The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-10

construction Of . buggy. The result n that by
the protection that encouraged these industries
20 start We have been r1ven ESTABLISHMENTS that
LARGELY added to the wealth OF tho country and
enabled the production and sale Of q buRRy thAt
cont, ten years ago. $500 for SlsS, and thereby
a community to have buggy, as was the case
thirty years ago In this country. but for any
farmer who Is In anything like reas nzble cir
cumstznecs to enjoy such . luxury. And as 10
has been in the matter OF reapers and buggies.
too has II been with everything In the nature
of necessity that farmer has us'i for. In
stead OF being dependent upon a foreign mar
ket, which Is uncertain and variable. and which
Will not in any event take more than q fraction
given q home market which is absolutely GER
tain. which IN right at his door, andswhich last
year took over % per cent OF the corn product
and more than rs FER cent Of the entire wheat
product Of the United states Not only is 1t
market that thus largely consumes all that the
farmer raises. but 1t is market thst
before or that can be again II 1t should be
DESTROYED. And as IL has been with the
farmers, so too has IL been with every other in
can party not only to protect the manufacturer
and the farmer. but to protect every other class,
including especially the wage laborers OF the
country. And what want to call particular at
tention to Is the fact that while the prices OF
farm implements and buggies and all other
American products have been continually
cheapening and cheapening and cheapening in
the manner have described, yet that cheaper
ing of prices has not been In any instance at the
cost OF the laboring man. For II you will
go into the Columbus Buggy Companys
works at Columbus, Ohio, and make in
curry, or 90 into any of the machine
shops at Springfield, Ohio, or into any OF the
mills, or FORCES, furnaces, or foundries of the
State, You will learn that while common labor
may have varied somewhat during the last ten
years, yet IL Is substantially well remuner-
ated to-day as at any time during this period,
and that skilled labor commands also practi-
cally the same prices. The cheapening Is the
result OF improved machinery and the increased
skill OF workmen. A buggy dash that cost S.
70 make ten years ago can be made to-day by
the aid OF machinery for $l.2s. Sewing that
could be done a few years ago only by stout
men is to-day done with the greatest facility by
machinery operated by women.
The prosperity which the country has enjoyed
has not belonged TO any one class-it has been
participated in by every class-it hs been uni
fore, every man should favor protective tariff.
as opposed to a free-tradc rolicy for America.
But II Is also the patriotic policy. When
Abraham Lincoln called an army into the Held
to defend the life of the nation a million
men were ready TO respond but, to the dis
credit OF the country, IL not able to put
clothes on their backs or guns in their hands.
The result was that we gave them shod-
dy uni O1ms that would scarcely hold
together, and Austrian muskets that were
almost more dangerous to stand behind than in
front Of But before the war was over every
soldier carried gun of American msnufao ture,
and when the war was ended, and that great
army came marching home from its great victo-
ries, IL wore the best uniforms that any soldiers
were ever clothed with. all made from American
WOOL grown upon the backs of american sheep
and manufactured in American mills all brought
into lite with Aladdin-like magic under the in
MIGRATING and inspiriting impulse OF a protec-
tive tariff