The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-07
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The People

KIMBAII. OPPOSES PROTECTION.
Editor Providence News:
The crop OF false prophets Is just as
plentiful today as In the days or israei
and Judah And like Junah, when Jen-
ovah failed 10 destroy Nineveh they are
lust az angry today because protection
prosperity continues instead OF being des-
troyed as per the doleful cry OF iree
trade calamity howlers
For the last three years the faise
prophets OF free trade have shrieked that
Dingley tariff prosperity was doomed ana
wreck and ruin was at hand, because
free trade. lives and thrives on the ms
cries OF the wage worker. This feehhg
fully accounts for the doleful prophesies
when Wall street Is In panic; for the
enemies OF protection hope that such
panics will bring disaster just as they
always do under robber free trade. But
Wall street panics come and go while
Dipgley tariff protection smiles serenely'
bread winners have employment and the
widows heart sings for JOY. verify
protection means sold prosperity for
bread winners.
Under the robber Wilson semi-free
trade tariff Wall street panic always
shook the business and financial prosper
itv of the entire nation. while as for
strikes. there was hardly one; for wage
earners dared not strike. but were glad
TO get any old job at any old price. Ana
how wild with wrath the free traders
are 10 think that under protection the
bread winner obtains both shorter hours
and moro pay
And then. behold. how the free traders
go half insane I'm their madness To think
that we export such vast quantities or
American goods as they see new foreign
paarkats-apeninR- -for-our- products ana
realize that our own markets are not
glutted and our wage earners are not
turned into tramps. Yea, verify, their
wrath waxeth hot.
Again. the free trace leaders howled
about the tariff on coal, tariff enacted
by our grand and glorious forefathers In
I7sq. ave. IN the very fret tariff framed
and passed through the influence OF
washington, Adams. Jefferson. Madison
and others But I'm our day IL had be-
/ come a mere robber free trade 9rfn and
/ was wisely repealed But the repeal has
/ about ns much effect on the coal trust
/ as a two-mile zephyr upon the pyramids
/ OF Egypt. The same old trusts existed
under the robber free trade congress
| during Cleveland's administration and
! neither protection nor free trade can AZ
feet them any more than hurting paper
wads against the wind can change It's
course.
Another thing which fairly rattles the
free trade leaders II the fact that while
the wages OF from ten TO twenty millions
OF wage workers were heavily reduced
! and two millions robbed or employment
during the robber free trade tarir undei
/ Cleveland from 1892 10 1897, reckoning
from the election which frightened oui
practical business men; nevertheless un'
der Tingley protection ten millions have
had their wages raised voluntarily. II Il
any wonder that free trade leaders ar
bowling at the prosperity OF wage ear
ners? Not any wonder at all: for wha
does free trade fatten upon except the
blood muscle and bone OF the bread win
ner?
Under old fashioned free trade prior q
1861. mems wages ranged from 6 90 Il
cents per hour. while women's wage,
ranged from 60 cents per hour. We
living was dearer then than today. pro
vided We live as we Gid then. But VI
don't; for blessed be the star OF protect
ion. things have changed. nightly. zinc,
the Hannah of free trade shufrled of
fITr nUrrTf cUft-
I'm conclusion: We are sorry that on
friend J.. B Klmball has allowed fire.
trade leaders 90 pull 80 much wool owe
his optics that he cannot bear TO hav'
me champion the cause of wage worker
so emphaticaily. nor can he see how
neither free speech nor n free ballot 4
allowed IN one single free trade stat
while as for children young children ar
employed I'm free trade states where on
Is employed IN New England: moreover
IN our strong free trade states protest
are attended with too much danger 20 n
freely INDUCED In. Just imagine Pitch