Protection
—r- -♦ The New York World has regularly devoted a large portion of its space for years past to show that ' Protection is Bobbery ' and the,.untiring efforts of its conductors ; nave been recognised by the tariff reformers as having been potent factors in the struggle which has just sealed tlie fate of M'Kinleyistn. ;This , is- one of the World's .concise ,pars v :;^ Tjjiei protected ironmaster of Pennsylvania asserts that to pay the "difference in wages " he must hare, the right to collect from the people 6dol 72c on every ton of pig ufro made? ' The total wages that be pays his workmen is under 2doL 46c' jper ton, (and .he steals from the < tr - difference mi wages' 4dol. 26c. per ton. He gets his labor free of cost. The furnaces of Pennsylvania produced in 890 4 ;415i329 tons,* representing 18,809,429461;. 34c. literally stolen from] the pander! d^|e ; to the pauper workmen, sup JK>rt<Bd by public contribution. , What,. a Jrueiof the protected ironmaster x of VPennsyj-' vaaia is true of every other > real Jjr protected employer. He has absolute pauper labour, supported 1 by' 'public contributions, and his profit 'cbmes mainly from what he steals from his workmen." ' . X'7- •■*'•:'■>
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 83, 3 January 1893, Page 2
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198Protection Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 83, 3 January 1893, Page 2
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