The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-24
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Continued from page Four.

the wage earners OF the United States?"
Answer. II would kindly relieve 1900 900
OF our bread winners OF their work and
wages and relieve millions more wage
workers of one-third of their wages. re-
lieve their wives OF the task OF cooking
so much, as the wives would have but
little TO cook. while the children would
cry for bread. an exercise that would
have quite an effect on the quality and
tone Of 6 their y9ices For PARTICULARS see
2. What evils, IL any. arise from pro-
tectiong'
Answer. The whole family would get
more because the income would be larger.
and you must confess that We bread win
ners often eat too much when we have
plenty. Then the wife would be obliged
TO do more cooking. and she would. un-
doubleday, give the children pie and cake
occasionally, and even permit her girls
and boys To purchase candy and fruit.
and candy is detrimental to the teeth.
g. IF free trade would admit goods
made in European countries by pauper
labor. would IL not either reduce the
Americana wages or take away his en-
ployment entirely?"
T. IF no Socialist should be caught by
the tariff question. why are you. self
proclaimed Socialist, advocating free
! trade and single land taxi"
Answer can answer this better by
two stories When st. John, the Pro-
hioition evangelist, was kicked out of the
Republican party OF Kansas, for being
a common scold. he cried out with loud
voice, saying that the tariff question was
Of too little consequence To discuss. and
then al least half his public speeches
were devoted to the gnored subject as
he went up and down the land trying to
prove that free trade was far better than
protection. He shouted that the home
be protected. yet proclaimed ID as his
| opinion, that IL ought not TO be guarded
against being robbed of work and wages,
neither shielded against one-thrd dis
count from the bread winners pay. The
Idea OF protecting the home against hun
ger and cold. through less pay and loss
Of employment was fore gn to his make
] up.
4 But 7 would not compare DR. r., 10
/ that poor, old John p. St John, for I
/ do not believe an argument IL ever
strengthened by calling an opponent
hard names. On the contrary firmly
/ believe that the vile epithets applied IA
myself. because OF my leing the life long
| friend OF needy wage workers has in
/ var!ably weakened and often destroyed
/ the effect 81 nine-tenths of the free trade
arguments against my defence Of protec-
! tion TO insure employment for bread win
! ners or I'm other words my gospel OF
work and fair pay has the Col given
ght Of the poor and needy. Tho, :.
the reason why rdtner re.ish such Vile
! epithets. And you will notice that 7 en-.
/ Joy free traders being reduced % such
i straits. although more or less sorry n
/ have even free traders descend 20 such
\ a resort I'm n discussion. I think how.
ever that our good Dr. n. IL more like
/ n Mr.. Browning who, In lecturing on
| temperance. turned aside 10 say that
! when ne landed on our shores with a LOT
I of walking canes he was charged au te
/ a duty compared with their value. show
I ing. as he added, that nobody but the
manufacture here was protected. where.
/ as the whole trouble with Mr.. Brown
I ing's queer. one-slded. blind logic was
! that he entirely ignored our wage earn
/ ers who made hundreds OF thousands and
Y probably millions OF canee lie seemed
I never 60 have thought that half these
wage workers would have been robbed OF
/ their Jobs by free trade.
Hoping 90 have more such excellen;
questions from A. ". O.. and feeling as
I sured that he Will consider vie epithets
1 wholly unnecessary I am.
A LIFE LONG WAGE FARMERS AD-
vocATE.