The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-19

tion hns not proved sectional policy. Why,
gen tlemon, there is no longer the old distinc-
ton between manufacturing States and agri-
cultural States. Do you reckon yourselves
here in Indiana as IN agricultural State sim
plyf Your manufactures this very
year in the State OF II diana have o larger cash
value than your total agricultural product
lApplause.l Manufacturers are no longer con-
centrated on the eastern side Of the Allegha-
mics. The cit- of Chicago is the largest center
OF steel manufacture in America 1t has run
ahead OF Pittsb rgh and under the influence Of
this tariff the nv nufacturing interest has spread
each year further and further westward. bring
ing the home market nearer and nearer the
source Of food supply and proving all the while
to every intelligent voter in the country that
the nearer you bring the food consumers to the
food producers the more certain is the prosper
ity of both.
had occasion to show the other dny in Mich
igan frcm indisputable statistics that the little
region OF New England with not SO much popu-
lation as Illinois and Indiana with scarcely so
much area as Illinois alone-I had occasion to
show that that little area with six small States
takes more from these Western States than is
shipped to old England, and that those little
States take from the other States OF this Union
every year in food and raw material for manufac-
ture the enormous aggregate Of over $40, 800
in money. tApplsuse.l Add to that the amount
that New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
take from the South. the Southwest and the
great West and you have IN aggregate of more
than one thousand millions OF material Ap-
plause. And this country will have realized
the great objective point of she tariff system
when every agricultural STATE shall have its
market nearer to the producers.
Farmers OF the West. you Lave been com
planning Of the price OF wheat and enormously
charging the fall upon the protective tsriH
Why has wheat fallen during the last ten years
Because you have to meet in the markets Of
Europe the wheat Of Russia that is raised
in that vast country VITA labor thar is not
more than to 12 cents per day and beyond
trat you are meeting vast imports Of wheat
from Ind'a where England has been rxpend-
ing hundreds of millions OF dollars to
cheaper and expedite transportation TO Eu-
rope. Neglect your home market and the larger
the amount you will find unstable and the
harder will be your competition with these
hard-worked wheat producers on the other
side. Suppose you turn half the manufacturers
and mechanics. under the basis Of free trade
suppose you turn half OF them into wheat
producers and farmers, is not the market
of the farmer cut OF just that much
and the surplus OF his product increased
Suppose you add another hundred and fifty
million bushels to the product OF the Vest,
where will you market IL? Where will you find
the men who are able to pay for II, who wants to
eat: Remember. gentlemen. IL is the home
mark ct of the United States that every day Is
affording more and more TO the agriculturists
OF this country their best market and the home
market of the United States is the result log
ically and indisputably, OF the protective tarin.
[Great applause.