| Show SOME TAR TARIFF 1111 FACTS protection IS A DEL DELUSION AND I 1 SNARE FOR workingmen I 1 hie lie in nominal fur for UK the rn r rii n tirel n uc of cc s t or of totero tui urn lint bot I 1 ibcal reality I 1 ty only t the it 0 1 rr aro lie it eo by II 11 abe 11 lets of tilt tile cole cine tho the labor troubles nt at homestead liiv hav mailed a lively between pi 11 ali ali and I tariff as t whether the tariff h hall id anything to ti with those tho the pro pron r zionists point to tho the fact that labor t iron rou balci and strikes occur in free trade eng en lanil land as aa frequently as lit protection iF america and that it cannot bo be said that the tin tai iff is causo anil and flee trade the he this is uti unquestionably ques tion ably correct but in one very important respect the answer is not enill chent one of the iho main rig lilliene lilli ent coil constantly and vociferously urged in tavoi of high protective duties is that they aro arc not only to aid the iho r lit making industrial production but t that hat the tai unit iff lo Is e especially intel intended bcd to a meliorate ameliorate tho the condition of tile the at anian noi ican workmen beyond anything hitherto known it is ii to to him constant employment and high anti and steady wages it is to enable lim him to own liis ills house and lot to havo have tho the comforts of a homo home and a considerable amount of tile the enjoy ments of civi civilized lizeLl society it is ii to insure him biln unless he be very imprudent against want and cal caie e ill in his old ae ac it is in short to fecile to lim conditions of life with which lie ho would have every reason creaso u to ho be content such promises cs lai inn e been anti and aro are poured into the a airs ire of boikin men especially at clec election tion times when kllc i the labor vote is wanted for tile protectionist party A largo portion of the labor vote has actually been won in ili that way way for alm high tariff policy and it is by to no surp surprising that tile workingmen should havo have taken tho the depre representations sensations enade to them seriously Accor according dirig to what they have been told they havo have reason to believe that the tariff laws were cunado m do specially for their benefit that in the matter of employment and wages the american workingmen aro are to lie be much less dependent upon tho the state of tha labor market and upon the vicci vicissitudes of business than working men in ili free trade countries are that they may I 1 claim a sharo share in ili tho the profits made by tile tho establishment in which they aie em aloyed with a better right anti and to a larger extent than can bo lit claimed by I 1 workingmen not it protected by a tariff that they will be taken excellent caro care of somehow whether by their employers or by the power that made the tariff law it is easy to see what notions of right light and what expectations of benefit may thus be encouraged in the minds of the credulous and how those minds aro are thus us prepare prepared for or the 0 elci exciting ing 1 appeals of the ag sri i dut but the tariff laws say nothing about wages or continuity of employment the fulfillment of the made by the protectionists projectionists in ili behalf of the tariff is ii not provided provida for in the statute a that fulfillment is left to the most immediate beneficiaries of the protective system tho the manufacturers there may b ba a manufacturers who run their establishments as aa benevolent institutions and who think first of their workingmen and last of but it is not in human nature that there should bo be many of this kind most manufacturers will manage their business on ordinary business linuci principles ples they will have a keen eye to their own profits it if managers of stock companies they will vill consider it a matter of justice as aa well as of pride to I 1 secure large dividends to the shareholders they will ordinarily pay to lo tile workingman ginan not agi much as they might but as much as they must or to express it less harshly although thel their ir i profits might allow it they are arc not likely I 1 iu in the payment of wages to go much beyond I 1 the market rate and whenever profits are endangered by unfavorable circumstances they will resort to whatever may serve to prevent a deficiency clen cv a reduction of wages among other otheal things the workingman ginan who is M not an all unreasonable reabon able being will submit to a reduction or of his wages when ho he sees the necessity of it but he will ba tho rooi 0 unwilling to admit such it necessity under any circumstances tile tho more i 2 eison eason he be lias has been given to 1001 upon himself as ab at least one of the intended beno ticia nc idries ries of the laws which have doile eo much to make his employer rich lie will be rather inclined to argue that under these laws he be had hardly had tho the full share of the beric benefit fit that was prow prom L sed to linn lain and that homebody else hil hai unlawfully made off with willi it a largo larg 0 portion of what was I 1 5 due andia and if upon aliis view of the casu case the laboring man works out for blin himself self a theody of if rights lights far beyond this we not be altogether astonished to lind find that the tariff with all those promises with which it has been commended to tho the favor or of workingman the working mai has bacome one of the most effective ral cativo pr kropa pa gators of socialistic ideas th the workingmen will gradually open their eyes to the fact that those fair i peeches havo most cirelly deceived them they hai e only to look at tile hie lates of wages in ili tho the different countries 3 of the world to satisfy sati fy themselves thit that high wages are not caused by a high protective tariff anti and that low wages wage sare are not caused b by y the absence of it a hi high 11 wo are constantly told when comparing american waa with eug aug lih li ih wages that wages in the united states stater me aie much higher than wit hiis s in I 1 eai englund Eng land luid because we aro arc bleis d with a protective system whilo while eli england aland is i not hut but it is a notorious fact that wages ill in free I 1 tralle ride england range muth bibber hi hr than wages in fit Gerni ferniany any anti and in it other Euro pLau countries bler blessed sell with a pro tariff now if in fit one high tariff coun country t ry wages ire are higher than in fit one free trado country and if at tile the same baroo tima wages wao es in ill that 12 five fo trade country colin are higher than haa in fit several bevc ral high tariff counti countries lea then it cannot lo be 10 I 1 eliat hat the high tariff malea i a 11 high it rt re wages aej lid tile absence of tilo ta iff low one it if the pursue purdum his big i iu iris further lie will find that lurin that famous when the unita states had a low tariff front from to lc 1661 ara wages eq biro were v ere as much bigl lii lt ter WS ns n s those in any european country a they qa tire are now flow anil and thit that during tuat that ar low period chry were steadily ail liri 1 lie will ind find that wages IT in tj this 1 I 1 chounn i have always been higher than thai 1 I 1 Europ tiro pea ci wages n not t on oil abc acc account ol 01 I 1 at of al any ly t tariff I 1 but on oil account or of the sin lonn dins us the large quantity 0 i cheap fel fertile tile and 1111 easily accessible I 1 in ina the almost i inexhaustible at ul variety of natural ill ian atins ci the I 1 for fruitful activity tile tho exception ia 1 ci orgy ergy und productiveness of labor in ili tin till country anti and ro co on lie ile will find that tile wages of perti si I eli engaged in such libel labor as is not protect i by any tariff at all i such cc cos r companies comp inias house sarn ants brickle brick la erg carp culters ba longshoremen plasterers anil alli ini in i others aio among the highest coniam with corresponding wages it in burup finally lie ho will find that hut and wages are MS its dc on the ll LA 11 0 market the of in ili iiii iii 1 I tariff america as in ili free trade england anil and no less that labor organization have as much enuch influence upon such tai 1 iain 1 bugl hero bore as in I 1 england awl and no more aai aa that tile tho with which the I pro iro ro policy 13 COIll mended to tile tho faaoi fir oi of the laboring men cannot possibly lit I 1 fulfilled by any tariff law andare aud aro then herf fore a 1 delusion delu siou and a snare harpe i weekly |
