The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-11-02

VI VAO AA4o 40 ChO sIchU lhIubunv In6
tariff.
When you drive the free-traders from every
tariff has stified the export trade of tho United
States, that it has bull up a lot Of factories and
country has all gone to pieces. 1 again quote
from the census and show you that from the
time the DECLARATION Of Independence was made
President will 80 further back. From the
time America was discovered by Columbus down
to the election Of Abraham Lincoln, the aggre.
centuries, from the United States amounted to
e9,0O1, O0O,0.O In value. Now, mark you, that
down to 1850 and from 1860 to 1883 the aggregate
amount has been Sl7, $40. 009. OG0-almost double
as much in the twenty-eight years of the present
vious history of the American g ntinent. That
Is the way, gentlemen, in which protection has
operated.
I had occasion, in speaking on this same sub
iect in the East. when contrasting what protec-
ton had done for the !aboring mun of America
as compared with the luboring nun of Europe.
to show what the labOring men of New England
had In savings hunks rs compared with those of
Old England, ind l saw in moro than ono West
have GOT All the money in the East; It Is i; We'll
enough for you to uphold protection But,
gentlemen, YOU must remember the different
in growing towns, in settled farms. in grent
lines Of railway, in vast agricultural Develop
ment., all of which goes forward more rapidly In
De West. Those investments In the West tahe
The place Of the cash deposits which the labor
lng men of the East have placed i'll the savings
nnder the protective tariff for the last twenty.
2seven years has been largely in favor of tho
West as against the East, 30 that the policy Of
protection has not proved II sectional policy.
: Why, gentlemen. there Is no longer the old
distinction between manufacturing States and
the agricultural States. DO you reckon your
selves here i'll Ind ana an agricultural Stuto
siMpiy2 Your manufactures this year ia the
State Of indiana have u larger cash valnc tlnn
are no longer concentrated on the eastern, side
Of the Alleghen!cs. Tho city of Chicago is Tho
largest confer of steel manufacture in America.
It has run ahead of Pittsburgh. and, under tho
influence of this tariff, tho manufacturing in
terest has spread each year farther and farther
westward, bringing the home market nearer and
nearer the source OF food supply, and proving all
the while to every int ,ligent voter in hc com
try that the nearer you bring the food consumers
prosperity Of both.
Ihado occasion to show the other day in Mich.
igan from indisputable statisties that the little
ulation 40 Illinois and Indiana, with scarcely so
much area rs Illinois alone-I had occasion to
show that that little area with six small States
takes more from these Western States than il
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 manu-
900 In money. Add to that the amount Now
York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey take from
and you have an aggregate Of more than 81, oJo,..
OOo,o6o Of material; and this country win nave
realized the great objective point OF tho tusiff
system when every agricultural State shsil have
its market near to the producets.
Farmers Of the West, you have been COM
planning of the price Of wheat and enormously
charging the fall upon the protective tariff?
Why has wheat fallen during the last ten yenrs2
Because you have to meet in the markets of
Europe the wheat Of Russia that is raised in
that vast country with labor that is not more
than 8 to IL cents a day aud, beyond TINT, you
are meeting vast imports of wheat from India,
where England has been spending hundreds of
millions of dollars to cheapsn and expedite
transportation to Europe. Neglect your home
market and the larger amount You win find I'M
With those hard.worked wheat producers on tho
other side. Suppose you turn half the maui
1scturers and mechanics under the basis of
free trade-suppose you turn half of them into
wheat producers and farmers, isn't the market
Of the farmer cut OF Just that much and the
surplus Of his product Increased? Suppose yel
add another liz. 600, 900 bushels TO the product af
the West, where will you market It? Where
will you find the men whu are able to pay for 1t
who want to eat? Remember. gentlemen, 1t ia
tho home market of the United States that
every day is affor ling more and more to the
s~griculturists Of this country their best market,
and the home market Of the United States is the
result. logically aud indisputably, Of the pro-
tective tariff.