The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-09-19

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are now proposed to U.S.
There is the college professor rea-
soning logically from the txet books
but when it comes to current events
of the present generation that are not
yet In the school histories what a diff
ference! When the critic attempts to
do things we have statements like the
following
1--WE are told that prices are rising
the world over but il you look into the
matter you will find that it is not SO
They are rising in high tariff countries
but not in low tariff countries
II Professor Wilson has looked into
the matter and found this out he is a
wonder. BY further looking he could
probably find out that if we are told
that two and two equal four 1t is not
so. Also that if we are told that the
markets Of the world are connected by
telegraph so that a. change in one place
instantly affects the whole and that
high prices In one place could not pos
|sibly be maintained above the common
level, Professor Wilson by looking into
it would find that 1t was not SO. The
newspapers, the markets and all the
means of information concerning the
events of the present time are closed
for him. Wonder if he has looked up
the fact on his own nomination and
found that it was so or not?
But the free trade fanaticism is all
there, for Professor Wilson finds the
tariff to blame for all evils.
What has enabled the captains of
industry to create the great combina-
tons by which labor has been domin-
ated and the conditions of every mans
life who works determined? 1t has
been the tariff. 1t has been the fact
that they had the domestic market to
themselves and could make what ar
rangements they pleased. But all the
while there has been free trade in labor
itself"
Professor Wilson has evidently heard
nothing of the recent strikes or of ad-
vances in wages, or of the power of
labor union organizations. None of
these things were mentioned in the
text book authorities and therefore are
not so. Then what human brain could
devise any possible plan for tariff
against foreign capital? Even the last
century text books recognize that there
can be no possible protection for cap
ital against the competition of other
capital. If Professor Wilson has read
history as he claims, he can also sum
up the whole history of business at
tempts at monopoly and combinations
by saying that at every turn in bust
ness life the flood of competing cap
ital quickly browns out the futile eff
forts for extortionate profits.
When Professor Wilson talks diff
ferently he is simply making appeals
to ignorance
Then as to the free trade in labor
(Which by the way, Professor Wilson
is on record as favoring), he could find
by very little looking into that sin
gle steamship can bring to our markets
the products of the labor Of hundred
thousand laborers at low wages, while
it could bring less than one thousand
OF the workers themselves Further
more the competition of the cargo of
products would have ten times more
effect for lower wages here than the
whole number of workers that could
be landed at our ports.
The ship load of products would re-
present the competition from the grand
total of all the lower paid labor in the
countries from which the imports came.
The immigrants, on the contrary, are
IN insignificant fraction and on land
ing here they learn to demand the
higher wages long before they can ex-
press themselves in the language of
he country.
The text book instructed free trader
easily works himself up to fanaticism
hat ignores facts and considers any
'alsifying or special pleading as justi-
led for promoting the sacred cause.
But man who is to be the highest Of
icial for nation of a hundred mil
ion people with all the varied indus
ries and interests should be some
hing more than reader of history,
Is she is taught in the text books.
The main difficulty experienced in
getting third party" ticket in the
ield in Idaho seems to be that the re-