Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-17
Mr.. WILLIAMS
ADDRESS.
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| California. Stranger yet the pauper
| labor Of all Europe WAS daily noching
both TO Maryland and California! /
| again do not understand-t doubt even
II Uncle Joe Cannon himself can fully
| understand-these foolish facts. Some
| people have been silly enough to say
| mat the white man I'm Central New
| York need not fear the competition OF
! the black man In Central Mississippi
| nor any dlminution Of his rage because
| OF that competition They say, fore
| sooth, that the white man In New York
Is more efficient laborer-quicker
sieadler and more lnteliigent--than the
black man In Mississippi, that he does
more work IN a day. turns out more
product In am hour works more days
I'm week, is idle fewer weeks In year,
has more self-control, foresight and
frugality and. being himself for these
reasons, more prosperous, makes the
community IN which he lives more 30.
These same people are absurd enough
to add that the highest priced labor Is,
as n rule, tho cheapest labor and that
the lowest priced labor u.s. az a rule the
dearest labor and that. somehow. II
has happened I'm the history Of the
world that the home Of low priced labor
has never been the home Of highly de-
veloped agriculture or prosperous in
dustrialism, and that the most pros
porous and profitable industrial COM
munities have always paid the highest
daily wages. They even go so far as
TO say--perhaps you, Ike me, have
with astonishment heard them say
that the very reason why certain labor
is high priced Is because It is efficient
and therefore better investment for
capital. when productivity Is consid-
cred, than the lower priced labor with
whose products II comes I'm COMPETE
tlon. or course. you and | know bet
ter than that--We have learned better
from our Republican friends. 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 Broat Britain,
must have been the existence OF some
sort Of protective legislation, keep
ing out Of America the pauper labor
and the products Of the pauper labor
of England. Scotland Wales and Ire
land. It Is true that we have not thus far
found the law upon the statute books
and, we are told, by ignorant historic
ans, that there WAS no such legislation,
but, whether that sort Of legislation
has been yet found or not, II must have
existed, because superior wages and
the prosperity Of the workingman must
be had, and can only be had by force
of a policy of legislative protectlonism.
The lost statute will be found after
" whichever fear, sir-because the
theory cannot be sustained In any 9TH
or way and the theory, as our Ne
publican friends tell us, Ia our fixed
national policy hence,to doubt It would
be disloyalty
PRICE OF LABOR.
A wise man entertains a sovereign
contempt for a great many sorts Of er-
rors, 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 a country and the number Of men
capable and DESTROYS of doing It, In
word on demand for and supply OF la
Dor. That particular sort OF peculiarly
Inspired idiot attempts 10 explain that
the high wages which were paid In
California and all the new states for
those employed on farm, in store, mine
or forest, IN compa rison with the
wages paid IN older states, which were
without free lands and with compare
tive abundance Of laburers, is TO be ac-
counted for by the comparative scarcity
Of worklngmen and the comparative
abundance Of new work I'm 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 duo
10 this same fact viz. paucity Of work.
ingmen and abundance of work How
lacking I'm subtlety OF intellect In
stead Of seeking I'm remote metaphysical
places reasons satisfactory To curl
Gus mind he contents himself Ike 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 IL said TO
have called them. what is the brother
TO the OK" NJ for, anyhow, save to be
taxed for the creation Of naturally un.
profitable industries? II Is plain, sir
to me and you and other strenuosties,
that an industry, created by taxation
and maintained by legislation, must
necessarily be more profitable to the
taxpayer and to the consumer and
therefore, TO the commonwealth, than
an industry which docs not require any
legislation TO make It profitable In the
first instance, nor any taxation Of con-
sumers to keep II on It's feet after It
has been created by the base agen-
cies OF soil, climate, natural aptitude
and other environment.
RESTRAINING TRADE
That reminds me OF another blunder
OF our ancestors both under the COM
mon law In Great Britain and IN the
United States They seem to have en-
tortained a notion that combinations In
restraint Of trade. seeking monopoly
way adverse TO the development of in
diyduality and somehow poison the life
OF trade, They went so far as TO
contend, that the highest object OF
mans existence "a not TO he we'll man
aged, even at a living money profit TO
himself, but that Il IL 10 learn TO man
age himself well, We know now that
combinations OF corporations seeking
with the power Of monopoly the result
ant power Of robbing consumers by
raising prices to an eXtortlonate figure,
under the shelter OF tarin laws, shutting
out foreign competitors and seeking
the further resultant power TO bear
down the price 10 be paid to the FARM
err raising the raw material, and seek
Ing the yet further resultant power TO |
regulate wages by reason OF the facf |
that the workingman has no where else
to go TO get work except to the con-
Germs In the oombinatlon--are, on the |
whole, beneficial institutions In a free |
republic Of self-governing men. They |
may appear 10 be doing some harm, |
may appear at first blush indeed TO be |
that broad opportunity for in
dividual effort which you enjoyed. sir, |
when you advanced In a life time from |
the position Of brakeman on a train |
20 that Of leader OF men as a railroad |