The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-09-26
FACTS FOR WORKING MEN.
How rrVt, Ctiun aud Tree Trade thect
Toiiar,

hS - FOh WUH n MI m T. N.
How Prot, ction aud Tree Trade ,Hect
Toilar>.
l.. Il. Laird. the labor leader. give;
convincing reasons Why tn" workiirZncn
should vote tor Mckinley aud Hobart. He
SAYS th" paupcr record under fro" 7ratlc
and protection tells th" story OF th"
protection period. ending ISL he ~4,>.
Many n" factories wore built and all
W"rc running fun tune; Que working
men W"r" all employed En-lIsu tar-
t"ri"7 were running hort time. At IN"
close "t this period there was hut one
paHp"r tn l31 persons in N,W York.
Whrl" England had on" paup"r {" thirty
min" persons.
nder tn" Democratic party. from
49, I" lALi, "" again had free trad"
tariff. ~ tho cIos' of this period. Amer
lcau factories were practically all closed.
Ia N"W York there was one paupeT io
every thirty inhabitants. Th" English
ta"tnri"7 wor" running full time aud
England had but on" paupCr to 1"o
persons.
Again. from iS4% - 1871. "" n.rc
unJ"r " hiS rnl" and protective" tar
N. Then many u"w factories Yer"
huilt. all running "u full tim". At til"
close of this period thcr" was but "u"
paup"r IN New York e. lST persons.
tories Wet" running less than half time
dni on" paupcr to every forty-thr"" per
sons. Andrew jackson said Of this
period that We had the greatest pros
perity this or any other country had
ever seen.
From 1877 until 1861 uc again hal
tT"" trad" aud Democratic ruln. kt the
clos" "t this period factories Wcr" idl".
American labor unemployed. American
credit at a great discount. the govern
mcut in debt and paying l. per cent. for
money 10 dcfraN tn" running expenses of
Tn" government. President buchanan.
IN ms message of December, 1860. prFlr-
tirallI admits that the government was
bankrupt. that our factories and labor
ing men were idle and demanded a pro-
t"ctiyr tariff President Buchanan
signed tb" Morril! protrctiy" hiIl in Feb
rnary. 1861.
During this l"rod. from 1871 to 1861.
England saw her greatest prosperity.
lab"rinc men W"r" much better off there
than IN America, her factories were alt
running. and She had full control of our
markets. At 'hc close of this period
England had but ON" paupcr to every
SO inhabitants New York had one
pauprr 10 every 49, inhabitants
From 1861 to 1893 the country was
under Rr5uhlican rule. with protective
tariff From the signing Of the Morrill,
tariff bill factories sprung NJ ~ by maGIr
atl over tn" mt"d States, The work
iu-m"n : pay wa NOR" than doubled,
laI,"riul, men in large numbers from all
h" fr"" t1nLr r"untIl"~ cam" her" :" -'t
b" h"u"titN Of our. pr"t""tly" t"rlh and
American wages. During this i"'ri"d ""
had h"rnm" the largest manufacturers
of any nation on earth nd"r r""ipr're-
ity aud = pr"t""tlH" tIrlH W" wcr" in>t
taking tn" markets Of tn" world. and u"
nati"n on earth 'i'r 'AP'r''h'"d 4n'o
UrpSIlaTItN.
our greatest prosperity wa~. under The
McKlnlcy bill, from 1881 until the "!!"c-
ti"n Of Grover Clcv".lan,di ~ 50 Sta
tiNti"s show that und"r President ilarrl-
son v" had in \"w YORK but ON" paurrr
t. .61 inhabitants. Th" English records
~ tN''- snow ON" l@up't !" ~ lnhai,-
itauts. My authority for the" Hstouud-
ing paupcr records is the Pocket Eu-
,ysl"p"dia, on Projections, p4I2Sc> -. ~.
During rc>ldch' hN'Iahd NJ ~ '''n
framed -na,>rd tho Democratic House.
and was killed in the Republican Senate.