The semi-weekly messenger., 1904-08-19
Mr.. Davis is Notified
Of His Nomination
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ity but reclprocity and inter indepen-
dence, that isolation leads to
feelings of estrangement and inimity
among the people; that Industrial in
ter-dependence constitutes a sort
OF World-effective bond to keep
the Peace. / need not stop to tell you
tnat such men are mere theorists'
One OF them might be granted plenary
power for a thousand years and at the
end OF that period would not have Civ
en- any change of occupation to such
capitalists and workingmen in Maine
as are; Or might be made to be. des:r-
Gus OF raising sun kissed plants Thf,
base Cobdenite would leave the work
ingman of Maine and New Jersey 'ua-
protected, to devote their labor sell
fshly to other things, merely because
the cultivation or manufacture Of these
things is naturally more profitable
How in the world it has happened
Though 1 confess it did happen) thar
during colonial times, when there were
no custom houses between the several
colonies and when all the products Of
Great Britain had free access to our
markets, our laborerS yet worked at
wages very much higher than those
which then prevailed in Great Britain,
/ cannot understand. How il has hap
pened, since we became a Federal ma
ton the comparatively pauper negro
labor Of Central Mississippi has not
been able TO run the high priced whit
labor of Central New York out of the
farming business, cannot understand
Nor can i understand how it is that
wages in California should have been
for years two or three times what they
We're in Maryland, although the pro-
ducts of the comparatively pauper
labor of Maryland had free access to
California and although that compare
lively pauper labor itself was secured
by the Constitution itself in the privi-
lege of migration to and SojOurn in
California Stranger yet the pauper Ia
Dor fall Europe was daily fiocking both
to Maryland and California. l again
do not underestimate doubt even if
Uncle Joe Cannon himself can fully
understand-these foolish facts. Some
people have been silly enough to say
that the white man in Central New
York need not fear the competition
of the black man in Central Mississi-
ippi, nor any diminution Of his wage
because Of that competition. They say
fOrsOOth that the white man in New
York is a more efficient laborer-
quicker, steadier and more intelligent
than the black man in Mississippi; ;
that he does more work n a day, turns
out more product in an hour, works
more days i'll a weeh, as Idle fewer
weeks in a year, has more self control.
foresight and frugality and, being him
self, for these reasons, more prosper
Gus, makes the community in which
he lives more so. These same people
are absurd enough to add that the
highest priced labor is, as rule, the
cheapest labor and that the lowest
priced labor is, as a rule, the dearest
labor, and that, somehow. it has hap
pened in the history of the world tia t
the home Of low priced labor has never
been the home Of highly developed
agricultural or prosperous industrial
ism and that the most prosperous and
profitable industrial communities haya
always paid the highest daily wages.
They even go SO far as to say-perhaps
you, like me, have with aStonishm5nt
heard them Say-that the very reason
why certain labor is high priced is
because it is efficient and therefore
a better investment for capital, when
productivity is considered, than the
lower priced labor with whose products
it comes in competition. OF COURSE.
you and I know better than that-we
know that the reason why labor was
more highly paid even in colonial
times in America, than the same labor
for the same work was paid in Great
Britain, must have been the existence
of some sort of protective legislation.
keeping out of America the pauper
labor, and the products of the pauper
labor. Of England Scotland, Wa.es
and Ireland. 1t is true that we have
not thus far found the law upon the
statute books and we are told, by
ignorant historians that there was NO
such legislation, but whether that
sort of legislation, has been yet found
OR not, it must have existed. because
superior wages and the prosperity OF
the working man must be had and can
only be had, by force of a policy of
legislative protectionism. The lost sta
tute will be found after a whichever
fear, sir,-because the. theory cannot be
sustained in any other way and the
theory, as our republican friends tell
US, is our fixed national policy hence
to doubt it would be disloyalty.
"A wise man entertains a sovereign
contempt for a great many sorts or
errors, but the sovere1gnist of all
should be visited on the designing idiot.
who says that the price Of labor de-
pends upon the amount of work to be
done in a country and the number or
men capable and desirous or doing it;
in a 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 California and all the new states
for those employed on farm, in store.
mine or forest, in comparison with the
wages paid in older states, which were
without free lands and with compara-
tive abundance Of laborers, is to be
accounted for by the comparative
scarcity of workingmen and the com
paratiVe abundance of new work liz
the new states. The same featherless
biped, We cannot be too severe on him
sir, carries his explanation further and
tells you that the superiority Of our
wage rate in colonial times and always
since then, over that existing in Great
Britain and on the continent was due
to this same fact, Viz: scarcity of
workingmen and abundance of work.
How lacking in subtlety Of intellect:
Instead of seeking in remote metaphy-
sical places reasons as satisfactory to
a cusious mind,h he contents himself, like
a brother to the OK, with the facts
that happen to obtrude themselves
right in front of his nose. These be.
sir, mere demagogic appeals to the
basest set in the land-the farmers as
our fellow citizen in the White House
hot & h