The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-24

twenty years the wealth Of New jersey was
increased by the sum Of $3.50, OOO, 600, while
the wealth Of Iowa was Increased by the sum
Of 81 ,bOO, O0O, 900 They see that the nine
grown 60 rapidly ia prosperity that the ag
gregate addition to their wealth since 186O7s
almost as great as the wealth of the entire
country in that year. They see that the
South, which is almost exclusively agrt-
cultural, has shared in the general prosperity.
and that having recovered from the loss and
devastation OF Wal, has gained SO rapidly
that It's total wealth IL at least the double Of
that which II possessed in 1860, exclusive of
slaves
In these extraordinary developments the
farmers see the helpful impulse at q home
revenue system, enacted since the Repub-
hcan 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 ssad, IN the average OF the years since the
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 dis
parity has been go great that for every peck
been consumed 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 market becomes daily Of greater con-
Germ to them and that its impairment would
depreciate the value of every acre of tillable
land in the Union.
OUR INTERNAL COMMERCE.
Such facts as these touching the growth
and consumption of cereals at home give us
some slight conception of the vastness of the
internal commerce of the United States
They suggest also that, in addition to the ad-
yantages which the American people enjoy
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 or
h1ndrance, without tax, detention or govern
mental interference Of any kind whatever.
1t spreads freely over an area of three and q
half million square miles-almost equal in
extent to the whole continent of Europe
of American freemen, and from this enjoy
ment no monopoly Is created. According to
Alexander Hamilton, when he discussed the
same subject in 1900, 1.-THE internal compe-
tition which takes place does away with
everything 1Y. like monopoly, and by degrees
mum of . reasonable profit on the capital
employed" 1t is impossible to point to a
single monopoly in the United States that
has been created or fostered 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 as large mileage of rail
way as 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
NJ, yfvxyov tim ~
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. lis into this field that the
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-
gaining nothing in return.
EFFECT UPON 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
earnings to live in comfort, educate his chill
drenfand lay by a 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 1t would
prove great calamity to our country. It
would produce conflict between the poor
and the rich, and in the sorrowful degrada-
ton of labor would plant the seeds of public
danger.
The Republican party has steadily aimed to
maintain just relations between Labor and
Capital-guarding with care the rights of
each. Aconfict between the two has always
led in the past, and will always lead in the
future, to the injury of both Labor is
indispensable to the creation and profitable
use Of capital, and capital increases the
efficiency. and value of labor. Whoever
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 80 that it's compensation is
larger than Ia realized in any other country.
competition Of contract labor from China,
and may be called upon to prohibit the
growth Of similar evil from Europe 1t is
obviously unfair to permit capitalists to
make contracts for cheap labor in foreign
countries to the hurt and disparagement OF
the labor of American citizens. Such q
policy Qike that which would leave the time
and other conditions of home labor exclu-
sively In the control of the employer, is in
furious to all parties-not the least so to the
unhappy persons who are made the subjects
Of the contract The institutions of tho
virtue Of all the people Suffrage is made
universal as just weapon of self-protec-
ton to every citizen. It is not the interest
OF the republic that any economic system
should be adopted which involves the reduc-
ton of wages to the hard standard prevail
ing elsewhere. The Republican party aims
to elevate and dignity labor-not to degrade
it.
Al . substitute for the industrial system
which under Republican administration has
developed such extraordinary prosperity,
our opponents offer policy which is but a
revenues policy whose end must be harm
to our manufactures and greater harm to our
labor. Experiments in the industrial and
financial Gvstem 10 tina country'e greatest
dread, a. stability to it, greatest boon Even
the uncertainty resulting from the recent
affected the business of tho entire country
Who can measure the harm to our shops and
our homes, to our farms and our comm cree.
II the uncertainty OF perpetual tariff agita-
ton Is to be inflicted upon the country We
are In tho midst of an abundant harvest; we
are ON the eye of revival Of general bros.
Per1ty. 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
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 re-
moved from our geographical position from
participation or interest in those questions
OF dynasty or boundary which 60 frequently
disturb the peace of Europe, we are left to
cultivate friendly relations with all, and are
Tree 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
sored confidence that no power desires to
aGtack the United States .s
With the nations of the Western hemi-
sphere we should cultivate closer relations,
ana Tor our common prosperity and adj
vancement we should invite them all to ioin
with us In an agreement that, for the future,
elFinternational troubles in North or South
America shall be adjusted by impartial arbi-
tration and not by arms This project was part
OF the fixed policy of President Garaeld's ad-
m1n1strahon. and 1t should in my Judgment
be renewed. Its accomplishments on this con.
tfnent would favorably affect the nations be.
yond the sea. and thus powerfully contribute
Ut no distant day to the universal acceptance