Show difference IN WAGES fance our dunnem now NOTT Coul loto with tho lowest bold inbur on baith here Is ii food tor for reflection for tho the farmer fanner who still things ho is 13 voting money in his biz when ile ho votes for protection if lie ho will ponder this fact sufficiently ho he will solve the eolo tariff problem it is ia quoted from fro ITI recent economic changes by david A wella indian corn coni can be ard and lim ims been extensively incised in italy but indian corn grown in tho valley of tho the mississippi it a thousand 1 miles from 1 the seaboard aboard Bc has bas bero been transported in recent years to Ita italy lynnd and sold in her markets it at a I 1 lower cost than the corn ol of lombardy ani ami venetia Venc tia tile baggs of the agriculturist are not one third of the wa wages cs paid in tile the united states for corresponding labor aud and onu one not surprising sc sequel ILlel of this is that abat ital ian lab laborers oters emigrated to tho the united states in asta in other grains and food prod net nuil in cotton it ii i i the same the 1 and kal 2 and 3 S a lay day labor of tho the united states competes with tho cheap labor of ru asia and often under undersell m ij it ii in its own markets thus v wheat heat can lie be in Dil Dakota roti where w wages igus are ys a day at 40 cents per bushel bus liel though it cannot be ba produced prod aced in prussia for lesa lem than 80 cents but wages wages thero hero tire only 15 6 per month As to england her wheat growers have boon driven out of existence by our dear labor and india and dussias Rus sias cheap labor such facts i is as these dinst settle the question forever with rational minds a to whether or not wages determine cos Z of production they did not do so fifty years ago when high w igo europe wn was supplying low wage asia with many in manufactured a articles still less do they do so now when ben with modern modem machinery awl and methods one man mail or a i boy will produce as much as ten men fifty years ngo ago what folly then to bay that on nil all imports coming coining in in con coin petition with the products of american labor there lie be levied duties equal to tho difference beti between veen wages at home and abroad and yot yet tins this is the serious declaration of the republican pasty in iti it minneapolis plat platform forni and it poses aj ad the he party of nineteenth century civilization liza tion these republicans persist in shutting their eyes to facts if mckinley had bad consulted tables of labor cost in different articles in different countries and bail made tariff rates only high enough to put american and foreign goods on oil a pir par p ir in our markets as to labor cost ills his rates would not havo have been one tenth as high as now but instead of consulting fig figures cires lie asked the manufacturers how much duty they wished arid and as congressman gres sinan wilson has shown practically left blanks for manufacture rs ra to till fill out and they often made duties higher than the total cost of production in auy country all for the benefit of the poor wae wage earner earne of course somo day the voting consumers will have intelligence and spunk enough to 0 suggest to the manufacturer that hitiris hi titis it ii time for him to remove hij hand from P pockets CAC ts |