Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-09-01

| Aouuu IN the course OF their lives
more than once that that which was chean.
dearest when they were without mone. .rS
employment, or when their products could
ind no market, and, finding it, commenJe1
no price at all commensurate with the J,kno
required to produce them. PrimariIv 81 =
labor which is interested most in this onss-
ton OF protection. The man with monev
can seek other avenues of profit and inyesf.
laborer cannot wait for his dinner. and fhe
United States do not want citizens Who
make presidents and senates and the honse
OF representatives to be in a condition of
dependence and destutition. That is NOT ti,e
sort of citizenship We want.
Next to the laborer the farmer is the i'm
mediate beneficiary of the American sys-
| tenn. 1t bring to his plantation q CITY of
| consumers. The farmer and the factor are
brought into close proximity. The problem
OF transportation Is largely eliminated, He
finds market not only for staple products
! which would bear Transportation, but for
many products which but for a home mar
det would waste and decay in the fields.
need not tell farmer in this neighborhood
of the beneficial effects of home market.
bis own experience is better than any phil
osophy. Atlanta has given him an object.
lesson. It has increased the value of his
every foot OF ground he owns.
One-thlrd of the cotton crop of the south
is consumed at home. Who would not wish
that all of it might find a market in the
United States. We wonld be better off: YOU
would be better off. The country at large
would be the gamer if the whole cotton
crop was fabricated in our own mills by our
own people. Transportation would to q
great extent be saved. We would make and
buy more cotton cloths at home and send
abroad for less; idle labor be employed;
idle capital find investment; the south
would increase its spindles and its looms,
and general and permanent prosperity
would follow.
We are different from any other nation,
and it is that difference which makes US the
best. Our political system rests upon a
principle different from that of any other.
1t is founded upon the consent of the people.
If we had wanted it otherwise we would not
have left home, but would have remained
the obedient child of an imperious parent.
We would not have turned away from the
mother country. We would have remained
not have fought our way through
blood and sacrifice to independence. We
separated to set up for ourselves a
free and Independent political society, and
that policy is the best for US which best sub
serves the purposes of our organization, our
citizenship and civilization. 1t is ours to
work out our own destiny, and in doing 30
furnish an example of free and progress
i've people, whose industrial policy has made
it possible to satisfy the best and highest
aspirations of men, and which closes no
field to human endeavor. We would wish
for all mankind the beneGcence of our sys-
tenn and the opportunities which it presents.
We bid them level their condition up to
ours; we will not level ours down to
theirs. We will remove all restrictions from
international trade as we have removed all
restrictions from interstate trade whenever
they will raise their labor and their condi
tons to our standard.
Men Of Georgia, upon this great industrial
question there should be no north nor south.
TO us of every section have been entrusted
the interests our country-our whole coun-
try. To others have been contided the care
of other nations and other peoples. We will
not interfere with them; we bid them not
interfere with US. My fellow citizens, in
this conflict, Influenced by patriotism, ma
tional interest and national pride, let us be
Americans.