The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-02-01
WASHINGTON LETTER
Forty Big Type Poland Chinas in Sale
at Butler, Mo.
Special Washington Correspond.
ent of The Times.

ent of The Times.
:eS By CLYDE II. Tavepuer. '1s4r.
Tor Washington, D. C.-Here is some
pc more evidence of how protection
Id does not protect the workingman..
n, The following is an extract from
[r. the appeal sent by the $1,000 men.
of women and children striking textile
i'll workers at Lawrence, Mass, to VIM.
b. M. Wood, president of the wooden
vs. trust:
n. I'VE are of the opinion that YOU
t. have had ample time to consider the
n demands Of the men, women and
If children who have made the Ameri-
= can Wooden Company what it is today.
e In view of the fact that machinery has
d been improved, the workers turn off
: more and more work, but they are
4 not paid accordingly, even though the
price of food, clothing and shelter has
in many cases increased so and even
lOO per cent within the last few years.
I'VE, the committee, are willing to
meet the officials of the company at
auy time and submit the grievances
OF the strikers. So if you believe in
square deal you will not refuse to
meet with us, but will come forward
at once and try to bring the trouble
to final conclusion. You must bear
in mind the fact that these workers
have not gone on a strike for light
or transient reasons, but because thew !
could no longer bear up under the :
burdens laid upon their shoulders. -
The American Wooden Company has
within the last few years built several
mills, which are paid tor, according to
your own figures, and the company
has even in the worst of time managed
to pay dividends.
The workers are of the opinion
that the only competition left is the
struggle among themselves for a
miserable job at S., 81 or S. week."
This is how Schedule protects"
the workingman, solely for whose
benefit the payne-Aldrich bill accord |
ing to Payne and Aldrich was passed.
Since=the protectionists admit that
Schedule X, which places heavy tax
On every article of wooden clothing
sold in the United States, was de-
signed "solely" to benefit the work.
ngmen in the wooden industry, and
since the S., 81 and So wages paid by
ne wooden trust demonstrates beyond
successful contradiction that Schedule
does not protect the workers, why
hould the American people longer
olerate Schedule X?
Important Data Disappears
Several months were spent by Hon.
onathan Bourne, progressive Repub- i.
can senator from Oregon, in gather
g data on the subject OF the use of -
ederal patronage to control national -
inventions. One night recently his dow
flee was entered, and his files were legi:
oted OF all this material. App
The Fallacy of Protection to M
Whenever an American trust wants Wha'
tariff tax increased, it. bases its -----
ca on the argument that american
cannot compete with wht
cheap labor of Europe" s %li1 i,
In eleven months of last year the r. ke cor
ports of iron and steel products, li.gtol
!ether with agricultural implements Misso1
4 freight and passenger cars, in the the
ounted to nearly s27O, 600, 0OO-an C ctss e,
Of about ST. 600; 600 over the 99s sea
period of 1910. y: And Ind
hese materials are exported from note, :
country to all parts of the world, BY said
ne face of the competition of Eng 'e Ana
d, Belgium, Germany and France. t tse; !:
steel trusts foreign competitors p Irats y
the advantage of that Cheap Mo! Nov,
"" which the trusts pretend to proyld
so greatly whenever a proposal viii vii ~ :,
,,do ~ l,u,,, a.. A:ee W. ~, seribed
'ouo " Ao"eI Tic taTiII. YET the east do<
It's trade in foreign markets is 'er' 10
stantly on the increase. How e''o
n longer will the American con. + T. tie )"
ers allow themselves to be fooled % ne, ~ sn :
he trust "logic?" deed at'
Taft and the People -"
resident Taft, in his recent speech
New York, used these words:
e people are not always able to.
de what is best for them. Agreat
y men who believe this TO be true
the courage to say it.
explaining that the people do n6tq -
lys know what they want. the