The San Francisco call., 1896-08-25


ton. and American labor was wronged by
the exchange.
So we see that every ship that comes to
our shores laden with goods made in an
other country brings not so much goods
as days work done in the country from
which the ship sailed. Days work done
elsewhere are not done in America, and
when they are not done IN America that
leaves Just so many less davs' work TO be
done in America and by American work
men. IF those days work could not have
been done pro6tably in America, then no
wrong has been done to American labor;
but # they could have been done in
America to a reasonable advantage, and
were not because of free-trade tariH
policy, then American labor has been
wronged, and grievously wronged. When
ever a raw product is exchanged for
finished product American labor is cheat
ed. for the reason that less labor is re-
ouired to produce the raw than the I'M
ished product. To quarry block OF
marble out of the ground and put 1T on
car NAV consume day and cost a dollar
and half, but to fashion that marble
into piece of statuary will require many
days and command many hundreds or
even thousands of dollars. The one Is
raw product of labor, the other is fin
ished product of labor and art; and when
ever a snipload of American farm prod
ucts-wheat, corn, cattle-is sent abroad
and exchanged for secured wool or woolen
goods, pigiron or steel rails, the exchange
means few days work done IN America
(for machinery does the most of it) and
many days work done In some other
country by other workmen.
Now the Mckinley policy is to safeguard
American labor in the only way possible
by producing at home all the things which
can be produced at home to an advantage,
all those things in the production Of which
the most labor is employed-and the
things which cannot be produced Ill this
country to advantage, why, they are to
come IN free of all duty, so that people can
get them just as cheap as possible. 1t was
because Mr.. Mckinley stood most promi-
nently for this policy that the rank and
file of the Republican party demanded his
nomination, and never ceased their de-
mands until he was nominated by over
whelming numbers. Mr.. Mckinley is
thorough American, and, while he wants
to see all the world happy and prosperous,
ne rightly believes that it is Americas
duty to look out for Americans and for the
interests of American labor. Other coun-
tries can do the same. If Mr.. Mckinley is
elected-and the laboring men of America
must say whether he is to be elected or
not-the tariff on wool will be restored, so
that the sheep tenders, shearers, wool
scourers and pullers of America and not
Australia shall find something to do,
instead of standing all day idle" The
tariff will be raised on woolen manufac-
lures so that the woolen-mills OF America,
20 per cent of which are now idle, may go
to work, and whatever other industry
needs protection will receive 1T. Every
cargo brought to our shores to be sold will
paw for the privileges of our markets, and
not be permitted to grind American labor
down to the foreign standard OF wages and
of living. Money will be kept at home
which now goes elsewhere, and days work
will be done at home by American laborers
which are now done elsewhere by foreign
laborers. This is what Mckinley stands
for.
On the 10th of March. 1892 (page 1856 of
the Congressional Reeord), Mr.. Bryan
said: II want to say as emphatically as
words can state it that l consider it as
false in economy and vicious in policy to
attempt to raise at higher price in this
country that which we can purchase
abroad at a lower price"
Again on the Goth of March, 1892, MI.
Bryan assailed the protective theory as
follows: 81 am not at this time complain
ing OF revenue tariff. What l denounce
is protective tariff, levied primarily and
solely for purposes of protection. 1t is
false economy and the most vicious polit-
ical principle that ever cursed this coun-
try"
On the same occasion Mr.. Bryan took
pains to declare his position more ex-
manufacturer free raw materials an6 free
machinery we give to him, l think, all the
encouragement which a people acting
under a free government like ours can
Iegitimately extend to an industry"
In other words, Mr.. Bryan is pure
free-trader and if elected will do all in his
power to abolish the protective system,
which strives to aid American labor by
having so far as possible, all the things
consumed In our country produced here
by our own workmen and substitute for
that policy policy which will seek to
have our wool all grown, secured and
baled in Australia, taken to England and
manufactured into clothing and brought
here and exchanged for food products
which are created with little manual labor
and much machinery and horses, leaving
our American laborers to ''stand all the
day idle" because mo man hath hired
them,' the hiring being done in another
country and the wages being paid to
another people. Workingmen of Califor-
MIA, can there be any question as to which
of these men is your friend and represents
your interests?
Under which banner are you going to
eullSL IOT Iu1S cam pd1Sul w Ill III De
under the banner of hybrid organization
which has abandoned principle and ven
tured all in a desperate effort to retain
Office? Will you intrust your welfare and
that of your country to leader who is an
avowed Iree-trader; man who does not
believe in protecting home industries or
home labor, and so declares; theorist,
dreamer and a man without practical ex-
perience in the executive affairs of gov
ernmentP If SO, Bryan is your man and
the ''popocratic" party is your party and
its ticket is your ticket.
Or will you enlist under the banner of
party which for thirty-five years has de-
Tended the Nation and the credit of the
Nation against assaults from within or
without? A party which, having freed
the slave, also made free from competi-
ton which would have degraded and per-
haps enslaved the workingman of
America, and raised his earnings from a
yearly per capita of $28S in 1860 to $4s4 in
1890, making the American workingman
at once the largest producer and largest
consumer of products on the earth? And
what manner of man is William McKin-
leyP He is man ripe in years, ripe in
experience. both as a legislator in Con-
gress and as an executive of one of the
great States of America; boy soldier,
but man orator whose weighty declara-
tions for score of years have been potent t