The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-27

that any additional money they paid
out went to the lifting up Of our la
Dor force and the resulting benefit of
the whole country. But it Is claimed,
on the other hand, that the wages of
labor have not been enhanced. but
that the profits OF capital, lmuch Of
it foreign), have been; and that the
manufacturers have imported pauper
labor into the country to break down
the wages Of those already here. II
we are to have protection of domestic
industry it ought to benefit domestic
industry, and not capital. American
or British. Wealth is always able to
take care of itself; it needs no protec-
tion; it has the world by the throat;
and it is the other fellow who needs to
be protected" We must have a tar
i'll. The Supreme Court has decreed
that we cannot tax incomes; and we
cannot resort to direct taxes, because
the constitution provides, very un-
Justly, that they must be levied on the
basis Of population and not wealth.
Hence thousand farmers in Mime
sofa, each with a mortgage on his
farm, would have to pay as much d.
rect taxes as the chaps in New York
or New England who owned those
mortgages. Hence this country is re-
duced to duties on imports as it's sole
means of revenue. Then come up the
manufacturers and clamor for "pro-
lection to American industry" when
they really mean American and Eng
lish capital. Why then would it not
be good plan, in every tariff law, to
embrace q schedule of the ,oages to be paid
to the uorknlen engaged in 1t? II the tar
if is demanded in the name of the
workmen let the workmen have the
benefit of it. The result would be
that the increased compensation
would go to make millions comfort
able and happy, instead of making a
few rich men princes. The million
aires, who are now pouring out their
money, through the hands of Mark
Hanna, to nominate Mckinley, would
find their trickery exposed, their false
pretences exploded, and their game
at an end. They are bowling for the
protection of the workmen; let us
really protect the workmen. II they
imported Hungarians and Italians, to
take bread out Of the mouths of our
own people, they would have to pay
them the wages named in the act;
and they would have no further in
terest in any more such importations.
We could howl for protection" as
LIQUID as they did, yea, louder; and it
would be the simon-pure article too.
We would protect wives and babies
and the muscles of men; not lot of
corpulent capitalists, already richer
than it is good for the country they
should be.
II the necessary revenues OF the
government, levied on foreign i'm
ports, gave an advantage to domestic
industry. it would increase the capao-
ity Of innumerable people to buy our
wheat, Tin the shape of flour,) our
vegetables. our meats, our wool, Qn
the shape of CLOTH and the cotton of
our Southern brethren. Under our
present system labor is too poor to
purchase our products, and if you
make man worth one hundred mil
lions he cannot eat any more bread
and meat, or wear any more clothes,
than he did when he was worth
$4,000.
agriculture is interested in the
prosperity of the masses; not in the
enrichment of the classes.
Fill the bellies and warm the backs
of the millions, and stop the Eroduc-
tion of any more millionaires.