The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-24
STA, why do we need protection against
the cheaper labor of England!

STA, why do We need protection against
the cheaper labor of England!
@. But can we so far surpass Eng
land in the necessary qualities for sue
cess?
A. Yes. The American is the most en-
ergetic, enterprising, skillful workman IN
the world. He is better educated.
keener. sharper, shrewder. These
qualities have become proven bal all
over the globe. No man excels him IN
ingenuity, in inventive powor; in me-
chanical contrivances to save labor. 1t
is this inventive power which enables
the farmers of Minnesota to-day to
raise wheat in successful competition
with the boor of Russia. Our seed is
prepared by machinery it is sowed by
machinery; our crop is harvested by
machinery; it is threshed by ma
chinery. That which the farmer has
done to cqualize the difference in wages,
the manufacturer can do, and would 90
if left to his own resources.
@. But to leave him to his own re-
sources would be disastrous to him at
frst,-would it not
A. Yes; just as it is disastrous to
drunkard to withhold his supply of
whisky. If you cut off the supply at
once, he goes into deLiriuas trente3as.
The gradual is Gods law. But would
you therefore keep him soaked in
whisky! No,-that way death lies.
You must gradually reduce him to
natural bass, and then he can begin
to build up again. Now the
manufacturers Of the United States are
in ''the collapsed STAGE their fea-
lures are blue and their extremities
cold; very mild tonics are required but
no more heavy draughts. Time and a
naturally good consultation will fetch
them out.
@. What results would you expect
after they he'd rallied from this "col-
lapsed stage"
A. We would expect reasonable
and natural prosperity for the whole
nation and for all pursuits. Not as
now, some gorged and others starving. |
We would expect to see cheap goods |
and lively competition; but we would !
expect to see American manufactures |
retaining their control Of the home
market,not by bounties drawn from our
pockets, but by superior skill and en-
ergy; they having the advantage of
proximity and the incidental protection
which q revenue tariff would naturally
afford.
Q. How can this thing be accom-
plished
A. By a union Of all the agricultu
rists Of the United States at the polls.
By taking possession of the govern
ment- By giving New England
a back seat in the synagogue,
where, undisturbed, she can count
over the plumber won during fourteen
years Of uninterrupted power.
Q. But how about the South and the
Ku klux!
A The best police force is Justice.
The best standing army is Prosperity.
The turbulence of the South is simply
the expression of her miseries. Re-
move these and she will come to love
the nation that gives her happiness.
Iowa and Illinois are almost in State
Of insurrection through poverty, high
taxes and the expressions of the rail-
roads. Which is the better remedy -
to remove the grievances of which they
complain: or to march in a standing
army to hold the people in subsection
with the bayonet and let the reign Of
high taxes, poverty and railroad rob-
berries kcontinue You can build
tirst-class despotism on bayonets, but
they never have and never will furnish
a permanent foundation for a republic.