Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-11-03

would ruin every branch of the business
except sanitary pottery, and might en-
courage foreigners to dump their goods
in such quantities as to close even that
branch
Wages Always Higher.
Judge Parker, in the apparent hope
of aCcentuating the lack c. r-ilfidencp
between employer and employe, says:
'Inasmuch as the law puts the tariff
benefits exclusively in the hands of the
capitalists and provides no means for
giving the wage worker his share. the
system virtually says: Let the govern
ment take care of the rich and the rich
will take care of the poor
Judge Parker knows. or ought to
know, what every student Of the eco
nomic question does know, that wages
in this country have always been much
higher under protection than under
tariff for revenue only. He also ought
to know the historic fact that the tariff
had never been revised by his party that
labor has not gone into the street to
beg.
The distinguished jurist is as reck-
less in his tariff utterances as in his
statements concerning expenses of the
Philippine islands, for he even cites the
year 1860 and that period generally as
being a period of prosperity. | assume
that James Buchanan. who was then
president, was in a position to know
whereof he then spoke. II is not GUS
tomary for presidents. however weak
and incompetent, to libel their own ad-
ministratiOns, and in his annual mes
sage in December, 1860, James Buchan-
an said:
With unsurpassed plenty in all the
productions and all the elements of nat
ural wealth our manufacturers have
suspended, our public works are retard-
ed our private enterprises of different
kinds are abandoned, and thousands of
useful laborers are thrown out of en-
ploymcnt and reduced to want We
have possessed all the elements of ma
terial wealth in rich abundance. and
yet, notwithstanding all these advan-
tages, our country in its monetary in
terests is in a deplorable condition.
Would Disturb Business.
"A reduction of the tariff to 20 into
effect in the future would retire every
purchaser from the market until the re-
duced rate went into effect, and producers
would curtail their output, if they did
not suspend altogether
The distinguished candidate says: 1T
is true. as all know, that excessive tar
if rates have caused serious injury to
the great body of the people. 1t has in
creased the cost of living and added to
the price of nearly everything that the
people must buy. This is known of all
men, and they cry out against it. And
their cry should be heeded.'
This sounds more like a judicial de-
cision than like an argument To what
extent the people cry out against it will
be known on November s. and if they
cry out sufficiently loud. they will be
heard. But as the facts recited by the
distinguished jurist are as erroneous
as either his statement concerning the
industrial conditions of 1860 or his esti-
mate of the expense Of maintaining the
Philippine islands. I anticipate the peo-
pie, who may have studied law less, but
jurist, will fail to cry very loudly.
Cites Daniel Webster.
"The other day a friend Of mine said
to an Italian workman: Are you going
to vote the democratic ticket this year?'
No, no; | don't want potatoes ten cents
bushel.' Another Italian purchased
large number of pictures Of Roosevelt
and Fairbanks and printed under them
in Italian: 'Pana LayorO,' meaning
bread and work
1T may sound out of place to compare
my Italian friend to Daniel Webster
but in his speech opposing the gradual
reduction of p per cent. in the Walker
bill, which Judge Parker so strongly
defends but which was responsible for
the conditions described by Horace
Greeley and James Buchanan, he said:
And, sir, take the great truth; place
II on the title page Of every book of
political economy intended for the use
Of the United States; put il IN every
farmers almanac; let it be the heading
Of the column of every mechanics maga-
zine; proclaim it everywhere. and make
it a prOVerb that where there is work
for the hands there will be work for
the teeth. Where there is employment
there will be bread. 1t is a great bless
ing to the poor to have cheap food. but
greater than that. prior TO that. and Of
still higher value. is the blessing Of
being able to buy food by honest and
respectable employment. Employment
feeds and clothes and iuStructs Ern-
ployment gives health, sobriety and
morals. Constant employment and we'll
paid labor produce in country like
ours general prosperity, content and
cheerfulness.'
Cheap Living Plague.
This was Daniel Webster's prayer
that the country might be saved from
another period of cheap living expenses.
! DO not know how the democratic press