The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-10-26

take care of herself, let France look
after her interests, let Germany take
care of her own people, but in Gods
name let Americans look after Amer
zeal loud applauses1 Every ton of
steel imported diminishes that much
of home production. Every blow struck
on the other side upon an article which
comes here in competition with like
articles produced here makes the de-
mand for one blow less at home. Ev-
cry days labor upon the foreign prod
ucts sent to the United States takes
one days labor from American work
ingmen. l would give the days labor
to our own first, last and all the time,
and that policy which fails in this is
opposed TO American interests. To Sc
cure this IL the great purpose of pro-
tectiye tariff"
Labor Must Re Well Paid.
AT Cleveland, Oct 5, 1889:
81 do not prize the word cheap. Cheap
merchandise means cheap men, and
cheap men mean a cheap country, and
that is not the kind of government our
fathers founded, and it is not the kind
their sons mean TO maintain. lap
plause.l II you want cheap things, go
where you can got them. That is where
you belong. This Is not your abiding
place. We want labor to be well paid
we want the products of the farm; we
wan. mechanical products; we want
everything we make and produce to
pay fair compensation TO the pro-
Queer. That is what makes good times;
that is what protective tariffs mean"
AT Cincinnati in an address on Sept
l, 1896, Mr. Mckinley made the mem
orable remark that there is nothing
too good for the men who work." and
at Niles, o., his native town, he spoke
to the tin workers as follows:
IF | have been associated with any
legislation that has given to a single
American worl ingman days work at
American wages which he did not re-
ceive before that Is honor enough for
me. What we want in this country Is
a policy that will give to every Ameri-
can workingman full work at Amerl-
can wages
Opposed to Labor's Degradation.
The keynote of President McIlinley's
public career was struck in an address
to the workingmen at Homestead, Pa,
on Sept. II, 1896, as follows:
Il have always been, as you know,
in favor of a protective tariff. | have
always advocated it and believe in it.
because l think it is necessary to pro
tect the American workingman against
the cheaper labor of the old world.
Applying that great principle, l am in
favor of protecting today the laboring
men of the United States against de-
graded currency. / am opposed to
free trade because it degrades Ameri-
can labor; ! am opposed to free silver
because II degrades American money"
Finally, in his letter of acceptance,
dated Sept s, 1900. occurs President
Mckinley's celebrated apothegm, For
labor short day is better than
short dollar; one will tighten the bur
dens, the other lessons the rewards of
toll"
A Wage Garner to Wage Farmers.
Mr.. Bryan, Imperialism and is to
are not the paramount issues just now.
The issues to be dreaded by families
who do not feed at the public crib are
the election of president and party
with no unity of business purpose. Re-
member, union is not unity. A bust
ness firm which cannot agree upon
business policy cannot obtain credit
The same is true of the United States
government.
Six years ago, when the Democratic
majority could not agree upon busi
ness policy, merchants all over the
United States, scared, adopted plan
OF wholesale retrenchment. They