Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-11-01
SAYS SLEMP DIDN'T
STATE THE FACTS
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all other taxation, is IAN AVER
AGEE or THlRTY-ODD DOLLARS
FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND
CHILD IN THE COUNTRY" and
that "No other country. we believe.
is 80 heavily taxed" and submit
this editorial of an INDEPENDENT pub
LEGATION against Mr.. Slcmp's state
ment that eve run our government
mare cheapiy than any" other.
This is not the only misrepresenta-
ton, either ignorantly or deliberatly
made. in Mr.. Slemp's address, He
snys the tariff is the main issue; that
the main object of the tariff is to pro-
tect the laboring " man; that eve
tax only those foreign goods that
come in competition with the Auer-
lean wage Garner and the American
lab,rcr, - and that these get. by
reason Of this protection, from
81. 90 to 81. 90 per day." and that
he should not vote for Gen. Ayers I'M
less he wants these wages "cut in
two ON account of competition with
cheap foreign labor" Now. MIR.
Slomp knows that the only "laborcr"
who can theoretically or possibly get
any protection" by reason of the
tariff are those only who produce the
commodities upon which the tariff is
put all of which, practically, are
manufactured commodities
IN table No. 1l5, "Summarv of
Manufacturers" page 20S, of Alb
stract referred to, gives the total
number of 'wnge earncrs" and total
wages rnid in the United States for
all manufacturing Industries, for
1899 and 1909. For the year 1899
the number wns 4,7l2, 7G3, wages
paid 50, COS. 3Gl 10000; for the
year 1909 the number was 6,6l6, Ol6,
wages pnid $3,172. OBS, 600. 90; this
was I'M average annual wage in 1899
of $12. and for 1909 of SIS per
year. and $1.61 per day. and an in
crcnse of 81 IS per cent over 1899.
These figures nre for laborcrs engaged
in the "protcctcd manufacturing
industries in the whole country. #
we take the NEW England" and
"Midilc Atlantic States. the home
of the protected Industries and
where most of them operate, we find
from the same official figures, that
the annual average wages paid are
less than the average Of the country
Mt large, and that the increase in
wages paid in 1909 over 1899, in
only II per cent. M against p per
cent for the whole country IL is
generally accepted as true by all sta
tisticians that the "cost of living"
has Increased about GO per cent. The
same official abstract, page 55o,
gives the average cost of FOOD
ALONE for "workingman' fam
lily" for 1907, and it has materially
risen since that date Mt 1914. rs,
30 that we ace that the protected
laborer has less than $3.50 year
with which TO pay for clothing, rent,
lights. taxes, and all the other ne
cessities of life. Excepting the small
per cent of the highly skilled. there
arc no laborers" engaged In "pro-
tected' industries who get from $50
to 50. 90 per day" as stated by Mr..
Slemp. and the only class of aborers
in this country who get such wages
as Mr.. Slemp mentions arc those
whom the tariff does not effect in the
least degree, such as railroad laborers,
carpenters, painters, plumbers,
masons, bridge workers. farm labor
ers, who get no protection from the
tariff rs everybody knows.
The most amazing appeal MIR.
Slemp makes. however, is to the
"Bul Moose" voters He says that
he voted for the Payne tariff. and
voted against all of the six demo-
cratic tariff bills which recently pass
ed both houses OF congress and were
vetoed by the President and no
stands by this record and says that il
reelected he will vote the same way
on the same questions. Now every
body knows that every "Bull Moose"
in Congress, (then called "Insurgent
Republicans. B." who is now mem
Der of the Progressive" or "Third"
party and supporting Roosevelt, was
opposed to and voted, not FOR but
against the Payne tariff law, and fur
Their knows that each and all of them
voted FOR and not AGAINST the
six Democratic tariff bills which the
President vetoed, and that these bills
could not have passed the Senate but
or the Bull Moose vote they got. 1t
is also a notorious fact that every
Bull Moose delegate to the Chicago
convention voted AGAINST every
proposition supported by Mr.. Slemp
and FOR every proposition OPPOSED
by Mr.. Slemp. In other words, Mr.. 5
Slemp has never cast vote in Con-
gress or out of it, upon any bill or
issue involving The tariff or other
issues between the "Progressives'
and "Stand-patters which was not
cast squarely AGAINST the vote of