The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1897 Page: 1 of 8
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~ ONLY TO COME^r^Am'w.TH GREATER FORCE FOR ENID. GARFIELD COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. AND DEMOCRACY.
By Wave Printing Co.
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1897.
VOL. 4, No 24
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THAT "FREE BREAKFAST TABLE.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Celebrated for its great leavening
strength and healthfulness. Assures
the food against alum and all forms
of adulteration common to the cheap
brands. ROYAL BAKING POVVDKU
CO., New York.
LABOR'S SHARE.
Protection Can Give Nothing witi
Labor on Free List.
For the G-reat
Vlie Laborer Now Competes with
Lowest Responsible Hill tier of tlie
World—Low Prices Stimulate Botli
Consumption and Production—Ex-
ample of Steel Kail Pool.
One of the best speeches made in the
house while the Dingley bill was be-
ing discussed was made by John C. Bell,
of Colorado. With facts which are in-
disputable, and logic which is unan-
swerable. he exposed many of the fal-
lacies of protection. Mis exposure of
the absurd claim that protection helps
the workingman is especially good.
Here i a part of it:
"But ovir friends upon the other side
say that they levy a tariC for the bene-
fit of the wage-workers. 1 say to you
that any tariff bill, 1 care not from
whom it comes, that does not contain a
provision for prohibiting the free in-
flow of immigration from foreign coun-
tries is oblivious of the rights of labor
and is opposed to the interest of all
wage-workers. (Applause.)
"Protection is always asked in the
interest of others. Now. observe how it
is asked in behalf of the poor laboring
man—just enough to cover the differ-
ence between the European scale of
wages and our own. What hypocrisy!
Who ever heard of the laboring man
getting rich manufacturing? The sta-
tisticians clearly figured from the cen-
sus of 1880 that about six percent, on
our dutiable list would cover the differ-
ence between the European wage sched-
ule and ours, or that about 18 per cent.
:kI valorem covered the entire labor cost
of our list of 1S80. While the manufac-
turer then asked for the poor laborer his
fiix per cent, lie got for himself at the
hand of congress six times six per cent.
"Is theix any reason why a high tariff
affects wages injuriously? Yes; by
enabling employers to build up a vi-
cious trust system for the manufactur-
er and against the laborer. The high
tariiV makes the manufacturer com-
plete muster of the wage-worker.
"In the review of II. (!. Dun & Co.,
in their weekly review of trade, dated
February !2, it is stated:
•"No other event of the week ap-
proaches in importance the disruption
of the steel rail pool. In two days,'says
the report, 'after it a greater tonnage of
rails was probably purchased than the
entire production of the last year, re-
ported ut 800,000 tons, and instead of
§28 in December and #25 in January,
§17 i* now the prico at which works
east and w est are seeking orders. And
furl her.' says the report, 'the Carnegie
company Inis been selling at $17, Chi-
lli;;!) delivery. These sides will employ
ti.anv thousand hands, with an impor-
tant'decrease in the cost of track laying
on renewal of railroads.'
"Now, uiy friends, let me ask you,
was it the rising or lowering price that
employed these thousands ot men?
Our Iriend. Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois,
tells < f the benefits of a higher duty on
iron and steel. Did the steel rail pool
need more ti iriff? What is the differ-
ence in giving the manufacture a
double prollt through a high tariff or
through a pool? Do they ever share
the profits of the pool with labor? No.
Will they ever share the profits of a
tat'ifV? Never.
"It takes no political economist to
iinsvvei these questions. If the United
Stales niiinufacturers can reap twice
the profit under a high tariff by limit-
ing themselves to the home market and
in ti 11 i i ■.'! half time, why should they run
full time .mil Invade foreign markets/
Tli'\v ever will. They will sit down
<< : ; I.!', and sell their limited sup-
('iv oi tii'.:" for Inct i ised profits. maK-
|ii ■ iii"ii' cm "e I ha o whole, while the
I,..,' .i i niii'is the coi.'iitrv la search of
nliiishir'."
:n f-.r the
inclusive,
v, tin* cost
"We shall never get rid of the evils
which 1 have described until every dol-
lar raised by taxation is paid into the
. national trear,ury; until we stop entire-
ly this practice of allowing the right of
! government to tax property to be used
for the purpose of allowing the manu-
facturer to prohibit importations, form
trusts and rob our people of hundreds
of millions of dollars each year.
"The remedy is in direct taxation.
Every man has a right to know exactly
: what he pays toward the expenses of
; government, and direct taxation is the
| only means of stopping the lavish ex-
! penditure of public money.
"For a period of ten years between
j 1791 and l'<00 inclusive, with a tariff
I of sy2 per cent, upon foreign imports,
j and at the very time when v
i ing to the great expense of e
our government, the cos: 1
ment was only $18.OS per (•:•
ten years. From 1851 to IS,
under a tariff for revc ue o:
of government was only ?21.c': ' ' or. >-
ita for the ten years. From 1st: !o >
inclusive the actual running c.\;e n;,,s
of government had risen to Si"' . . 1 per
capita, more than six times the amount
required under a tariff for revenue
only, and during the Inst ten yc:irs the
cost of government has been steadily
increasing.
"As a nation we enn stand this lavish
expenditure of the people's money, but
we can never stand the luxuries, the
iniquities, the lack of patriotism which
great wealth, quickly acquired, is sure
to bring.
