Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-01-06

the corporations biggest plants are.
on pig-iron production the
Secretary says there were 1852
adult male employees, whose aver
age daily wage in that prosperous
year was $1.93, and whose average
output was 1.S ton man day: The
labor-cost of ton of pig-iron was
s1.07. The duty on ton of pig iron
is four dollars, Or rcarly four times
the labor-cost.s In iron and steel
mills there were 126.739 adult male
employees whose average daily wage
was $215, while the cost of labor per
ton of output was $6.3S. The duty
averages about ten dollars ton. "Re-
tulns," says the report, from fifty
one pig-iron companies show that
672 wage-earners (out of over $4,000,
own their homes. Returns from 131
iron and steel companies show that
5,54O wage earners, (out of 126,7S9?)
own their homes" Yet Pennsylva-
MIA you remember is strongly Repub-
lican, and her leading statesman are
distinguished by enthusiasm for high
protection.
OF all the people engaged in gain
full occupations in the United States
over one-third come under the head
of agriculture. Excepting sugar, to-
bacco and wool, which amount to a
small fraction of the total, agricul-
ture gets no protection from the tar
iff. In spirit of solemn ribaldry
trainers of the Dingley law inserted
this line: Wheat, twenty-five cents
per bushel." They might as we'll
have put the line in the Koran for
all the good it does the American
farmer. About third of our wheat
crop comes to the big primary mar
kets-C Chicago, Duluth and others. The
price of the whole crop is fixed at
those markets. Again, 40 per cent.
of the wheat that comes to the pri-
mary markets is exported, and the
/ price at those markets is fixed by
Il the export price. In short, the price
not only of the farmers exportable
/ surplus, but Of his whole crop, Is
fixed, or very largely influenced by
free. direct competition in the mar
kcts of Europe with wheat OF Rus
sia. India and Argentine. Meeting
those growers in free competition
Il and selling his wheat for the same
] price they receive the American
4 WAKES prosperous while the Russian
Il and Indian producers hang on the
lwerge of famine And one grea'
/ reason for it is that the American
5 farmers labor, using machinery yer!
!. largely. is vastly more efficient thai
theirs, plowing with crooked stici
a and threshing with flail
81 The Canadian farmer cannot sem
4 lhis wheat here to panperize Dakot
n and Minnesota agriculturssts. But h
, ,Iyends it to Liverpool side by sid
/. with our protected wheat, and bot
el of course; sell for the same. price.
) About two-thirds of our cotton Gro
: lis exported. Mr.. Dingley, curiousl
enough, hadn't the heart to protect
j. cotton, but put it on the free lis'
The negro labor in Southren cotto
;. fields is probably as inefficient a
J. any in this country; yet it is NOR
o productive than labor in the EgyI
i tian and Indian fields, with which
r competes. In a moment of rare il
Il spiration the Dingley law put a dut
r. of is cents bushel on corn-th
i United States producing so per cen
q of all that. cereal grown in the worlt
t Corn's cheif products are also dul
al protected-bacon and ham by dut
e of five cents a pound, lard by dut
d of two cents pound, cattle ~
,tl per cent. ad valorem, swine $1.5o
Ie head. fresh meats two cents poun'
,r AS we are almost the only countr
n. that exports those articles largel
in the value of this protection" is
Isl purely sentimental nature. OF ca
r. tie hogs and their products, we sc
d. abroad over two billion pounds yea
s.lly. Possibly the cattle and hog gro
inl er would cheerfully dispense WI
asl the Dingley laws protection if
g-| could rid himself of European host
,n| ity to our exports in general provo
IT, ed by that same law.
Id One might multiply illustration
at but hope it is already quite Gle
he that ten million persons engaged
Gel agriculture get no protective bene
nd from high tariff. The census sho'
.el &. $780, ,657 persons engaged in dome
llyl .ic and personal service" How c
it's high tariff protect them? Does.
e? duty of 1856 per cent, on bay RI
ut, imysteriously bulwark our barbe
nt- from the pauper labor of Europ
he yanillin, the active principle OF Va
het lila. pays duty of 252 per cent. 9
lily n he that when Hilda flavors 7
pudding her system absorbs the a
Or ma of this 252 per cent, SO tn
ter thus pervaded by the "Americ
gh principle." she demands dollar me
Ice p week and two afternoons out?
-. :. Workers That the Tariff Hurts.
o., Another grand division of work'
err comprises total of 4,766,964 eng
of ed in trade and transportation
ed. mainly country merchants, cier
OF, agents. railroad and steamship
1t ployees. There is no duty on frei'
Die, rates. How can high tariff prot
lch the labor OF this army?
sed There are, roughly, million
'O2, penters masons and painters. III
ted are among the most highly-paid a
OF sans in the country. How can d
ile Of two dollars.a thousand on lum
lies A. 1ohor of tho Garment