The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-10-24
PROTECT YOUR PAY ENVELOPE

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune)
After a revision of the tariff by
democratic administration in 1879
this country passed through period
| of hard times as the result of placin
American manufactured products anf
American labor in competition with
foreign made goods and foreign la
Dor Manufacturing plants all over
the country closed down and the Am
erican working man lost not only hi
opportunity to work for living wag
but also the contents of his dinnei
pail.
The history Of those times discloseS
that the larger cities in the United
states were compelled to provid
shelter for the unemployed even II
the corridors of their city buildings
so great was the number and wer
compelled to establish soup houses a
| which meal tickets could be obtained
by the unemployed in return for
working on the streets and highways
Any working man who LIVED
through that period of this country's
history remembers with gratitude
that the republican party returned to
him his full dinner pail by the Nc
Kinley bill thereafter passed.
At no time since the Civil war has
there been greater promise of pros
perity than at the present; at no time
has the working man been more uni
formly employed than during the past
republican administration, yet with
out regard to past disasters the plat
form of the democratic party again
announces the policy of revision OF
the existing tariff without the sane
control of the tariff boards careful
examination of manufacturing condi-
lions and cost of labor
Before endorsing such policy re-
member the past and give sober
thought to the fact that at the pres
ent time in Europe 33 per cent of the
working men are out of employment
and facing starvation, while this
country, on the contrary, is facing a
period of prosperity If conditions are
not changed. Why prosperity in
this country and poverty in Europe
The answer is plain. We have pro-
tected our laborers from paupel
wages by providing our manufacture
ers with protection from European
pauper- made products.
Throw down the bars of protection
and what will be the result? Euro
pean cheap-made goods will flood ou'
markets and the European laborel
will again have employment while the
American competitor will take the
position that the European now oc-
cupies and be compelled to search fol
soup ticket instead of receiving 6
pay envelope.
Turn the tide of trade to Europe
and the tide of poverty will flood bacl
in it's place. Take away the tariff
and one-third of the labor now EN-
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poyed while the European does hi
work.
without protective tariff the Law
of supply and demand works arbi
trarily. Take away the tariff ant
| Europe will supply our demand on tn
| cheap labor basis and 80 per cent o
| European unemployed will have thei
| places filed in the soup line" by tn
| American laborers.
| Let every man who works thin
honestly while he labors whether n
desires to hand his pay envelope t
those across the sea. Remove tn
tariff and one in three Of all who la
Dor must be unemployed. Think whe
Their you wish to be that third ma
before you cast your vote on No
vember s. for your vote at that tim
will be vote for or against the pro
lection of your pay envelope and tn
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