The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-06-24
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4 CALAMITY BOWLER.
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sometime yclept Matt Qudy'S plum
cnar Old simon Cameron was
the first Republican boss of that STATE
He was succeeded by his son Don
who was succeeded by Quay, who was
succeeded by Penrose. The present
boss halls from Philadelphia, a staid
old town whose Republican majorities
are only limited by the capacity Of the
ballot box stuf1ed to theg Orge by the
Republican ring. We all remember
how Tammany stood aghast when
Boss Quay, the chairman Of the Re-
publican national committee, in 1888
sent a Philadelphia ward politician on
10 New York to buy the vote of
Kings county, and that man, loaded
down with John Wanamaker's Doodle.
made Ben Harrison President of the
United States.
SO it will be observed that Senator |
Penrose was trained in a school of
practical politics as the game was
played in Philadelphia in the grand
old days when Quay was boss of 10Th
political parties.
The other day the Hon. Penrose |
was at Scronton and addressed the
populace and it was a tale of woe he
nayratated:
by the rivers Of Babylon, there we |
sat down, yea, we wept, when we re-
membered Zion.
we ndNScO our ndIDS upon the
willows in the midst thereof"
He predicted dire things the wicked
Democrats would do to the country
and declared that some of our indus
tries, sooner than be put to death by a
Democratic tariff. would go on their
travels and emisrate to Europe.
Well, there have been itinerant in
dustries. I'll tell you about one that
HnVAoS hnVno IN oil Moor hnnonhnldc
In the land-spool cotton. The G. O.
p, going through it's grand stunt of
creating n Industries in the dollhouse
of a protective tariff, put an enormous
duty on spool cotton. A Scotch con-
Germ had Guided up a very prosper
GUS establishment in that line at
Pla isted, perhaps. h American tar
m shut out the Scotch thread from
our mark ct, and that canny folk came
over here and set up establishment
In New Jersey and New England. A
trust was formed, and this Scotch
concern absorbed all the American
mills that made spool cotton. The
most of the stock of this immense
trust was held in Scotland. In Amer
ica the mills made spool cotton for the
American market only.
Here came Mr.. Dingley in 1897 and
increased the tariff duty on spool cot
ton out of sight. Whether that was
in discharge of gratitude for a cam
paign fun l know not; but this l do
know, that the price of thread ad-
vanced one cent a spool. They said
" was for American this was
done. The fact is that it enormously
Fwelled the dividends the Scotch
reaped from their american indus
try and every poor family in Amer
ica was taxed to swell those dividends.
You see those Scotch made just
enough thread in America to supply
the American market. At home in
Scotland they made the thread with
which to supply all the other markets
of the world. And this is one of
many cases where our tariM worked
Sor the benefit Of foreign capital.
And, by the way, right here let me
Remark that a member Of the British
Parliament, rated as n OF the great
est political economists OF Europe,
made O speech in England a few
weeks age in which he expressed the
opinion that the Democratic tarin now
pending in the American Congress
threatened to conquer from England
many neutral markets the monopoly
Of which England has long enjoyed
And when we get those markets we
will employ more b at
wages.
What is labor in this country?
nnNc seen tnc SlAtciaeAS "o -
per cent Of it is machiDe-that Is
that less han ten per cent or tn
physical force employed in u MILL
and shops in them anufacture o.
wares is human muscle. Now, tt
whom does that machine labor be
long? To the capitalists who own!
the mill, and that is the labor tha
the tariff protects, and the human IA
Dor employed to run 1t is taxed t.
protect thatm achine labor.
Here is one of the alarms the Hon
Penrose sounded in his calamit!
howl at Scranton:
I'm Holland mechanics are pai'
$40 a day. bricklayers $50 a day
carpenters 81 a day. n househol'
servants IS a month
Well, is any Dutch bricklayer Q
c%orpented building a house over Their
70 fatcb over horo IN cOmDote with