The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-29
What Hage.earners
ShodId Remember

That the only commodity they have TO
sell Is their labor.
That the condition of the market for
this commodity depends not upon the
amount of circulating medium In the
country, but upon the number OF men Who
| are looking for job.
That he condition of the market for
! this kind of commodity also depends upon
the number of Jobs to be sought after
| That when fifty men are waiting to MI
! one job the wages paid to the lucky man
who gets the job must necessarily be less
than they would be If only one man were
waiting for 1t.
That it must follow then, as matter OF
elementary logic, that the price paid tor
| labor is largely controlled by the law CT
| supply and demand.
| That 1t IS also very evident that any
economic policy which multiplies the
number of jobs in this country Is tire one
which increases the demand and should
have the Endorsement of the wage-earn-
ers.
That the only policy which will multiply
the jobs to be secured is a policy which
encourages the establishment of new pro-
| duc.ive industries and which stimulates
those We already have.
That this cannot be done by any scheme
which proposes that the United states
shall take the silver miners bullion and
CON 1t for him free of charge, stamping
upon each coin n value which will not
represent its purchasing power.
l. That these jobs cannot be multiplied by
Ia policy which. under the false and decep-
! tive plea of cheap goods for the con-
suTer" proposes that the shops OF Europe
and oriental countries shall do our manu-
featuring for us.
That the promise of cheaper goods I'M
der the Wilson-Gorman tariff law, made
by Mr.. Bryan and others who helped to
frame 1t and who advocated its enact
ment, has not been fulfilled. That the
only things that have become cheaper are
the products of the soil. caused by the
decreased home market which always fol-
lows the closing Cf factories, ana by the
repeating Of the reciprocity paragraph in
| the Mckinley law, which cut Off the sale
OF 100000 barrels of flour per year and
| caused foreign nations TO retaliate by eX-
cluding our meat products.
That the promise of Mr.. Bryan and other
defenders of the Wilson-Gorman law that
we would set cheaper clothing by putting
wool on the free list has not been full
filed.
That good clothing is no cheaper now
than in 1892, although We imported Ill.,
Sil io5 more pounds OF wool in 1895 than
we did under the Mckinley law. and de-
stroyed the business of 100000 wool grow
ers in this country to try the free wool
experiment
That the cost of this extra importation
OF wool was $l6slS,SS3, which was sent
abroad in gold, and which should have
gone to American wool growers to be paid
to American wage-earners.
That under the Wilson, German law in
1885 we paid to foreign labor ll6.4A, ,5ll
more gold for importation of twenty1sline
different varieties of manufactured goods
than we did during the fiscal year 1894
under the NJ M'kin!ey law.
That the census returns of 1890 showed
that 23,O00OOO people are directly depend
ent upon the manufacturing establish
ments of the United States. That If to
these are added the farmers, grocers,
bakers and others whose living depends
upon supplying these employees, the ag-
gregate would represent half our total
population.
That in the present contest the question
at issue Is, Shall capital be employed
again in these productive industries as it
was in 1892 under the Mckinley law, or
shall 1t be kept idle by the menace of
debased currency and by a tariff law
framed for the benefit of European wage
earners ?-Times-Her