campaign commit
tee. recently returned from tour
through EUROPE In.an interview pub
lishel ia high tariff organ he as
serted that the people OF Ras,a,
France. Germany and Italy were ~
vided into two classes, small mlnofi-
Nv OF No les anil rich men and large
number OF peasants The latter ne
saws. are mere serfs, living IN inc
mcanes, conditions with only the bar
est necessities Of life. After this tesh-
mony 10 the iow standard OF living IN ,
| European countries he adds: mo man
can visit Europe and return with fh-
vorable ooiaon OF teachings moieled
upon free trade principles. The beau
tiful system abroad which our demo-
cratic brethren wish TO transfer 70
this country give, "A startling eXhio'-
ZION OF its benefits TO the working
CLASSES when we come to consider the
xaye, paid there. saw women doing
heavy laborng work in Vienna, car
rviny nlastcr and brick for building
purposes AMI receiving thirty ana
FORTY cent, per day. Men on the same
worJ, cot from forty to sixty cents
What will be thought Of the intelii-
gcncc OF this republican congressman
who vravcly points to the terrible oey-
radiation OF labor in Russia, France.
Germany and Italy, as an argument
arainst free trade. when the facts are
that all of those countries are now anu
: have been for many years blessed with
a hich protective tariffs? The principles
= which have produced the sad results
G which Mr. Babcock saw in Europe are
G those Of trade restriction which were
Z embodied in the Mckinley tariff The
Z .beautiful system" which he falsely
l. CHARGES the democrats with wishing &c
c transfer TO this country. Is the sans
10 system OF high taxation and tarin roo
II berry which he is trying to restore ~
,e the United States. There Is not
g. schoolboy in Wisconsion who doesn
g. know that all the countries mentioned
g as SAMPLES Of free trade. are really pro
a. tectionist nations II Mr.. Babcock doe
"a no. know this he is very very ignorant
!. 70 h. does know it, he has willfull,
misrepresented the facts IN oraer
NJ create prejudice against the party 9
la low tariffs.
~ "Women carrying brick for fort
~ cents per day in Vienna Yes. an
IL under protection. Austria is ing
tariff country and the women toilin
for n pittance are forced into that col
ed dition by restrictive laws ana tari
taxation. ..Men working from for'
"a sixty cents per day" OF course,
n country oppressed for centuries WI
III high tariffs. that is big pay. Wh
80 does Mr. Babcock expect? The mass
~ Of the people in the great Europes
~. nations are mere serfs! les ~
their condition is largely due to TN
wicked and un-Christian tariffs whi
TIE hinder commerce and by national a.
,sr' mosities make huge standing arm
.ne necessary. II Mr.. Babcock had be
the an agent of the democratic congr
erV- s;onal COMMITTEES, he could not n;
furnished more convincing proof
VIII the misery and suffering in not o
but five. protecsionist countries.
"Stonemasons in Italy got eighty
ling ninety cents day. Nhat 90
American workingmen think OF tina
y. asks Mr.. Babcock. They think tina
Is mighty lucky that this country
rid Of the Mckinley law. else II 'niI
h in be expected that the effects OF
and deadly high tariff would bc the ga
who here as they are in italy. They kn
was that Italy is just wallowiny in prot
,dle tio, and high taxes. and they are
d in surprised at the low wage, PAID.
,ors. American woriSin-man IS not Q Z
,yo thourh the steerers for the Mchir
burco game consider him one.
J., knows that the condition in which
';,os, European workers live are about
-, bad as Mr.. 5abcocl Describes ~
- But he also knows that these co
- tions exist under high protection
wno for that reason he will in the fn'
VIM vote for the party Of low taxation
frecr trade.
ihout Mr.. BabcoclS evidently did not
peen free trade England. for he does
Any refer to that country. II he had
ing there he would have found that
IS his rule. wages were fifty per cent ms
I'd Sc than in the protcctionists countrie
ening the continent. But such facts w
not suit the republican campaig
adow falsehood. bfHoN " ''o'