Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-24

the president be right, and John Ran
ph Tucker be right, if the honorable
and gallant member be right; if j. s.
Moore, who fixes the tribute in,1882 at
$1,000, 100000 more than any of US, be
right If they all be right then every
year more than $l00,000,000 come out of
the people for these men.
He did not propose to
Defend PROTECTION.
It's vast growth within the last quarter of
a century defended il better even than
eloquent orations. 1t was born with the
republic. 1t was the faith and practice
of every civilized nation under the sun
save one, Russia. 1t had survived the
assaults of all the professors of the dis
NAL science" called political economy.
II had stood up against all the half
knowledge of learned men who never had
sense enough to transmute their learning
into wisdom. On the face of the earth
TO day there were but two sets of people
who believe in free trade, whether pure
and simple or disguised as rev.
enue reform and those two are
the masked majority of the commit
tee on ways and means, and their
followers and the united kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, with Ireland
suppressed Russia, the granary of Eu-
rope, had abandoned free trade, with the
striking result that whereas, in 1876, be
fore the duties we're raised she bought
100000 hundred weight of British met
ais and paid therefor $30000000, she got
the same quantity iu 1884 and paid only
81 100000 for 1t.
Here in the United States we're G0,0O9,-
COO people with all the varied characters
their numbers Indicate The problem
before congress was what system would
get from all these creature, so different
from each other
THE MAXIMUM OF WORK AND WEALTH AND
WISDOM.
There was only one way to get the best
work Uut Of men aud that was to give
each the work he can do best. 70 enable
the American people themselves to sup
ply all their wants you must give and as
sure to the American people the Amerl-
can market. Here is another unshotted
gun called the markets of the world
The markets Of the 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-buund shores of the Antarctic con
tinent, All this we can have if we will
but give up the little hands breadth
called the United States of America.
What are the markets of the worldy To
hear these rhetoricians declaim you would
imagine the markets OF the world vast
vacuum waiting till now for American
goods to break through, rush in and fill
the yearning void. VIII your goods go
20 Austria, 90 Italy, Germany, Russia, o.
France? Around AL these benighted
countries are the Chinese walls of tariff
taxes. All these nations will contest
with you the other countries whion they
already overflow.
1--WE have now spent the twenty day,
on the discussion of the Mills bill. Have
you noticed what has been the most
utterly insignificant thing in the discus
sion. The most utterly Insignificant
thing in the discussion has been the
Mills bill. How do you account for il?
[ will tell you. Ii the principles you
have enunCiated are true, 10 rs an un-
worthy compromise with Satan. If the
principles we have stated are true, III IS
an unworthy ambuscade and you know
il, You mean this merely for one step.
YOU MEAN 10 OUT DEEPER NEXT TIME.
You mean the destruction OF the sys-
tenn which now exists
at is not alone the piled,up billions
under which the greatest national debt
and war expenditure combined the
world ever saw has melted like an ice
borg under tropic sun. Ii is not alone
the rejuyenatcd south turning It's face
TO It's great furore. Nav, it is not eysu
all OF these combined. II Ia the fact
bound by the most cultured EnElishman
of our day that all this wealth and pros
Perity has been 80 shaped that it seeks
the oomfort-uot of the rich, not of the
louugiug owner of fixed income, not of
the pampered miniou of governmental
power, but of the plain people whom
Abraham Lincoln loved ard who are of
right the chief glory Ct this republic.
Continuing Mr. Reed said "But if the
revenue reform orator on the monopoly
is terrible there is a theme on which he
can take up the notes of the dying swan.
How we do love to hear him on the i'm
poverished farmer. Then he Is not sublime
but he Is pathetcally great | heard him
first ten years ago. To me, innocent,
untraveled 10 seemed rs if the western
farmer was the most woe begune, down
troddeu, luckless, unsuccessful, dispirited
devil on the face of the earth The
eastern vampire had mortgage on his
farm and thrown his fences and scattered
his subsistence to the winds. In the full
ness of time, [ travelled west myself You
may well imagine ly astonishmeut, who
had never seen ten acres together in corn,
to behold fields of that great staple
stretching way out to the horizons edge;
10 see tracts OF land which seemed TO have
no boundaries, bnt the visible sby--laud
SO rich that if we had an acre
ot IL IN Maine we could have sold
10 by the bushel, white on
every side were great brick houses, such
as only Che squire lived in in our villages.
After some days of this | became suiky.
l said, gentlemen, of course we have
robbed you. Your congressman would
not lie about tribes like that; but what
disgusts me Us that we did nor do it more
thoroughly" In conclusion Mr.. Reed
spoke eloqueutly of the growth ana pros
perity of the country Under the wise pro
tective laws.