The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-11-19
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BREAK.
ING UP IN THE WEST

Mr.. Thomas II. Harris of this CITY
mas been spending the summer I'm Du-
Iuth, Mimi, and he writes that the
republican party is rapidly losing its
grip IN the northwest. and signs of
It's disintegration are plainly visible.
lie says that Senator LaFollette Is cx-
erclslng tremendous influence there
and at the proper moment someone
VIII arise to take the place of the late
Governor Johnson.
Senator Aldrich has recently visited
Duluth, and this is the way the Du-
luth Evening Herald. a republican
newspaper, comments upon Mr.. AID
rich and the state which he rcpre-
sents.
Barring the recent antics of Hon.
Frank Clark and a few others. what
the Duluth Herald says sounds mighty
much like good old sound democratic
doctrine to US.
We quote the article entire.
PROTECTOR wages
The man chiefly instrumental in
fastening upon the nation the new
protective tariff law is Nelson w. Al
drich, United States senator from
Rhode Island in name. boss of the re-
public in fact.
Rhode Island. Mr.. Aldrichs state.
not only in the common use of that
term, but actually. is the smallest
state in the union, aud the most high
ly protected state
The theory of the protective tariff. |
the theory upon which it has gained
votes enough TO keep it effective as a
policy of this nation, is that it serves
TO give employment TO and provide
high wages for American labor.
Since Rhode Island is the most
highly protected state as il would be |
expected TO be when it is represented |
in the senate by the man that makes
the tariff laws for this country. there |
ought TO be some interesting examples
in that state of the rich benefits labor |
receives from the protective tariff in |
its most perfected form.
The twenty-seCond annual report of
industrial statistics for Rhode is |
land, covering the year 1908. is avail |
able. The figures il contains are pro |
yided by public official who is doubt |
less elected or appointed by interests |
friendly to Aldrich and to the political |
machine that keeps him in the senate. |
Therefore they cannot be suspected of F.!
making the showing of labor benefits |
any worse than they should be. Yet
they could hardly be worse than they |
are.
The wooden and wOrsted mills of |
Rhode Island pay their operators the
prinCely sums of S. and 50 per week.
The cotton mills OF Rhode Island |
pay their employees from s. TO S. per
week
The silk mills of Rhode Island pay
their workmen-and workwomen-$7
to IS per week.
The employees of the rubber inter
ests of Rhode Island receive for their
labors So to 50 per week.
IL is American labor, be ii remem-
bered. that the protective tariff benev-
olently provides for. Yet in the wool
en- and worsted mills of Rhode Island
so per cent of the laborers are for
eign born; in the cotton mills so per
cent. of the workers are foreign born;
In teh silk mills 93 per cent. OF the
wage-earners are foreign born; and
in the rubber factories 20 per cent. of
the names on the pay rolls are of for
eign born men and women.
This illustrates the rich fruits that s
the protective tariff, in its most per- q
fected condition yields to American
labor"