The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-05-02
CHAPTER w.

Mckinley reciprocity dffereth from gold
brick f-:S Foss game Of giveaway even
as a genuine bank note dffereth from
counterfeit bill--And the scribe discourse
eth on other matters.
/. And II came TO pass that Gold Brick
Foss OF the Bay State mounted his rect-
prociiy mule and hasted 70 the Repub-
licsn convention and proposed that where
as Canada with It's 1000 900 OF people.
is able 10 purchase only one -fftieth as
much as our So 900. o0O therefore more
over and nevertheless, We should allow
our northern neighbor to sell goods To us
without let or hindrance by suffering us
10 sell goods 10 her citizens. Great Scott,
And Foss kept on serious face while
making this proposal
q Albeit. this giving nfty for one he
calleth reciprocity. Then arose the fol-
lowers of Mckinley and put themselves
upon their political muscle. saying. Nc
Klnley believed and advocated reciprocity
but thou advocateth n gold brick give
away game
T. Knowest thou not. q Foss. that the
wage esrners Of Judea and beyond Jeri
cho. which by Interpretation is New
England and beyond New York-yea.
knowest thou not that our wage eamers
must have work and wages or themselves.
their wives and their little ones shall
perish from the face Of the earth unless
partially relieved by the humiliatins hand
OF charity?
4. Go to- thou friend OF Goldfish aris-
tocracy and thou enemy OF the laboring
man! 10, the welfare OF the bread win
nor is not in all thy thoughts.
5. Verify. o Foss. why IL II so appar-
entity impossible for thee 10 consider for
two-thirds Of one-half Of spell that
while the business firm may need no pro
lection. for he can cut wages TO meet
Canadian and European competition. the
wage Garner is entitled 10 just a small
bit OF consideration?
0. But did the convention receive thy
giveaway game with exceeding hospital
ity? And echo answereth, not n nary
hospitality.
7. And wherefore? Listen, ye give
Always. aryd will tell all that dwell hard
by Shawmut and all the regions round
about the Charles river The Republican
convention dared not do thy bidding, for
the wage earners OF the old Bay state
would have given the Republican party
both the mitten and a thrust under the
fifth rib; for. 10. the bread winners have
not yet forgotten the same old giveaway
game OF the Robber Wilson tariff
3. Go to- go 10, Foss. for though
hast been weighed IN the political scales
and found sadly wanting in sympathy
for the needy workmen.
2. Mckinley OF blessed memory always
spurned thy false. counterfeit reciprocity,
but advocated that honest. real, true
reciprocity In non-competitive goods
which would not rob our needy toilers OF
their Jobs and their pay. Verify. verify,
We now have over ~ per centum OF Nc
Kiney reciprocity under the Dingey
tarin: yet the blind free trader shutteth
both optics 70 the fact
10 Howbeit the Milwaukee Journal.
telleth US wage earpers that the tariff
never did protect American labor. Per-
adventure the journal hath kept its optics
closed 90 the fact that the fun dinner
pail and work came 20 1000. 600 OF half
starved bread winners because OF the
enactment or the glorious Dingley tariff
OF less than ~ per centum average duty.
H. Verify. In tho language OF the
waupuu leader the journal findeth. per-
haps. that our prosperity cometh from
the capture of Manila.
II Nevertheless when the Journal and
other -free-tradnrs tell us, substantially
that prosperity cometh chiefly from food-
ing our markets with foreign merchandise
rs under the so-called skunk cabbage
Wilson semi free trade tariff. there IL a
refreshing cesspool fragrance about the
matter that IL Impressive as well ss op-
pressive
"a Yea. verify this IL an extensive ma.
tion and all IN needeth is a free trade
tarir 10 glut our markets with the rrod-
ucfs 81 Tire SENT .paupsr labor % other
lnrds and our toilers would flourish even