The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-01-29

YES, MR.. ,GoMpERs, wEscAN HAVE 1894 AND 1914 OVER
Samuel Gompers says 'A'<>'''
* " en- never 5ss1 sgsi1 h have :s;. a .s condition N s q Unemployment such
learned that no longer ago than in 1914, when IS many men were
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81 sho a$S4 h sns b 5s1e' m %s T in Am 1%RSes'ns Shops tqsn By a1 A%s1i sss'e Worf Hn'sn
The trouble with many political leaders. including Mr. Com
t tmf;a business bust ess' enterprise sql s can b be CO compelled i. to 1 operate tie at a loss.
f 1ais has T nt t aaRRs peiicS u Of TN NJ pa sea aps i p ~a1 mot 9tf ssepf fo A N tas
lean enterprise a differential equivalent to labor costs at home in
in power says to the Am American productive st enterprise TrSs :, We expect
you to pay a higher scale Of wages than. prevails elsewhere in the
than are to be found in Europe, Asia: or South America, but we
dem ds%a 'a{;s that nT ,ySa shall ns submit sn,a,oy yG 's9:s1 e. T. To- 2,. ,Si7f 1sx.e ee s9sssss,s
of wages and living, and continue to operate your business wheth-
CT By : SUCH eSG = policy y y%Pe can lead e ,Gs a S horse y to % va ee" but you can't
make him drink. In the alleged desire to cheaper costs to the
f fsfpsies so mp RsisS frd R1v 11f sS1os saa to Sn a%s1''s foreign Rssspe s6mps sa-
II; IT, shf E ss$s il il t. Is p S%s;;5:s cost; ts5eSx 18th the S s%:;p ssss IT +
burdens, make the sacrifices. pay the taxes incident to operation
the American market over any alien producer who: is subject to
no such burdens. And we demand Of you not only that you shall
s : than prevail elsewhere in the world, faat' We refuse to n' give e! you
eRsap e9aRs through as9 fSs ssc Gass y cf human aasn S Ss9aes'" who WI" att@ins
We know what happens when this policy is put in operation by
et enrichment tain a Of American s'' production u tt a's cost "A American ri ae1 labor ss
much money a, as we have expended in 4! conducting our part in the
a ,ss!sf e %tt # jobs JOB 'i IA ese I Sn a$sd? 5 Sc ts!si because xsss 's sfs s %!is9 % %ss
saddled with q tariff law which substituted alien for American
production in the American market.
- ,Mr.G onpers and the free trade pedagogues and demogogles
may issue their ukases against unemployment in the United States
- .bTft their edicts will have no more effect than the fat.King Canute
.a$13hst the advancing waves of the ocean, unaccompanied by
This fact has been demonstrated until even the kindergarten class
in economics ought to understand; we cannot do our buying
abroad and keep our factories going at home. Moreover; by the
policy OF sacrificing home production in the interests of foreign
production, we muct the American consumer as we'll as the Amer
lean producer in the long run, for once given control of the Amer
lean market by the destruction of the domestic production, the
alien producer, not being entirely phianthropic in it's purposes,
will proceed to charge the American consumer all the~rafic will
bear with the home production eliminated.
1t is greatly to be regretted that the dominant Democratic pol
iicians, instead of giving off this big talk to the effect that they
are never again going to pernnit@an American wage Garner to be
out Of a job, do not turn to the task of making their words good
by the enactment Of protective legislation which will make i'm
possible the return OF that condition of unemployment which was
prevalent in normal times under the existing tariff law before the
European war began. If they do not, not only will the prophesy
Of MI. Gompers turn out to be false, but we will see restored in
this country the conditions which have accompanied every Demo-
cratic tariff era, most recently in 1894, and under the Wilson Cor
manG tariff law, and in 1914, under the Underwood Simmons tariff
law.
The situation cannot be camoulflaged by demogogical talk to
the effect that it there is unemployment through the courtai]ment
OF production, the employing producer will be responsible for it
because OF his dev1lsh desire to smash his own business. The
greatest menace to the prosperity of the United States now ex-
lstng is the tariff policy of the Democratic party. If Mr.. Com
pers has a genuine interest in the welfare of the American wage
Garner he should use his influence to bring about the adoption of
Lincoln was elected President in 1861 declared, brings productive
enterprise remuneration, to labor profitable employment and TO ag-
rculture a fair return for capital invested and labor employed. =