The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-01

materials. You find that material
means nothing but labor. Freight and
supplies? Analyze them. They mean
nothing basically but labor-just SO
much labor. Therefore my friends you
must acknowledge the obvious
If the Tariff does not protect the
steel industry. il the Tariff does not
Protect the manufacturing industries.
the labor must suffer. Either we
must dispense with portion of our
labor or Else We must cut down
wages.
Our Tariff system is the only sys.
,em in which the average earnings
Of the working man could have be IN
so consistently increased. There has
been only one year in the history CT
the organization in which they have
not been increased.
The plain deduction is that the mar
| velous economics made possible by the
| combination of mills and capital In
the United States Steel Corporation
/ navy bttil NhisilN w Niit ouNoh'oc' -
labor and of the general welfare.
Now. If dissolution shall come,
where will retrepchment be made? l
| tell you 1t can be made in only one
place. in the wages paid to American
working men. This is condition and
not theory. II is one that every per-
son who studies the situation must
realize and admit
1t Is all very well for Merry And.
rev to tell a committee or Free-Trad
ers that a Protective Tariff is no
longer needed in the iron and steel
industry in the United States. Many
a true word is spoken I'm jest, and
many false and foolish word is
spoken by a jester. even though lac
be gray haired aud old enough to
know better When Andrew Carnegie
told the Stanley committee that no
Protection is needed in the iron and
steel industry he told what he did not
know and what he never did know
Mr.. Carnegie was not MANUFACTURER
he was a salesman, a manipulation Of
properties. of transportation and Of
markets. He was sometimes called
slippery Andrew" because his com
petitors never knew when he would
keep or break an agreement as to
prices. He had no hand in and little
or no knowledge of the production
of iron and steel Frankly he says
his partners attended to all that.
Chief among these practical partners
as Mr.. Carnegie has many times as
serted was Charles NJ. Schwab. More
than all the other partners of the
Carnegie combination. he knew the
cost of ton of steel rails from tie
mine to the platform car
1t is the plain, simple truth, known
to be such by all practical industri.
alists, that nothing enters into the
cost of manufacture but labor" that
freight and supplies mean nothing
basically but labor" This is the lob;
vious" which Mr.. Schwab says all in
telligent minds must acknowledge
Equally obvious then, is the truth OF
the assertion that IF the Tariff does
not Protect the manufacturing indus.
tries, the laborer must suffer-" With
no Tariff to Protect the American
market against the dumping OF fore.
ign surplus production, the product
of lower wages and lower production
cost, the American manufacturer must
do one of two things. Reduce and
perhaps dismiss altogether his work
ing force. or else reduce the wages
of his working force. Mr.. Schwab
makes this perfectly clear as a gen.
eral proposition. That he can make
it good in detail there is no manner
of doubt. 1t is as certain as anything
can be that any scheme of Tariff re-
duction contrived for the purpose of
forcing down prices through foreign
competition must necessarily involve
reduction in American wages.