Show TARIFF ALL LABORERS our democratic friends are simple enough to claim that aly such labor ers as are protected can receive the advantages of a high for in stance the local democratic organ quotes as usual from another demo bralic paper attacking one of our tariff pictures relative to the difference of wages of bricklayers of this country and of england we do not import bricks they bay and consequently bricklayers cannot be benefited by the tariff such argument is very stupid even for a democrat if it bo true and no one can successfully refute it that a hiffa tariff adds general prosperity to the country it must of necessity create labor for the bricklayers our democratic Deme cratic friends are kind enough to admit that the wages of bricklayers are in this conn try are governed by supply anade mand that is the more demand there is for masons the higher their wages must necessarily be then it only remains for us to show that the protective tariff creates said demand we will take byway of illustration the tariff clause on tinplate tin plate that wont into effect wednesday this is pro rooting the manufacture of tin in this country eighteen companies are known to have organized for the pose of making tinplate tin plate so soon as they can get their shops built and supplied with machinery these stand ready to employ a whole army of masons to pat up millions of bricks for workshops and ware houses Is not that creating a demand for masons we think it is for if the increased duty on tinplate tin plate had not been made by congress capitalists ita lists would not have started in the tinplate tin plate industry the same holds true in hundreds of other instances even down to the laborer who works in the shops fost ored by a protective and who gets high wages and saves up enough to build a little brick cottage we have laborers aiji our woolen factory who have done this and the same laborera labo iera have worked in the woolen mills in england and scarcely got enough to subsist upon this demand for bricklayers croaton solely by a protective tariff tends to increase their wages as conr democratic friends anye conceded |