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Wages In America

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
March
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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TSkt: is no loaoon whatever wliy every mm ui the United Stitfes should not be ■tefio pay such ratea of wages and ■rik priees for cominixiities ,us shall ■(■rally rwnilt from the freo and unítaliíeted competition oï Ril onr own Wbeti tradi' between a people is perJBcCty free, as in this country, there canaat. n the average and in the long run. BWagher wages paid to those employed SMDeinduMry tlian to those in unother. ■Hbencver any one industry gives indiMhon that the c-ompensation paid to Soa engaged in it is on the average 9Hler than the compensation paid in oütcr oecupatvjus, the industry paying ehigher compensation is invaded by ajpn om the occnpation paying less, hé Yünfi wages constantly tend to an poLfizarion. This invasión may contbaic to a point at which, by the over■tecting of the labor market in the Jtaotwl industry, wages inay finally defc t-' a point lower than the average MÍRprevailing in other industries. onder the Democratie policy, if wages ftH ir. Europe our industries stand in hiBKer of destruction. On the other Immi while professing to te the special SÉnd of the workingman, the Demo■ie party woald set on foot a policy wáiicti would render impossible any iii■■Bf in the wages of our own people. Jt tariff wall should be erected so high rtno possible reduction of wages in ■tanoge would enable the foreifrn manufchirer to scale it. It should be so high Mort absolutely nothing but the compeIWon. of our own workinen with one aBBKnrr would fix wages in this country. Stat is competition enongh among 2?,.■■.OOo workers. The people in this wprr' are entitled to snch wages aa re■Éifroni ti)(. unrestricted competition own producen, _jk. the debate on the tariff in both ■bci of congress long discussions were Shl' to the exact amount of düty rftech should be levied on imported fjwwis :;.■ make up for tho difference bem't wsges in thi.s conntry and wages afcoad. In these discussions the Demobuf flFected to admit that their object ■w to keep the duty at such a point as "i1'1 nrovide for the difference. och au admission presapposes fthJ Wagea i 11 this conntry are now exarffr what they should be." This is deJ"fc The proper rates of wages for -■erican labor shonld result from the iHHscncted competition of our own jgrnQk. and the American laborer as vet Jfc aot get his full share of the prödmto. SVajje are not yet what they ril true wages that shonld obtaiu in United States will never be known n!. first, all our workmen shall be ltecteii absolntely against the squalid pea'tion of other lands, and second, ihCQ they shall reoeive the equivalent of ■ievotowltich they severally contribute fktke product of their industry. B sometimes charged as a reproach .apmist the Protective policy that in ■■mr special protected indiistry wages taw to minimum. Where this occurs A an nnerring indication of the vicious Brtribntion of industries and one of the a 'listressing oonaequenoes oí their ■wbdjnstment. The remedy iadioated m aai, a reduction of the tariff. but a ader diversification and distribution of ■dnsmes,. so that all persons who want eniproyinent may not be compelled to ■ H in the same occnpation. Ris obvious that if industries be relawreiy few. with larga numbers of men ■■Anig ímployment. those inen must fcíríbute themselves as Ijest they may, aaaf without intelligent adjustment, the few industries in operation. ja larger number enter mto any special janjuit than are needed to meet the de:"fe oL production in that pursuit ys will inevitably decline. The ■raion of a Protective tariff, carried to SfciJkrthest limit, is to obvíate the neces■tr ior this. lts tendency is to encoury 'he establishment of a variety of inÊÊÊtriüs, and so to increase opportunities fcmployment, not in one or two but m great diversdty of occnpations. Ifcinference injurióos to the tariff can erefore be drawn f rom the fact that at ttnes in some occnpations wagee teod to a atimnm. This is rather a sign that teAanff, is too low to eneoorage the eslyWiiiTinient of a snfficient variety of jnwfaie8 to absorb all the labor of the OBBTOïiinity . Rn whatever the condition of labor aiflos country it is infinitely superior to WMxmditinm: of labor in the home of nw'trade. fct1 the blundering and blustering yggent of the Tor y leaders in ■Miaa politics Canalla is fast ripentmgiaT aimexation and will drop into fcrie's Sata'soutstreiched apron in due

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