The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-10-20

greater water front ON the ocean-we
Americans among ourselves around the
hcarthstonc and by the tireside, have
absolute free trade. [Cheers and cries
OF That's it. that's the doctrine."l We
do not erect barrier on the border of
any State against another State. II you
have a particular article you can come
10 Maine, 10 New York. to New England,
or YOU can go to California or Oregon,
and You will not hC met on the whole
way ny custom-houses or tax-collectors
of any kind SO that. as matter of
fact-and have brought it to the at
tention OF the people beyond the sea-
there is not, nor has there ever been, so
great number of millions OF people in
the world who have had the greatest
and highest blessings that free trade can
give them as the people OF the United
States. Applause
But we know also that is free trade
among ourselves. That is the inter
course between the great family of the
American people, who do not tax each
other, and every State in which is
guaranteed home to any man that
chooses to settle in it, and every man
has the same right in one State that he
can have in any other State. IC'hcers.
But when YOU come to the question
whether the foreign peoples, who pay
no taxes, who are not of our family,
who live alien to us, who live far beyond
the ocean, shall enter into this great
home market, that opens another ques-
ton. There comes in the great doctrine
OF protection. More than that, let me
say here that the principle of protection
is not always in every country alike
profitable. The principle of protection
cannot he applied in every country with
the same value and the same profit, and
] will tell you why, it has
become os lasting profit to the
United States. 1t is because the
United States is a world within itself.
Now, If we were little narrow country
that only had one or two products, prob
ably if we sought to protect those pro-
ducts we would only raise the price up
on ourselves; but we have Il country
that extends from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, from the Guif TO the Lakes,
from latitude % degrees on the borders
of the Tropic of Cancer to latitude 40 de-
grees, away off on the borders of British
Columbia. We have the seml-tropical
products in Southern California, and in
the Northern ATTITUDES we have the cere-
ais; we have the fruits, we have the cot
have n world within ourselves. And so
large does this principle of protection
| become and SO varied is its application
| that no man can say that this man or
! that man is protected Mt the expense of
| his neignbor, because every pursuit, ev-
! cry calling mwhich man engages, comes
| in for n share of the great benefcent in
| fluence which protection gives to a Ma
| ton situated as the United States is
| situated. So that when they talk to us
about free trade / tell them in Eng land
that as compared with us they know
nothing about it. We have got abso lutte
free trade among $4,000, 900 of our own
| people, and we have protection against
| the l 400, 100000 of people that live out
side of us. [Applause and laughter.l
| Now | understand my duty TO be to
| look out for these 50, 600, 900 of people Mt
| home. The old saying used to be that
| the City of Prague was the cleanesr city
/ in Europe, and the reason was that
| every man brushed his own doorstep
[Cheers and laughter.l Now these phi
| lanthropic statesmen, like President
| Cleveland-lf / may say so Laughter. ]
who want to look out for trade beyond
the sea and to benefit mankind beyond
| our keeping, think have got larger
! job on hand tkan they will accomplish,
| and / know that the Nation which most
| and best looks out for itself is acting not
| only according to the Law of intelligent
| seitishness buf according to the best law
of brotherly Lore and philanthropic re-
| gard for man: for the richer we grow
the more we impress ourselves upon the
entire world rs an exhibition and .
proof of what intelligent men can dc
under self-government without the aid
Of noble or king. fC'heers. That is
| what this country has done. ICheers. !
| We framed our government without the
protection of kings and in spite of them
| We grew up without the favor of the
| great i'll Europe and in spite of them.
| We grew up without the patronage OF
nations in Europe and in spite of them.
and to-day we have grown so large thai
| the little Nation of 100000 in the
struggle of 1916 has become SO great an6
| grand and SO powerful tkat it over
shadows them all. The example of this
| Nation is worth more to struggling
nationalities and to suffering humanity
throughout this world than any thing
that it was in the power of the Ameri
can people to produce. The policy which
has done that is the policy of protection
which has caused our wide Interchange
| of domestic products, and which has
surrounded our interests by q great
power against injurious intrusion from
abroad and with perfect safety at home
[Cheers.l
PROTECTION OR FREE TRADE.