The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-01-19


small purse
The immigrant, coming to Amer
lea, finds that If he can buy in quaint
ity land in cases where he need not1
his -four, fuel, potatoes, oil. sugar.
| coffee, salt--the essentials for his
plain table-all cost less than they
ordinarily do in the land he left
MIR. Gompers contrasted the wages
| CT number of the different classes
Of people, but we have time only TO
| refer TO one illustration. He point
ed out that man doing book-work
in a printing establishment in New
York will get S21.50 a week, for ex-
actly the same work that in London
| is done for the low wage Of $3.50
week.
| Now should not our Democratic
| friends, before they attempt to tear
down this Republican tariff wall that
| protects our labor in America, be
truthful and fair enough to try to
show to the people that the expert
$3.50 a week, can buy more neces-
saries of life in London than the
same worker can buy in New York
for s21.50 a week?
The High Plane of Living Here and
! the Low Plane Abroad.
! ''The fact is, that the people of the
United States-farmers, laborers,
manufacturers and wealth-producers
of all kinds-indeed, all of our peo-
ple-live upon higher plane of COM
fort than do the people of any other
country in the world. The difference
between our high plane of living here
and the low plane of living abroad is
measured by the height of the tariff
/ friends so loudly complain. The
Democratic party wants to tear down
that wall and reduce us here to the
same low level with the people in all
I foreign countries.
'Is there a single man, woman or
child in the United States, who knows
the facts, who could vote to place in
do such an un-American and unpatri
otic thing?
The Republican Tariff Rule.
| '.The Republican rule about the ia
riff is simply this: that the wall shall
| be just high enough to cover the diff
ference in the cost of production here
and abroad. 1t is necessary to keep
the wall that high because if it is
lowered to point where it will not
cover that difference, then our wages
and our high plane of living here
must go down just that much.
The Fight Between the Progressive
and the Stand-Patters.
1.-The Democratic party is making
new attack on the Republican party
and its tariff policy by pointing to the
strenuous fight inthe last Congress
pat or Regular Republicans on the
one side, and the 'Insurgent' or Pro
gressive' Republicans on the other.
cit is true that there was a great
battle between the Republicans over
the last tariff bill. Indeed, it was the
only battle there was, because the
Democratic party was SO incompetent
and so uninformed and SO divided
that it was not able to perform the
duties of or even to present the ap-
pearance of a party of opposition
But what was that fight between the
two wings OF the Republican party?
Was it a fight over principle? No.
Every Republican in Congress to-day
believes in the great fundamental
rule By which the policy Of protection
is to be applied, and that is. that the
tariff rates on each article shall be
] just high enough to cover the differ
ence IN production here and abroad.
a Difference as to Facts Only.
il There was no controversy between
Republicans on that rule or that prin-
ciple- The whole controversy was as
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