Show r America as a Standard i iT 4 riIS TT IS highly probable that in the coming discussions discussions dis dis- in congress of the new tariff bill the I brief but pointed speech of President McKinley before the Home Market club of Boston a score of years ago on the question of free trade will willbe be De quoted by advocates of a protective tariff In Inthis Inthis this his speech President McKinley declared I will tell ten you when we can have free trade Whenever the nations of the world bring their conditions up to ours whenever they will pay to their labor the same wages that we pay to ours I When they will do that we will meet them in inthe inthe inthe the neutral markets of the world and it will bethe be bethe the survival of the fittest But so long as the I workingmen know the power and the majesty of the the ballot banot we will never bring our country down to theirs A revenue tariff levels down a protective tariff levels up A revenue tariff would cheapen products by cheapening men a protective protective protective tive tariff would cheapen products by elevating men and getting from them their best skill their best genius their best invention As to a protective tariff for America that question was definitely ly settled by the results of the national election However it is deemed proper to make a comparison just in one instance to show the difference between American and foreign wages The average pay of the fo four r departments of labor in n glass blowing In in America is a month for seven hours' hours work while in Belgium the average pay for the same kind of work is 55 a month for eleven hours a day Not only in respect to wages and living conditions conditions conditions con con- of workers has Ame America ica become a standard standard standard stand stand- ard but since the beginning of the W World orId war our financial and general economic condition not to mention the measure of our charity has become f a standard for the remainder of the globe |