Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-07-15
THE BETRAYAL
OF A NATION

the present age
In series OF articles which he is
running in Pearson's Magazine. emil
tied, 1.-The Betrayal OF Nation, ="
Mr. Lewis is engaged ut present I'm
laying bare to the gaze o: the world.
the cruel and Infamous effect OF
Protection upon the masses OF
the people, exposing the miserable
hpyocarcy Of those who are response
bic for it, and demonstrating that
, the system has bred and fostered "A
great group of the most gigantic aud
destructive trusts shat ever afflicted
civilized nation.
Mr.. Lewis contends that the gov
renment expenses are kept on as ex-
travagant plane as possible, for
the purpose OF offering an excuse for
protective tariff, and that the sys-
tenn results In fattening monopoIies
and grinding the American laborer
into the dust, while those who must
buy protected articles are forced 70
pay higher prices for them al home
than they are sold for In foreign
markets.
This has been generally under
stood 10 be the effect OF the iniouI-
tous policy OF the Republican party
as accumulated and emphasized
through the Payne Aldrich bill,
which is the most cruel and far
reaching OF all, but Mr.. Lewis puts
the case so strongly that some OF his
observations will be quoted here.
On the question OF how "Protec-
ton effects the American wage
Garner, Mr.. Lewis says:
1T was urged that Protection"
would be defense, and make secure
the American workman from indi-
rect competition with paurer labor
over masses. Its effect direct, how
ever, has been 10 bring him into
such penniless competition. PRO
lection drives Off the foreign man.
ufacturer; ii leaves less for the for
eigner to do. The foreign pauper
workman"-out OF work-thereup-
ON takes steerage passage for Anneri-
ca. In two weeks he is'' comDetingn
with the American workman-thisI
foreign pauper workman" whose
work has been lost because his for
eing employer lost, through PRO
tcetion. the American market.
Also, how many thousands OF
those foreign pauper workmen"
have-in the name OF strike break
ing-been brought to this country by
the Protected" manufacturer? I'm
this connection IL Is curious 10 note
that the father OF that degenerate
murderer who shot down a President
In Buffalo as, with hundreds OF
others OF this ignorant, vicioldS muir
der breeding tribe, brought TO this
country by a coterle of coal barons-
high among them Mr. Hanna-to
take the place OF miners out OH
strike.
They said Protection" would
promote the wage OF the American
workman. There are guilds which
Protection" can never reach.
There are doctors and blacksmilbs
and lawyers and farmers and teach
ers and carpenters and preachers and
bricklayers and a brigade Of trades
besides. No Protection, however
craftily devised or honestly dealt
forth, could touch pleasantly one of
these And yet, OF the thirt, mil |
hon OF work-folk in America, fewer
than one sixth toll for Protected
industries. BY the same tariff token |
OF Protection" cheat and swindle.
the wages paid folks who work for
Protected" industries are lower.
much lower, than those OF unprotect-
ed and unprotectable trades.
Witness the five dollar a week !
wage OF the Fall River Mills; the
eight dollars a week for five months
In the year at the coal holes; the
nifty five dollars month which a
friendly Congressional committee re-
ported as the highest wage average
paid by Carnegie, when the cut was
made and called down the blood and
murder OF the Homestead strike. "
After declaring that every one OF
The l6,CCO,CO0 American families
between the two oceans PAYS an an
nuai tribute of IS to the sugar trust
TO protect" that Infant Indus
try, and dealing with the meat
tIust along similar lines, the article
proceeds.
Also make a note of this. While
the Aldriches, the Cannons the
Paynes and the rest OF the Congress
sional Bill Sykeses-aided by our
White House oliver Twist-were
placing a tariff OF nearly one hun
dred dollars on every American
breakfast table, they refused to add
fifty cents barrel to the revenue
lax on beer. And yet the sheer pro.
nj on such barrel OF beer is full five I
hundred per cent. Who ever heard NJ 9