Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-24

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| some article of food, is an interference with
the so-ealled police power Of the state cease.
/ to exist
| The question then which presents itself Ia
every man here is, win this measure minister
20 the general good, to the national welfareg
If its benefits are merely local and special and
not general, then we have no warrant. no right
20 enact it into a law. These reasons address
! themselves to the legislative Judgment exclu-
sively, our judgment being ever subject TO ap-
prevail or disapprova. TO stand or fall before
that great tribunal, the people OF this country.
Nearly one-half Of all the people of this
country are engaged IN and directly dependent
upon agriculture. The vital forces of every
other business. care not what its character,
are drawn from and nounshed by it. From the
standpoint Of economies purely and upon the
strictest business principles the interests of
agriculture are the interests of this Govern
ment No other pursuit so universally and
profoundly concerns every other citizen of the
Republic no other calling known TO civilized
man where so entirely and completely the in
teresIs of one ia the interest Of all.
There are other considerations which are
worthy the thought of those charged in part
with the duties of government. Favored by
the character OF our institutions, almost all ~
the farm land in this country is held and owned
10y the men who cultivate it. Ownership of
soil means ownership of home and tell YOU
that government whose people build aud own
their own homes lays broadcast and deepest it's
foundations and bargains most happily with
time. The homes, no matter how humble, are
the pledges of the perpetuity of the nation.
Our little, modest homes scattered over the
land, reared by those who live in them, are the
pillars of strength which lift this government
above other nations OF the civilized world.
And it is we'll for as to remember here as else
where that the poorest home is just as great
an element Of strength to the state as the
costliest mansion. Tothe state, to the govern
ment, there is no difference
Now, sir these rural homes are hui IL on small
margins. They are maintained only by indus
try and frugality. Every factor of strength
and support about them is important to COM
Portable, decent existence
Sir, know something of life upon the farm:
know the value of the little things in the
economical system, in the spariug, cautious
management practiced there. 1 know how the
small things are used 10 hIl up and round out
the seasons as they go. There is little that can
be safely spared.
know, sir. the vital. the absolutely vital
Importance Of the dairy to the maintenance
not only of the home comforts. the sweetening
Of the homo Hfe, but its great value TO that
which makes the home possible the farm it,
self. Il is the one important element inalmost
the only system which can be adopted upon
the small farms TO sustain their soil and pre-
serve their producing properties. 10 forecose
the farmer from this essential branch Of his
business is % greatly narrow the limits of his
industry, lessen the number of farm products
ana force overproduction in the few produced
with all its consequent disasters 10 commerce
and trade.
II Is too late in this discussion TO go into
figures. nor Is it necessary. The dairy interest
aud silt that it carries with it is iu distressing
condition. 1t has been driven to the wall and
is to-day lighting for place to stand. 1t Is set
upon from all sides by an unseen foe It is
struck from behind. 1t is taken in ambush. 1t
can make no defense
All but you say, This Is competition, and
are you going to apply the taxing power to set
tie differences Of competition between domes-
tic Industries answer that is not the quos-
tion presented here We face new situation
in history. Ingenuity, striking hands with
cunning trickery, compounds a substance to
counterfeit an article of food, 1t is made to
look like something it is not; to taste and
smell like something it is not; TO sell for
something it is not and so deceive the purchas-
er. 1t follows faithfully two rules: Miss no
opportunity to deceive" AT an times put
i'm 3 ..f,
The evidence, undisputcd, is that there en-
tiers into its composition a large number OF
substances which sinply, or in comb nation, are
unwhulesome, poisonous, and either directly
or indirectly destructive OF human life.
1t is no longer question with the citizen
anywhere, from ocean 20 ocean, whether he
would prefer to cati t. lie is forced TO eat il,
This monstrous product of greed and hypoc-
risy makes It's way into the home and onto the
table of every consumer. II i, as powerful
and irres istible as vicious ingenuity can make
ii. 1t is as pitiless as a plague. It's purposes
are those OF the highway man, its methods uD-
tally different 1t wants only one thing: it
wants Your money it does not care for your
life.
lalE about competition, why, gentlemen,
stop aud Think There can be no com petition
except where there is rivalry. Competition
Implies two or more persons or things or em-
ploymeuts-two or more entities each with an
individuality, character, an Identity Of It's
own. in common strife for the same object.
BUT there can, from he very nature of thugs
be no competition between a substance and MS
counterfeit The sole object in making one
subject ia imitation of another, for purposes
OF sale, is 20 a old competition.
II is ttuo that this Idle talk about interior
cuce with the competition of two industries
should cease The purpose of this OIL 1. 20
insure competition. Here is vllainuus de
vice TOR making money lawIessly aud subue3,
eating the heart out of am Industry which Is TO
this Government, what blood is to the body. h.
( IS nor unly striking prostrlte the agricultural
industry, hut 1t aecumpushcs this by cheating
aud dofuu5lu.s the baluuce OF the people the
great body of coHsumers out of both moucy
and health. NJ spares no one.
4 All legislation attempted or within tho reach
/ of ,bc states is iuipoteut 10 dealwith TINS mou-
ster lt there was ever a time i'm the history
o. Do.