Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-24
How American CitiSenS Are Robbed

~ recent dis
NJ fact claim of the sandpaters that tariff duties
which universally affect the people of the country levied in
the interest labor the baseess falsehoods
that was ever advanced justification for tariff robbery
1t is known fact that the two lines manufacture more large
controlled by men ana organizations OF great wealth. tnan any
others the manufacture of lumber and of iron and steel The
hands wealthy corporations and yndca who through the
of the forests which they have acquired have practically
monopozed the lumber business of country The thing
i applies to the production of iron and steel
past quarter century highly
and steel industry of this country It undisputed fact e
by the steel themselves that owing unequaed
and ron skill brought
upon the business and produced America
constantly emphasized by the iron steel
products in foreign markets cheaper than they sold in this
The tariff lumber well the excessive tariff all
forms of iron and steel products justified by the by
the claim that these protecting American labor
Our readers will recall that few ago strike cool
militia necessary 70 control the strikers Am anncon Of tbee
strikers protection showed that the employees
OF this great lumber Italian subjects that American
labor getting advantage Of the employment which this
lumber business offered that contrary had been re-
placed by who had from abroad had
their allegiance the country from which they
ply working collect American dollars that gone
American citizens and then their native country
This lumber but type of hundreds all country
where American labor highly protected industry has been
planted by cheaper aboers imported only
not American citizens but most OF whom have no intention of
The disturbances of the great
militia disclosed the condition When the consabuary
strikers they met by appeal the part of the strikers
the minister of Austria Hungary who representative
strikers for the that being
poyed and paid by highly American industry
they point of fact subjects of the Austro Hungarian
imported from whose labor notorousy poorly paid
who this country for the purpose of obtaining from
wealthy and steel corporations of the which is
given those corporations by the tariff levied upon
who are aborers n
This of obtaining foreign abores not
American citizens take the place of American aborers practced
by the great protected industrial all the
1t probably much under the truth that there
the present time in America million aborer principally Italians
Greeks Hungarans and Savs, who doing
corporations whose products by high
theory that this work done by American citizens These
only American citizens but of them
become SUCH And after in this enough
accumulate few hundred dollars of the
by the tariff taxed of America they
enjoy that which, in theory should
can worzingmen who American citizens.
In of this, the following Associated dispatch
he kind OF tariff bill recently the United
becomes important to the average American: |
Through Senator LaFoete
rmen of commerce and labor has presented
yss OF the and decreases of the tariff bill
LaFoette The BILL passed by the leaves
hanged the duties imports of the value of $0600 665
Duties increased imports of the of $14971661o
III P while the decreases affect imports 500
r l3843 The average INCREASE of the entire bill $685. H
Thus that Mr. Aldch and his high n
colleagues have done better than pepetuae Ameri
have paid by the hundred millions the
purpose: to
FOf making great fortunes that have
squandered chorus girls and other equally phanhrop
diversions at home and gambling and other intellectual dssp
ions at Paris and Monte Carlo abroad and be
Second-Of paying lower than American working n
live to Italians Hungaans Creeks S1av and others OF
he much exploited pauper labor of Europe imported
masters OF these great industries take the places that should