Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-10-01
FACTS FOR WORKING MEN.
How Protection and Free Trade An
Toilers.

FACTS FOR WORKING MEN.
How Protection and Free Trade Affect
| Toilers.
| p. b. Laird, the labor leader, gives
convincing reasons why the workingmen
should vote for Mckinley and Hobart. He
says the pauper record under free trade
and protection tells the story. OF the
protection period ending 1881. he says:
Many new factories were built and all
were running full time; our working
men were all employed. Englisn 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
1882 to 1S43, we. again had 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 one pauper to $50
| persons.
Again. from 1913 to 1857, we were
under Wing rule and a protective tar
| IN. Then many new factories were
built, all running on full time. At the
close of this period there was but one
| pauper in New York to 1877 persons.
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 great discount, the govern
ment in debt and paying IL 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 pro-
tective tariff. President Buchanan
signed the Morrill, protective bill in Feb
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
running, and she had full control of our
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 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-
son we had in New York but one pauper
to 800 inhabitants. The English records
| of 1892 show one pauper to 30 inhab-
| itants. My authority for these astoVnd-
| ing pauper records is the pocket En-
cyelopedia on Protection" pages 4S, 40.
| During President Clevelands 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
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
days after his Inauguration orders for
more than $1,O00,O00 for factory machin-
| cry was cOuntermandeu. FACTORIES De-
| gan to close. Wages were cut down,
until now there are from 100000 to
| 100000 Americans who cannot get
work at any price, and God only knows
how great the pauper record is.
But England is in prosperous state.
| Her factories are running full time, and
all her workingmen are fully employed.
The largest procession of workingmen
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 than 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 repassage Of the McKin-
ley bill, with the additional duties re-
quired 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 i'm
migration restriction bill that was passed
by about 200 majority in the House and
killed by the Democratic Senate, with
David b. Hill as its leader. A Re-
| publican vote means opening our fac
tories, with steady work Mt American
wages, payable in 100-cent dollars.
/ A vote for Bryan means the worst
bankruptcy and pauperism for American
/ wage-earners that we or any other peo-
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 paupers.
Let us not forget the promise made to
us by Grover Cleveland and the Demo-
cratic press-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 dollars worth
of work from us.
Vote to protect our wages and homes.
Keep out pauper-made goods and the
paupers that make them!-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The Real Issue. 30
Mr.. Bryan's latest device to get away
| from, ha tariff ieSne which hia audi