Show A correspondent in england writing on political questions says from of what is goiri on we aro forced to conclude that the leal question in this contest is the labor question in a different sense from that ordinarily intended by the buds it is a campaign for arther reducing it to its last analysis it is a campaign for the home itself the work ingmans homo better dwellings bet ter pay better sanitary condition fewer houra better protection in law better prospects for old aga after life of honorable toil these are the issues so far as the masses are concerned the british workman list cow is almost desperate as he may well be in his demand that a cliance shall b afforded afford td him to accomplish three reason able objects to earn a decent livelihood to ave in a decent habitation nd to save himself in advanced life from the awful disgrace of the poor bouse how very serious he is in the demand he makes for these reasonable is attested in a most striking by the attitude toward him of those now asking for his suffer aee if straws show which way the wind blows so just as surely do politicians know which way the wind blows everybody now is tho friend of the workingman that explains why the wily premier now denounces free trade he does it in tho interest of the laboring man he knows fall well that the foundation stone of protection za benefit to labor the united states levies a protective duty simply and solely in the interests of the laboring classes always reckon first what is the difference in the coat of protection of an at home and before levying a tax on the foreigner every cabe it bathe difference in ages that calls for the duty american laborers are better paid than any other class of on the face of tha globe and in order to keep ap thia condition the protective tariff is imposed if our workingmen were to be ground down to the scale of wages paid in europe then could be manufactured in the united states all articles as as they are manufactured in the old world but we hope our intelligent tell igent american workmen may never be brought that low so it is in the interest of american labor that our protective system is maintained and it is in the interest of english labor that lord has been forced to acknowledge that freo lu england has been a failure whenever a foreign country puts on enga wares a protective duty that tax falls beay iest on the english workmen when the united states imposed a duty on welsh tinplate in the interest of our own laborers and tinplate tin plate began to be manufactured in abib country then the price of tinplate tin plate in english markets bagan to fall the welsh manufacturers have had to reduce the price to the extent of our tariff in order to get beyond our ports aad compete with domestic production and while they are making that reduction they are grinding aown the welsh labor era no wonder therefore that we hear of great sufferings amon british laborers and hear of abs tbs best statesmen in briliant talking of free trade as a failure |