The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-09-05

Itheorizing lie believes that in fire,
trade lies the remedy for all the eco
nomic ills of the times and that witt
the country on free trade basis, thu
PROBLEM of the high cost of living
would be solved. A study even II
Ibrief of the conditions under which thu
laboring classes, the common people of
free trade counties exist Is sufficient t.
convince the American laboring man Of
the fallacy Of the Wilson theory. Hi
knows that If his labor is not protect
ed his wages will soon be lowered very
materially and in time he will be for
tunate if he receives wages at all. II
is but step further in the process Of
reasoning that enables him to realize
that labor is best protected by the re-
publican protective tariff, that prohib-
its the foreign manufacturer from buy
ing cheap labor at home and selling
his products in competition with the
protected articles made in the United
States.
| Mr.. Wilson has many other theories
some of which might work out for the
benefit of the common people" of
whom he is so fond of talking in his
campaign speeches and writings. OPP
posed to him and the party he repre-
sents, however, is the republican party
whose principles have been tried and
found practical. 1t is the party of pro-
lection, under which policy the Amer
lean working men and those dependent
upon them are enjoying greater pros
perity, due to better wages. than has
ever been enjoyed in the nations his
tory. And yet, if the working man
feels that he has just cause for COM
plant because his dollars will not go
as far in purchasing the necessities of
life, he has the satisfaction Of know
ing that he has more OF them than he
ever had when the purchasing power
of each was greater.
1t is doubtful II there is a section of
the United States where the issues of
the present campaign come home with
more directness and force than in the
Occur d'Alene district. There are few
er sections of the country where the
effects of tariff revision will be felt
sooner. The products of the mines are
the bone Of contention between the
advocates of protection and free trade
and no one will deny that if the demo-
cratic party is placed in power, one of
the first acts of congress that may be
expected is a removal of the tariff on
those products. With the tariff re-
moved and the opportunity given to
other lead and silver producing coun-
tries to flood the markets with their
product mined with cheap labor, min
ing in the Occur d'Alenes under the ex
listing conditions, and the only condi-
tons that can exist. would be unpro-
'itable and the closing down of the
mines, wholly or in part, the inevitable
result. This is admitted by democrats
as freely as by republicans. The hum
blest laborer in the mines knows 1t to
be true as well as the man for whom
he works. What a man will do when /
he goes into the booth to cast his vote
IS an uncertainty, always, but there is |
every reason to believe that The voters
1f Shoshone county will not be tempted
BY the promise Of reduction in the |
cost Jf some Of the things that enter |
he list of necessities to voting for the
Of the party pledged to such
legislation as will remove his power to
'arn the high wages he and his family
ire getting the benefit of under the
'epublican protective tariff.