Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-25
BEFORE YOU DECIDE, SlR. NDl-
III, RECALL ENINIa o.
PRESENT AND PAST.
TWENTY Years SHOULD TELL
American Economist Bring Back "a
Memory Days When Socialism
Frst Was Born.
American Economist

important political campaign was lu
progrcss. II meant defeat Tor the
Republican part and the triumph Of
Democracy. which true to its teach-
inga soon undertook "a radical tariff
revision 20 overthrow American In
dustries and transfer the wage earn
ing capacity from the American work
man 10 the sweatshops Of Europe and
It's illy paid hordes OF WoThmen 80
one who was old enough 90 COM
prehend will ever forget the stagna-
ton Of business during Cleveland .
second term. Thousands OF Amerl-
can factories were completely closed
down or working on short time. The
nations great arteries Of commerce
the railroads, we're crippled and uH-
able 20 finance their companies, ana
being indebted 10 supply firms for
equipment Of all sorts We're thrown
into the hands Of receivers as the
only possible way Of operating them,
Dozens Of the strongest state and
transcontnental roads were thus OPP
Grated under federal jurisdiction un-
III their financial conditions imprO, q
80 that they could meet their otl.-
cations, Salaries Of officials and oi
clerks were ruthlessly cut as an
emergency measure to reduce eX-
penscs. Skilled and unsNllel labor
ers Of all sorts We're soon out OF en-
ployment many Of them stranded
like ordinary tramps, and soon were
TO join the Kelly and CoXey army
movements in their onto Washing
ton march to secure relief. That
practically all Of these men were
workmen, willing To work II they
rad employment, has been demon
strated by the business prosperity
which has been general since the last
Cleveland administration and which
has absorbed OH Of these W0rkmen
into honest toll SO that there hay
been no Coxcy's armies or tramps.
A busy man is always the best man
Most men have 10 be busy as II is by
their work that they earn their liy-
ings and sustain their families The
closed factory and business stagna-
ton were met by the Republican pol
icy Of Keep the factories going fun
capacity and the dinner pals fun
The free soup houses fell into disre-
pute. as the men were enabled to
make good wages and supply their
home tables with all they needed
Free coinage OF silver, ant-imper
ialsm and other subterfuges have
been resorted TO the past few cam
paiens, but the real issue has been
to reduce tho tariff and ultimately
have free trade. throwing our mar /
kcts. which are the best In the world F.
open to the shoIs of foreign con-
tlnents shops where none Of the
worlimcn make as high a scale as
the American mechanics average, F.
and IL the foreign worRmon supply .
our markets with even part or
what we need It win mean not only
that some Of our workmen cannot .
work as there win not be work
enough for them all but also that
the remainder who do work will have
to hc satisfied with lower wages, be-
cause the foreign made articles pro-
ducod by the workman who gets low
er wages can be sold for less in Amcri-
ca than those produced here, where
our workmcn ought To receive better
wages. and which they cannot re-
ceivc unless foreign made goods are
compelled to pay a tariff high enoush
TO increase their cost to that Of the
American made goods.
Go into any retail shop in the
United States and ask the merchant
who has charge Of it, win he advise
You to 80 TO some other shop con-
trollod by n competitor and get cx-
actly the same article for less money? .
Suu this same merchant may be a
free-trader and insist that you ought
to be put into position where you can
buy the foreign made article for less
than Il can he produced at home. He
NAV say that you get the benefit OF
IL; but do you when YOU know that It
is az the expense Of the American
by far, most Of the
people are workers Of some
sort and they do not appreciate the
thought Of low prices FOR their pro-
iuce should they be farmers, or low
wages for their work, should they be
mechanics,
our Industrial plants now are far
more important and far-rcachine
han they were twenty years ago and
would not be i'm their present state
inless they had been fostered against
he pauper labor Of other countries
rhe American workmen, even e he
Toes have to perform stupendops du- :
les, IS stlll the best paid ava best ,
workman Of the world, Poor
wages cannot enable him to continue
n this state, to own his home. clothe, :
iced and educate his children. II
'ou take part of his wages away from ,
lin, some of these good things that $
lie has enjoyed will have to be for
cited. II you take his work. away :
rom him outright, letting the Euro
,ean workman have what is his fair
you viii destroy his man
lood and make him dependant on
is country.
The American shops and foundrles
re the wonder Of the age. American
inventive skill has made the harvest
r, the sewing machine, type-setting |
nd printing machines. cotton ma
hinery. the telephone and telegraph, |
s well as hundreds OF other machines |
ossible. and II is but right that the
merlcan workman should have the