The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-24

yantnees y hichkth1 American people enjoy
from protection against foreign competition,
they enjoy the advantages of absolute free
trade over larger area and with greater
mad oempnerG60Eour thi1fy etght states and
'nthe TER fes r. carried OF without let or
hindrance, without tax, detention or govern
mental intsnerencg OF any kind whatever
7 s Freely oye. aHeres OF teteessnd z
extent to the whole continent of Europe
ItsMofts are enjoyed to-day by 50 900 do
Of American freemen, and from this en- 10y
ment no monopoly is created According to-
Alexander Hamilton, when he discussed the
s siton S stGEe sasss Place ee s9
.eyeIything like monopo9yxand by degreas
mum Of a reasonable profit on tn capataf
employed Il is impossible to point to a
single monopoly in the United States that
trial system whichsS II is upheld Byss8e.Kepub-
Compared with our foreign commerce
these domestic exchanges are inconceivably
great An mountaineering merely as, one
instrum ntality az latges az Mileage of tail
way as exists to-day in all other nations Of
the world combined. These internal ex-
changes are estimated by the statistical
bureau Of the treasury department to be an
nuallv twenty times as great in amount as
our~aforelgn commerce.. 1t is into this vast
field of home trade-at once the creation
and the heritage of, the American people
that foreign nations are striving by every
device to enter It is into this field, that the
opponents Of our present revenue system
would freely admit the countries of Europe
Countries into whose internal trade we
could not, reciprocally. enter; countries to
which we should be surrendering every adj
vantage of. trade > from. which we should be
gaining nothing in return.
EFFECT UPON THE MEOHANIC AND THE LARoREB.
4 policy of this kind would be disastrous
to the mechanics and workingmen of the
United Stated Wages are pnjustly reduced
when an industrioas:nan Is not able by his
earnings TO live in comfort, educate his chill
!ren and lay by sufficient amount for the
necessities Of age. The reduction of wages
inevitably consequent upon throwing our
home market open to the world, would de-
priye them of the power to do this. It would
prove great calamity to our country. It
would produce conflict between the poor
and the rich, and, in the sorrOwful degrade
ton of labor wou1d plN14 thesseedsso f public
danger.
The Republican party has steadily aimed to
maintain Just relations between Labor and
each. Aconhict. between the two has always
led In the. past, ana viii always lead in the
future, to the injury of both labor is
indispensable to the creation and profitable
use of capital, and capital increases the
efficiency; and value OF LABOR Whoever
an enemy, of both. That policy is
wisest andEbest which harmonizes the two
on the basis sc absolute justce.4 The
Republican, parity has protected the free
labog Of Anaerica 60 that it's co1npensationIs
larger than 4srealkedj in any other Country
scon1petition of cohtract laborsfrom China,
and may be- called upon to- prohibit the
growth Of similar evil from Europe. 1t is
obviously unfair to permit capitalists to
make contracts for cheap labor in foreign
countries to the hurt and disparagement of
the labor OF American citizens Such a
policy Qike. that which would leave the time
and other conditions of home labor exclu-
sively in the control of the enfployer), is in
furious to adj parties not the least so to the
Of tie contract. The institutions Of the
United States rest upon the intelligence and
virtue Of all the people. Suffrage is made
universal as 4 Just weapon efsself- pfotec-
ton to every citizen 1t is not the interest
Of the repphie-that, any. economic system
s son IF y Wag9s Is s hfa Standard III rsVal
ing elsewhere The Republican party aims
to elevate and dignity labor-not to degrade
it.
AS 4 substitute for the industrial system
which under Republican administration has
",
our opponents offer policy which is but a
series of experiments upon our system of
revenuc-a policy whose end must be harm
to our manufactures and greater harm to our
labor ~Experimeuts~in~ the industrial and
financial system is the country's greatest
dread, as stabiAtyis its greatest boon Even
the uncertainty resulting from the recent
tariff agitation In congress has hurtfully
affected the business of the entire country.
Who gan measure the haFm to Qar sh9psnd
IT, vs. u2e e dSte of RgetH s ag W
are in the midst of an abundant harvest; we
age on the eve of revival of general pros
sperity Nothing stands III our way but the
dread of changeA IN the fndustfi system
which has wrought such wonders in the last
twenty years and which with the power. Of
snaarvelssof prosperity In the twenty years. tt
come.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY. y
Our foreign relations favor our domestic
development We are at peace with the
werld-at peaca upon a sound basis with nc
to e,nbafrass d distract us. Happily Re:
moved from our geographical, position from
participation orlnterest in those questions
Of dynasty orsbound Diary WhiQh 20 frequently
cultivate friendly relations with all, ana care
free from. possible entanglements in the
quarrels Of any. The United States has no
cause and no desire to engage in conflict with
any power on. earth, and we may rest. In as:
sured confidence that no power desires to
attack the United States
With the nations of the Western hemi-
sphere we should cultivate closer relations
and for our common PROSPERITY and ad,
vancement we should invite them all to joi1
all International troubles in North or South
America shall be adjusted by impartial arbi
tration and not by arms. This project was part
of'the fixed policy of President Garfeld's ad,
ministration. and it should in my judgment
be renewed. Its accomplishing emit on this con
yond the sea, and thus powerfully contribute
at no distant day to the universal acceptance
of the philanthropic and Christian principle
of arbitration t-The effect even of suggesting
it for the Spanish American states has been
most happy, and hasinereasedt hesoontidence
of those people IN our frenlN disposition.
1t fell to my lot as secretary Of state, in June
1881, to quiet apprehension In the Republic
Of Mexico, by giving the assurance in an
official dispatch that @there is noG the faint
est desire, in the United States for territorial
extension south of. the Rio Grande The
boundaries Of the two republics have been
established in conformity with the best juris-
dicHonal interests of both. The line OF de-
marcation is not merely conventional. 1t il
more. 1t separates a Spanish american peo-
PIC 1ION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT peOple IN VI
vides one great nation from another with
distinct and natural fnality."
sire to eISad ohr commerce ana lin an
especial degree with our: friends and neigh
bors on this. continent, We have not i'm;
proved otn relations with Spanish America
as wisely sand as .persistentlYs as we, might
have done. e For more than generation The
sympathy or those countries has been allowed
stoS drift away from us We should snow
| make every effort to gain their friendship
Our trade sSitha them is already large. Dur!
ing the last sxehaRgsR IL FAa Mf
ern asRs apnsfou tS4sea
laeon1n dezsfUsaa chose ~Aesttay :b2 ujsposea
to undertake Sne v$fde Of Bur y t6 tthf
countries sm North, md S6ith. America i
may, be Wen to state that their ,poF1Aati0n
Is nearly OF. quito fifty nildo -.and a116t -
proportions to aggregate numbers; we import
nearly doHble sas much from them as We.dc
from Europe But the result OF the Whole
American trade ii Ii q, high degree nnsatis
factory. The imports dlrineu The peal yeas
exceeded $225, DOC, 600. while the exports
were less than S125s eoos 0Q11eh1;xi2E
go to Spanish AmeTio asW q sand large sums
to Europe ipaoaihOritse observation-disclosures
European manufacturersfo for the goods Whfg6
they send to Spanish America We ID tpt
paymasters4b This enoffH 6hEs Ai61u1tsSp
ally to EutUpekn 81 which
6 serious e 81. A1az1 1ananctal de.