port the Constitution of the United States, should deliberately and persistingly, by force, fraud and intimidation, prevent the colored people of the South casting an honest ballot. Their justification is that the "black man has no rights which the white man is bound to respect." It is the relics of barbarism and slavery! It is a stigma on our civilization and on popular government and the sovereignty of the people. It is a crime against God and humanity! It robs the colored people of their constitutional civil rights! In the language of Thomas Jefferson, "I tremble for my country when I know that God is just.” All persons who vote to rob the colored people of their rights under the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution I now leave to the judgment of God, their own conscience, the condemnation of the Christian world and posterity.

I challenge Democrats, free traders and anti-protectionists to show me any protected article, manufactured in large quantities, in the United States, under the stimulus of the protective tariff laws of 1862, 1883 and 1890, which is now dearer than a similar article was when it was imported under the low tariff laws of 1846 and 1857 ?

Second-I challenge any person to show me any protected article manufactured, in large quantities, in the United States, which is now dearer than a similar article was in 1880?

I am waiting for an answer.

If the Democrats and the anti-protectionists cannot show that protected articles, as above mentioned, are not now dearer than in 1880 they must admit that a protective tariff is a tax on the foreign importer only.

CHAPTER XVIII.

WAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, England, FRANCE, BELGIUM, RUSSIA, MEXICO AND OTHER COUNTRIES.

THE IRISH VOTE AND EMIGRATION.

The following is the comparative wages in an English and American mill on yarn No. 33 twist and 36 filling for the year 1892:

All wages are expressed in United States money. were taken as follows: £=$4.86; 1 franc-$0.193.

The rates of exchange

The following is the comparative rates of wages in the worsted industry— Massachusetts, England, France and Belgium; with the percentage of rates in Massachusetts over those of other countries for the year 1892.

In England practically all the spinning is done by children, and in many places by half-timers, while under the French system that work must be done by men, owing to difference in the machinery employed. The American workingmen can see at once that the American woolen manufacturers cannot compete with the cheap labor of Europe without protection. That we must either protect our own manufacturers or the workingmen must work for European wages! Or we must abandon the woolen trade to England, France and Belgium. This seems to be the policy of the Democratic anti-protectionists. Hence their hostility to the woolen manufacturers of the United States. Cmparison of wages in the United States and England.

Thus wages are higher under the stimulus of a protective tariff in America
than the same grade of labor in free trade England.

On the London & Northwestern road the engineer in charge of the train
gets $1.68 per day for 10 hours' work. On express trains the pay is $1.80 for
10 hours; firemen get $1.32. Conductors get $1.32 per day; trackmen, 84 cents
per day; tracklayers, $4.86 per week; laborers, $4.20 per week; machinists, first
class, $7.68, and second class, $6.72 per week.

A woman earns 46 cents a day of 10 hours wheeling coal with a wheelbarrow.
At Cradley Heath women by the hundred are found working as blacksmiths, 12
hours per day, for 36 cents a day, making chains.

At London docks stevedores receive 12 cents per hour for unloading barges
and ships. They get 30 cents an hour in America. The London dock men
are employed on an average of 6 hours a day throughout the year. The Ameri-
can workingmen must see that, if the American manufacturer can compete with
the free trade cheap labor of England, either there must be a protective tariff
or labor will come down to the English price of labor. All the Republican
protective policy seeks is to add the difference in labor in America to all im-
ported goods from the other side of the ocean, so that our mechanics may be
protected from the cheap labor of Europe. These tables of wages answer all the
free trade fallacies of the Democratic party and cannot be disputed:

The American workingman is the most intelligent and best paid in the
world. The question that is before him is, whether he will vote to maintain
himself and his associates in this proud supremacy, or whether he will place
himself in competition with the poorly paid, fed and clad working classes of
free trade England. I leave the question for the American workingman to

answer.