The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01
MAIDEN SPEECH OF CARL
C. ANDERSON In CONGRESS

they are sold to the farmers right
at the door of the factory that turns
them out.
that works a hardship
to one of the largest class of wage
earners in the United States. II has
been the most valuable asset of the
Republican party to pose as the
friend of labor, and while am, and
have always been, ln advocate OF
giving to every man who works in
the factory or the shop the just re-
turn of his labor, am also in favor
OF giving to the man who digs and
delyes in the field from cock crow
to sunset the same just return. In
the last analysis the whole labor
and business world is dependent
upon the farmer for sustenance.
without his industry the forge and
the shop the mine and the factory
would soon have to suspend opera
tions. Why, then, may ! ask, is an
unjust and unfair discrimination
practiced against him in favor of the
alien farmer, whose products come
in competition with those raised in
our own country? Why should the
Arab, or Egyptian who raises wheat
to compete in the markets of the
world with American-raised wheat,
have the machinery that cuts and
prepares that wheat for market sold
TO him at vastly lower figure than
the farmer in Ohio, Illinois or Iowa.
How comes it that an American COM
pany can sell its wares cheaper to
the foreign purchaser than TO the
home consumer? That question is
easily answered. BY reason OF the
fostering care of a Republican tariff,
American combinations and rmonopo-
lies are protected from outside COM
petition under the CURSE of giving
them an opportunity to pay higher
wages TO the factory hand. the tray-
cling salesman, and the general run
of employees whose bread and meat
comes from the Golfers of these trust
magnates; yet we find that after a
consolidation OF the many fact)Hies
that produce this class of goods the
wage OF the artisan is reduced, the
occupation OF the salesman like that
of Othello, is gone, and the farmer
Of America is more Systematically
and persistently robbed than before
The charity of these gentlemen is
extended solely to the foreign agri-
culturist, and that, too, at the ex-
pense OF one of the largest classes
of American laborers.. The tariff that
| gives the northumberland
trust a monopoly gives It at the same
time power to exact from the farmer
profit that amounts to tribute
| just as surely as that exacted by
the Black Hand from the man who
by his thrift and economy has pros
pered TO an extent that excites cup
idty and lawless lust for the fruits
of another's labor.
Reduce your tariff and let ccmpe-
! tition come in, and the American
farmer will be able to harvest his
crop with improved machinery bought
as cheaply as that used by the half,
breed on the steppes of Brazil or the
banks Of the Nile. But, you say
that will allow foreign ,cheap Labor
! to compete with high-cass and Highly
! paid American labor We want Il
keep up the wage scale.
Now, was there ever greater
fallaCy or a more demagogical argu
ment put forth to sustain a bat
cause? Does not every intelligent
American know that the price o
labor is controlled by the law o
supply and demand, as are all 9Th
er commodities of present-day civi
lization? DO We for a moment sup
pose that the head OF one Of thu
trust factories woud refuse to re
place Sc a day mechanic with n s.
q day man who could do same worl
and as much of IT in day simpl!
because the one was an American
and the other foreigner? DO W,
not see every day in the year tn,
cheap blaor OF Asia coming in ant
displacing the better-paid American
labor I'm nearly every vocation ant
in every section OF this country
Then, why longer deceive ourselves
and seek to deceive the people who's
servants we are with false argument
and absurd hypotheses?
A protective tariff insures 10 tn,
benefit OF him who has and take
from him who has not even the lit
tie he would like 10 have. Tn
farmer boy who rises with the larl
and goes forth to his daily task un
der the light OF the still shining star
and works until the last faint streal
Of red has faded in the western SIX.
pays tribute 10 the trusts that hay
monopOliezd the implement business
| Every rosy-cheeked maid VIII
sings as she sews the folds Of he
modest gown in which TO appear witt
becoming decency at the yillag
church, every weary mother VIII
from day to day sews and sews
that the raiment OF her Offspring
may be presentable, or TO proyid
food for the hungry mouths OF thOs
she is left by sad fate 10 protec
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