The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-02

1t was ike gettln lame ny Dein
among those present at boiler ex.
plosion."
The nations of Europe have been
conducting Investigations as to the
cause of high prices in Europe, and
the president of the United States now
recommends an appropriation of $780,
900 to pay our share of the expense
of an International conference to be
held at Washington, to propose plans
to the nations of the world for IAN
international inquiry into the high cost
of living"
The Logic Of the Last Campaign.
Notwithstanding all this, you gent
lemen won the last campaign by tell
ing the people that the Ubiquitous
Payne tariff law was the sum total
Of human depravity and the cause Of
high prices.
Nobody read the Payne law-that is,
not many people debut everybody
knew that prices were high. And for
campaign purposes it was sufficient 10
assume that because two things ex-
listed at one and the same time there
fore one was the cause of the other,
It was like saying there is malaria
in Washington. Congress sits in
Washington, therefore congress 10
the cause of malaria in Washington.
That kind Of an argument was a good
deal easier to make than the law of
supply and demand or the quantitive
theory of money.
You told the people who live in
cities that prices were high because,
by reason of protection, farmers were
getting too much for what they had
to sell; and at the first way station
out of town you congratulated the
farmer on the high price he was get
ting for what he had to sell to the
people who live in the cities, and you
will do it again.
But you never read to the Ameri-
can workingmen what Samuel Comp.
ers, after tour of Europe, reported in
June, 1910, as to the state of Ameri.
can labor in comparison with foreign
labor
THAT millions OF wageworkers now
have shorter workday by several
hours than 80 years ago.
That the present organization OF
employing capital has almost wholly
eliminated the uncertainty formerly
experienced by wageworkers as to get
ting their wages when due;
THAT constantly increasing wages
On the whole during the present gen
GRAFTON, considerably excelling the
rise in average prices, meantime car
be shown by the records of the wage
scales for the workers, organized ant
unorganized;
That the conditions for the educa
ton and normal growth of the you'll
of America never were better than to
day"
And
THAT looking over our whole broad
land there was never a greater pro
portion of home owners, never high
er level of comfort for America!
workers"
You never read this to any audience
of American workingmen. You tolt
them prices were high, and yo'
talked to them about the "iniquitou
Payne tariff law"
You never explained to the Ameri
can laboring man that his wage
would be reduced to the level of for
eign wages If protection were re
moved.
You simply told him he was a con
sumner, and that with lower tariff rate
; foreign manufacturers, paying lowe
wages than are paid here, would ge
chance at this market
But you did not tell him that by s.
much he displaces production here
and that by so much he displaces pre-
duction here he deprives American
labor of employment here and in
creases the employment of labo
abroad; and that by so much as h
forced prices down by competition, b.
so much he forces down Ameri ca
wages; and that by SO much as l.
forces down American wages he for,
e] down the purchasing power .
American labor.
You never rUld the American labor
ing man that it is of no advantag
10 man to be able to buy things
er cent cheaper when his wages ar
20 per cent lower or he is out of worl
entirely.
And you never told him that If tn
foreigner got control of our marke
prices would go up.