The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-05-21

tunate to have surplus to sell at all
The man in the city usually has {,
spend the fruits of his tell for food
rent and clothing. He has nothing tC
sell but his labor III he has anything
to lay aside he is fortunate man.
The farmer, as q rule, makes more
than enough for the cost of his cloth.
ing. taxes, rents, and other expenses,
and he doesn't have to work as hard
as the man in town, because he often
has long seasons of rest. When the
products of his labor are high, il may
mean hardship and anxiety to his fell
bowman in town, because the increase
in the price Of the workingman's pro-
duct may not Justify corresponding
increase in wages, that will enable
him to pay the additional cost Of liv.
ing. Thus, while the farmer is rejoice
ing over high prices, his city cousin
may be keenly feeling the effects
of 1t.
For instance, suppose a man works
in factory that turns out clothing.
Suppose he makes barely enough to
live on. and food suddenly goes up.
This benefits the farmer, but unless
the clothing he makes can be sold at
q corresponding advance sufficient to
Justify an inrcease in his wages, he
suffers from the advance in the cost
OF his food. Often competition would
prevent his employer from advancing
the price of the clothing. and he
consequently could not raise wages.
The farmer would not complain at
the advance in the things he sells, but
he would certainly complain If he
came to town to buy suit Of clothing
and found it higher than usual.
The Republican principle of protec-
tiou is designed to protect the Ameri.
can workman in lust such emergen-
oies. II our markets were thrown
open TO the world through Democratic
free trade, every thing would have to
be sold cheap to meet the competition
of cheap foreign labor. The manufsc.
turer who sold the clothing made by
the city laborer, instead of advancing
the price Of his clothing, would have
to reduce il in order to sell il at all,
and to do this he would have to cut
wages instead of increase them. What
would the workman do? He couldn't
buy as much food as formerly, for he
wouldn't have the money. This to
the extent it would prevail all over
the country, would glut the market
with unsold foodstuff, prices would
fall, aud the farmer wouldn't make rs
much as he would the other way.
The Republican protective tariff is
designed to help all alike, and it
does. 1t enables millions of city
lsporers to receive fair wages, much
of which are spent fer what the farm
er raises. When the workman be-
comes unable to buy, the farmer will
be unable to sell, hence each is de-
pendent largely ON the other. They
work together. in way, aud should
both be willing to help the other.
With free trade neither could be pros
porous. The working man would be
unable to make living for his fam
lily, and the farmer would have to sell
cheap to sell at all A man should
easily see the justice and advantage
of the tariff, and il he does he will do
what a majority of people in America
have been doing for many years-vote
the Republican ticket.
The lot Of the workingman is hard
enough as it is, due largely to an over
supply OF labor, the introduction of
and other things over which
A political patry has no con troll, but
how much worse it might be. and
would be if the theory of Democratic
free trade could be enforcedi
The %, 200 people of Paducah want