Reduced To Compete With Americans

One of the stock arguments of the protectionists is that an account of the higher price paid to labor in this country, it is impossible for us to compete with the "pauper labor" of Kurope, and there"fore, a high tariff is necessary to balance up the difference betvveen wages here and abroad. They evidently do not choose to remember that every dollar's worth of our goods that are sent abroad gives the lie to this claim. In view of the protection theory on this question the following from the Guardian of Nottingham, England, under date of November 2oth last is of interest: "In consequence of the introduction' of American axminster carpeta under the name of moquette and 'gobelin' into the English markets, the Uritish syndicate of earpet weavers has been compelled to reduced the price of axminsters wtaile maintaining the quality as previously made. We shall, therefore, at a great loss, reduce all axminster carpets one shilling per yard. l'o compete witli AmericaiiB, a superior axminster. earpet will be offered at the price of bruSsels, and which, being jspecially for us, we are able to guarmtee as of good quality." Lowefcng the price of carpets nade by the "pauper labor" of "free trade" England to compete in their own markets witli Americans! Shades of McKinley, Reed, B. Harrison, et al, rise up and explain this thing away. How often have you assured the dear, silly people, and frightened them into voting tor a continuance of protection, that the high-priced(P) American labor, much of which has been imported from the decaying nations of the oíd world and is unable to read or speak our language, that we cannot pay the wages we do and compete with the "pauper labor" oL England. English carpets and English wages reduced to enable English manufacturers to compete with us in their home mdrket ! How much longer should American work men with votes in their hands allo themselves to be stampeded by thi "pauper labor" hobgoblin createc by the protected manufacturers fo revenue only, and spread broadcas by lying parasistic pbliticians fo the sole purpose of wooling the voters into voting against their own interests. The sooner the delude( carpet weavers of Yonkes and labor ers in other protected industries come to a realizing sense of this fact that by means of protection the manufacturers are enabled to pocket an income from their (the workmen's) toil greater by far than the waages of thousands of work-' men, the sooner will they cast their ballots in their own interest insteac of the interest of a class that has for years grown rich at the working men's expense. To protect labor without protecting the laborer is impossible. To claim that workingmen are protected by a duty upon rnanufactured goods while there is free trade in laborers is but the vaporing of idiocy. There is scarcely a protected industry in the country but what has at some time, while receiving the full benefits of the protection on their product, taken advantage of the free :rade market in laborers to reduce wages, or failing in that, to import cheaper labor from Kurope, to take the place of American workingmen. tt is high time, therefore, thatworkïngman become alive to their own interests and cease to vote protection for the benefit of their masters. If they are worthy the right of suffrage, they should not allow themselves again to be deceived by this protection to American labor nonsense.