The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-08-25

policy would be the closing of n large
| number of our manufactoIes, and the
rest would have to reduce the wages OF
| their workingmen in order to go on. 1
| Whenever You raise the amount of wages,
| whenever you ralse the price of property
| you Immediately cripple capital. In ali
| financial panics capital invariably makes
| the profit. 1 do not consider that this free
| trade question is simply Democratic
| question | do not believe that IL the
| Democratic party carries the election they
| will ever adopt an absolutely free-trade
policy for this country. | bc:ieye North
| ern Democratic TLri.'berS OF Congress
| would vote against free trade. Before the
| war the South was always in favor of lo.e
| trade: the North in favor of protection.
| Why? The South had slave labor to raise
| their cotton. tobacco, and other commodi-
ties. They owned their labor. They
raised their products for almost nothing.
BUT THE EoRrHERNEE
| expected to receive prOportiouate bene-
fit for his labor, and so was in favor OF
| protection, for protection increased manu-
factures. and increased manufactures in-
| creased wages. The South did not want
t. have its raw material manufactured in
| to fabrics in the North. WHY? Because
the Northerner expected wages in proper
ton to the value Of his work. The South
| was therefore, in favor of shipping its
raw material TO England The South
getting everything for nothing was free
trade country. and when they found that
they could not carry out their principles
they rebelled. Now, there are great
many here probably opposed to Chinese
and Italian labor, because it can be got
for 30 cents lower n day than other labor,
for this labor reduces the wages of other
labor. Therefore, if the labor of the Chi
nese and Italians is detrimental TO Ameri-
can workingmen, why would not the Ia
Dor of England. when brought into free
competition with American labor be also
detrimental to the latter? AS it is the
! English luborer helps to support this
. country because we tax the goods he
. makes. If England weayes n ball of goods
worth 500 there. it has TO pay us $50 or
$40 before il can be sold here. Thus the
workingman in England is not only help
! ing TO support his own government, but
is also helping to support ours.
, ENGLAND HAS NOT ONLY CHEAP LABOR
in ner own country, but has vast do
, minions beyond the seas whose cheap In
Dor she uses. ! wish to read you small
table. Ii | asked you which was the
. greatest wheat-producing country in the
, world YOU would probably say the United
: States. That would be correct. The
Z United States in 1886 produced 457, ,21S, 600
: bushels of wheat. But you will be sur.
, prised to hear that the second greatest
wheat-producing country in the world
France-produced from 1876 to 1888 an
( average per year of 340. .32331T and that
3, India in 1854 produced 10000, 900 bushels.
9 Are not those figures alarming to Ameri-
\ can citizens? When | was in the west
I and had farming interests there, we ex.
pected to make u dollar bushel out OF
= wheat. What are the prices now? The
average price of wheat in 1876 was Sl.02 IS
In 1871 in the Chicago market, the price
was 81 81 Is bushel; and then it began
to decrease until, in 1856, it had come
8 down to - cents hushcl i'll Chicago, and
:. in 1887 it was so 9-l0 cents. What is the
!, meaning of this fall in wheat? Is it be-
:. cause OF the protective tariff?
j. Is 1T NOT BECAUSE THE PAUPER LABOR
OF India is rnising wheat and shipping il
: into the markets of Europe, and thu:
u competing with Western farmers? Le
o this condition of affairs last twenty year:
: longer Let our agricultural machines bt
sent over 10 India and worked by thell
cheap labor, and what will be the result
' then? India will flood the European
- markets with its wheat, and bring dowr
!, the price TO fifty cents bushel. 1t IS nj
IL alarming lookout. Ana what Is tht
remedys We must build up our manu-
featuring industries, that hereafter youn.
men who are looking for the means of es
Dc tablishing home need not 60 to farming
We need to build up our manufactures
that we may have enough home working
men to consume all the wheat we raise
lt What did we know of India few year
,l ! aLOs w nat cOtnpellJlDl Iu W litul
-, did we have Il few years ago2 In VIM
- condition IS Il now? India now is receiy
10 ing all the benefit of the inventions q
10 modern civilization. India IS not only be
u coming as great n producer OF wheat a
in ourselves but she is subject To Englan
ID and benefits England. for Inaia's labo
" only costs q 1-2 cents Il day. With lndi
"a thus increasing her yield of wheat, wha
,g will become OF the prosperity of th
% American farmerS
WHAT BENEfiT WILL FREE TRADE BE
iii to YOU in that direction? 1t would crippl
to our manufacturing interests; destroy ou
IL home market for our goods. Now, durin
S. the years OF protection what advance hay
is we made? Take railroads. In 1913 W
~ had only 23 miles of railroad. In 1887 W
:. had las $50 miles of railroad. How man
=" shining dollars has this WORK put into I'll
IL pockets of the American laborer? Whe
oy we had our financial panic several yea
Sc ago. the construction of railroads d
40 creased largely, and workingmen taile
of to get WORK rs a consequence. Suppo
N we adopt tree trade The result would
lv n panic, and II decrease in railroad bull
= ing, and that would mean men ont
~ work; factories idle, more men out
, ne work; property sold under the Sheriff
be hand; hart earned homes lost, and Il
on only gamers capitalists. Great forum
lie, will be made greater; The poor still poore
III They say You can bus breadStalfS IN En-
IN land cheaper than IN the United StatC
n Why Is tins so? IL Is Dec iuse wheat G.
~. be carried To Eng!and mt l2 cent bush
iSI from New YORK. The tact Is that a lar
DO amount of our American wheat is shipp
Sc To England rs ballast; and Ii has happen
MS that vessel owners have even paid for
les privilege Of carrying II. When IL gets
ne to England pauper labor converts ii in
az, flour, and thus breadstutfs are cheaper
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, ADVICE TO WORKERS.
nv Mr. HiuIne's Address to the Iaboring NJ