The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-24

ma, 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 proverbiai 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 py
machinery; it is threshed by ma
chinery. That which the farmer has
done to equalizc the difference IN wages
the manufactu can do, and would 40
if left to his own resources.
O. But to leave him to his own re-
sources would he disastrous to HIM at
first,-would it not
A. Yes; lust as it is disastrous to
drunkard to withhold his supply OF
whisky. If you cut off the supply at
once, he goes into deltrium tfs"'e'as'
The gradual is Gods law. But would
you therefore keep him soaked in
whisky1 No,-that way death hes.
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 s'the collapsed STAGE their fea-
lures are blue and their extremities
cold; very mild tonics are required but
no more heavy draughts. Time and
naturally good consultation will fetch
them out.
Q. What results would you expect
after they he'd rallied from this "col-
lapsed stage
A. We would expect a 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 a revenue tariff would naturally
afford.
@. How can this thing be accom-
plished
A. BY union of all the agricultu-
rists of the United States at the polls.
BY taking possession vi the govern
ment- By giving New England
back seat in the synagogue,
where, undisturbed, she can count
over the plumber won during fourteen
years OF uninterrupted power.
@. 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 a State
of instruction through poverty, higf
taxes and the expressions of the rail
roads. Which is the better remedy =
to remove the grievances Of which the,
complain; or to march in a standing
army to hold the people in subsection
with the hayonet; and let the reign 0
high taxes, poverty and railroad rob
berries tcontinue You can build
first-class despotism on bayonets. bu
they never have and never will furnisl
permanent foundation for a republic