The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-23
A Day OF Protection.

panic, anyway. When that came, the
almost stopped, and the
east-bound ships were crowded with
husky workers going back to their old
homes. The new spapers investigated,
and found that this was merely an ex-
Of the regular movement
of labor back and forth across the At
lantic. In good years it was hidden,
so to speak. by the mass of immigra-
tion that comes with intent to stay.
Now, in the lean.years, it was reveal
ed.
But. if American labor isn't protect
ed, the same thing cannot be said of
the things the American laborer uses.
They-and their trust manufacturers
are protected carefully.
The American workman is awakened
in the morning by the racket from an
alarm clock, protected to the tune of
40 per cent for the benefit of the watch
trust. He crawls out of his protected
bed, gets into his protected shirt-50
per cent if cotton. 90 per cent if wooden
draws on his 80 per cent protected
boots over his variously protected socks
and is ready to begin his protected day.
He goes down stairs. walking on lum-
Der protected 81 per thousand for the
benefit of the lumber trust. He builds
a fire of soft coal, protected 81 cents
per ton, and to do so he takes a match
protected cents per gross box, and
strikes it on his 80 per cent protected
breeches, and starts the blaze. He
eats his breakfast from dishes protect
ed from SO to go per cent. according as
they are decorated or PLAIN. HIS ham
or bacon at that breakfast are protect
ed 5 cents per pound, and the beef
trust can tell you all about the ulti-
mate destination of that nickel. His
eggs are protected cents per dozen,
which is surely fine for the hens.
When his breakfast is over, this free
American workman lights the protect
ed tobacco in his protected clay pipe
with another protected match, and goes
to his work, riding in a protected
street car running on protected steel
rails laid on protected ties. He carried
his lunch in protected dinner pail.
which may or may not be full. He
uses protected tools at his work. H.
comes home, riding on protected rails
or wearing out protected leather. He
eats mis- protected dinner. and then sits
down in his IS per cent protected
chair, and watches his children play on
the protected carpet-22 cents per
square yard and 40 per cent ad valorem
for ingrains. He has had just one ex-
perience of free trade in the whole day.
THE LABORER WHO WORKED
ALONG SIDE OF HIM CAME IN
DUTY FREE, AND is GOING BACK
AS SOON AS HE CAN MAKE A LIT
TIE STAKE.
There is the situation-part of it..
The Dingley tariff robs the American
consumer, that is to say, the American
worker, in thousand ways. The cost
of railroad. for instance, is an impor-
tant item in determining the cost of
commodities carried by that railroad.
When James Hill built his great North
ern line he paid S27 per ton for Ameri-
can steel rails. Just across the border
is the Canadian Pacific line, a parallel
and competing road. This, too, was
built with American rails, but while
the American builder paid S27 per ton
for the same rails from the same fac.
tory. In other words, the tariff enabled
the steel trust to gouge an extra SIS
per ton from the American railroads.
and without doubt the railroads
promptly passed on the gouge with ex-