Press enter after choosing selection

"behind The Dinner Pail."

"behind The Dinner Pail." image
Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
October
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

It has been well said that the Republican forcea this year fight behind the dinner pail. The men who work for wages nnderstand this ; the country has been turned into & debating club, and the tariff is the bone of contention. Never have the British influences been brought to bear more thoroughly and systematically.and the Democracy more a'bsolutely united on breaking down our protective system ; and never have the Republicans taken a more decided l stand, under the genius of that orof HenryClay.the gallant McKinley, for the system of protection to can industries. The question is, Shall the dinner pails be empty ? It is thesystem which Henry Clay and Horace Greeley demonstrated to be the one that would start industry into i Ufe. It brought the farmer and inanufacturer closer and closer together, relieving the farming land of its pressnre, thuB increasing wages and the demand I for the produce of the farmer. It not only relieved farmers and farm laborers of competition, and gave an ever inereasing Viome market for farm produce st high priees, bat it saved to the conBuraer the cost of transportaron by 1 thus putting the manufactnring establishment right down by the side of the j farmer. This system made itpossiblefor thousI ands to turn aside from agriculture and engage in other pursuite. It brought bread and butter and more of it to the laboring men ; and the result of the I election will be decided by the men who earry the dinner pails. The free traders who deny töat protection raises wages love to compare Germany.a "protection" country, and England, a "free trade " country. Free trade England, they say, pays higher wages than protection Germany. How I is this? But they fail to compare the two countries as to poverty. The Chicago Tribune says that 3,000,000 women and girls in England work for Buch low wages that "one might suppose tbey worked for amusement rather than for a livelihood." Half the working-class families in England are paruy mainlained by women. Surely where there is 80 much distressing, grinding poverty as there is in free trade England, it doesn't pay to compare rates of wages. There is this to be said of Germany, however, that her protective system is j young. The policy was adopted in 1879. The Nation, of New York, admitted, March 24, 1887, that thisuystem enlarged the opportunity for labor in Germany. ín 1883, there were 207,577 men engaged in mining black coal in Germany as compared with 170,509 in 1879. The copper mines, furnaces, foundries, and other branches of industry ehowed a like gr&tifying increase. Of course this had the tendency to raise the wages, and such an admission coming from the I most elegant free frade Journal in the United States, is significant to say the least. ____

Article

Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register