St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-06
ONE OF THE INJURED.

Gov. Mckinley is one of the chief
sufferers by the Fourth of July dem
onstration. No small boy with singed
eyebrows and scorched fingers is in
worse plight than this gentleman,
after the cannon-cracker of his
speech at Chicago has exploded in
his hands. Gov. Mckinley attempt
ed, in honor of the day, to sink the
partisan in the patriot The moment
that he did so, he not only lost sight
OF the favorite issue which consti-
tutes his one title to public promi-
hence, but he directly challenged
and contradicted his own position. 1t
was tribute to the workingman
which he desired to pay. And this
is the way he did it.
But with our improved and superior
machinery, each American laborer is
enabled to accomplish relatively more
than his European competitor. The
american laborer not only does more
and better work, but there are more
skilled, intelligent and capable artisans
now here in proportion to the total
i'll the world.
The working power of each Amer
lean, according to Mr. Mckinley, is
more than twice that of the laborer
of any other country.
If we set this statement side by
side with the Mckinley act and
with the arguments which Mr..
Mckinley has Invariably advanced
in support of it and of the high pro-
tectiVe system, we shall find them
to be utterly contradictory and de-
Structive of each other. Mckinley
ism says that the American working
man is inferior to his foreign COM
petltor. 1t says that the circum-
stances under which he Iabors are
SO unfavorable that he cannot COM
pete on equal terms without the as
Slstance of the state. It says that to
deny this subsidy to manufacturers
is to destroy American industry and
take bread from the mouth of the
American workingman This is the
way that Mr.. Mckinley talks when
he is making a political speech or
playing for nomination for some
nigh office. When he makes a Fourth
OF July GRAFTON, however, when his
good taste tells him to keep politics
in the background, and when, for
once, he speaks only as a plain
honest and sincere American citizen
TO his fellows, he throws all these
arguments into the rubbish bean
He says that the producing power OF
the working man, as compared with
mat of the working man of any 9th.
er country, is more than two r.
one.
He tells the truth. Recent sta
tistics, including those of Mr.. Mini.
hall, which the speaker Quoted &C.
tablish that point beyond contro.
Versy. If this is true, then there is
no possible excuse for a protective
tariff duty to enable the Americar
laborer to live. The man who. unde,
equal circumstances, can produce
twice as much of given commodit,
as his competitor, needs no assist
ance from the state Again, what i.
the reason of this superiority on on,
part? Speaking honestly and IN.
premeditatedly, Mr.. Mckinley saw,
that it is improved and superio,
machinery. That is a part of the
truth; and the other part is that tn,
American laborer is more intelligent
energetic and better cared for pbvs
icaly than the artisans of Eurone
Taking these two Items together. h,
is able to produce a daily outpu-
which no one else can rival.
Mr.. Mckinley was quite right i,
selecting n as a subject for his elo
quence on Independence day, The
tariff has no part in it. All this con
tributes to the glory OF tile American
name. 1t is absolutely fatal, how.