The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-17

trade The Constitution ought to have
prescribed to the States mutual pro
lection by mutual taxation and conse-
quent universal prosnerlty.
at considerable length. denoUncing the
weakness OF high protection doctrine
with keen ridiCule. he then turned his
attention to the effect Of Republican
| policies upon labor.
Cannot Understand 1t.
How IN the world it happened that
during colonial times. when there We're
no custom-houscs between the several
| colonies. and when all the products Of
Great Britain had free access TO our
markets. our laborers worked at wages
very much higher than those which then
prevailed in Great Britain. I cannot UNI
derstand. How 1T has happened. since
we became a Federal nation, that the
comparatively pauper negro labor OK
central Mississippi has not been able to
run the high-priced white labor Of CEN
tral New York out of the farming bust
ness. / also cannot understand. Nor can
understand how il is that wages in
California should have been for years
two or three times what they were IN
Maryland. although the products Of the
compare .iveIy pauper ga Dor Of Maryland
had free access 20 California. and al
though that pauper labor itself was Sc
] lege of migration to and sojourn in Cali
fornia.
Stranger yet the pauper labor Of all
Europe was daily fOcking both to Mary
land and California. I again do not un-
derstand-I doubt even If Uncle Joe
Cannon himself can fully understand
these foolish facts
"A wise man entertainS a sovereign
contempt for a great many sorts Of er-
rOrs. but the sovereignest Of all should
be visited on the designing idiot who
says that the price OF labor depends
upon the amount Of work 20 be done in
country and the number Of men ca
pable and DESTROYS Of doing IL. In
word, ON demand for and supply Of
! labor. That particular sort of peculiar
I ly inspired idiot attempts TO explain
/ that the high wages which We're paid
in California and all the new States
for those employed on farm. IN store.
wages paid in older States which were
without free lands and with compare
/ lively abundance Of laborers. is 10 be
accounted for by this same scarcity Of
I worSingmen and the abundance OF new
work in the new States.
Slap at the Trusts.
| 1T IS plain, sir. 20 me and you and
other strenuosities that an industry
! created by taxation and maintained by
I legislation taxing competing products
must necessarily be more profitable to
/ the taxpayer and to the consumer, and
therefore to the Commonwealth. than
an industry which does not require any
! legislation TO make 81 profitable I'm the
first Instance. nor any taxation Of con-
sumers 10 keep il on it's feet after it
has been created by the base agen-
! cles OF soil, climate, natural aptitude,
and other environment
THAT reminds me OF another blunder
/ Of our ancestors. both under the COM
mon law in Great Britain and i'm the
United States. They seem TO have en-
tertainCd a notion that combinations in
restraint Of trade, seeking monopoly
and thrOttling competition. are I'm some
way adverse 10 the development OF in
dlyiduality and somehow poison the life
I Of trade. They went so far "a TO con-
| tend that the highest object OF man s
existence is not 10 be- well managed
even an a living money profit to him
/ self. but that 81 is 20 learn 20 manage
! himself wei.
| We know now that combinations Of
| corporations. seeking with the power Of
monopoly the resultant power Of tax
/ ing consumers by raising prices to an
cXtOrtiOnatc figure under the shelter OF
tariH laws shutting out foreign cOmpetl-
l tors, and seeking the further resultant
power 10 bear down the price 10 be
I paid 10 the farmer raising the raw ma
! terial and seeking the yet further re-
sultant power to regulate wages by rea-
son Of the fact that the worlzingman
I has nowhere else 10 go 20 get work eN-
Cept to the concerns I'm the mbina-
I tiOn-are on the whole beneficial iustitu-
lions in a free republic of self-gOvern-
/ iuG men