The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-09-17
GOV. MARSHALL
DEN0UNCES HIGH
TARIFF MEASURE
Declares Theory Gives Beneficia.
ries Monopoly on Products and
Free Trade on Labor
DEN0UNCES KANSAS STEAL
Vice Presidential Nominee Declares
He Would Rather Lose State
Than Win Through Trickery
DEN0UNCES KANSAS STEAL
Associated Press Dispatch.


St. Joseph, Mo, Sept. 16.--High
protective tariff was denounced by
Governor Thomas r. Marshall, DEM
ocratic nominee for Vice President,
In speech here tonight He de-
clared the policy "gave tariff bene-
ficiaries a monopoly on products and
free trade on labor" The governor
said:
Impressed as I have always been
viewpoints of the injustice of the
high protective tariff, | have not
wasted much time in studying it's
practical workings. Revelations,
startling in their character, force
themselves upon us, however These
revelations furnish economic reasons
in abundance for change,
"Take the argument that the
high protective tariff has been main
tained for the benefit of the Ameri-
can working man. What do the
facts disclose? They disclose that
we have given the tariff benetciaries
monopoly on products and fur
nished them free trade in labor.
Workers Mostly Foreigners.
Figures compiled by the United
States immigration commission re-
veal that three-ffths of the workers
in our protected industries have
come to the United States from
southern and eastern Europe since
the reason was advanced that we
must have a high protective tariff
for the benefit of the American
working man.
= Analysis of the figures reveals
that the average wage per family
has been $50 per month; that only
forty per cent. of the families are
supported by the heads thereof; and
that in the iron and steel industries
one-tenth of the family earnings is
made by the children, while one
fifth comes from boarders and lodg
ers. In seventeen thousand house
holds examined there were two hun
dred forty-six persons for each one
hundred sleeping rooms. The hous-
ing conditions challenge adequate
description.
IAN investigation of the twine
plant at Auburn, New York, of the
International Harvester Company,
presided over by that disinterested
patriot and philantropist, George w.
Perkins, revealed that women
worked from ten to twelve hours
each day, standing all the while in
rooms the most unsanitary, and
earned dollar day. Overworked
and underfed, they are sapping out
their lives and sapping the lives of
posterity that the system may exist.
If the farmers of this country are as
patriotic and humane as believe
them to be, they will next year bind
their harvests with rag garters, un-
less these conditions change.
Cites Lawrence Case.
"a word will suffice for the reve
lation OF conditions at Lawrence
Mass, where wage-earners getting
$500 a week were insulted by the
advice to open up an account with q
trust company. Such information as
the government has been able to OBJ
tain by its tariff board shows that
the labor cost Of weaving a yard Of
cloth is five cents, while the tariff
duty for the benefit of the laborer is
$1.02. Who got the other 81
cents?"
Governor Marshall then told of
two Indiana implement concerns
which he said had opened branches
In Canada. He added: 'T have NO
definite knowledge why these in.
dustries opened up In the British
domain, but | hazard a guess that
the effect of the protective tariff on
raw material and on trade relations
with the world has convinced them
that they can do more business and
make more money while operating
under the British empire than under
the American government"