Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-22
LEGISLATION AND LABOR
By sAvoYARD.

Two remarkable speeches were de- llvered on the wool bill in the early stages of the general debate on that hybrid piece or economic state craft One was by a AIr. Redneld. a democratic representative from Brooklyn, N. r., and the other was by MT. Berger, the socialist from Milwaukee. Wis. F believe that MT. Redfield's speech marks an epoch. He is a manufacturer and a iree trader. l am now an old man. approaching three score years and ten. but ere leave the stage l expect to see the day when the real democratic idea of tariff reform will be crystalized into law, through the influence of the manufacturers of Amercia, who are rapidly coming to see that it is their mission to make goods for the world at large and not for our republic in particuIar, and free trade is the only means to that end
 For fifty years, nearly, we have shackled trade. In our laws we have said that it is profitable to sell and ruinous to buy. We have enacted that when a Yankee sold a pair Of shoes to a fisherman in Newtound- land he made a profit; but If he bought a kit of fish from the man to whom he sold the shoes, he was in eyitably ruined. If this failacy-seii everything and buy nothing-pre- vailed everywhere, and that is all that protection" is. the world would come to a standstill.
 have not ye. read MT. Red fields speech. Tut I have read inc speech Of Nr Berger, the socialist. and the first one of that political faith who ever held a seat in the American congress. He will have company in the next congress. This man is to the present age what Joshua R. Giddings was to the con gresses of sixty years ago. except that he is respected, whilst Gid dings was regarded as nothing less than a traitor and little Jess than a lunatic. The idea os a protective tar iif is what makes socialism possible in our country. If the government by its taxing power shall fatten one
 
 general legislation take care of all of us?
 NIT. Berger scored the lie that the tariff is for labor. He cited that nowhere else in the world is labor insulted by such imposition on it's intelligence. In some of the leading nations of continental Europe they have protective tariffs, notably Ger Al affronts human intelligence b. pre- tending that the thing is for the ben eft Of the working man. Here in our country the tarin was first for infant industry. Then it was to give the farmer home market. After the in dustries were established and the farmer got his home market it was suddenly discovered that the tarifr was not for these, but to give high wages to labor. Well, MT. Berger made it so plain that the tariff is not for labor that he who is both wayfarer and a fool is bound to agree with him. Get his speech on the wool bill and read it
 MT. Berger contends that it is the organization of labor that makes high wages, not the protective tariff Wnlch, ne holds, Is burden and not a staff, sword and not a shield, in it's relation to every man who works with his hands to provide for the stomach. He called attention to the fact that we have always had free trade in labor. and under our present law the product of labor is excluded. In very ectasy of fallacy I one day heard William Alden Smith triumphantly and ezultantIy proclaim that men left Europe to seek homes in America because our tar if protected them. Well. men leave Massachusetts for Kansas. they leave Kentucky for Texas, and for the same reason that men leave Europe for America. The tariff has no moro to do with it than the growing oi the cock causes the break Of day. There Is more room in America than sv4