Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-10-24

due to overproduction. when the
truth was az YOU know. md as
know. aud as more thhn four millions
OF unemployed men knew. that 1t was
due to undcr-consumption. IL was
the day OF coSeys armies, and when
millions OF men irampcd all night
long looking for a place to sleep
ana tramped all day long hunting for
work and heggine for bread .|
lie, me make The relation Of tho
tariff to the prosperity of the coun-
try little clearer When labor is
well employed and well paid Il can
buy the products OF the farmer aud
Of the factory it brings prosperity to
the merchant aud To the business
man. when a thing is produced in
America. this country has both tho
ahorer Who produced II and tho gold
that pays for Il, all material parts Of
the power and greatness Of the ma
ton.
But lei us suppose that man
buys a suit of clothes. the cloth FOR
which ~ made Ia Germany. Germany
has the farm upon which the sheep
are grown and from witch the wool
is clipped. she has the men who work
the farm and shear the sheep. the
men who transport the wool To the
factory. the mtn who furnish the
material and construct The machinery
aud the building IN which the cloth
IL woven. the men who da The Weav-
mg. the proprietor of the factory who
makes the profit on the labor Of al
of these men. she has the ships IN
which the cloth is brought to the
United States and the sailors who
man the ship, she sets the American
gold that pays for the cloth The
American who buys the cloth wears
II out What then have We sot9
The tariff laws should be so con-
slrueted that nothing produced
abroad can compete Ia our home mar
kets with things that we can produce
until all our labor is employed Near (
stunned is represented hv labor. aud
when We buy abroad. SO long aa We
have an unemployed labor,r at home.
we are feeding the foreign working
man while our own working man is
hunting Job and may hc hungry and
begging for bread
How has the tariff helped the
American lahorerr
During the operations Of The Ding
ley high tariff law, the Moscly COM
mission came from England to this
country and made careful study OF
labor conditions In twenty-thrco OF
our principal cities. The investigation
covered twenty eight trades. Thcg
found that the American nboior
worked shorter hours ate better food,
wore better clothes sent his children
to better schools and after all had t
al the end Of the year about fifty-five
per cent more money for the savings
banks or with which to buy home
than was possible for his British
brother engaged in similar trades.
The British hoard Of trade, which
In It's duties to u combs
nation Of our departments Of agricul-
ture and commerce, sent a corps of
60 this country four
years ago. and after careful investiga
ton by experts. covering a period OF
six months. the conclusion was the
same as that OF the Mosely commits
sion. only owing to advance In wages
he net profits of the American labor
Il were placed at sixty per cent in
most lines and as high as seventy
per cent In others above those Of the f,
British Iaborers
Both commissions united In giyins ,
'redil to the protective tariff laws for
he great advantages enjoyed by the
working man.
Notwithstanding all Of these Off
lal showlngs by men who were mere
y seeking Tor facts. Notwithstanding
he fact that these foreign experts
ound American labor the happicst
nd the best paid under tn" Blended
ravens, the Wilson administration
las insisted upon putting the Ameri-
an laborcr IN competition with
lot only the cheaper labor Of Europe
nut with the Chinaman who Is paid
ess than ten cents a day, ana the Jap
Who is paid an average Of from ten }
O Fifteen dollars a month for thirty 4
Working days of eleven hours each, }
Facts have demonstrated that the 1
emocratic party is economically
irong and that the republican party !
! economically right. and that there
an be no permanent prosperity IN !
MS nation except through the poll
les of the republican party, based
pom the protective tariff for the en- Z
of all our industries and
n the independence Of American la =
or from competition with the under
II ana under-clothed laborers of Eu-
'pe and Asia.