The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
FRIDAY. JUNE 5, 1908,
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ment of interest on American secur
tiles held abroad, in paying oceal
freights to foreign shipowners, tour
lists expenditures, expatriation, O.
in money sent back by residen
foreigners, while he is being paiC
good wages for making the good!
exported in excess of our imports
which create that yearly favorable
balance of merchandise trader
What does it matter to the Amerl
can workman what Mr.. Cleveland
thinks of Mr.. Bryan, or vice versa
while there is no danger of either
being electedPresldent of the United
States so long as the American fac
tory keeps busy under Protective
Tariff, Protected by the vote of the
Protected factory worker?
What does it matter to the Ameri-
lean workman if our foreign obliga-
tions and expenditures are paid by
the excess of our exports over i'm
ports, instead of the proceeds being
brought here, while his employer is
making profit on those excess ex-
ports, and is hereby enabled to build
up the capital reserve which will let
him keep The factory going when
things slacken up, instead of Gas in
Democratic days. being obliged to
lay off most of his work people and
to put the rest on short time at re-
duced wages?
What does it matter to the Amer
lean workmen if Democratic conven-
tons keep on affirming the Kansas
City platform while there is not the
least chance Of its being affirmed by
a majority of voters3
What does it matter to the Amer
lean workman if Mr.. Bryan con-
tinues to wander up and down the
country seeking whom he may con-
vert, while he is not converting any,
body?
What does it matter to the Ameri-
can workman how much Democratic
Tariff revision talk there may be
while the power, the only power of
revising the Tariff, when such action
is deemed necessary, is in the hands
of his friends and its friends the Re-
publican party2
What does it matter to the Amer
lean workman when Mr.. Edward
Atkinson asserts, without proof,
that radical changes in the Tariff,
or even in its adjustment, will only
affect GOO, 600 workers, while he,
the Tariff Protected workm an,
knows that such changes or abolish
ment would disastrously affect the
earnings of 7,oSa, o7s' workers in
Protected factories and allied inter-
ests?
What does it matter 10 the Amer
lean workman even if his employer
chooses to sell surplus stock abroad
at lower prices, while pay-rolls are
not being reduced in length or
amount?
What does it matter to the Amer
lean workman how much academic
discussion there may be regarding
the theories of Free Trade, low
Tariff or high Tariff, while in prac-
tice high Tariff gives him more work
at better wages than he ever had be-
fore9 :
What does it matter to the Amer.
lean workman how much money
changes hands daily on Wall Street
while the intrinsic and work giving
value of the industry in which he
labors remains the same?
What does it matter to the Amer
lean workman what our "anti i'm
perialists" think of our owning trop'
ical colonies while the fact remains
that we can use, and are using, al
the sugar, coffee and cigars Porte
Rico exports, and still have a con
Stunning home market far more thar
large enough to use all the man.
tropical products the Philippine
will produce when American cap