Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1890 — Buying Cheap and Selling Dear. [ARTICLE]

Buying Cheap and Selling Dear.

“Buy where you can buy cheapest, and sell where you can sell dearest,” shouts the attorney for free trade, and in the glitter of this trite maxim the workingman is expected to overlook the fact that right here m the United States, under our existing economic policy, he can maintain himself and his family with less exertion than it could be done in any. other country in the world. He could not increase the the ratio of his comfort and happiness to his labor by getting into all the markets within reach of commerce. In fact if lie was restricted to the highest wages paid elsewhere he would be compelled to do without the fulfillment of some desire he satisfies berm— The man who has nothing but skill and labor to sell will always find it to his advantage to get where ! the demand for these is most active; j where wage payers hunt for men to help cany on their enterprises, rather than where wage earners are compelled to hunt for employment. ,Inasmuch as this could not be if the business of the country was restricted to the few industries possible under free trade, the workingman would have all the hunting to do if that policy should prevail. The workingman is buyinig "cheapest when he secures a umxnnim of the necessities and comforts of life with a day’s labor, as lie does here iu the United States. ■ And in this very transaction he at the same time sells the only tiling he has to sell, i. e., his labor, in that market of all others where he can sell dearest, or to‘the best advantage. The ecoMSm.. theorist “may "%nt?re This-favt, mon people of other countries see it plainly enough, and as a consequence they come to this land of protected and multiplying industries in numbers without a parallel in the history of nations.