Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-23
FACTS FOR WORKING MEN.

How Protection and free Trade Affect
TOiIers.
7. 3. Laird the labor leader, gives
convincing reasons why the workingmen
should vote for Mckinley and Hobart. lie
says the pauper record under free 7rade
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. 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
1882 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 one pauper TO 250
persons.
Again, from 1913 to 1857, we were
under Wing rule and protective tar
if 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 1871 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 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
During this period, from 1917 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 1879 inhabitants.
From 1861 to 1893 the country was
under Republican rule. with Il 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 orr 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.
Al.
| Mckinley bill, from 1891 until the cleo
| ton Of Grover Cleveland ia 1892. Sta
! tistics show that under President Harri-
| son we had in New York but one pauper
to 900 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 Cieyeland'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
| days after his Inauguration orders for
| more than 81 100000 for factory machin-
cry was countermanded. Factories be-
| gan to close. Wages were cut down,
| until now there are from 100000 to
| 3,OOO,O 600 Americans who cannot get
! work at 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 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 senator instead of Free Trade
| Hill, means the repassage of the McAin-
| 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
| tories. with steady work at American
wages, payable in 10O-cent dollars.
A vote for Bryan means the worst
| bankruptcy and pauperlsm 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-
! Of
! increased wages and the markets of the
world Instead of this the world has
got our markets. and every dollars worth
of goods imported takes dollars worth
| of work from us.
Vote to protect our wages and homes:
| Keep out paupermade goods and the
! paupers that make them New York
| Commercial Advertiser
The Real Issue.
Mr.. Bryan's latest device to get away
! from the tariff issue. which his audi
tors persist in thrusting upon him, is to