The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-07


sell their labor in order to get the
necessities that they and their fami-
lies require. They are compelled to
hire out their services and get a Job
in order to get the money they know
that they SO badly need.
A great many of the men of this
country who depend on the skill of
their hands or the strength of their
arms are at loss to understand why
it is SO difficult to get job, and they
do not know why they must accept
such low wages when they are given
job.
These men know that they are liv-
ing in a country that is more fertile
than any other land on earth
They know that the crops are al
ways bountiful and that food is pro-
duced IN such abundance that nearly
all OF the armies and navies of the
world now draw upon this country
for the supplies they need to keep
their soldiers and sailors healthy and
stout and strong. Men who are ma
tlves Of the United States and men
who are naturaliZed citizens of the
United States know that they voted
for the men who were pledged to
strengthen the present protective
policy OF the government of the Uni
ted States. These citizens have seen
the men they voted for elected to Of
ice and their party placed in COM
plete control of the law-making DOW
er and yet they shake their heads and
wonder, and they can not understand
These citizens have done as they
were hidden and they know their
party has enacted the protective laws
they promised, and yet when they
call upon the owner of some highly
protected industry and ask for a Job
they learn that some native of Syria
81 russia or Hungary, who is not a
citizen of t6e~tUfflliitt99dd States Sta is al
ready on the, payroll They learn
with sorrow that the owner of the
protected industry seems to bear
them no gratitude for their loyalty
to the policy that has made him rich
and powerful.
They also learn that the native of
Russia or Syria or Hungary is pre-
ferred by the owner of the protected
industry to the citizen of America
when jobs re given. Some of these
citizens of the United States at last
commence to inquire the reason why
the owners of the protected indus
tries prefer to give jobs to the aliens
of Europe or Asia, and they are
grieved and shocked to find out that
it is because these manufacturers can
hire the aliens for wages that are
lower than an American wOrkingman
would require to feed his family de-
Gently.
The American workman also as
certains that the owners Of American
manufacturing plants appreciate very
much the cringing serviIity of the
alien, and they greatly dislike what
they call the naughty independence
of the citizen of the United States.
To such citizens of America as be-
lieve in the protective theory, but
who are now out of a job or who are
holding jobs at wages far below the
value of their services, I will ask that
they consider the following in con-
nectiOn with tariff tax for the pro-
lection of American labor:
No man ever went before a Con-
gressional committee and asked that
a tariff tax be placed on a certain ar
ticle he wished to manufacture in or
der that he might thereby be aided
by the government to get very rich.
Every man who has asked for tariff
tax on articles he intended to manu-
facture has always made the plea to
Congress that he only gave himself