The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-31
What Hage.earners
Should Remember

That the man who teaches that the in
terests OF employer and employe are not
mutual Is an enemy OF labor.
That the men who stand on the chicago
free silver and free trade platform are
men who never employed labor ana VIII
not be able TO give any idle man JOB IN
the event of Bryan's election.
That the experience of nations Is FAR
more valuable in solving an economic
question than the boldest assumption OF
theorists.
That one fact CLEANED from the markets
Will kick to death all the free trade the
ories that can be found in the books.
That the history of our own country
shows that Industrial depression and
financial panic have always resulted from
a tariff law framed in the interest of
European workshops.
That low tariff has always increased
the importation of foreign goods until our
money ran out: increased our foreign OBJ
LEGATIONS; produced q balance of trade
against us; impaired the farmers home
market without securing market abroad:
decreased the industries of the nation; di-
m!nished the value of all property and
robbed labor of its just rewards.
That the only argument ever advanced
in favor of free trade or tariff-for-reve-
nue-only Is the argument of "cheapness."
That this argument has been cffectually
demolished by the history of the Wilson
German law, which has made the earn
ing capacity of labor $500, ,CO0,Oe0 less .ris
year then in 1889 and has not yielded
of cheaper woolens, cheaper cottons,
cheaper shoes or cheaper household uten-
sis.
That cheapness is of no advantage to
the man who Is out of q job.
That it is better to have s. with which
to buy a 50 hat than TO have g with which
TO buy a 50-cent hat
That under thirty years of protection
in this country wages have increased 5S
per cent. in money and q per cent. in pur-
chasing power
That there has never been a time in our
history when work was so abundant CT
when wages We're as high, whether meas
urel by the currency in which they were
paid or by their power to supply the uec-
essaries and comforts of life as they Were
in 1892 under the Mckinley tariff law.
That Mr.. Bryan, who now declares that
the present dollar Is ''too good" for Amer
lean wage learners, is the same Bryan
who in the tlfty-thirl congress took the
position that tariff law that gave every
WaEe-carncrs.
That this same Mr. Bryan who declares
that public and private debts should be
scaled 80 per cent: by paying them w a
in the flfty-third congress took the posi-
tion that the enlarged home market Cret
ated by the Mckinley tariff law was too
good for the American farmer.
That this same Mr.. Bryan who declares
that men who use their capital to employ
labor should be treated as enemies Ly
their employees is the same Bryan who
voted to repeal the tariff law under which
the public debt had been decreased Saii,-
Sl9,13D and voted TO substitute for il
tariff law which increased our public debt
by S2i2, ,CO2,2i5 threw thousands of wage
earners out of employment. Frustrated
hundreds of industries, creating wide
spread disaster and financial panic.
That If Mr.. Bryan could have had his
way the fifty-thrd congress would have
passed much more radical free trade
measure than the Wilson-Gorman law
and the effects uuon labor and industry
would have been much more disastrous.
That Mr. Bryan is still a free trader
and believes that American gold should
go to the workmen in foreign works shops
provided they can make cheaper goods
than can be made in America.-Times-
Herald