The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-24

merce. All the details when analysed cor
responded with this grand result. The
commercial cities of the Union never
had such growth as they have enjoyed
since 1860. Our chief emporium, the
city of New York. with its depanden.
ciee. has within that period doubled
her population and increased her wealth
five Told. During the same period the
imports and exports which have en-
tered and LETT The harbor are more than
double In bulk and value of the whole
amount exported by her between the
settlement of the first Dutch colony on
the island of Manhattan and the out
break of the civil war In 1850.
TIE AGRICULT6RAE INTEREST
/ Is By far the largest in the nation, and IL
entitled in every adjustment OF revenue
laws to the first consideration. ANY
policy hostile to the fullest development
Of agriculture in the United States must
/ be abandoned. Realizing this fact the
opponents of the present system of reYe-
/ nue. have labored very earnestly TO per-
| suade the farmers Of the United States
that they are robbed by protective tar
| i'll, and the effort is thus made to 0onsoli-
| date their vast influence In favor Of free
trade But happily, the farmers of
America are intelligent, and cannot be
misled by sophlstry when CONCLUSIVE
| facts are before them. They see plainly
that during the past tWenty.four years
| wealth has not been acquired In one
section or one interest at the expense of
another section or interest: They see
that the agricultural states have been
| even more rapid in progress than the
manufacturing states. The farmers see
| that in 1860 Massachusetts and Illinois
| had about the same wealth, between
| $500, OOO, 600 and $500, 600 600 each, and
that In 1880 Massachusetts had advanc
| ed to $4,000, O0O, 900, while Illinois had
advanced to $4,000. 900 900. They see
| that New Jersey and Iowa were just
| equal in population in 1860, and in the
twenty years the wealth of New Jersey
was increased by the sum of $3.50 ,OO0,-
600. while the the wealth of
Iowa was increased by the sum of ST.
| 500, 100000. They see that the nine lead
! ing agricultural states of the west have
| grown so rapidly in prosperity that the
| aggregate addition to their wealth since
| 1860 is almost as great as the wealth of
the entire couatry at that year. They
see that the south, which is almost ex-
clusivelY agricultural, has shared the
general prosperity, and having recovered
| from the loss and devastation of the war
has gained so rapidly that Its total
wealth is at least the double of that
which it possessed in 1860 exclusive of
slaves). In these extraordinary deYelop-
ments the farmers see the
HELPFCL IMPULSE OF A HOME MARKET,
| and they see that the financial and rev.
enue systems enacted since the Republi-
can party came into power has establish
ed and constantly expanded the home
market. They see that even in the case
of wheat, which is our chief cereal export,
they have sold in the average of the
years since the close of the war, three
bushels at home to one they have sold
abroad, and that in the case of corn, the
only other cereal which we export to any
| extent, one hundred bushels have been
used at home TO three and one-half
| bushels exported. In some years the
disparity has been so great that for every
peck OF corn exported one hundred
| bushels have been consumed in the
home market. The farmers see that in
| the increasing competition from the grain
fields of Russia aud from the distant
plains of India, the growth of the home
market becomes daily of greater concern
to them, and that its impairment would
| depr eciate the value of every acre of till
able land in the union.
VAST INTERNAL COMMERCE.
Such facts as these touching the
growth and consumption of cereals at
home give US some slight conception of
the Vsstness of the internal commerce OF
the United States. They suggest also
that In addition to the advantages which
the American people enjoy from pro-
lection from foreign competition they
| enjoy the advantages of absolute free
trade over large area and with a great
| or population than any other nation.
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| eight states and nine territories is car
ried on without let or hinderance. with
out tax, detention or governmental IN
reference of any kind whatever. 1t
| spreads freely over an area of three and
| q half million square miles, almost
| equal to the whole continent of Europe.
Its profits are enjoyed to- DAY by So ,0OO,-
| 00C of American freemen and from this
enjoyment no monopoly Is created. Ac.
cording to Alexander Hamilton, when
he discussed the same subject in 1890:
| "The internal competition which takes
place docs away with everything like
| monopoly and by degrees reduces the
| prices of aItIcles to the maximum OF a
reasonable profit on the capital employ
ed" 1t is impossible to point to single
monopoly in the United States that has
been created or fostered by the indus
trial system which is upheld by the Re-
| publican party. Compared with our
foreign commerce. these domestic ex-
| changes are
INCoNCRIvABLY GREAT IN AMOUNT.
requiring merely as one fundamentally,
as large a mileage of railway as exists
to-day in all the other nations of the
world combined. The internal ex-
changes are estimated by the statistical
bureau of the treasury department to be
annually twenty times as great In
amount as our foreign commerce. 1t Is
into this vast field of home trade, at
once the creation and the heritage of the
American people, the foreign nations are
stiViBg by every device to enter. 1t is
Into this field that the opponents of our
present revenue system would freely adj
nit the countries of Europe, the coun-
| tries into whose internal trade we could
not reciprOcally enter, countries to
which We should be surrenderiHg every
| advantage of trade from which We
| should be gaming nothing in return.
| A policy of this kind would be disas-
| trOus,to the mechanics and working men
of the United states Wages are un-
| justly reduced when an industrious man
is not able by his earnings to live IN
comfort, educate his children and lay by
a sufficient amount for the necessities of
sge. The reduction of wages inevitably
consequent upon throwing our home
| market open to the world would de-
prive them OF the power to do this. 1t
would prove great calamity 10 our
country. 1t would produce a conflict
between the poor And rich aud in the
sORRowFUL DEGRADATION
of labor would plant the seeds of public
danger. The Republican party has
steadily aimed to maintain Just relations
between labor and capita, guarding with
care the rights of each A conflict be.
tween the two has always led IN the
past and will always lead in the future
to the injury of both. Labor is indis-
pensibls to the creation and profitable
use of capital, and capital increases the
efficiency and value of labor. Whoever
arrays the one against the other is an
enemy of both. That policy is Wisesl
and best which harmoDizes the two on
the basis of absolute justice. The Re.
publican party has protected the free
labor of America 50 that its compensa-
ton is larger than is realized in any
other country. 1t has guarded our peO-
pie against the unfair competition oil
contract labor from China, and may be
called upon TO prohibit q SINH.
lar evil from Europe. 1t is OBJ
YiouslY unfair TO permit capitalists
to make contracts for cheap labor IN tor
eign countries to the hurt and disparage.
ment OF the labor OF American citizens
Such policy, like that which would
leave the time and other conditions OF
home labor exclusively In the control OF
the employer. is injurious TO all parties
not the least so to the unhappy persons
who are made subjects Of the contract.
The institutions Of the United States
rest upon the intelligence of all the PEG.
} pie. Suffrage is made universal, but a
JUST WEAPON OF SELF PROTECTION
to every citizen. Il Is not TO the inter-
est of the republic that any economic
system should be adopted which In.
} wolves the reduction Of wages to the
low standard prevailing elsewhere. The
Republican party aims to elevate and
J dignity labor, not to degrade il. As q
J substitute for the industrial system IN.