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Facts For Wage Earners

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
April
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Official statisticB show that during the last fiscal year more than one hundred milliou dollars were sent abroad to pay foreignere for doing work that could have been better done in this country. And this without taking into the account my of the long line of fabrica made from cotton, wool, silk, tlax and others fibers. Look at this list : Buttons and button material $ 3,130,573 Clocks, watchcs, etc 2.1O4.SM Coal and coke 3,203,974 Earthen, stone and china ware ".UlU.'.wii GrlaBS and glassware 7,851,570 Iron ore and pig. .. 6,103,639 Iron and iWel manufactures 32,751,647 Tiuned platea 30,746,437 Leather and manufactures 11,074454 Marble and stoue and manufactures.. 1,318,066 Musical instrument 1,731,528 Papar and inanufactures ,7'.l4.2w; l'aints and colors 1,887,707 Tobacco manufactures 4,(Mii.2:U Wood inanufactures 4,or-j,ii'.i Total $100,358,871 Although the labor required in making these árdeles could have been done by workmen in this country, although every dollar thus sent abroad might have been added to the earnings of American citizens who work for a living, the free trade attorney is not content with the propwrtion conceded to foreigners. With brazen disregard for the conveniente and necessities of our working people he demanda such change of the tariit' as will insure an increase of importations so long as European laborera can be forced to work for lower wages than are demanded for similar service in this country. The tariff reformer borrows no trouble from the problem of linding work for our people in those lines for which they are I by choice and education best fitted. He is content with the edict that Aniericans should be satisfied to raise cheap food and let those people who are willing to work for less wages than rule here attend to the manufacturing. The oracular Cobden Club has so decreed, and all its faithful fullowers cry amen! The protectionist insists that not only the $100,000,000 represented in the above list shall be turned into the pockets of the workers of this country, but that every additional dollar that can be prodently kept at home shall be turned into the same channel. The issue is too plain for misunderstanding, and the majorilv of voters cannot afford to permit themselves to be inveigled into support of a free trade policy, however ingeniously its attorueys may for the time disguise the real object of their labora.

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Ann Arbor Courier