Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-08-02
ro0KS LlKEFREE TRADE
Wills BIZ Exposed In All Its Deform.
1he ,ty PRESIDENT Cleveland and His
free Trade supporters.

e. uerishorn Of Troy, n. Y, in q re
4 Liter asks at the end Of eacl
e-u quotation from the Mills
laI. ..,i1Ss this look like free trader
h.i. .ia time Mr.. Hartshorn has fin
Ri Ls array of quotations and ques
FLY: ,-s Ii is only very dull or preiu
a'.I s.93er who can decline to answer
l- etfiruative The Mills bin, says
u "T+tsy-Ocean. is designed to prepare
,rar for free trade" by getting free
Fl articles which are, almost eX.
s,ralv. of Northern manufacture Ii
g.--sD1el TO make the solid South yet
Gid by granting to 1t free imports
5.5e.a Goods which are most essential
rr9tection and continuance of that
t.o. III cheap labor" which has ever
.o cherished by the great planters.
"p.t ..fle citizens who work for a liv.
I, the Southern tier. the plain pri.
"who counted in the bullet depart
,nt of the late confederacy," should be
Is1ght that what is good for the briga
5isrs and colonies, the judges and pro
55s.ors. is bad for them; very bad. The
inns bill declares for free trade in lum.
Ilr. now the Southern States are full OF
,rmbar. if it were sawed where it grows,
t--nsported on Southern railways or il
c,rtbern vessels TO Northern cities il
mid create q demand for labor, and SC
,.i,e its price. The brigadiers and colon
ii. and iudges don't want the price OF
l,bor raised: they want hands at IS per
month on their plantations. Saw mills
rronld nav from $50 to $40 But the
nl9In common people who have truck
Matches suffer. A mill employing fifty
hands creates quite a demand for corn
and meat. and the teams of the small
farmers could be employed, when other
wise they would be idle, in hauling logs.
Tbeoigarchs of the South want no ''di-
vqrsi6ed industries The Mills bill de.
clares for free salt Now, the South, is
NH of salt mines and springs, but the
Irigadiers and colonies prefer to buy
cheap foreign salt for their cheap plan.
ation hands to encouraging the growth
NJ Industrial settlements, such as have
/ sprlng around the salt works of New
York and Michigan. Such settlements
simulate competition for labor and
raise its price. But the smaller farmers
suffer; they have no busy cities with
from {, 600 to 10000 consumers of farm
produce to compete for the purchase Of
their surplus milk. meat, fruit, grain,
and vegetables; it must be sold "cheap'
10 the oligarchs to feed their cheap Ia
borers The Mills bill declares for free
wool, and the South is peculiarly adapt.
ed TO wool industry, but the brigadiers
and colonies don't want the growth of
wool encouraged in the South, for that
would lead to the establishment of wool.
en- mills, and that would raise the price
Of labor, and also create numerous towns
that would compete for the surplus of
the small farms, and so prevent them
from supplying their plantation hands
cheaply. The same is true of hemp, Jute
and fax, and of nearly everything that
the South produces or should produce
for manufacturing purposes-cotton ex
cepted
The Mills bill is free-trade bill it
Contemplates an excellent beginning of
free trade, am the things exempted from
duty are things requisite for the estab-
lshment of a system of cheap labor in
the Southern tier, and for the embarrass-
nent Of such Northern industries as are
specially in need of protection.
Mr.. Hartshorn's letter is as follows:
Hon Roger @ Mills, of Texas, is Chair
man Of the Ways and Means Committee
Of the Fittieth Congress On the 4th OF
July, in public address delivered in the
city of New York, be asserted that mo
Democrat in this country desires free
trade, and in Analysing his tariff bill, now
pending in Congress, he asked the ques-
ton; Does that look like free tradeW
IN this remarkable address the attempt
ed straddle of 1888 was officially inaugu-
rated
Butcau the straddlers again straddle?
The Mills bill, declares for
Free trade in lumber, which we produce
20 Tue value Of $500 0O0, 600 annually.
Free trade in wool of which we pro-
duce over 800 900 600 pounds annually.
Free lr#Gr IN salt, of which we produce
nearly 10000 000 bushels annually.
Free trade in lax, hemp, ju;e, and other
fbags
Free trade in cement, potash, lime, and
brck
free trade in meats, game and poultry.
free trade in vegetables, peas and beans.
Free trade in marble and stone.
free trade in at least one hundred other
articles produced in this country, most OF
Wulch would be produced in sufficient
Quantities for home consumption il proper
~ protected
rms OIL is supported by nearly every
democrat in the Fiftieth Congress; is ap
proved unanimously by the National
democratic Convention at st. Louis, and
!tL and yet-"nO democrat in this cOun
Uy desires free trade"
Inc committee on resolutions in the
uemQcratic convention in 1884 were in ses
aoH thlrly-siX consecutive hours wrang
als over a tariff plank. Was there any
Ranging. over the tariff plank in 1881
Dlts That look like free trade? But where
GeIe such men as Patrick Walsh, of
1eoIs'a, samuel J. Randall, of Pennsyl
nanla, and Smith NJ Weed. of New York
"aen me Democratic convention met IT
,E' lhey were left ut home. docs
'1 w look Ike free tradeY
..iaylck Walsh said: Slavery is dead.
gg-- .ia twin sister free trade should be
We4 IN The same grave: and Patrick
l 9tSA aIun . 20 TO St. Louis. Does that
"A Ike free trader"
n Ius issue OF 1860 is again upon us The
Htt3l. George d Tillman, u. c., from South
s-.-'-tIia. says: Was it not our intemper
pr. 1taI Tor free trade that led Ia nullifi
,-,..A' ana was it rs much to enjoy free
90 as 10 protect slavery that South
1 una seeded in 1SG0?r
c,.e constitution of the Confederate
C,.'es OF America reads as follows: "Tht
ise ,l-le-s snall have power to lay and col
l1Ae7' autes, imports, and excuses fol
s6sffs tF. But no bounties
s-l4- De granted from the treasury: moi
80 any duties or taxes on importations
So 9Feign nations be laid to promote OF
tss.I any branch OF industry" docs
f. ."Ah ike free tradefp Fortunately