Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-08-17

could be easily raised there under
glass and in forcing bedsD. il would
have made bananas very much more
costly than common people would like
and that perhaps it is better for New
Jersey TO raise potatoes and peaches
land manufacture various things nat
uraIly profitable and. with the profits
of capital and labor thus plebianly en-
plGycd. buy bananas" But the men
who say that, OF course, are lacking III
patTIOUIsm-'a cheap banana makes q
lchCap man" and We huTl foul scOrn at
IthOeC who are 50 lacking in sClf-de-
IpCndcncc as not to be willing 10 pay
whatever is necessary to be paid out
of the pockets of consumers in order
to prevent the pauper banana, raised
By paupcr labor. grown on paupCr soil,
nOurishcd by Pauper sunshine-vile
foreigner as il is-frOm invading New
Jersey. | know there are a lot of old
fashioned, out-of-date people, princi
| paily democrats, who say that the
watchwOrd of Industrial progress
among communities is not isolation
and independence of productivity, but
reciprocity and int"rdcpcndcnCc; that
! isolation leads to- feelings Of Cstrange-
ment and inim!ty 2mong the people:
! that Industrial intcr-dCpCnd@ncc con
/ stituteS sort OF wOrld-cfective bond
| to keep the peace. ! need not stop to
tell you that such men are mere thcO-
riStS." One of them might be granite
| p!"nary power Tor a thousand years
ana at the end of that period would not
| have given any change of occupation
! -iFg
Maine as are. or might be made to be,
DESTROYS of raising sun-kisscd plants.
! The base CObdCnitC would leave the
workingmcn of Maine and New Jcr.
scy unprotected" to devote their la
Dor selfshly to- other things, merely
because the cultivation or manufac-
tUre of these other things is natur-
ally more profitable,
Wages Always Higher Here.
How in the world il has happened
Though | confess it did happcn) that
during colonial times. when there were
no custom houses between the several
colonies and when all the products of
Great Britain had FIRE" access TO our
markets. our laborcrs yet worked at
wages very much higher than those
Il cannot understand. How it has hap
pcncd. since We became q federal ma
tfou. tho comparatively raupcr negro
labor OF central Mississippi has not
been able TO run the high-priccd white
labor of central New York out 81 tn"
farming business. / also cannot under
stand. Npr can ] understand how il Is
that wages i'll California should have
been for years two or three times what
they We're in Maryland. although the
products of the comparatively ranpcr
labor of Maryland had free access toI
California and although that compara-
lively paupcr labor itself was secured
by the constitution itself in IN" priv
il"E"s "f migration I" and soj"urn IN
california. Stranger Yet. the paup"r
labor of all E"f""" Va daily focElns
b"th TO MaFN'aHi 'Hi '"i lorna!
again q" NOT uh@ ."".'It i doubt even
II Hcie Joe cannon h'nSeh can iuil!
nnd'rHi ana hose foolish facts some
people nave h"'h SHY enough I" say
that the white man IN central New
York need NOT fear ~" competition "t
~" black man IN central mississippi
nor any ammunition "l MS wa" ne
l"'"""'h 'ha' III" VIM" man III Ne"
ION - more 'H''''"' 'd",, 81
ii'"'I' S''"'lr' "'" IH"'' "''''' gem
tNah tA' hIdck man III MiSSiS9ippi.
that h" docs moro work IN daH.
turns ON moro P'"""'' III IN ""''
""Ih9 more uaES III N''N' J" '"''
fewer weeks III me year. mas more
S'iI '"''li"'' '"'lNl~n' an" i'"N"I''!
anu h"IhG hiiilNNli' i"T these reasons
more PROSPEROUS. males the commune
" IN when ne hT'S more 50.
lheSe same people are ABSURD
enough 10 III" i'"' the hlSh'S'
Pric'd iah"r Is is rue. N" dearest
'ah"r' ana ihat' somehow II mas nap
rencd IN the history OF the world
that the home ot low priced labor
has never been IN" home OF highly
developed agriculture or prosperous