The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-03

a. low as any patriotic American should ask to
buy them. Experience has taught us that in the
manufacture of many articles that should b
and now are produced In this country we can
not compete with European manufacture. and
part Gu airy with the manufacture Of England
Many reasons conduce to this end such Is the
larger denominations of capital in the older
countries, the longer and more permanent es-
Enlistment OF their manufacturing institu.
tions. the lower rate which capital commands
In ar old country; but the important and the
chief reason why the European manufactures
can undersen the American is the cheapness Of
labor on that side of the water. We can not
compete with them in the production OF many
articles unless the price Of labor in America is
reduced 20 the European standard am not
in favor Of protecting any interest which does
NOT require protection. nor am in favor Of
protecting any industry which We do not have
natural facilities for N aintaining. I would not
be in favor OF helping any man or set Of men
by Law to grow coffee and tea in q dollhouse.
So largely does the wages Of labor enter into
the price OF manufactured articles In this c0un-
try that conceive 1t would be impossible to
maintain the great lines Of our manufactures
without = substantial protective tariff upon for
eign goods.
Furthermore, the moment We allow our home
manufactures 10 be broken down, the so-:alied
''monop0lies" and 'trusts" upon which the
free-trader loves to descant are only removed
to the other side Of the Atlantic ocean. We
would In that event soon learn by sad eXpe.
rience. as has been learned by several countries
trying tho experiment, that we would be re.
quired to pay more for the manufactured arti-
cles than they cost under the policy Of protec
ton.
The President does not even suggest the fact
that there is nothing ut al to prevent any per.
son among our 60, 000. GOD OF population from en-
gazing In amy manufacturing enterprise prom
Using large rewards. Money is plenty in the
market to be loaned at six per cent, and even
less rate. II manufacturing enterprises
promise to capital such large rewards under
what the President is pleased to term our
"vicious and illogical" tariff laws, why will
capitalists, who are certainly as shrewd and
farseeing in money matters as the President
himself loan their money at four, i've and six
per cent,
It will be found in almost every instance that
the prices OF protected articles now Is COM
pared with four years ago have been reduced.
WOODEN goods OF nearly every description are
cheaper now than they were in the good old
Democratic days Of free trade. wooden
blanket worth . before the war can now be
bought for i've, and the price of almost every
laborlng classes has been reduced in like pro-
portion. Salt, one Of the most necessary arti-
cles OF life. We ere told, 10 required to pay .
heavy duty In order ~ build up monopoly in
the manufacture OF that article at home; and
yet salt 10 a. cheap. II not cheaper. than Il ever
was before in the world. You can purchase .
barrel Of salt from your city merchant about q
cheap - you can hire . draymsn to all . bar
rel at your nearest sand-bank and deliver IL in
your back yard We have reached these con-
ditions, not through foreign competition, but
by competition arising 1t home among our
own manufacturers; and when We manufacture
al we need at prices - low - the article can
b made for At home. then we have reached a.
favorable Q condition - the natural advantages
this must inevitably bo done at the expense OF
the mechanics and the laborinR men.
The Democratic party has been six years in
control Of that house Of Congress In which
under the constitution all revenue laws must
originate. II has been in control Of the Execu.
tive Department Of the Government more than
three years. Yet with . large working MAORI
ty in the lower house, with its President In the
chair; that party has originated and passed NO
single measure to relieve the burden OF unnec-
essary taxation which just now Is the slogan
and the war cry OF the Democratic campaign.
do not say and do not believe that the
present Tariff law u perfect. The Republican
party long ago set the example Of revising the
tariff and may be relied on to correct all its
present and its future inequalities. But there
10 one matter in which am firmly persuaded
that the good sense Of the American people as
whole will coustrain them to agree with the
Republican policy and principles, and that 10
that the doctrines Of the English free-trsde
school, under which American manufacture
would inevitably be confined to such opers-
tons as saving wood and mending shoes.
should never he permitted to gain ascendency
upon this continent. Men who can only view
the tariff question through the free-trade cog
giles Of Richard Golden and from the stand
point occupied by the English manufacturer,
whose desire in the matter IL his own selfish
gain, will never be permitted by the voters of
this Nation to lay their unwashed and ignorant
hands upon the citadel Of American industry.
Fellow citizens, should feel that had been
recreant TO my sense OF duty IL 1 failed TO call
your attent,or to one other question. Ques-
ton that lies at the foundation of our free in
situations, and compared with which all others
sink into noth:ngness. I refer to the political
condition of the colored race in the South.
Nearly twice as many members OF Congress as
constitute the present Democratic majority in
the lower house hold their seats by counting in
the enumeration Of electors q DISTINGUISHED
constituency. A race beyond the Ohio is
robbed of a constitutional right by fraud and
violence. This I know has been said many
times, but even at the rsk Of provoking harsh
criticism and bitter vituperation II ought to be
said and shouted and proclaimed in the face OF
Heaven until q Just God hears the cry OF the
oppressed and the fact ceases to exist.
Twenty-three years have elapsed since the
great tragedy closed at Appomattox. new
generation with faces toward the rising sun
are already on the stage. The passions and
bitter ates engendered by war are gradually
giving way before the bright sunlight of peace
No one reioices at this more than do. l
would not wautonly revive the bitter memories
Of a bitter war or stir up the angry pass ons of
men. Let the dead past bury Its dead. But
this is not 4 question Of the dead past but OF
the living present; and tura which way we will
it stares at us from every section OF the South.
Those responsible for these crimes are the
North and South. including the State of I'LL
nos. are required to obey. These are the men |
who have been unan nous in their vote to
keep South Dakota out of the Union. q Terri |
tory nearly one-third larger than that Of ILL., |
nois, with population of $4,000 people,
population greater thpn the combined popula- |
lati0n OF Ohio. Indiana, Illinois. Michigan and |
when they were admitted into the |
Union. This Territory, filled as it is with in |
telligence and wealth and all the progressive |
ideas OF the North. is kept out simply for the |
crime OF being Republican, and that, too, by |
men who are in Congress with the broken |
laws OF their country under their feet. The |
Nation is ruled to-day by the solid South, and |
q territory within cannon shot Of the city hall /
in the city Of New York. What spectacle is |
here presented to the American people. By /
these influences Cleveland was elected in 1884, (
and by then he expects 10 be reelected in No |
vember. II this condition Of things was |
brought about by fair and untrammeled ex-
preston of 0pinion NJ the ballot box there xoul6