Let the great merchant who deplores unions start a DEPARTMENT
STORE IN CHINA.
He will never see a walking delegate; he will never be bothered
by the dark cloud of unionism.
He will find a perfect heaven in the way of low wages.
BUT HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SELL GOODS.
His department store will dwindle into a store for selling rice,
and while his velvets, silks, hats and muslins moulder he will
get very sick of a hundred million women who don't spend forty
cents in a year.
In the land where men are not well paid THEY CAN'T SPEND MONEY.
The best friend of the American merchant, builder, lawyer,
doctor, property owner, banker and general business man is the
individual or the newspaper that helps the people to get high
wages, AND THUS GIVES THEM MONEY TO SPEND.
WHAT ABOUT THE CHINESE, KIND SIR?
A prosperous and old New York merchant assures a conference of
workingmen that England's great strikes have caused that country
to lose its leadership in exports of machinery.
If England's wonderful system of trades unionism has hurt its
exports of machinery, if abundance of very cheap slave labor
means great industrial superiority, we beg to ask this question:
WHY IS NOT CHINA THE GREAT EXPORTING COUNTRY OF THE WORLD?
There are scores of millions of men in China glad to work for a
few pennies per day.
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