The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-10-10
NUTS FOR MR.. FOSTER.

The free trade editor of the Reriew
has been airing his knowledge of the
tariff in two or three columns per week
all summer, and has doubtless proved
to the entire satisfaction of his limited
mind that the universal yankee nation
has no higher mission on this earth
than to put themselves on the same
level upon which England long since
forced the Irish people, that is, make
our laborers like brood of old hens
scratching grubs for the British cocks
to pick up.
Mr.. Henry Kemp is an Englishman
and very hostile to the American sys-
tenn of protecting home labor, rs every
nabob in England is, and home manu-
facturers. In the last Brddareea, he
has an article in which he points out
the fact that our protective system is
enriching our people and impoverish-
ing the English people, and driving
multitudes of them to this country to
get a living. He says:
NOW the question is, does our present
law increase Immigration into this country
from Europe2 Most assuredly it does. for
this law, 10y preventing or lesscning through
high duties ON imports the eXchs nge Of goods
between this country and Europe, prevents
the employment of the constantly increasing
population in the latter country in the pro-
duction of goods which, but for our high
tariff, would he bought for expectation Ia
this country"
Mr.. Kemp thinks it better for this
country that all our manufacturers
should be kept in England, TO eat Eng
lish food, wear English clothes, and
manufacture cloth, and all other imple-
ments of use for us while we turn our
attention to raising what little beef,
pork, beans. and potatoes we can per
suadc them to buy of us, than to have
them come here, work on American
soil, eat American pork, beans, and
wheaton bread, which they never eat
in their own country. Mr.. Kemp says:
Some people argue that Europe has too
much wheat already. Nonsense; millions OF
people who live I'm Europe on potatoes and
coarse grains never see wheaton bread. Re
duce your import duties and buy goods from
these people 50 rs to give them more employ
ment and higher wages, and they will buy
from you at good prices all the wheat YOU
| can spare them, and buy from you all the
beef and bacon you can sell them, which ut
present, from want of trade and low wages,
millions Of them never use.
ilst'i bSSi uil
TO prove that under our protective svs-
tenn our laboring people are going to
the dogs and the British were better
paid and rolling in wealth. Mr.. Kemp,
Il British free trader, in speaking from
personal knowledge and experience,
diSpels in thetwo paragraphs above
quoted, the rosy illusion of the money
leaning Democratic free trader of the
Rrri''T, who may not intend it, but is
laboring with all the ability he possess
es to aid the English people to hold
the noses of the Irish upon the grind
stone, and to reduce the labbring peo-
| pie of this country to the same impOv-
crished condition. Bradford manufac-
turers say:
| 1--WE sent from Bradford In 1850, for the
election OF your free trade Democratic can
di,iate, Gen Hancock, $3jOOOO. and If we in
Bradford were SURF that We could elect n
free trade Democratic President, we could
raise from ono to two millions of dollars.
Very many of our business men will
remember the financial depression
which followed the Democratic tariff
reduction of 1916, when these same
manufacturers say they raised To in
tluence the tariff question e440, 600,
nearly 900, all of which was used
in the United States.
The LOndOn Economist, the !Stdtist,
and EHyidndS Iron Trd,te Circular, all
admit that the iron and steel Industries
If Great Britain are suffering severely.
Fully fifty per cent of her blast furnaces
are idle, and English ship building is
nearly as severely paralyzed rs in 1857,
and they attribute this suffering To the
fact that other countries, particularly
the United States, have become their
own manufacturers of iron and steel !;
and under the Republican policy of
protecting home industry the American
manufacturers are supplying the home
demand, and that too ut prices to the
consumer far below the cost the
same articles where furnished by Eng
land under the tariff of 1916. Steel
rails Il few years since when brought
from England cost the CONSUMERS ut
least four times what they do now of
home manufacturers, and only about
half the price of English iron rails UNI
der the Democratic tariff of 1916.
The English manufacturers are now
sending large sums of money to Ohio,
and other closely contested states, to
aid the free trade Democracy
British gold and the aid of the Stan
dard Oil monopoly, the Democratic al
lies of English manufacturers, hope to
carry that state next Tuesday. We do
not mean to intimate by any means
that our Democratic friend, money
loaner and candidate, who rms the
tariff department of the Recie,c, is, or
will be, a participant in the spOils from
the British contributors to the free
trade Democracy, but we do say he
cannot point to a single instance in the
history of our country for fifty years
that Democratic reduction of the tar
| i'll, to even approximate free trade, has
not been followed by financial revul-
sion, disastrous alike To the manufac-
turing, the agricultural, and all other
! interests of the country; and that now
he il doing all he can in his weak way,
unwittlugly we hope, to aid British
nabobs to hold the Irish to their i'm
poverished condition and bring the
Americans to the same degraded con-
dition.
A system or policy under which the
! wealth of the nation has increased in
q years from ST., 900, 5000, 900, its total
wealth in 1860, to $i4 900 ,O00,0 900 in
! 1850; and its populat ion has increased
i'll nearly the same ratio, besides put
ting down gigantic Democratic rebel
lion with which the Democratic NOM
inee for vice-prcsident was i'm full SYM
pathy, is plenty good enough for the
advocates of British interests at Amer
lean expense to live under for another
% years, and they have got to do it or
90 TO Canada. We are not so largely
endowed with that universal benev0-
lence that swelled the bosom of Arte-
mas Ward, when he expressed his will
ingncs to sacrifice his wife's relation to
save the Union, that we are just willing
to sacrifice all orr American laborers
to give loaf of white bread to the
starved workman of the British free
traders.