Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-08

other hand, our exports from 1860 to the
s sSeiye IF }hoa asa 'a mi,lid 31ss" Of S dollars e is1 g
90, 600 the whole of it being the pr )duct OF
American labor. Evidently a protective
under its influence we exported in twenty enHa
total amount that had been exported in tic
merce. All the details, when analyzed, cor
The commcrcial cities Of the Union
have enjoyed since 1860. Our chief en-
porium, the city of Now York, with its de-
her population and increased her wealth five
fold. During the same period the imports
and exports which have entered and LETT her
harbor are more than double in bulk and
value the whole amount imported and ey-
ported by her between the settlement of tho
first Dutch colony on the island Of Manhat-
tan and the outbreak of tho civil war In 1850.
AGRICULTURE n THE TARIFF.
The agricultural interest is by. far the
largrst in the Nation, and is entitled in every
sideration. Any policy hostile to tine fullest
development of agriculture in the United
fact, the opponents of the present system of
revenue have .abored very earnest v to per-
slade the farmers of the Omitted States that
e'IorGis thus made TO consol,dale their vast in
iiuence in fay or Of free trade. But happily the
farmers of America are intelligent anl can
not be mislcd by sophistry when conclusive
turing the past twcnty-four years wealth has
not been acquired in one section or by one
another interest. They see that the agri-
cultural States have made even more rapid
progrcss than the manufacturing sta'es.
The farmers see that in 1850 Massachusetts
and Illinois had about the same wealth be-
tween eight and nine hundred million do lars
cach-and that i'll 1880 Massachusetts had adj
vanced to twenty-siX hundred millions, while
Illinois had advanced to thirty-two hundred
mi lions. They see that New Jersey and Iowa
yrp, w i,,ctn r,,, IL, ,,1 nv, 1StSi ur,3 tln&
in twenty years the wealth Of NewJersey was
increased by the sum of eight hundred and
fifty millions of dollars, while tho wealth of
hundred millions. They see that the nine
leading agricultural States of the West have
Grown =, aa So fapidly in prosperity that the ,s.; ag Z n :
most as great as the wealth OF the entire
country in that year. They see that the
M,ral, 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 tho double Of that
In these extraordinary developments the
farmers sec the helpful impulse OF a home
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
rev sChA ocAots. AAAA sAuo III WV StSS VI
corn, the only other cereal which we export
to any extent, one hundred bushels have
been used at home to three and a 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 tho home market. The farmers see
that IN the increasing competition from the
grain 1ie DIS OF Russia and from the distant
plains of India. the growth of the home mar
and that It's Impairment would deprcciatc the
value of every acre OF tihable land in the
Union.
oUR INTERNAL COMMERCE..
Such facts as these touching the growth
and consumption of cereals at home give us
some S light conception Of the vnstness of the
suggest also that, in addition to the advan-
tages which the American people ENJOY from
protection against foreign competition, they
enjoy Inc advantages of absolute free trade
over Il la, ger area and with q greater popula-
ton than any other nation. The internal
commerce of our thirty-cight States and nine
sey .SS' men Slin0'i interference fer; as's. Of any y
OVER over AN Sn area Of three a spafe a half m niitsisi5s
square miles-almost equal in extent to the
whole continent Of Europe. Its profits are
enjoyed to day by So, 0oU,O QUO OF American free
men, and from this enjoyment no monopoly
is created. According to Alexander Hamil-
ton, when he discussed the same subject i'll
place does away with everything like
monopoly, and by degrees reduces the prices
Vi dIlIGltS u JIG lllulN1uLl III q ICdSOLhplC
profit on the capital employed 1t is impos-
sible to point to a. SINCE monopoly in the
I'm. ted States that has been created or tos-
tered by the industrial system which is upheld
by the Republican party.
Compared with our foreign these
domestic exchanges are incOnceivably great
in misunderstanding merely rs one instru-
mentality as large II mileage of railway as eX-
lists to-day in all the other Nations of the
are estimated by the Statistical Bureau OF the
Treasury Department to be annually twenty
times as great in amount as our foreign com
trade-at once the creation and heritage of
the American people-that foreign nations are
striving, by every device to enter. 1t is into
revenue system would 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.
H MECHANIC ND THE
"A policy Of this kind would be disastrous to
the mechaAics and workingmcn 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 neces-
stiles Of age. The reduction Of wages in
evitab.y consequent upon throwing our home
market open 10 the world would deprive
them of the power to do tins. 1t would
prove a great calamity to our country. 1t
would produce a conflict between the poor
and the rich, and iii the sorrowiul degruda-
ClOn OIL larOf WOulu plant inc SecuS OIL puOilc
danger.
The Republican party has steadily aimed to
maintain Just relations between labor and
cupitai-guarding with care the rights of
each. \ conflict between the two has always
led i'll the past and will always lead i'll the
future to the injury of both. Labor is indis-
pensable TO the creation and profitable use OF
capital, and capital increases the efficiency
ana 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 abso ute justice. The
Republican party has protected the free
iaUpr of America SO that its compensation is
larger than is realized i'll any other country.
Ii has guarded our people against the unfair
competition OF contract labor from China, and
may be aled upon TO prohibit the growth of
a similar evil from Europe. 1t is obviously
tor cheap labor in foreign countries to the
hurt and diSparagcmcnt of the lubOrOf Amer
lean citizens. Such Il policy dixie that which
would leave the time and other conditions of
home labor exclusively in the control Of the
cmployer is injurious tc all parties-not the
least so TO the unhappy persons who are
made the subjects OF the contracts. The in
situations of the United States rest upon the
intelligence and virtue of all the people.
Suffrage is made universal us IA just weapon
of self protection TO every citizen. 1t is not
the interest OF the Republic that amy economic
system should be adopted which involves the
re auction of wages to the hard standard pre-
vaiiing elsewhere. The Republican party
aims to eICyute and dignity labor-nOt to de-