The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-08-15
TO FILL PLACES OF STRIKERS.
Immigrants Coming Into This Coun-
try to Take the Places of Coal
Miners and Others.

congress, said:
Yes, men are on the free list. They
cost not even freight. y. We pro-
mote free trade in men, and it is the
only kind of free trade 1 am prepared
% promote"
This has always been the policy of
the protectionists-t is, of the re-
publican party, which has ever been
the home of the protected manufactur-
ars and the enemy of the laborer and
farmer. Observe now how beautifully
their system is working! j. P. Nor
,an and his coal, steel, railroad and
steamship pals encourage great
strikes, when their steampships are
dumping thousands of immigrants on
our shores every week, willing to work
for considerably less than the coal and
other strikers have been getting.
For the year ending June 80, 1902,
54s, 743 immigrants reached our shores;
i57,711 were from Italy, Austria-Hun-
gary and Russia. They were driven
out of these countries partly by sue
cession of poor crops, but more espe-
,ially by the very high tariff and in
ternal taxes which prevent the people
from obtaining foreign goods except
st prices almost prohibitive. Thus, the
lowest price for refined sugar is IL cents
in Italy, and TX cents per pound in
Russia and Austria-Hungary, al
though the same sugar is sold in Eng
and for 21a cents per pound.
Undoubtedly, also, many immigrants
came over after reading the glowing
e ;o1, ~,
made in the advertising pamphlets of
Morgan's railroad and steamship lines.
Certain it is that hundreds of thou
sands of them are. here to food the la
Dor market and keep wages down and
to increase consumption of goods and
thus enable the trusts to give prices
another lift. 1t is a beautiful system
for the protected manufacturers, mine
operators and railroads. AS Senator
John F. Miller, of California, said, in
1882:
"The average manufacturer is in
terested generally in two things, name
ly the highest protective tariff and the
cheapest labor. The admis-
sion of servile laborers into this coun-
try without limit. :. means high
prices for the products of manufacture
and low prices for the labor that pro-
1uces them
Is it any wonder that the coal oper-
ators refused to arbitrate and that
they are but little worried about the
outcome of the strike? They are in
no hurry to begin to operate the mines
because they are getting from seven to
ten dollars per ton for the surplus coal
which they had stored up in anticipa.
ton of the strike.
In the meantime, they are building.
st6ckades around the mines and put
ting armor on cars so that when they
decide to dump few shiploads of i'm
migrants into their mines, they can,
with the assistance of Pinkertons,
state militia and national guards, defy
la Dor unions, examiners and public SEN
timent. About the only thing to worry
the operators is the fact that the public
is getting "nosey" and asking why the
operators do not work the mines or
offer to arbitrate, and is suggesting
that it has some rights, that the coal
was not put there in the ground for
the exclusive use of few mine owners,
and that the operators, by their out
rageous conduct, are taking the short
est cut to state socialism and COM
munism. The operators are replying
that the mines are their private prop
erty, and that it is none of the business
of the public what they do with them.
PROFESSIONALLY, the mine owners
(railroads) could, even in ordinary
times, sell anthracite coal at present
prices. But they are afraid of the
public. They need an excuse furnished
by strike and pretended shortage
of coal. The longer the mines are left
idle, the better the public will become
accustomed to high prices of coal and
the less reduction in prices will have
TO be made when mining is resumed.
Protected Pennsylvania is the state
of great strikes, great riots, low wages,
servile laborers, protected mills, tar
iff-made millionaires and political
bosses of the most obnoxious type 1t
is great mill, into the hopper of
which are poured ignorant foreigners
and out of which runs a stream of
tramps. A new and large crop of
tramps will be supplied by the unfor-
[tunates in the present strike, already
doomed to failure.
Should times get better in Europe
and immigration from there stop. the
protected manufacturers and mine OPP
orators could draw on China's horde of
cheap laborers. The new Chinese ex-
clusion act, passed at the urgent re-
quest of all the labor organizations of
the country, to take the place of the
expiring Geary law, was punctured so
full of holes in the senate that, in the
opinion of able lawyers and the Amer
lean Federationist, it offers,no opposi-
lion to the importation of Chinese Ia
borers, through our colonies. The
Hobbies of the steamship companies,
headed hx Mr. SchMerin. of the Pacific