The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-10-16
LABOR AND MONOPOLY.

one of tie most significant
seeeahes og GOV. Wilson's recent wsst
aFn souF vas made at Norton, Kan,
III winch he showed nP the shams q
TIE tariff philanthrapists.
rhat tie very men who have been
most successful u building up thel
trusts are also the FerB men who have
besn most successful in preventing
tie organization 81 labor was the
contention 81 GOV Wilson.
Don't you know he asked. that
one og the objects 81 their eombina-
lion IF 70 control the labor market
and d. you Imagine that they have
ever set deliberate plans for giving
sAe Workingman anything comparable
il the way d wages to tha proportion
oi sBe profits which they themselves
poekatg they d0 nCt have to give the
labo4iug man any more than he can
get Id tie competition market. And
they 10 not give him any more. AS
matter of TACT, some of the most
hIghlg protected industries ia this
country naY verg much lower wages
tAan the unprotected industries. And
some 0i Tie most highly protected "a
duatrisa pag wages that are below
she iyiH scale Al the same time That
the prices they are making are 50
great that they can build new factor
les ont Of their surplus every second
year Il is one ol the grandest pieces
81 blaEi ana humhug that has ever
h known IN the history ofipolitical
deception
II want to widen the market for
American labor want to see condi.
fions exist in which men will com
pete Cor American labor. want again
to see a time come when we shall
realize that the highest priced labor
ia the world is the cheapest labor in
tie world, that what is produced BY
brains and intelligence and skillful
touch Is great deal cheaper than
what Is produced By stupidity and
duIlness and the whip oi the master
q tell YOU this. that American la
imr ap q date IS the cheapest IN the
world Lean prove it American man
Hfaemrers compete tH foreign markets
Is the scale of goods manufactured 4
those markets. near those markets
by labor that receive only one-thirt
the remuneration of American labor
Now what does that mean? 1t meani
theE aan afford d pay American work
ingmen three times as much and still
undersell their competitors in the for
eien markets, and yet the America
HefliHgman IS told that the amoun
of his wages depends upon the protec
tive tariff II doesn't It depends VI
90 him. It depends upon what Is in
side his thinking box. And when yo
once get to q system Of regulates
monopoly. then you get to a system @
controlled labor, don't forget thai
Narrow the lines pf competition an
you stigFen the lines Of labor contro
Tou have not HOW a free market TO
yoaf commodities: for under this sys
fem 81 monopoly regulated or unreg
lated the monopolist can determin
tie amount of goods to be produce
ayt therefore determine the amour
Of laborers d be employed and th
prices mat the goods are to bring
Aa Ifravel from one part Of th
country fb The other continued th
governor. = see no essential diffe
ence among the people in the diffe
ent parts Of It The samc Thing
written ii their eyes and It is not
CLEAN of fierceness. Il rs q Light {
elseqnfiaenee They know what tbs
want and they know they are goin
to sci Il Anybody who supposes thu
economic gnWtionH aud political que
iiona ARE two different Things Is yei
much mistaken because these thins
have been Sc closely married vii
one anatHef ii our recent politics
practice that It Is impossibl4 to ai
erimlaate between them
and shs gives me an 0Bporiuas
6 allude to something that rea
eay recently H 90 Influential neR
HaHef G was ah editorial Il whie
must saf shal Tue editor did n
personally more ihan Justice But &