The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-25

Illinois had advanced to thirty two hundred
millions. They see that New Jersey and Iowa
were Just equal in population in 1850, and tR at
N twenty years the wealth of New Jersey was
increased by the sum of eight hundred and
nifty millions of dollars, while the wealth OF
Iowa was increased by the SUM or fifteen
hundred millions. They see that tbs nine
| leading agricultural States OF the West have
grown SO rapidly in prosperity that the aggre-
gate addition to their wealth since 1860 Is al
| most as great as the wealth OF the entire
country in that year. They see that the
| South, which is almost exclusively agricult-
| urai, has shared in the general prosperity, and
that having recovered from the loss and
devastation of 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 developments the
farmers see the helpful impulse of home
market, and they see that the financial and
revenue system, enacted since the Republican
party came Into power has established 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 half bushels
| exported. In some years the disparity has
been so great that for every peck of corn ex-
ported one hundred bushels have been con-
sumed in the home market. The farmers see
| that in the increasing competition from the
grain fields of Russia and from the distant
plains of India, the growth of the home mar
ket becomes daily of greater concern to them
| value of every acre of tilable land in the
! Union.
| OUR INTERNAL COMMERCE..
Such facts as these touching the growth
and consumption of cereals at home give uS
! some sight conception of the vastness of the
internal commerce of the United States. They
suggest also that, in addition to the advan-
tages which the American people enjoy from
protection against foreign competition, they
! enjoy the advantages of absolute free trade
| over larger area and with greater popula-
! ton than any other nation. The internal
commerce of our thirty-eignt States and nine
Territories IS carried on without let or him
drance, without tax, detention or
governmental interference of any
Kind whatever. 1t spreads freely
over an area eff three and half million
| square miles-almoSt equal in extent to the
enjoyed to-day by 56,00O,000 of American free
men, and from this enjoyment no monopoly
is created. According to Alexander Hamil-
| ton, when he discussed the same subject in
| 1890, 1.-THE internal competition which takes
place does away with everything like
| monopoly, and by degrees reduces the prices
! of articles to the minimum of reasonable
profit on the capital employed" It is impos-
sible to point to a single monopoly in the
| United States that has been created or fos-
tered by the industrial system which is upheld
by the Republican party.
| Compared with our foreign commerce these
domestic exchanges are inconceivably great
/ ia mountaineering merely as one jnstru-
mentality as large mileage of railway as ex-
| lists to-day in all the other Nations of the
world combined. These internal exchanges
are estimated by the Statistical Bureau of the
| Treasury Department to be annually twenty
| times as great in amount as our foreign COM
| MERGE. 1t is into this vast field Of home
| trade-et once the creation and heritage of
| the American people-that foreign nations are
! striving by every device to enter. 1t is into
this field that the opponents of cur present
| revenue system would admit the countries of
| Europe-countres 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.
THE MECHANIC AND THE LABoRER.
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 his earn
| inSs to live in comfort. educate his children
and lay by a sufficient amount for the neees-
Stiles OF age. The reduction of wages in
| ey1tably consequent upon throwing our home
market open to the world would deprive
them of the power to do this. 1t would
prove great calamity to our country. 1t
would produce conflict between the poor
and the rich, and in the sorrowful degrade
ton OF labor would plant the seeds Of public
danger.
The Republican party has steadily aimed to
maintain just relations between labor and
cap1tal-guarding with care the rights of
each. A conflict between the two has always
led in the past and will always lead in the
future to the injury of both. Labor is indis-
pensable 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 wisest and best which harmonizes
the two on the basis of absolute justice. The
| Republican party has protected the free
| labor of America so that it's compensation is
| larger than Is realized in any other country.
1t has guarded our people against the unfair
competition of contract labor from China, and
may be called upon to prohibit the growth of
q similar evil from Europe. 1t is obviously
unfair to permit capitalists to make contracts
for cheap labor in foreign countries to the
burt and disparagement of the labor of Amer
fran citizens. Such policy dixie 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 the subjects OF the contracts The in
| sdtutions of the United States rest upon the
| intelligence and virtue of all the people.
Suffrage is made universal as a just weapon
OF sett-proteetion to every citizen. 1t is not
the interest of the Republic that any economic
system should be adopted which involves the
reduction of wages to the hard standard pre-
vailtug elsewhere. The Republican party
aims to elevate and dignity labor-not to de-
grade IL.
AS a substitute for the industrial system
! which under Republican administration has
developed such extraordinary prosperity, our
| opponents offer a.polioy which is bat & series
OF experiments upon our system of reveP ue--
a policy whose end must be harm to our mar
| uIdCJuF6S anu greater harm TO our LABOR. EX-
pertinent in the industrial and financial sys-
tenn is the country's greatest dread as stabil-
ity is Its greatest boon. Even the uncertainty
resulting from the recent tariff agitation in
Congress has hurtfuly affected the business of
| the entire country. Who can measure the harm
to eur shops and our homes, to our farms and
our commerce, II the uncertainty of perpet-
ual tariH agitation is to be inflicted upon the
country? We are in the midst of an abundant
| harvest; we are on the eve of a revival of
general prosperity. Nothing stands in our
way but the dread of a change in the indus
trial system which has wrought such wonders
in the last twenty years, and which, with the
power of increased capital, will work still
greater marvels of prosperity in the twenty
years to come.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY
Our foreign relations favor our domestic
development. We are at peace with the
World--at peace upon sound basis with no
unsettled questions of sufficient magnitude to
embarrass or distract US. Happily removed
by our geographical position from participa-
ton or interest in these questions of dynasty
or boundary Which so frequently disturb the
peace of Europe, we are left to cultivate
friendly relations with all, and are free from
possible entangiepents 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 assured con-
hdence that no power desires to attack the
United States.
With the Nations of the Western Hemis-
phere we should cultivate closer relations and
Tor our common prosperity and advancement
agreement that for the future, all interna-
tlonal troubles in North or South America
shall be adjusted by impartial arbitration and
not by arms This project was part of the
fixed nolicy of President GarfeldSs Admins
tration, and it should, in my Judgment, be re-
pewed. Its accomplishment on this continent
would favoraby affect the Nations beyond the
sea, and thus powerfully contribute at no dis
tant day to the universal acceptance of the
philanthropic and Christian principle of arbi-
tration. The effect even of suggesting 1t for
the Spanish American States has been most
happy and has increased the confidence OF
those people in our friendly disposition. 1t fell
to my lot as Secretary of State, in June, 1881,
to quiet apprehension in the Republic of Mex
leo by giving the assurance in an official
dispatch that there is not the faintest desire
in the United States for territorial extension
south OF the Rio GTande. The boundaries of
the two Republics have been established in
conformity with the best jurisdictional inter-
ests of both. The line of demarcation is not
merely conventional 1t is more. 1t separ-
ates Spanish-American people from Saxon
American people. 1t divides one great Nation
from another with distinct and natural
1inalty."
We seek the conquests of peace. We desire
to extend our commerce, and in an especial
degree WITH our friends and neighbors ON this
continent. We have not improved our rela-
lions with Spanish-America as wisely and as