Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-17

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not thus far found the law upon the stat
ute books and we are told, by ignorant
historians. that there was no such lcgisla-
ton, but whether that sort of legislation
has been yet found or not 1t must have
existed, because superior wages and the
had and can only be had, by force of
policy of legislative protectionism.
THE lost statute will be found after
awhile-never fear, sir-because The theory
the theory, as our republican friends tell
us. is our fixed national policy, hence to
doubt it would be disloyalty.
"A wise man entertains sovereign con-
tempt for a great many sorts of errors.
but the sovereignist of all should be visited
on the designing idiot who says that the
price of labor depends upon the amount Of
work to be done in country and the num-
Der of men capable and DESTROYS Of doing
1t; in word on demand for and supply
of labor. That particular sort Of pecu-
liarly inspired idiot attempts to explain
that the high wages which we're paid in
employed on farm, in store, inine or for
est in comparison with the wages paid In
older states. which were without free lands
and with comparative abundance Of labor
ers Is to be accounted for by the ccm-
parative scarcity Of workmen and the COM
parative abundance of new work in the
new states.
THE same featherless biped, we cannot
be too severe on him. sir, carries his ex-
PLANTATION further and tells you that the
superiority of our wage rate in colonial
times and always since them ever that
listing in Great Britain and on the &C n
tient. was due to this same fact viz. pau
city of wOrkingmen and abundance of
work How lacking in subtlaty of INTEL
lect! Instead Of seeking in remote meta
physical places reasons satisfactory to a
curious mind, he contents himself. like a
brother to the OK with ,he facts that
happen to obtrude themselves right in frcnt
Of his nose.
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"soeAS APpeals'
These be. sir, mere demagOgfc appeals
to the basest set in the land-the farmers
90 our fe,louoitizen in tho White 1Io,.o
az ' to iou'o
is SAID TO nave called them What is the
prother 10 the OK MT 1or anyhow save to
De taxed Tor the creation or naturally I'M
prontabie industries? 1t Is plain. sir. to
me and you and other strenuosfties that an
industry created by taxation and main
tanned by legislation must necessarily be
more profitable to the taxpayer and to the
consumer and. therefore, to the common
wealth than an industry which does not
require any legislation to make it profit
able In the first instance nor any taxation
of consumers to keep it on its feet after It
has been created by the base agencies OF
soil climate natural aptitude and other
environment
THAT reminds me Of another blurder of
our ancestors both under the common law
In Great Britain and in the United States.
They seem to have entertained a notion
that combinations in restraint of trade
seeking monopoly and throttIing competf-
ton, are in some way adverse to the de-
velopment of individuality and somehow
poison the life of trade They went so far
as to contend that the highest object of
mans existence is not to be well managed
even at a living money profit to himself.
but that 1t is to learn to manage himself
we'll We know now that combinations or
corporations seeking with the mower of
monopoly the resultant power of robbing
consumers by raising prices tn an extor.
Tomato hgure. under the shelter OF tariff
seeking the further resultant nowar IN
bear down the price to be paid to the farm
er raising the raw material. and seeking
tne yet lur.ner resu.,aht power 10 regulate
VASES Ny reasol oI .he Iact 'hat the WORK
lngmah mas nowhere else 10 go get work