"We enn be robbed by a protective
tariff and still live."but when the rob-
ber takes the money and buys special
legislation and turns it over to cam-
paign committees to buy votes with,
the very life of free government is as-
sailed. Nations do not go down to death
in the momentous sweep of battle,
riiey rather die from the poison which
the lobbyist and the vote buyer infuse
nto the body politic.
"The mad riot of protection will soon
be over. The evidences of the revolu-
tion which shall destroy it are upon
■very hand. Its growth has been an evi-
lenee of what self-interest and audac-
tv and effrontery can accomplish as
(gainst the people not united by any
londs save those of the public wel/are.
A SAMPLE TRADE.
[Republicans Swapping Free Hlde«
for Dutiable Su^ar.
"The senate tariff bill as a whole,'
sa}'S ex-Congressman John De Witt
Warner, "is a notice to eastern manu-
facturers of what they may liereaftei
expect. Hitherto they have considered
protection as a sort i : ; '1 ential ar-
rangement by which
to fend on the rest o. '
like Poiori'.is ia
hi y were enable
country. Nov.
t." tl-ey arc in-
. iii.:i of politic
worms' to a knpper ' ot where they i1
1 r! where they arc •: n. 'flic manit-
i; . '.vers of New I!.... '..ad. New York
and Pennsylvania are to take their turn
at 1 l ingr. ul .-ted for the benefit of oth-
i '.. ho now control legislation. Tliif
applies especially to the hide schedule.'
"Cannot the New England senators
secure favorable charges in that sclied-'
ule?"
"I think not. The bill as it stands is
satisfactory to the sugar trust, and
probably cannot be kept so except by
the votes controlled ! y the cattle trusl
of the west. Were the New England sen-
ators willing to risk offendii : the sugar
frust, they could doubtless defeat the
duty on hides, but the fact is that Bos-
ton and Providence, in proportion tc
their size, nre far more thoroughly sat
urated with sugar trust inli uenee than
is any other part of the country, am'
however much Senators Aldrich. Wei
more. Hoar and Lodge may bewail the
fate of their boot and shoe manu-
facturers, there is no prospect whatevci
that they will sacrifice the sugar trust
Interests to help them."
OF
East Side. Opposite Square.
The exact date of the opening will be
announced in this space in a few days.
New Store, New G-oods and
New Prices.
Clkin* on Unit?**
"Wages must go down." said Senator I
Elkins in a recent Interview published j
in the Cincinnati Enquirer. "Wage- :
earners." continued the senator, "do j
not wish to see it on believe it, but it j
is so." And again he said: "Wages in
America stand against any revival of j
business."
lie was discussing the coal trade. lie I
said: "We do not export coal to Europe j
because w e ' ••• e vv ages against us. and j
tl'.at is the v, hole kernel of the coal 1
trade."
I'.eing as'.cl whether black labor was
nettled in the mines of West Yirginiu.
he said:
"Firmly. It is r.s effective as white j
labor and does not combine and eon- j
rpire, and the negro spends all he
makes, while the Italians and Poles
send every cent out of the country."
The senator has just as decided Ideas j
on the tariff question, lie is firmly con- j
vlnced that protective duties, especially ]
those on coal, should go up. Tariff up, 1
wages down. That is what happened
under the McKinlev bill and is what j
will happen and In fact is happening
under the Dingley hill. It is nil done I
in the interest of labor.
Tr.at t m More I on.*'
"Forty-one leather JIi "-s ia Chicago
,-dtcrit rri inst ti e doty ■ i I ''os, bi't
|.«• ••• tri'.-'l fitts •••■•re ho." ,
t ■' " v n i "V: .«ci Ipt 1 Ir.fl. 1,'ep.l •
Pi IMS
<] SUCtAft N
¥1 P=-
0 ice
Senator Hoar—That (free) hide has
been in the family :;5 years, and it al-
most breaks my heart to part with it.
Senator Allison—You r.eedu't snivel.
Keep your old hide if you want to, but
you don't get any sugar (profits). See'.'
Wliy Hliifvley Rates Arc So IUkIi.
Afraid to open your chops about the
McKinlev hill before the election, hav-
ing won, you are ovMTeroding Ilerod.
t ut-.McKinleying JleKiuley, because
the men who furnished the money to
carry the election are relentless task-
masters, clamorous for their rcmuncn-
tion. They have such ravenous nppe-
tites that, you have l>cen compelled to
make the rates higher than in the Mc-
Kinlev bill. Let this not be forgotten,
inscribe it on the tablets of your mem-
ory. He it known that the average tar-
iff tax under the McKlnley bill was
per cent, a'! valorem; under the
Wll. (>n-tiornni:i bill, 39.04 per cent., and
u- der tin- Dinglej bill. 57.03 jx'r cent,
II • ■'.• tin* average of taxation on
*"Tf i:g lik* 4.C00 article! of every
d • e • •••. ; it ion U 8 per cent, high-
• r' tirt.Yr tie IMnglev I ill than under
•'(•' : ' ' ! v.. n ,1 17 , er cent, higher
.■;• -> c W" i-dortnan bill.—
(" • •> i 'lark. In Cor.,"res*.
New Type
Good Stock
Low Rates.
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Isenberg, J. L. & Isenberg, Edna. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1897, newspaper, June 17, 1897; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112019/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.