The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-08-23

practically free of duty, and after adj
Vancing into the higher forms of man
ufacture can go out and possess the
worlds markets. Taxed raw materials /
do not stand in their way, and 1t Is ny
pocrisy to claim otherwise.
The markets Of the world' ia our
present condition are snare and delu-
sion. We will reach them whenever
we can undersell competing nations, L
and not sooner. Tariffs do not keep
us out and free-trade VIII not make 1T
easier to enter them. ] ct me give you
brief exhibit Of some of our foreign
trade, what we buy and what we sell. Ii
In the year ending June 30, 1887, we
bought of Mexico, the Central Amerl-
can states, British Honduras, and the
governments of the West Indies and
South America, products to the value L
of SI72 ,468 .526, and we sold these gov
ernments of our products about 33t per
cent. in amount Of what we bought OF
them, or about $50 600, 600; and as
showing that a protective tar1h did not
produce this uncomfortable balance
against us l need only state that more /
than one-haf of the products we
bought were not subject to any tariff
tax at all, but were admitted free OF
duty,
Upon what terms can we adopt rev.
enue tariff system in this country? In
one way only, by accepting European
conditions, and submitting to all the
| discomfortS and disadvantages of our /
commercial rivals. The chief Obstruc-
ton in the way of a revenue tariff are |
the wages paid American wOrkingmen, |
and any return to that policy involves |
a reduction of the cost of labor. We
cannot afford, Mr.. President, to have |
cheap labor in the United States. |
Cheap labor labor means cheap men
and dear money. / would rather ele-
; vate and improve the condition OF my
: fellow-citiZens than increase the value
l of money and the power of money
, bags" This is republic of free and
I equal citizenship. The government Is
> in the hands of the masses, and not of
d the few. This is our boast, and it is q
| proud one. The condition of the masses
their well being, their intelligence,
their preparation for the civil duties
: which rest upon them, depend largely
2 upon the scale OF Industrial wages. 1t
: is essential, therefore, that the best
possible wages attainable shall be
secured and maintained. This is vital
and fundamental. We cannot without
j. grave danger and serious disturbance
J; we ought not under any circum-
stances-adopt a policy which would
5: scale down the wages and diminish the
u comforts OF the American wOrkingmen.
4 Their welfare and independence, their
u progress and elevation, are closely re-
10 lated to the welfare and independence
and progress of the republic. We
u have got no pampered class in this
4 the field kept open. No narrowing of
y the avenues; no lowering of our stan
y dard. We want no barriers raised
y against higher and better civliZa-
IL ton. The gateway of opportunity
must be open to all, to the end that
?, whether born in poverty or reared in
10 luxury. We do not want the masses
excluded from competing for the first
! rank among their cOuntrymen and for
- the nations greatest honors, and we
~ do not mean they shall be.
" Free trade, or q revenue tariff, Will
As of necessity shut them out. 1t has no
> respect for labor. It holds it as the
~ mere machinery of capital. 1t would
have cheap men that it might have
cheap merchandise. With all of its
" boosted love for the struggling millions
y 1t Is infinitely more interested in cut
81 81 ting down the wages of labor than in
81 saving twenty-five cents on blanket;
~ more intent in reducing the purchasing
III power of mans labor thanthe cost OF
!; his coat. Things are not always dear
- est when their price is nominallyr the
70 20 highest. The price is not the only
y measure, but the wherewith to buy il
~ is an essential factor. Few men be
I'D fore me have found in the course of
- their lives more than once that that
," which was cheapest when measured
- by mere price was the dearest wheL
~ they were without money and employ
ment, or when their products coulC
y find no market, and, finding it, com
- manded no price at all commensurate
"a with the labor required to produces
ISs them: Primarily, it is labor which il
y, VI interested most in this question o.
~ protection. The man with money cal
20 % seek other avenues of profit and invest
ment, or can wait for his dividends
A but the labOrer cannot wait for his
'ur dinner, and the United States do no
NC ~ want citizens who make president
and SenateS and the house of repre-
~ sentatives to be in condition of de
10 10 pendence and restitution. That is no
- the sort of citizenship we want.
~ Next to the laborer the farmer is tn
III III immediate beneficiary of the American
,1v system. 1t brings to his plantation
l l city of consumers. The farmer ant
t Nt the factor are brought into close prOx
% unity. The problem of transportation
VI is largely eliminated. He finds maj
O Dn ket not only for stable product
III which would bear transportation, bu
IN for many products which but for
-. home market would waste and decay i
'H the fields. / need not tell farmer i
&c this neighborhood Of the beneficial 81
r rs fects of home market. His own. 'e1
40 perience is better than any philosophy
oFl HAS klNOll ODICCO IcSSOI
~. 1t has Increased the value of his farI
'.s,. products and enhanced the value o
10Y every foot of ground he owns.
ne Benjamin Franklin, writing fror
the London in III, to Humphrey Ma
the shall, comprehended the situation whe
!. nS he said:
'ac- EVERY manufacturer encouraged
re- our country makes part of MARKE
diff for provisions within ourselves, al
nds saves so much money to the country
am must otherwise be exported to pay fl
the manufactures he supplies. He
ga in England it is well known and III
nd. derstoOd that wherever manufactu
the is established which employs numb
of hands, it raises the value of land
inst the neighbOring country all around
hin partly by the greater demand near
ion hand for the produce of the land al
is partly from the plenty of money draw
ma by the manufacturers to that part
and the country. 1t seems, therefore, Il
ntO interest of all farmers and owners
lem lands to encourage our young man
md facturers in preference to foreign en-
This imported among us from distal
orv countries
an The fathers Of the republic apr
GER ciated the necessity for home ma
of ket. They were all farmers al
In planters. They could not sell to ca
. so other, for each supplied his own want
port This was their situation. They reco
ans. nized the Importance of diversifyil
heir the occupations of the people. TIL
ars. must promote other pursuits than t
ally cultivation of the soil. They mu
void have, if they would prosper. CO
that Sumers who would absorb the surpl
)een products of the farm. The result w
the a protective tariff, and under it t
wisdom and foresight of the founde
3ary of the republic have been more tn
for indicated. Andrew jackson put
our case as well as has ever been do
ltial when he declared in 1924, ''Where b
-ials the American farmer a market for
rod surplus product? Except for G