Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
WHAT MATTERS IT?
QUESTIONS ADDRESSED TO AMERi-
CAN WAGE FARMERS.

| 1t Is of the Highest Importance 70
Them That Protection Be Maintain
ed by the Election of Men Who Will
| Garry Ont Republican Policies.
What does it matter to the American
| workman if, as the New York Com
| mercial says, our yearly favorable bal
ance of merchandise trade is largely
used up in payment of interest on
American securities held abroad, In
paying ocean freights to foreign ship
owners, tourists expenditures, eXpatrl-
alton or in money sent back by resi-
| dent foreigners while he is being paid
good wages for making the goods eX-
ported in excess Of our imports, when
create that yearly favorable balance or
merchandise trade?
| What does it matter to the American
workman what Mr.. Cleveland thinks or
Mr.. Bryan, or vice versa, while there IS
no danger of either being elected presl-
dent of the United States SO long as the
American factory keeps busy under
protective tariff protected by the vote
of the protected factory worker?
| What does it matter to the American
workman if our foreign obligations and
expenditures are paid by the excess or
our exports over imports instead of the
proceeds being brought here, while his
employer is making profit on those
excess exports and is thereby enabled
to build up the capital reserve which
will enable him to keep his factory go
| ing 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 American
| workman if Democratic conventions
! keep on affirming the Kansas City plat
| form while there is not the least chance
of it's being affirmed by majority OF
voters?
| What does it matter to the American
workman if Mr.. Bryan continues to
wander up and down the country seek
ing whom he may convert while he is
not converting anybody?
! What does it matter to the American
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 nee
essary, is in the hands of his friends
and it's friends, the Republican party!
/ What does it matter to the American
workman when Mr.. Edward Atkinson
asserts without proof that radical
changes in the tariff or even its abol-
| ishment will only affect 100000 work
ers. while he (the tariff protected work
mani knows that such changes or abol-
! ishrnent would disastrously affect the
earnings of 7,OS2,O75 workers in pro-
tected factories and allied interests?
What does it matter to the American
workman even if his employer chooses
to sell surplus stock abroad at lower
prices while pay rolls are not being re-
duced in length or amount?
| What does it matter to the American
workman how much academic discus
sion there may be regarding the theo-
ries of free trade, low tariff or high tar
if while in practice high tariff gives
him more work at better wages than
he ever had before?
What does it matter to the American
workman how much money changes
hands daily in 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 American
workman what our "anti-imperialists"
think of our owning tropical colonies
while the fact remains that we can use
and are using all the sugar Hawaii
produces, all the sugar, coffee and
CIGARS Porto Rico exports and still
have consuming home market far
more than large enough to use all the
many tropical products the Philippines
will produce when American capital
and American executive ability develop
the now latent resources of those is
lands?
What does it matter to the American
workman whether our yearly fayora-
BILE balance of trade is visible or invisi-
BILE while his well filled pay envelope is
visible every Friday night?
What does it matter to the American
workman if Mr.. Cleveland is Fishing
for a third term while the ''bait' has
not yet been found which will induce a
majority of American (born or natural
ize0 voters to again swallow the Dem
ocratic 'hook" and again endure the
sad and weary years Of 1926?
What does it matter to the American
workman what the would be disturb
ers of the full dinner pail say or do
while he knows that by his vote he can
take part in another Democratic free
trade, low tariff, anti-imperialistic fu-
neral on the first Tuesday of Novem-
Der, 1904?
1t does matter to the American work
man that our protective tariff be pro-
tected by the continuance in Office of
the Republican party.
WALTER J. BALLARD.