Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1888 — THINGS TO CONSIDER. [ARTICLE]

THINGS TO CONSIDER.

The following propositions by a laboring man are well worthy of consideration: 1. Have you everjeaen a laborer who cared a niekh whether he worked for r prate ctou or an unprotected employer? 2. Have you ever soon a laborer who expected to receive, more wages from a protected than an un - protected employer? 3. Have you ever seen a protect ed manufacturer pr.y higher wages than he was compelled to? 4. Have you over seen a very wealthy firm pay more wages than a moderately wealthy one? 6. Have you ever given more for anything than you were required

No; and furthermore, if you should, you would call yourself e tool. 6. If, then, the unprotected manufacturer pays yo u higl wages, and still is able to make u profit, fcy what method of reasoning do yon arrive at tho concUißioa that the protected manufacturer pays higher wages because of pro toction? 7. And if the protected manufacturer does net pay more than the unprotected one, what becomes of your protection theories? 8. Is it your unswe* that protection raises all classes of wages in all occupations? 9. If that is it, then, as labor is not protected from foreign immigration, you must of course include the raising of all wages in all countries. Now, if that is true, then how about the pauper wages of Europe? 10. If you say capita’ will not be invested unless it is protected, how do you explain the fact that it is being invested in uprotected industries? 11. If protection prevents us from selling in foreign markets does not protection make loss work instead of more? 12. If there is free trade in labor and high protective prices for those things which laborers must buy, is not the laborer being rob - bed instead of benefited? 13. If protectionists desire to pay high wages, why do they al ways employ the cheapest labor they can nna? 14. If wages are increased by protection, why do these protected manufacturers indorse protection and spenA large sums of money to uphold it? 15. If unprotected industries pay the same wages as those that are protected, are they not as vri uable, and if so, why burden them by making them pay heavy taxes to the protected onee ?

Ben Harrison’s record on the land question is as faulty as his record on the Chinese immigration. While a member of the Senate he voted against all measures for the reclamation of unearned lands granted by Protectionist Congresses to the cormorant railroad cor porations of the West and Northwest It is said tihat the Chirese women in California are nearly every one of them to be found in houses of prostitution. The courts furnish frequent evidences of the sale of Chinese women for purposes of prostitution. Home life, as we understand it and hojjor it, is uu known to them.