The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-30

Great Brit1in and Ireland. with ireland sup
pressed.
Russia. the granary OF Europe had abandon
ei free trade. with the striking result that.
whereas, In 1875 before the duties we're raised,
she bought 500 100 hundred-weight OF British
metals aud paid therefor $50, O1c.OO0: she got
the same quantity In 1885, aud paid only ST.
o0svo0 Tor It. Austria. Germany. italy. Mexi-
co. AID the Dcmnio 81 Canaan that child OF
Britain herself. had AL joined the army OF pro-
lection. 10 WAS the instinct OF humanity
against the assam tons uf the bookmen. IL
was the VISION OF the race against the wisdom
OF the few. Man derived his greatest power
from his association With other men, his union
with his fellows. Whoever considered tho
human being as creature alone. by himself.
isols ted and separated. and tried to comprehend
mankind by automatically adding these at
ons together had utterly failed 70 cemprohent
the human race and it's tremendous mission.
sixty millions oven I such creatures. with.
out association. were only 30 many beasts that
by national brotherhood, each supporting. sus-
taing. and buttressing the other were the sure
conqu srors OF all those mighty powers OF ma
tUre, which alone constitute the wealth OF the
world. The great blunder of the Herr Professor
Of political economy that lie treated hui
man beings as IL every man were so many
loot pounds, such a fraction of n horse power.
Tor a nation 10 get out o. itself, or out OF the
earth, all the wealth there was in both. it was
not necessary for the nstion 20 buy cheap or
sell dear That concerned indivi !uals alone.
What concerned the nation was how 70 ut lize
all the work there was In men, both OF muscle
and brains. OF body and of soul, in the great
| tuitous forces OF nature.
low UTILIZE AMERICAN TALENT
Here in the United States were 6OOOO,O)O peo-
| pie, with all the varie characters their mum
bers Indicate Some had faculties ft for farm
/ ing, some for the management Of machinery,
| some for invention. The problem before Con-
gress was what system would get from all these
| creatures, different from each other. the
maximum Of work and wealth and wisdom.
mere was oaiy one way 70 GET une p tha ,vr
he can do best. You can only accomplish this
by diversifying industry To diversity industry
| completely in a country such as ours, there was
| but one way given under heaven among men.
| To enable the American people themselves to
supply all their wants you must give and as
kets. What did this phrase mean in practical
life2 1t means that We. tho nation, say TO
capital: Embark yourself in the manufacture
OF such and such articles, and you shall have
| market TO the extent OF the wants OF the
| American people.
Capital then said TO Labor; go with me
into this field. all OF YOU who like tais
work best. and We shall share the results
Then began new industry. Multiply this by
| hundreds, and you had community where
| every man honestly minded would get what
on the whole suits him best. anu the nation
would get the greatest amount OF work from
| the greatest numoer.
Continuing, Mr. Reed said:
Monopoly said horacs Greeley, a doctor OF
laws and once a candidate OF the Democratic
party for the Presidency, monopoly is per.
| haps, the most perverted aud misapplied word
in our much abused mother tongue.
THE DREAD CHIMERt TRUST.
How very lame this language is I suppose
| that during the last ten years 1 have listened
| In this hall to more idotic raving, more pestf-
erous rant n that subject tnan on all the 9th
er5 put together. And yet 90 not regret it.
| What beautiful sight it is to see the revenue
reform orator 90 into action against monopoly.
| Nelson. as he stood blazing with decorations on
| the docks of the Victory. or the fatal day of
! Irafr lgar Napoleon at Friedland, as the guard
went cheering and charging by; Thomas say
/ ers, Us he stripped for tue championship Of
England, when heenan had crossed the lifting
waters; the eagle soaring to his eyrie; the
| royal lnan-eating Bengal tiger in his native
| jungle nay, the very bull himself, the strong
| bull Of Bashan. as no uplifts his below over
| tho rocky desert of Palestine, are all but pale
| reminders OF one Of those ma este creatures.
| And yet. outside the patent-o.fice, there are no
/ monopolies IN TINS country and there never
| can be-.
zpns edge, with tongue Of flame and eye OF
IRE, serp mt headed and grifiin-ciawed? surely
IL must De the great new CHI mera, trust.
| quick, cries every masked member OF the
Ways and Means; quick, let us lower the
tariff let call In the British. Let them save
our devastated homes Courage. brethren
| Be not too much disturbed. The Lord will
reign even IL tbs board OF Mayor and Alder
men should adjourn.
Call in the British. When the day comes
that this republic cannot save itself from
dozen OF its own citizens without al from over
the sea hope 70 DO buried thousanl leagues
under some respectable and permanent mount
ain range. What uni lsOnaOle talK this Is.
A dozen men Tx the prices for co., 200 free
men. They can never do ii. hare is no
power on earth that can rails the price OF any
necessity of life above just price and keep IL
there. More than that, IL the price is raised
and maintained, oven for a short while it
means ruin for the combination, and still
lower prices for consumers. That is one of
the laws OF God working for his children. Com
pared with one Of your laws of Congress 10 is n
leviathan to a clam.
but II the revenue reform orator on the
monopoly is terrible, like an army with ban
ners, there is n theme on which lac can take up
the notes of the dying swan. How we do love
to hear him on the impoverished farmer There
he is not sublime. but he is pathetically great
heard him first ten years ago. Te me. limo
cent, untraveled, IL seemed as il the Western
farmer was the most woe-begone; down-trod-
den, luckless, unsuccessful dispirited devil on
the face of the earth. The Eastern vampire
had mortgaged his farm, aud thrown down his
fences and scattered his substan wantonly
to the winds.
"In the fullness OF time travelled West N.Y.
self. You may well imagine my astonshment,
who hat nsver seen ten acres together in corn.
to behold fields OF that great staple stretching
way out 70 the horizons edge, to see tracts OF
land which seemed 70 have no boundaries but
the Wis bic sky-iand 80 rich that IL we had an
acre Of IL in Maine We would have sold il by
the bushel, while on every side were the great
brick houses, such as only the squire lived in
In our villages After some days of this 1 be.
came sulky. / said, gentlemen, of course we
have robbed you your congressman would not
lie about tribes like that. But what disgus ts
me is that we did not do il more thoroughly.
The cleaning looks bigger than the harvest
Then they contidei to me that the Western
Congressman we're great orators, and did this
for practice. Since then 1 have not been so
much moved by it.
THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD CRY.
Here is another unsolicited gun called the
markets OF the world The markets of tho
world. How broad and cool these words are
They stretch from the frozen regions OF the
northern pole across the blazing tropics to the
ice-bound shores OF the antarctic continent
All this we can have il we will but give up the
little hands breadth called the United states
OF America. What are the markets Of the
world?
ITO hear these rhetorcians deciaim, you
would imagine the markets of the world vast
vacuum, waiting TIL now for American goods
to break through rush in, and fill the yearnng
void. VIII your 60 DDS go TO Austria. To Italy,
Germany, Russia, or Franco? Around all these
benghted countries the Chinese walls OF
tariff taxes. Britain herself 10 protected by
vast capital accumulated through ages, the
spoils OF her own and other lands. by a trade
system "a powerful as IL is relentless. All
these nations will contest with you the other
countries which they already overflow.
Does your mouth water over the prospect?
What market do you give up for all this ?
| Where is the best market in the world
Where have the people the most money to
| spend? Right here in the United States Of
America, after twenty-seven years Of protoc-
ZIONIST rules.
EsoP's MUTToNLEss DOC.
And you are asked TO give up such markets
/ for tho markets OF the world Why, the
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