St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-23

| your future condition. American industry
must be encouraged and protected against
the pauper labor of Europe"
''Blood and thunder" you reply, sam not
! I an American? Do not labor in raising
my crops? And who protects me against the
/ pauper labor of Europe? (Applause.) have
/ to sell my wheat at the worlds price, less the
| Minneapolis stealage, Qaughter); that price
| is fixed in Liverpool; and there my wheat
meets with the competition of the wheat
raised by the poorest peasants
in Europe, to-wit: the wheat of Russia,
Poland and Hungary; yes, even with the
wheat raised by the half-clad, dark-skinned
natives of India. Who protects mel How
am I to get back that s295 so you propose to
now take from me! You send me home
S29.50 poorer than when I left home; and
what have to show for it," (Applause)
HOME MARKET.
''My dear fellow, you are benefited by the
increased prosperity of your native land, by
| the encouragement of home manufacturers,
/ and by giving employment to our own peo-
pie"
But" you answer, ''my wants and the
wants of the people of Minnesota, in the
| shape of manufactures, can only give en-
/ ployment to a certain fixed number OF work
men; so many and no more; and so lar as
/ the price of my wheat, corn and pork Is con-
cernedit does not make the slightest differ
/ ence to me whether the men who make those
manufactured goods live on the east side OF
/ the Atlantic or on the west side. OF course,
other things being equal, should prefer to
have them reside on the west side; but not
if am to pay $3.50 on every trade OF S33,
and be reduced to pauperism thereby. zap
p!ause) When l sell my wheat to the mill
ers, for seventy-fve cents per bushel, can
not tell-and they cannot tell-whether the
flour that is manufactured from it goes
eventually into the stomachs of Americans,
/ Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Hin
docs or Hottentots. In fact, it don't make
a cents worth of difference to me where it
goes. l would have some faith in your talk
about home market if the mills and ele-
vators put up signs like this:
price OF No. l WHEAT. TO BE EATEN BY
/ YANKEES, ONE DOLLAR PER BUsHEL.
PRICE OF No. WHEAT, TO BE EATEN BY
THE BLASTED ENGLIsHMEN, sEvENTYFIvE
CENTS PER BUsHEL." [Great laughter and
applause
''But don't you see," says brother Jona-
than, ''you are sure that if the workmen
who make your goods live in America they
will buy your wheat, while the Englishmen
may buy their wheat elsewhere"
''What difference" you reply, "does that
make to me If the price is the worlds price
and fixed by the supply of wheat in the
whole world. I can get no more than the
worlds price anyhow; and that 1 will get
anyhow.
DESTROYING OUR FOREIGN MARKET.
''But here is where the pinch comes: John
Bull has a lot of manufactured goods to sell :;
/ he cannot compete with us in raising wheat,
but ne has q country especially fitted for GER
tain classes of manufactures. He brings
these goods over here, and we slam the door
in his face, and bolt it, and tell him to 60 to
thunder And the next day we send him
over lot of our wheat and We want him to
buy It. No; says John, i viii swap you
goods for your wheat, at the lowest cash
prices, but if I don't sell my goods where
am | to get the money to buy your wheat.
We reply, we don't want your goods; we
can get American goods at double the price
laughter and we are patriotic enough to pay
it but we want your money!,
DEVELOPING INDIA.
''Aud then JohnBull gets the sulks, and he
swears some after, his fashion; and he says
| will buy my wheat of folks who will buy
my goods; this American trade is like a jug
handle, it is all on one side, it is all give
and no take.
WHAT JOHN BULL DOES.
''And John has plenty of money, for he
don't believe in Chinese walls and burning
candles at both ends, and John goes to work
and organizes what he calls the British I'm
provement company, and builds 1900
miles of railroad in India; and opens up the
great wheat fields of the Punjab; and loans
the Indian government $40, 600, 600 for the
extension of railroads; and sets all of the
swarming millions of blacks in that country
to raising wheat; and he pays them with dry
goods and hardware at one-half the prices
we pay for the same kind of goods; and the
improvement Company is introducing all
the latest agricultural machinery, at low
prices, much lower than we have to pay; and
the food of wheat pours in, laid down in
Liverpool at 81 cents per bushel. Last year
England imported $4,000, 600 bushels Of In
dian wheat, and that took the place of $4,000
600 bushels that we ought to have sold them.
Applause. And now John meets us with
q grim smile aud says, as he bolts the door
in turn, i don't want your wheat gentle
men; now goa can go to thunder, and that
is where we are going, just as fast as the
Lord will let US. Laughter and applause. !
GOING TO THUNDER.
Four years ago the United States supplied
IS pcr cent. of all the wheat and -four i'm
ported into Great Britain. In 1881 this was
reduced to so per cent. in 1852 to 50 pei
cent and in 1888 to 46 per cent. On the
other hand English imports Of wheat from
Russia Increased from 100000 bushels in
1881 TO -, 900, 600 in 1888. Why! Because
the Russian gives and takes.
ALWAYS CROW AND No TURKEY FOR Us.
'.But when our sc, 900, 600 bushels of wheat
knock at the door of England for admission.
and England don't want them, they must be
sold at any price; and down goes the market
price; ana wheat is worth fifty
eight cents a bushel on the frontier
m Minnesota. Then We turn to
our protected communities and sar; See
here. gentlemen, out OF patriotic motive We
have for twenty-five years paid very much
higher prices for your productions than the
rest Of the world has asked us, now our time
has come; we are poor and down, ana the
price OF wheat is below the cost Of raising it
nv want to be protected and encouraged
some; we want you to say turkey tous ouee:'
can't YOU give us something above the