Show HOW protection PROTECTS evea lively boy or girt girl 12 years old knows th that at the principal theory of republican protection la is to protect the american w kingman from the cheap labor competition poli tion of foreign coun countries coundrie trie and from that it aill n ill bo be seen that the favored many inacy thus protected form the bulwark of american liberty itself ogden stain taid that protection protects none will deny but it does not and never has protected the workingman of america from cheap labor competition of other countries it protects the manufacturer the rich corporations corporation and the trusts and enables them to pile up their millions but it has made a sad failure if it ever er made the attempt to better the condition of laboring men As wm win D kelley the great republican leader from pennsylvania said in congress in march 1872 men llen are on the free list they cost U us a not even freight we ve pro mote free trade in men ard it is the only kind of free trade we are prepared to promote see congressional record and lion ilon john F miller republican ii can senator from california Cali fornis suid skid in 1882 the avera average e american manufacturer fac is interested crested in t genei generally ally in two things namely the hi highest hest protective tariff and the cheapest lalor labor it is not nol difficult to perceive ceide the origin of that political economy chich suggests limb high protective te tariff and at the sa same time advocates tes the admission of servile laborers without limit it means dhigh high prices for the products of manufacturers and low prices for the labor that produces them greater wealth to I 1 the wealthy and greater poverty for the poor and during the tha homestead labor riots of 1893 1892 in harrisons administration grand master work maat dian T V powderly Pow deily ly of t the he knights of labor say haild in an article be wrote fur the north no b american Amei ican review september the ilie carnegie Cir Cow negie steel company and like concerns 1 cerns owe their pros I 1 to ohp tl protective laws of the united states these laws lana tere nere passed in ia the interest of labor during ion on the tariff law laii a 8 it ans advanced asa as a reason why they should be that capital wo we id be protected the argument ass as always that labor would be protected the workman 1 lias has no not been bee protected fi aiom om foreign competition compe titio halto by the government ile has fight the battle for himself through the labor aaion noll not only has ho be had bad to fight alaio st foreign competition largely atti attracted acted by our delusive dolus ive tariff flaws laws but he be has had to wage war with the employer employ er for a bhare of that protection which his government decreed by lai la that he should have our government has enact ed protective legislation in the interest of labor if we read congressional speeches aright but it quiescently allows the manufacturer to absorb the bulk of protection and then throws its armies around the establishment as the slightest provocation when the workmen ask for what their government admitted that they had a right to enjoy |