Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-20
PUT UP THE BARS c. o. PIERS
But be Sure Your Own Stock is All Housed-A Few Nuts for the Radical Protectionists to Crack
 And Few Freak Fallacies Busted"

writer says that he sells cheaper in Chicago than in New York because he
 wants trade and that the man in the
 factory gets the same pay on the ar ticle. But what profit is that to the New York man? Does the pay he gets on the article recompense him for the difference of the selling prices ln
 New York and Chicago? And adds
 the Republican: This very cleverly and
 concisely disposes of the cheaper
 goods abroad" nonsense Not at all, friend. If 1t be true that the tariff
 has nothing to do with the goods sold
 abroad cheaper, it has much to do with the high prices at home. It may be that manufacturers will sell below cost to obtain new customers, but no
 sane man will say that they will con tinue to sell at a loss for years in the foreign market unless they receive a
 compensation. And where does this
 compensation come from? From the higher prices demanded at home and
 which could not be kept at the highest
 market price if an exorbitant tariff
 did not do the work. But if this sell
 ing in foreign market is only for a
 temporary purpose, why in the name
 of common sense has it lasted Tor
 twenty years or more?
 But under protection the prices of
 watches have fallen in the American
 market phenomenally in the last dec
 ade. Is that due to protection or to
 competition? We would glean from
 the Republicans columns that it Is
 due in some measure to competition
 Tuesday morning it said: The New
 England Watch Go have sharp enough
 oov, fx,
 workers as it is.o And with several native industries engaged in the same line of goods and competition so keen as it is, prices must necessarily de crease unless a trust is established and-well, the trusts are getting their own "sbumps."
 But high protection keeps up the workingmen's wages. Then let every American workingman migrate to Ger many. He will find there the highest proscriptive tariff known to the world. The United States receives annually a large number of immigrants from Germany and some of these constitute a portion of that 60,000 of our popuia- ton. Why don't they stay in their own country, the fatherland so dear to every German heart, if high protection is such boon to the workingman? !? Why does not Germany's high tariff attract immigrants from other lands? If high tariff makes lhigh wages why do not Engljshmen go to Germany? The answer to these questions is that tariff is but small factor in regulat- ing wages. Given large demand and small supply of skilled labor, and the price of labor will be high: given on the other hand a large supply and small demand, and wages will be low. The workingman's own ex- perience tells him that If the tariff raises wages, why are the unprotected industries, the carpenters brfcklayers, painters, ct al, paid far higher wages than the operatives in woolen and cot ton mills? Why under reduced tar if did wages increase in England from 50 to 100 per cent in some indus? tries? If high tariff increases wages, why have the workingmen in the pro tected industries been compelled so often to strike for higher wages? Why have they found it necessary to organ ize for self-protection? Why are wages so much higher in the same in- dustries in different states that are all under the same tariff and subjected to free trade among themselves? These are some practical questions for the to consider when high tariff is Haunted before his eyes as the great conservator of high wages. Let him ask himself if under high tariff as the cause, he received the pay given in China, Russia and Spain, all highly protected countries, he would consider it a boon. What keeps his wages high? Apart from the law of supply and demand, his own skill and perfec- ton, which have enabled his employers to send the goods he made, sometimes heavily taxed, into foreign countries and beat foreigners in their own back yards.
 The Republican has promised to give Us a dish of Bourke Cochran for every morning. It is to be hoped that in honesty and fair dealing it will remember that Bourke Cochran is not advocating free trade, but that according to the Republicans own heading in Monday mornings issue Bourke Cochran declares that no one wants to abolish the tariff, but that 1t should be revised.''
 A BoURKE COCHRAN ADMIRER.