The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-18


and in forcing bedsf K WosIld nave made
bananas very much more costly than Gem
tnoa people would Ike. ana that perhaps
i IS better for New Jersey TO raise pota-
Itoes and peaches and manufacture various
things naturally profitable and. with the
Profits OF capital and labor thus pleotanty
employed. buy bananas But the men
who say that. Of course, are lacklng IN
patriotism cheap banana makes cheap
man and we huri foul scorn at those
who are so lacking in sel4-depencenee as
not TO be willing to pay whatever Is neces-
sarV 10 be paid Out Of the pockets OF
consumers in order 10 prevent the pauper
banana raised by pauper labor, grown on
pauper soil. 1ourished by pauper sun
shiue-vile foreigner. as IT fs-frOm inVad-
ing New Jersey ] know there ere a lot
OF old fashioned. out of date people pTin-
cipally Democrats. who say that the
wateh-word Of industrial progress among
communities Is rot isolation Gnd inde-
Dcndence Of productivity. but reciprocity
and inter-dependence; that isolation leaus
10 feelings Of estrangement AM inlnity
among the people, that industrial inter-
dependence constitutes a sort OF world
effective bond to keep the peace 1 heeu
not stop to tell you that such men are
mere theorists one of them might De
granted plenary power for thousana
years and al the end OF that period WOuid
not have given any change OF O-cupdti03n
TO such capitalists and nforktngffisn IL
Maine. as are. or might be made 10 Dc.
DESTROYS of raising sun-kissec pldhts. Inc
base Cobdenite would leave the WORKING .s
men OF Maine and New Jersey 'unpro-
tected' to devote their labor selfishly
to other things. merely because the cult
walton or manufacture OF these OtheI
things is naturally more profitaSie-
A Question Asked.
How in the world it has happened
Though / confess il did happen tnal
during colonial times. when there were
no custom houses between the several
colonies and when all the products o.
Great Britain had free access to our mar
very much higher than those which then
prevailed in Great Britain. L cannot IN
dcrStand. How It has happened. since
we became a federal nation, the COMPARE
lively pauper negro labor of Central MIS-
sissippi has not been able TO run the nlGn
priced white labor Of Central New YORK
out of the farming business. cannot
understand Nor can underStand now
il is that wares IN California should have
been for years two OF three times what
they were in Maryland although th9
products OF the comparatively paupe-
labor of Maryland had free access to
California and although that COMPARE
lively pauDed labor itself was secured
by the constitution Itself IN the prNi-
lege of migration TO and sojOurn in Cali
fOrnia- Stranger yet the pauper labor
Of all Europe was daily GOcSng both Ii
Maryland and California, J again do not
understand doubt even If Uncle Joe
Cannon himself can fully understand
these foolish facts. Some people have
been silly enough 10 say that the white
the competition Of the black man IN
Central Mississippi, nor any diminutiOp
OF his wage because of that competition.
They say. fOrsOOth that the white mao
IN New York IS a more efficient labOreT
quicker, steadier and more Intelligent
than the black man in Mississippi; that
he does more work in a day. turns out
more product in an hour works more
Gays in week. is idle fewer weeks in a.
year. has more seif-cOntrOl- foresight and
lrugality and. being himself for these
reasons more prosperous makes the
community in which he lives more so.
These same people are absurd enough 10
add that the highest priced labor Is. as a
rule, the cheapest labor and that the
lowest priced labor Is. as rule. the
dearest labor, and that, somehow, it has
happened in the history OF the world
that the home Of IOw-priced labor has
never been the home of highly developed
agriculture Or prosperous induStrialism
ana that the most prosperous and profit
bic industrial communities have always
paid the highest daily wages They even
90 50 far as 10 say-perhaps YOU. like me.
have with establishment heard them say
that the very reason why certain labor
is high priced is because il is efficient
and therefore a better investment for
capital, When productivity IS considered.
inen the lower priced labor with whose
products IL comes in competition OF
course. you and 1 know better than that
We have learned better from our Re-
publican friends. We know that the rea-
son 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 sprotectfve' leg
lslauOn, keeping out OF America the pau
Fer labor. and the products Of the pau
PEI, labor OF ENGLAND Scotland. wales
ana IrelanC- II - true that we have not
mus lar found the law upon the statute
DOCKS and We are told. BY ignorant his
tsorlans, that there was no such legisla-
ton, but. whether that sort of legislation
has Yet been found or not il must have
existed. because superior wages and the
prosperity OF the wOrkinEman must be
mad and can only be had, BY force of a
pOiicy of legislative protectionisYn The
lest statute will be found after while
never fear. sir-beCause the theory can
Iae theory, as our Republican friends tell
Us IS our fixed national policy hence
TO doubt it would be disloyalty.
Inspired idiot Can Explain.
a wise man entertains a sovereign
contempt for great MANY sorts OF err
TOrs, but tho SOVeTeigniSt Of all should be
visited on the designing idiot who saws
that the price of labor depends upon the
emouut OF work TO be done in a cOun-
try and the number of men capable and /
oesirOus of doing Il; in a word. on de-
mand for and supply Of labor. That par
ticulaT sort OF peculiarly inspired idiot /
10 explain that the high wages
hich We're paid in California and all the
new states for those employed CT farm,
in store. mine or forest. in comparison !
With the wages paid In older states
which were without free lands and with |
comparative abundance of labGTers IS to 1
a abundance Of labOTers is to be accounted |
for by the comparative scarcity Of work
lnEmen and the comparative abundance
or new Work IN the new states. The
same featherleSs biped. we cannot he too |
severe on him. sir. cares his explanation
further and tells YOU that the superior
tty Of our wage rate in colonial times and /
ALWAYS vince then. over that existing m
Great Britain ana on the continent. wss
que 10 TINS same fact viz. paucitv of
v orkingmen ard abundance of work
How lacking I'm subtcty Of intellect, In
lead OF seeking in remote metaphysical /
places reasons satisfactory to a curious
Inlnd- ne contents himself. like q brother
TO the, OK. with the facts that happen to
obtrude themselves right in front of his
nose Ahtse po- sfF. mere demagcsic
appeals TO the bases SET in the LAND
the farmers. as our fellow citizen in The
~ mite House 10 have called them. What
Is the brother 70 the OK fit for ANYHOW
save 10 be taxed for the creation OF nat
uTaity Improbable induStries2 Il Is
plain; SIT 70 me and YOU and other siren
uosItleS- that an industry. created by tax
Stiou and maintained or legislation D1lyst
necessarily be more profitable to the tax
payer ana 10 the consumer and there
IRE 70 me commofweaith, than an in
pgSliN Wpich does not require any leg
lsiaton 20 make II profitable in the first
instance nor any taxation Of consumers
- Keen j. On IT'S feet after 1t has been
created Dy the base agencies of soil
climate. natural aptitude and other en-
vironments.
Restraint Of Trade.
That reminds me of another b{unser
of our ancestors. both under The common
law IN Great Britain and IN the United
States. They seem 10 have entertained
a notion that combinations III restraint of
trade. seeking monopoly and throgtling
competition are In some way adverse to
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