The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-07-25

internal commerce OF the United States,
They suggest also that, in addition to the I'D
from protection against foreign competition
they enjoy the advantages OF absolute free
trade over larger area and with Q greater
population than any other nation The inter-
nal commerce Of our thirty -eight states and
nine territories is carried on without let OF
mental interference Of any kind whatever.
1t spreads freely over an area of three and 4
huff million square miles-almost equal in
extent to the whole continent of Europa.
It's profits are enjoyed to-day by 90, DOC, 900
of American freemen, and from this enjoy
Alexander Hamilton. when he discussed the
same subject in 1900, s'the internal compe-
tition which takes place does away With
everything like monopoly, and by degrees
reduces the prices Of articles to the mimi
mum of q reasonable profit on the capital
single monopoly in the United States that
has been created or fostared by the indus
trial system which is upheld BY the Repub-
lican party.
Compared with our foreign commerce
these domestic exchanges are inconceivably
great in manufacturing merely as one
instrumentality rs large mileage of rail-
way us 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
nually twenty times as great In amount rs
our foreign 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 ad-
vantage of trade; from which we should be
gaining nothing In return
EFFECT UPON THE MECHANIC AND THE L.ABo1ER
A policy of this kind would be disastrous
to the mechanics and workingmen of the
United States. Wages are unjustly reduced
when an Industrious man is not able by hts
earnings 10 live in comfort educate his chill
dren 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-
prive them OF the power to do this It would
prove great calamity to our country. 1t
would produce a conflict between the poor
and the rich, and in the sorrowful degrade
ton of labor would plant the seeds of public
danger.
Tho Republican party has steadily aimed to
maintain just relations between Labor and
Capital-guarding with care the rights Of
each Aconfiict between the two has always
future, to the injury Of both. Labor is
indispensable to the creation and profitable
use OF capital, ana capital increaees the
efficiency and value OF labor. Whoever
arrays the one AGAINST the other Is
an enemy OF both That policy Is
wisest and pest which harmoni.es the two
on the basis OF absolute Justice. The
Republican party has protected the free
labor Of America 60 that It's compensation is
larger than u fean1ed IN any other country.
1t has guarded our people against the Unfair
competition OF contract labor from China,
and may ne called upon 70 prohibit the
growth OF slmler evl from Europe 1t Is
make contTac@ ior cheap labor In foreign
countries TO the hurt and disparagement of
the lapos OF A@eI1can ci1xenA such
poncy ul1e tnat Mncn would leave the time
and other condiaons q home labor exclu-
slveay N - so .e cono. Q, me re- empaSyes Is m
unhappy persons who are made the subjects
OF the contract The institutions OF the
United States rest upon the Intelligence and
virtue OF all the people Suffrage ts made
universal as just weapon OF self protec-
lion 10 every cltlzen. IL 1s not the interest
should be adopted which involves the reduc-
ton OF wages to the hard standard prevail
ing elsewhere Inc republican party aims
to elevate and dignity labor-not to degrade
1t
,.,h As substitute s I11 the industrial system
developed such extraordinary prosperity,
our opponents offer policy which Is but a
series OF experiments upon our system of
revenue policy whose end must be harm
70 our manufactures and greater harm to our
labor Experiments In the industrial and
financial system is the country's greatest
dread, a. stability 10 it, greatest boon Even
the uncertainty resulting from the recent
tar1n agitation In congress has hurtfully
anected the business OF the entire country.
Who can measure the harm to our shops and
our homes. to our farms and our commerce,
II the uncertainty Of perpetual tariff agita,
ton Is to be inflicted upon the country? We
are IN the midst OF an abundant harvest; we
are on the eve Of . revival of general pros
Perity Nothing stands in our way but the
dread OF change in the industrial system
which has wrought such wonders in the last
twenty years and which with the power Of
increased capital will work still greater
marveis OF prosperity In the twenty years to
come.
QUIZ FOREIGN POLICY.
our foreign relations favor our domestic
development We are at peace with the
worid.at peace upon sound basis with nc
unsettled QUESTION: Of sufficient Imaginable
TO embarraas or distract US Happily re-
moved from our geographical position from
participation or interest in those questions
0i dynasty or boundary which 30 frequently
disturb the peace OF Europe, we are left to
cultivate friendly relations with oil, and are
Hee 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
atgack the United Statea
With the nations of the Western hemi-
sphere we should cultivate closer relations,
and Tor our common prosperity and nd.
vancement we should invite them all to Join
with US in an agreement that, for the future
al international troubles in North or South
America ahali be adjusted by impartial arbi-
Ia1on and not by arms. Thispro1ect was part
OF the fixed policy of President Garfield's adj.
mlnistration. and 1t should in my judgment
De renewed. Its accomplishment on this con.
tlnent would favorably affect the nations be-
yond the sea, and thus powerfully contribute
1t no distant day to the universal acceptance
OF the philanthropic and Christian principle
OF arbitration. The effect even of Suggesting
1t Tor the Spanish American states has been
most happy, and hasincreased the confidence
OF those people in our friendly disposition
| II tell to my lot az secretary of state, in June
1881, to quiet apprehension in the Republic
OF Mexico, by giving the assurance in an
official dispatch that sthere is not the faint,
est desire In the United States for territorial
extension south Of the Rio Grande The
boundaries Of the two republics have been
estaDilshed In conformity with the best juris
oictional interests of both The line Of de
marcation IL not merely conventional. It Ii
more. 1t separates Spanish American peo
PIE from Saxon-American people. It di
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