Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-05-28
A protected" CITY.

to life, OF "A Tariff Made City,
which should be read and then
pondered over by all worthy peo-
pie in the United States.
Miss Tarbell says: "The city of
Pittsburg is the greatest monu-
ment in this country to the prac-
tice of High Protection. For fiji
ty years it has been the strong
hold of this doctrine. For fifty
years it has reaped, as no other
center in the Uuited States, the
benefits of protective duties. !"
Enumerating some of the chief
protective industries OF the city,
which lies at the heart of dis
trict in which has been turned out
from one quarter to one-half OF
all the various kinds of American
iron and steel as well rs goodly
proportion of all the tin, plate
glass and machine shop products,
she goes on to say that all these
articles have for years had the
American market practically to
themselves. All these industries
have produced enormous fortunes,
and they have produced large
crop of millionaires. In other
words, this large production of
millionaires was the direct fruit of
prohibitive tariffs. The congress
in passing the tariff bills, pro-
fessed, us one of the principal
objects of the legislation, to estab-
lish an important benefit to the
American workman. Miss Tar
bell nigh: have added that the
Pittsburg workingman has not
discovered-had not last fall-the
fraud played on him. Miss Tar
bell says, "the tariff was laid to
protect and help the Pittsburg
workmen. According to the pro-
tectionist argument, Pittsburg,
as the bullwark and center of pro-
tected industries, should produce
the happiest, most prosperous and
hest conditioned workmen in the
United States. How is it?"
Then she quotes from "The
Survey" one of the most insignif-
cant pieces of investigation the
country has seen. She says, sit
is the result of n year or more of
work on the part of a band of
trained Investigators commission
ed by the Charities Publication
Committee. 1t gives a blue print
Of Pittsburg-the place itself, the
people and their work. What
does the blue print show of the
workingman under protection?
at shows him working twelve
hours day for seven days in the
week, and once in two weeks fill
ing "A long turn or II twenty-four
hour shift. 1t is not simply the
exceptional man who overworks
in this cruel fashion. The twelve
hour day is the extreme of all al
together incredible amount of
overwork by everybody, so the
Survey declares. Can you make
n man by these hours? Is it any
wonder that those who lived
and walked among those men pre-.
pairing this survey report their
saying too tired to read-too
rcd to think-I work and eat
Ind sleep Any wonder that
they report the God-fearing cry
ing out for the Old Country, we
might not have been able to live
20 well there, but, oh man, we
could have brought up the child
Ten in the fear of God and i'm n
and where men reverence the
Sabbath.
Even this report goes on to say
hat the workmen get a wage $50
ow as to be inadequate to the
of normal American
tandard of living. Wages ad-
listed to the single man in the
Ddging house, not to the respon-
lille head of a family"
Miss Tarbell then proceeds to
ny: "And this in industries
here ito protect the workingman'
lis country has taxed itself mil
ons upon millions of dollars.
he estimated tariff profit in the
eel trust alone in 1907 was $780,
"a. 900. Who got the money2l