The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-08-11

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others. Just call to mind the
countries in which labor and wages
are not properly protected, or worse
still, those countries Great
Britain, for instance-in which
they are not protected at all. Can
YOU find in such countries anything
to compare with the millions upon
millions of dollars which are volun-
tarily given every year in Protected
America for hospitals, orphan
asylums, universities, colleges,
libraries, and the hundred other
benehcent objects? Even in our
country, if you compare the moneys
so given in Protected Tariff years
with what was given in the years
in which our labor and Our factories
were not Protected, you will find
the excess of gifts in Protective
years to be of colossal magnitude,
Prosperity engendered by Protec-
ton not only begets benevolence,
but it finds the money to pay the
bill. And in the blessing which
always follows giving the Protected
wage-earner shares. Let fund be
started for any popular object in
America, and the wage-earner S
dollar is given as cheerfully and
received as gratefully as the
millionaire thousand or tens of
thousands. But the wage-earner
must have the dollar to do it with.
Call to mind the Democratic low
Tariff, Free Trade years of 1886.
Did the wage-earner have any
dollars to spare for charity then?
Rather, was he not then, in hundreds
of thousands of cases, a recipient
of charity instead of a giver?
To accomplish objects like these
have outlined Protection is selfish,
and rightly so.
Again, Protection is selfish in
that it enables the Protected wage
Garner to take care of his family by
educating them properly. In no
country in the world is education of
so general character so free and so
cheap as in this land of national
and individual progress. But the
American father is properly not
content with giving his boy nothing
more than general education. He
wants, and properly SO, his son to
have educational advantages of a
special nature. He wants him to
go to college or technical school
That means years of support, and
money tor fees. Can the father
accomplish that praiseworthy object
unless his own work is sure and his
pay full and regular? Was work
sure or pay full and regular under
the last Democratic President?
Experience is the best an
swer to speculative inquiry.
You know what happened in 1898,
and can answer the same inquiry
tor yourselves as to what would. in
such an event, likely happen in
1905. In fact, it will begin to
happen the day after election next
November if our standard bearer.
Theodore Roosevelt, is defeated
The production or avoidance Of
that calamity, fellow wage-earners,
IS IN our own hands.
We can elect or we can defeat
Theodore Roosevelt, but if we
defeat him we shall have to paw
the bill. There is no lodging that
issue. You have not forgotten that
Samuel Gompers, the labor leader.
testified to the effect that no less
than three million men were out of
work at one time in 1893. That
was after the Democrtic lowTariff
Free Trade Wilson bill had practi-
cally destroyed the American
factory and murdered the American
factory payroll Given the same
conditions, witness the same re-
suits. 1t is as sure as that two and
two make four.
But let us leave these personal
considerations and turn to those NJ
national character. Let us ask orr
selves the question, What SINGLE
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