The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08
FACTS FOR WORKING MEN.
How Protection and Free Trade Affect
TOilers.

P. B. Laird, the labor leader, give,
convincing reasons why the w~orkingmen
should vote for Mckinley and Hobart. He
says the pauper record under free trade
and protection tells the story. OF the
protection period. ending 1891. he says:
Many new factories were built aud all
were running full time; our working
men were all employed. English fac
tories were running half time. At the
close of this period there was but one
pauper to 131 persons in New York.
while England had one pauper to thirty
nine persons.
Under the Democratic party. from
1S32 to 1913, we again had a free trade
tariff. At the close of this period. Amer
lean factories were practically all closed.
In New York there was one pauper to
every thirty inhabitants The English
factories were running full time and
England had but ono paupcr TO 80
persons.
Again. from 1913 to 1857. we were
under Wing rule and a protective tar
if. Then many new factories were
close of this period there was but one
pauper in New York to 1871 persons.
In England there were bread riots. fac
tories were running less than half time
and one pauper to every forty-three per-
sons. Andrew Jackson said of this
period that we had the greatest pros
perity this or any other country had
ever seen.
From 1S47 until 1861 we again had
free trade and Democratic rule. At the
close of this period factories were idle,
American labor unemployed. American
credit at a great discount. the govern
ment in debt and paying II per cent. for
money to defray the running expenses of
the government. President Buchanan,
in his message of December, 1860. prac-
tically admits that the government was
bankrupt, that our factories and labor
ing men were idle and demanded a pro-
tective tariff. President Buchanan
signed the Morrill, protective bill in Feb
ruary. 1861.
During this period, from 1S47 to 1861,
England saw her greatest prosperity,
labOring men were much better off there
than in America, her factories were all
markets. At the close of this period
England had but one pauper to every
80 inhabitants. New York had one
pauper to every 1872 inhabitants.
From 1861 to 1893 the country was
under Republican rule. with a protective
tariff. From the signing of the Morrill,
tariff bill factories sprung up as by magic
all over the United States. The work
ingmen's pay was more than doubled,
laboring men in large numbers from all
the free trade countries came here to get
the benefits of our protective tariff and
American wages. During this period we
had become the largest manufacturers
of any nation on earth. Under reciproc-
ity and a protective tariff we were fast
taking the markets of the world, and no
nation On earth ever experienced such
prosperity.
Our greatest prosperity was under the
Mckinley bill. from 1891 until the cleo
ton of Grover Cleveland in 1892. Sta
tistics show that under President Harri-
to 8 Inhabitants. The English records
of 1892 show one pauper to 30 inhab-
itants. My authority for these astound-
ing pauper records is the Pocket En-
cyclopedia on Protection pages 4S, 40.
During President Cleveland's first term
the Mills bill-the worst tariff bill ever
framed-passed the Democratic House,
and was killed in the Republican Senate.
AS the tariff law was not changed, pros
perity continued in spite of the fact that
a Democratic President was in the white
house.
In 1892 the Democrats came into full
power, controlling both houses of Con
gress, and that free trade apostle. Grover
Cleveland, was President. Within ten
udyS dltCl lis Inu Us ~ OlttlS "
more than 81 ,O0O.OO for factory machin-
cry was countermanded. Factories be-
gan to close. Wages were cut down,
until now there are from 100000 to
3.00O,0OO Americans who cannot get
work ut any price, and God only knows
how great the pauper record is.
But England is in a prosperous state.
Her factories are running full time. and
all her w%orkingmen are fully employed.
The largest procession of w~orkingmen
that ever paraded in Sheffield. England.
was on Wednesday night after the cleo
ton of Grover Cleveland. They seemed
to understand what that election meant
better han we. the American working
men. did. for we elected Cleveland. and
today they have got work and are much
better off than we are. Eleven hundred
factories were built during the Harrison
administration. How many under Cleve.
land? None.
a vote for Mckinley and Hobart, with
Republican congressman and legislators
to elect a senator instead of Free Trade
Hill. means the repassagc of the Mckin-
ley bill. with the additional duties re-
Uuired to keep out the pauper-made
goods. of which we are now importing
about twice as much as under the Nc
Kinley bill.
1t also means the passage of the inn
migration restriction bill that was passed
IN dDOUt W inquiry III ~ Jus Nv
killed by the Democratic Senate. with
David Il. Hill as its leader. 4 Re
publican vote means opening our fac
tories, with steady work 1T American
wages. payable in 100-ccnt dollars.
\ vote for Bryan means the worst
bankruptcy and %pauperiSm for American
wagc-earncrs that we or IN other pco-
pie ever saw. Bryan is the strongest
free trader ever nominated by the Demo
Gratis. and four years more of their rule
would practically make us all paupcrs.
Let Ms not forget the promise made 10
us by Grover Cleveland and the Demo-
cratic prcSS-a promise of steady work.
Increased wages and the markets of the
world. Instead of this the world has
got our markets. and every dollar' worth
of goods imported takes Il dollars worth
of work from us.
Vote to prOtecr our wages and homes.
Keen out pauper-made goods and the
manners that make them.-\eW York