The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-05
PROTECTION AND pAupER LABOR.

A set Of so-cailed reasons why labor
ing men should vote the Republican
ticket is going the rounds Of the small
fry Republican papers. 1t contains a
number of ahsurdities and fallacies.
The first of them is this:
Because the Republican party stands
for tariff that shall protect him from
pauper labor
The impudence of that is Characters
tic of Republicanism. When did any
tariff imposed by that party ever pro-
tect American labor from the 'pauper
labor of Europe, as it is called? Was
the tariff placed on pauper laborers?
When the duties were raised on GER
tain manufactures, at the bidding of
the capitalists interested in those
manufactures and who had fried out
the fat to keep the Republican party
in power, was there any duty on i'm
ported labor? On the contrary, did
not the manufacturers who secured the
high duties that they might keep up
the prices of their wares, actually send
TO Europe for cheap labor that their
profits might be kept up?
Under the Mckinley law We're wages
advanced in proportion to the increase
of the tariff? Not by any means. The
strikes and labor riots and distresses
in labor circles occurred largely in the
districts where protection was The
highest The protection of Republi-
canism has always been in the inter-
est of the capitalists but never of the
laborers.
AS matter Of fact there is more of
pauper labor in competition with regu-
larly paid labor in America than else
where. Paupers and criminals are al
lowed in many places to compete with
the self-supporting and honest work
ers. Repub1icanism has never pro-
tected the latter against the former.
The cheaper paid artisans of Europe,
whose work comes in competition with
American labor. are not paupers. 1eAey
earn their wages and live by the sweat
of their brows and their hands. They
are not supported out of public funds
The American worker can compete
with them in skill, and muscle, and
in machinery, tools and appliances and
greater dextcrity, can and does produce
more in day on average than his
European competitor In paying higher
wages than the English employer. paws.
the American manufacturer loses moth
ing, because of the increase of the
fruits of the better paid work.
needed in American manufactures the
high tariff of Republicanism hampers
and cripples the manufacturer and
thus Injuries labor. Cheap raw ma
terial must Of necessity be of advant-
age to the manufacturer and enable
him to compete with his foreign rivals.
and at the same time give good wages
10 his workmen.
There has never been a protection
measure which has secured to the
workman one cent of the profits which !
it secured to his employer. Ut is only |
by THE generosity 81 of the capitalist.
or the combination of working people |
TO compel justice, that employers have |
been Influenced to do right by the
laborer.
Republican policy has been ever in
favor of the plutocra'ts, the money
power, the trusts, the capitalists, fhe !
cormorants of the country. A tariff
to protect the American workmen from
pauper labor has never been passed by
that protection party, and THE state !
ment that it has is palpable absurd
ity.